Wednesday, September 08, 2010 MIRANSHAH: At least ten people were killed in twin drone attacks in North Waziristan Agency (NWA) capital Miranshah,BNA reported Wednesday. According to sources, the US surveillance plane attacked on two houses with missiles in border area of North Waziristan’s Dargha Mandi at Ghulam Khan Road area, killing at least six people on the spot and injuring two others. Both the houses were completely destroyed in the attack. The ... Read More

Wednesday, September 08, 2010 BAGHDAD: A car bomb and several roadside blasts killed four people and wounded dozens in Iraq on Wednesday as Baghdad imposed a ban on motorcycles ahead of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr. In the deadliest attack, a vehicle packed with explosives was detonated and quickly followed by a roadside bomb near a bus terminal in the south Baghdad neighbourhood of Bayaa, killing two people. Officials from ... Read More

Quetta: Explosions killed at least 10 members of Pakistan's minority religious communities on Friday, driving up the toll of sectarian assaults in a country already battered by massive flooding. A blast at a Shiite procession killed at least nine people in the southwestern city of Quetta at a rally calling for solidarity with Palestinians. Qazi Abdul Wahid, a senior police official, said at least 40 people were wounded. Some Shiite youths ... Read More

Updated: Gwalior: An inconsolable Yasmin Khan alleges her husband and a veteran of the Kargil war, Lance Naik Amjad Khan was shot dead by the police in a fake encounter for promotions and glory. Police allege he was a dacoit, but on August 19, the family alleges, the Bhind police picked up Amjad along with three other young men on the pretext of questioning in a petty case. Three days ... Read More

Friday, 27 Aug, 2010 PESHAWAR: A bomb blast at a restaurant in the northwestern town of Mansehra killed one person Friday, local police chief Mohammed Sajjad said. He said the police were investigating who planted the bomb and why. ... Read More

Monday, 23 Aug, 2010 SUKKUR: At least 20 people were killed Monday when a bus overturned in strong water currents in flood-hit Pakistan, officials said. The accident took place near Khad Buzdar village in the centre of the country. The bus, which had 50 people on board, was bound for the northwestern city of Peshawar. “At least 20 people are confirmed dead and 10 others were rescued,” Doctor Natiq Hayat, from the ... Read More

Friday, August 20, 2010 KARACHI: At least six more persons have been shot in separate incidents of violence in different parts of metropolis on Thursday overnight. According to police, the firing incidents were resulted in reaction to the targeted killing of an ANP leader Ubaidullah Yousufzai Those areas remained plagued with shooting incidents included Orangi Town, Sher Shah and Korangi, police sources said. Meanwhile, injured persons have been moved to a ... Read More

Floodwaters have submerged Pakistan's Swat valley after heavy monsoon rains hit the region. Nearly 80 people have died and several thousands remain stranded. Weather officials forecast more rains in the next 24 hours. Thunderstorms and flash floods have killed nearly 80 people and left several thousands stranded in villages in Pakistan's northwest. Most of the casualties were in the Swat valley, where torrential rains caused the Swat River to burst ... Read More

Saturday, 31 Jul, 2010 PESHAWAR: As raging floods wreaked havoc across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and some Fata regions, inundating large parts of Nowshera, Charsadda and Swat, the people of Dera Ismail Khan were warned on Friday of a similar disaster after 400,000 to 500,000 cusecs of water discharged from the overflowing Tarbela reservoir threatened all natural and man-made protective barriers in the district. The calamity which a minister described here on ... Read More

Friday, 30 Jul, 2010 PESHAWAR: At least 17 people were killed in Shangla district's Bisham area due to land-sliding,BNA reported. Another 35 people were also wounded in the incident and a rescue operation was underway. ... Read More

Updated: July 30, 2010 Srinagar: Two people were killed and several others injured after security forces opened fire on protesters at Sopore in Jammu and Kashmir. The Sopore district is witnessing a massive protest. Meanwhile, there is tension in Srinagar once again, after security forces opened fire at protesters in the Chanpura area. A curfew has been imposed in Srinagar and other major towns of the Valley to prevent a ... Read More

Thursday, July 29, 2010 BAHAWALPUR: Nearly seven people have died including a child and forty others suffered injuries as a bus carrying devotees overturned due to over speed near Bahawalpur on Thursday morning,BNA reported. According to rescue sources, three busses carrying pilgrims set out from Manchanabad place to addend Urs ceremonies at shrine of Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalander – a renowned sufi saint in Sehwan district of Sindh, when one ... Read More