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Afghan security personnel stand guard as black smoke rises from the Intercontinental Hotel after an attack in Kabul. Gunmen stormed the hotel and set off a 12-hour gun battle with security forces that continued into Sunday morning. (Photo: AP)

22 dead in attack on Kabul's Intercontinental hotel: officials

The attack ended after more than 12 hours on Sunday with all six terrorists killed by Afghan forces, aided by Norwegian...

22 Jan 2018 2:35 PM IST

Haqqani was named in FIRs lodged by three people in two police stations in Kohat district of northwest Pakistans Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, accusing Pakistan of maligning in his books. (Photo: AFP)

Former Pak envoy to US Husain Haqqani booked for maligning' country

The complainants alleged that the former ambassador had caused irreparable loss to the country and defamed it.

22 Jan 2018 2:16 PM IST

Saeed, the chief of the Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD), was released from house arrest in Pakistan in November. (Photo: AP)

UNSC team to visit Pak over sanctions on Hafiz Saeed

The two-day visit of the UN Security Council's sanctions monitoring team will begin on Thursday.

21 Jan 2018 3:03 PM IST

Pakistans Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif presented the resolution against the new US policy on South Asia during a session chaired by Speaker Ayaz Sadiq. (Photo: AFP/File)

India, Israel have anti-Islam nexus: Pak slams Netanyahu's visit to...

Pakistan Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif further accused India of the mass killing of Muslims in Gujarat.

17 Jan 2018 12:48 PM IST

Hafiz Saeed who walked free on November 24 was back to his ranting on Kashmir Valley. (Photo: AFP)

No case, so no action against Hafiz Saeed 'sahib' in Pak: PM Abbasi

Saeed was released from house arrest after a Pakistani court cited lack of evidence against him in the 26/11 Mumbai...

17 Jan 2018 11:26 AM IST

A 2014 report estimated that 18 per cent all European ISIS members were female and the total number is now believed to be more than 550. (Photo: AP)

Pak Muslim clerics issue fatwa against suicide bombings, to 'curb...

For years, the South Asian nation has been plagued by violence by ISIS terrorists, who often use suicide bombers.

17 Jan 2018 7:35 AM IST

The book says suicide bombers Bilal, also known as Saeed, and Ikramullah were tasked to carry out the attack on Bhutto. (Photo: AP)

Taliban claims responsibility of killing Benazir Bhutto

PPP chief Bhutto, 54, was killed in a suicide attack in Rawalpindi shortly after she had addressed an election rally on...

15 Jan 2018 5:44 PM IST

The ties between the two countries have come under strain in recent months after US President Donald Trump accused Pakistan of providing safe havens to militants. (Photo: AP)

Pak asks US to address strategic concerns including Kashmir: report

The official confirmed that Pakistan had made it clear to the US that it needed to take a holistic view' of the current...

15 Jan 2018 5:07 PM IST

Maithripala Sirisena said he had ordered Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera to revoke his decision last week to overturn the 1979 law prohibiting the sale of any type of alcohol to women. (Photo: AP)

Sri Lanka's president reimposes ban on women buying liquor

'The idea was to restore gender neutrality,' ministry spokesman Ali Hassen said of the decision to roll back the ban.

15 Jan 2018 10:51 AM IST

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan. (Photo: AP)

Meeting Trump would be bitter pill' but would still do it, says Imran...

Imran Khan said, 'The way the United States has treated Pakistan as a doormat is not fair.'

14 Jan 2018 1:17 PM IST

Advocate Azhar Siddiqi filed the petition in the Lahore High Court, stating that Abbasis comments on the judgement amounts to committing contempt of court. (Photo: AP)

Lahore HC issues notice to Pak PM for anti-judiciary remark on Panama...

The court issued notices to Abbasi, the federal government and PEMRA and sought their replies by the next hearing...

13 Jan 2018 3:50 PM IST

The Trump administration has suspended about USD 2 billion in security aid to Pakistan for failing to clamp down on the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani Network terror groups and dismantle their safe havens. (Photo: File)

Despite aid cut, Pak will continue to engage with US as far as...

Trump's tweet on January 1 came for many reasons' and Pakistan is trying to analyse why the president's scathing remarks...

7 Jan 2018 5:38 PM IST