Pakistan: Blast derails train, 15 injured
Feb 12, 2015, at 09:58 pm
Jacobabad, Feb 12 (IBNS): At least 15 people were injured as four coaches of a train derailed after a blast damaged the tracks close to the Dillmurad Railway Station near
Afghanistan: 5 militants killed
Feb 10, 2015, at 08:39 pm
Kabul, Feb 10 (IBNS): At least five militants were killed as they attacked the police headquarters in Afghanistan's northeastern Kunduz province on Tuesday.
Pak PM calls for reforms in civil bureaucracy
Feb 10, 2015, at 01:24 am
Islamabad, Feb 9 (IBNS): Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday expressed his concern and dissatisfaction over the performance of the country's civil bureaucracy, media reports said.
Afghanistan: Taliban commander killed in drone strike
Feb 09, 2015, at 11:16 pm
Kabul, Feb 9 (IBNS): A Taliban commander has been killed during a US drone strike in Afghanistan, media reports said on Monday.
Bangladesh: Dhaka-Kolkata train attacked,no casualty
Feb 09, 2015, at 01:53 am
Dhaka, Feb 8 (IBNS): Amid a BNP-sponsored blockade in the country, several petrol bombs were hurled at the Dhaka-Kolkata ‘Maitree Express’ train in Bangladesh's Pabna district on Sunday, media reports said.
Pakistan: Four soldiers killed in explosion
Feb 04, 2015, at 03:46 am
Peshawar, Feb 3 (IBNS): At least four security personnel were killed in an explosion at Warmagai area in Pakistan's Kurram tribal region on Tuesday, media reports said.
Pakistan: Toddler raped, killed in Karachi
Feb 04, 2015, at 03:33 am
Karchi, Feb 3 (IBNS): A one-and-a-half-year-old girl has been raped before being killed in Pakistan's Karachi city, media reports said on Tuesday.
Seven killed in Bangla bomb attack on bus
Feb 03, 2015, at 10:42 pm
Dhaka, Bangladesh, Feb 3 (IBNS) At least seven passengers were killed and 16 injured when miscreants threw crude fire bombs on a bus in what is said to be a political attack on a national highway in Comilla district of Bangladesh on Tuesday.
Bangladesh: Blast close to Zia's office
Feb 01, 2015, at 04:49 am
Dhaka, Jan 31 (IBNS) Two crude bombs were blasted close to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's Gulshan office here on Saturday, media reports said.
UN chief condemns deadly bomb attack on Shia mosque in southern Pakistan
Jan 31, 2015, at 08:44 pm
New York, Jan 31 (IBNS) Condemning the deadly bombing on Thursdayof a Shia mosque in Sindh province in Pakistan, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon deplored this “vicious targeting of people on account of their religious affiliation,†and called on the Pakistan authorities to step up their efforts to protect religious minorities and combat terrorism.
Pakistan: 33 killed, 55 injured in Shia mosque explosion
Jan 30, 2015, at 11:52 pm
Shikarpur, Jan 30 (IBNS): At least 33 people were killed and 55 others were injured in an explosion inside a Shia mosque in Pakistan's Sindh province while the weekly Friday prayers were on, media reports said.
Afghanistan: Blast in funeral ceremony kills 5
Jan 30, 2015, at 01:49 am
Kabul, Jan 29 (IBNS): At least four people were killed in a bomb blast during the funeral ceremony for an Afghan Local Police (ALP) commander in Afghanistan's eastern Laghman province on Thursday, media reports said.
Pakistan Air Force operation kills 10 militants
Jan 28, 2015, at 03:29 am
Islamabad, Jan 27 (IBNS): At least 10 militants were killed during a operation conducted by Pakistan Air Force in the country's Khyber tribal region on Tuesday, media reports said.
Pakistan: 35 militants killed in air strikes
Jan 27, 2015, at 03:52 am
Islamabad, Jan 26 (IBNS) At least 35 militants were killed as Pakistan conducted air strikes in the country's North Waziristan area, media reports said on Monday.
Pakistan freezes Hafiz Saeed's JuD's bank accounts
Jan 22, 2015, at 11:45 pm
Islamabad, Jan 22 (IBNS): In an attempt to combat against terrorism, the Pakistani government on Thursday said the bank accounts of Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) have been frozen and also imposed foreign travel restrictions on the group's leader and 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, reports said.
Afghanistan: 23 militants killed
Jan 21, 2015, at 09:00 pm
Kabul, Jan 21 (IBNS) At least 23 militants have been killed during militant operations in Afghanistan's Tashguzar area, media reports said on Wednesday.
Bangladesh: WhatsApp, mypeople, Line blocked
Jan 20, 2015, at 06:15 am
Dhaka, Jan 19 (IBNS): The Bangladesh government has blocked three instant messaging and VoIP applications in the country on Monday, media reports said.
Bangladesh: 4 suspected ISIS members sent to police custody
Jan 20, 2015, at 05:25 am
Dhaka, Jan 19 (IBNS): A Bangladesh court on Monday sent four suspected ISIS members to five days' police custody, media reports said.
Jan 20, 2015, at 05:09 am
Dhaka, Jan 19 (IBNS) BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday announced that the nonstop countrywide ongoing blockade will continue.
Four militants killed in Pakistan drone attack
Jan 19, 2015, at 10:51 pm
Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, Jan 19(IBNS) Four suspected militants were killed in drone strike in northwest Pakistan on Monday.
Pakistan: Two Taliban men sentenced to death
Jan 18, 2015, at 03:38 am
Lahore, Jan 17 (IBNS): A Pakistan court on Saturday sentenced to death two men belonging to two Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) , media reports said.
Peshawar school massacre detainees probed
Jan 18, 2015, at 01:22 am
Kabul, Jan 17 (IBNS) The Afghan security forces are currently investigating five men who have been detained for their alleged involvement in a Pakistani school which killed 132 school students last month, media reports said on Saturday.
Afghanistan: UN-backed mine clearing project reports 34 killed during 2014
Jan 16, 2015, at 01:42 pm
New York, Jan 16 (IBNS) The United Nations-supported Mine Action Programme in Afghanistan (MAPA) has said on Thursday that while 2014 could prove to have been a major turning point in the country’s long and tortured history, it was also a year that had inflicted “immense and unprecedented tragedy†on the programme’s personnel.
Pakistan: 6 militants killed in US drone strike
Jan 16, 2015, at 01:57 am
Peshawar, Jan 15 (IBNS) At least six militants were killed in a suspected US drone strike in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal agency on Thursday, media reports said.
Imran Khan, wife visit Peshawar school, face protest
Jan 15, 2015, at 05:54 am
Peshawar, Jan 14 (IBNS): Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan and his wife Reham Khan were booed by grieved parents as the couple visited Peshawar's Army Public School , which was attacked by militants in December, on Wednesday to meet the students.
Kerry lauds Pak's efforts against terrorism, announces $250 million aid
Jan 14, 2015, at 01:02 am
Islamabad, Jan 13 (IBNS): Pakistan Adviser to the Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met in Pakistan's Islamabad on Tuesday for the fifth Ministerial level Pakistan-U.S. Strategic Dialogue, where the later lauded the South Asian nation's efforts to fight terrorism.
UN Afghanistan mission welcomes Government's nomination of unity cabinet
Jan 13, 2015, at 07:22 pm
New York, Jan 13 (IBNS) The nomination of Afghanistan's unity cabinet, part of a wider move to bring together the country's political factions is an important milestone in the nation's political development, the top United Nations envoy there announced on Monday.
PTI announces 'dharna convention' on Sunday
Jan 13, 2015, at 04:09 am
Islamabad, Jan 12 (IBNS):Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan on Monday said his party will hold a dharna convention on Sunday.
Pakistan: Peshawar's violence-hit school reopens
Jan 13, 2015, at 03:39 am
Peshawar, Jan 12 (IBNS): Less than a month after militants had killed at least 150 people ,including 136 children, the e Army Public School (APS) reopened with students attired in their uniforms returning to their classrooms on Monday.
Pak court accepts govt's request for in-camera hearing of Lakhvi
Jan 12, 2015, at 11:58 pm
Islamabad, Jan 12 (IBNS): The Islamabad High Court on Monday accepted the Pakistan government's application for an in-camera hearing of the detention of 26/11 mastermind and top Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zakir-ur Rehman Lakhvi, media reports said.