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Pakistan court rules 26/11 mastermind La...

Pakistan court rules 26/11 mastermind Lakhvi’s ​detention as illegal,...

Islamabad: A court in Pakistan on Friday ordered the release of Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, an alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attack. The Islamabad High Court has ruled Lakhvi’s detention as illegal. Justice Noorul Haq accepted Lahvi`s appeal filed against his third time detention orders... read more »

United Nations to Hold Disaster Meeting ...

United Nations to Hold Disaster Meeting in Tsunami-Hit Japan

TOKYO: The UN will hold a once-in-a-decade meeting on disaster risk reduction this weekend, with policymakers gathering in tsunami-struck Japan after warnings that the cost of climate change-related calamities could bankrupt future generations. The meeting will review what lessons have been learned... read more »

Sri Lanka seizes passports of 74 Indian ...

Sri Lanka seizes passports of 74 Indian nationals

The Government of Sri Lanka has reportedly seized the passports of 74Indian nationals working at a plywood factory near Colombo. The Indian nationals have reportedly been charged with working in the island-nation without valid work visas. The Department of Immigration and Emigration in Sri Lanka... read more »

Triple murder convict executed in Pakist...

Triple murder convict executed in Pakistan

Islamabad: A man convicted in a triple murder case was executed on Thursday in Pakistan`s Punjab province. Muhammad Siddique was hanged in a district jail in Toba Tek Singh city, Dawn online reported. This is the first non-terror execution since Pakistan lifted its moratorium on the death penalty... read more »

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UN chief concerned over religious violence in Syria

UN chief concerned over religious violence in Syria

United Nations – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed concern over the targeting of people based on their religion, community or ethnic affiliation in Syria, after a group of nuns went... read more »

Kerry extends US-Afghan security deal deadline

US says not seeking interim Israeli-Palestinian pe...

Washington – US Secretary of State John Kerry will return to the Middle East this week to push for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, but... read more »

Several dead in Iraq bomb blast

Several dead in Iraq bomb blast

A car bomb near a cafe in central Iraq has killed at least eight people in the latest in a series of attacks. Monday’s blast in the town of Buhriz,... read more »

Pak tribunal to announce Osama doc Shakil Afridi’...

Pak tribunal to announce Osama doc Shakil Afridi's retrial verdict on December 18

Islamabad – Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) tribunal has said it would announce the verdict on the case of Dr Shakil Afridi on... read more »

India, Bahrain committed to expanding bilateral ties

India, Bahrain committed to expanding bilateral ties

Manama –  India and Bahrain have said they are committed to further expanding bilateral ties and look forward to work together in new areas of trade,... read more »

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Death of Iranian general brings Tehran back into the heart of Israel’s conflict with...

The announcement that a Revolutionary Guard commander was killed in the unconfirmed Israeli strike in Syria puts Israel and Iran – and not just Hezbollah – in the heart of the... read more »

1,000 lash sentence for Saudi blogger postponed

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia postponed until next week Friday’s flogging of a blogger jailed for insulting Islam, citing medical reasons, a week after he received the first 50 of 1,000-lash... read more »

Boko Haram: ‘For five kilometres, I kept standing on dead bodies’

Washington: It’s a “brief” war, which is to say that media reports on the brutal, dehumanising violence as Boko Haram consolidates its hold on a nation-sized slice of... read more »

Saudi Arabia: Woman dragged through street, beheaded for ‘murdering’ stepdaugh...

In what could send chills down one’s spine, a Burmese woman, who resided in Saudi Arabia, was publicly beheaded in Islam’s holy city of Mecca on allegations that she had killed her... read more »

Pakistan Hangs Terrorist, 20th Execution Since Moratorium Lifted

LAHORE: Pakistan today hanged a terrorist of a banned anti-Shiite outfit in Lahore after a court upheld the death penalty awarded to him, taking the number of executions in the country since the... read more »