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Security for the long Christmas weekend was heightened throughout Italy and at the Vatican on Saturday following the killing by police of the man believed to be responsible for the Berlin market truck attack. As investigators sought to determine if Anis Amri had accomplices in Italy, and associates of the 24-year-old were arrested in his home country of Tunisia, national ...

Tunisia arrested the nephew of the suspected Berlin truck attacker and two other jihadist suspects who are “connected” to the Tunisian assailant Anis Amri, the interior ministry said Saturday. A statement said the three suspects, aged between 18 and 27, were arrested on Friday and were members of a “terrorist cell… connected to the terrorist Anis Amri”. It made no ...

ISLAMABAD: As the World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB) have conveyed their refusal to fund the $14-billion Diamer-Bhasha dam project, the government is planning to lease the Ghazi-Barotha hydroelectric power project to raise financing. Earlier, the World Bank had declined to provide funds for the project following Pakistan’s refusal to get a no-objection certificate from India for construction of the ...

GWADAR: The Balochis­tan government has imposed with immediate effect a ban on transfer of land in the port city of Gwadar for three months. The provincial revenue department has issued an official notification in this regard. Gwadar Deputy Commis­sioner Dr Tufail Ahmed Baloch said on Friday that the ban had been imposed on transfer of all kinds of lands. He ...

PESHAWAR: Adviser to the Chief Minister on Information and Higher Education, Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani, has rejected claims of the federal government and media reports regarding the award of a multi-billion rupee ad contract of print and electronic media campaign to a company in which certain PTI members supposedly hold interests. Speaking at a press conference at Peshawar Press Club on ...

At least one person was shot dead in Kohistan following an argument between Frontier Corps (FC) personnel and locals over the alleged assault of a taxi driver by FC men on Saturday. Station House Officer (SHO) Dasu Muhammad Haq Hashmi told Dawn an argument erupted between FC personnel and a taxi driver when the taxi hit a passing FC convoy ...

The Afghan security forces arrested a suicide bomber before he manage to carry out an attack on a government compound in Sharan district, located in southeastern Paktika province of Afghanistan. The Afghan intelligence, National Directorate of Security (NDS), said Abdul Bari son of Akhtar Gul was arrested with the support of the police forces before he attack the district administrative ...

KABUL: Russian authorities are busy in preparations to host its arch-rival in the Cold War era Pakistan and China to discuss security situation in Afghanistan and confer on regional stability and peace, Pakistani foreign ministry confirmed. Spokesman for the ministry, Nafees Zakaria, confirmed the other day that Pakistani and Chinese officials would attend the trilateral talks on December 27 in ...

The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said the so-called Durand Line will never be recognised as official border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Speaking during an event in Kabul, Karzai said the line has remained a controversial issue between the two nations for many years, imposed by outsiders. Karzai further that Afghanistan’s reluctance to recognise as formal line will never ...

KABUL: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has lodged a strong protest over shelling of areas across the Durand Line by summoning Pakistan’s ambassador Syed Ibrar Hussain. According to a media statement issued by the MoFA, the foreign ministry’s first political chairman Muhammad Musa Arifi had conveyed serious concerns over Pakistani troops shelling in Sarkani district of Kunar and Maroof district ...