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Who will Stop the Crimes Committed in the Name of National Security BANNU: Today, while I along with my two small daughters aged 7 and 4 respectively, and my Mrs. entered district Bannu on Kurram Bridge, a convoy of Pakistan army appeared amidst very crowded traffic. A sepoy was brandishing a huge bamboo stick to frighten people and vehicles away. ...

Sami, who has spent more than a decade living in Mumbai, was granted Indian citizenship on the New Year eve. INDIA: The famous singer and composer Adnan Sami celebrated the newly granted Indian citizenship by posing for photographs as he hoisted the Indian flag at his residence in Mumbai. Sami, who has spent more than a decade living in Mumbai, ...

ISLAMABAD: Thousands of Shias protested in Pakistan and Indian-held Kashmir on Sunday to condemn Saudi Arabia’s execution of a leading Shia cleric  Nimr al-Nimr, as fury over the killing  spread. The 56-year-old cleric was put to death along with 46 others, who the Saudi interior ministry said were involved in Al Qaeda killings. Some were beheaded, others were shot by firing squad. ...

SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi Arabia has given an ultimatum of 24 hours to Iranian envoy in Riyadh to leave the country. According to local media reports, the order was issued after the Saudi embassy was attacked in Tehran last night. Tension escalated between Saudi and Iran after the kingdom executed a Shiite Cleric Sheikh al-Nimr on terrorism charges among 47 others. ...

INDIA: India defeated the Afghan national football team during the final match of South Asia Football Federation (SAFF) Championship final. Both Afghanistan and India ended the first half of the match with no goals scored but the Afghan player zubair Amiri hits first goal for Afghanistan during 70th minute of the game. However, the Indian player Jeje managed to level ...

BARCELONA: Barcelona was held to 0-0 at Espanyol to cede the provisional lead of the Spanish league to Atletico Madrid on Saturday, after Diego Simeone’s side got some late heroics from substitute Thomas Partey for the second time in four days. Partey went on in the 73rd minute with Atletico struggling to find the net at home against Levante after ...

KARAK: At least 10 passengers including four women were killed and six others injured when a gas cylinder explosion occurred inside a van on Indus Highway in Karak district on Sunday. According to details shared by Karak DPO Muhammad Javed Khan, the passenger van heading towards Dera Ismail Khan from Peshawar suddenly caught fire after a huge cylinder blast on ...

NEW YORK: Participants enter the water during the Coney Island Polar Bear Club’s annual New Year’s Day swim at Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York, January 1, 2016 (Reuters)

TEHRAN: Angry protesters have set fire to the Saudi Arabia embassy in Tehran and the country’s consulate in Mashad after the execution of a prominent Shiite cleric Sheikh al-Nimr. Crowds of protesters first stormed and ransacked Saudi’s embassy and Consulate. Then they damaged property there after which they threw Molotov cocktail and set on fire both the diplomatic offices. Photos ...

KABUL – President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday said that international meetings next month to lay the groundwork for a possible resumption of peace talks with the Taliban had to seek an approach to the fractured insurgent movement that ensured a rejection of terrorism. Prospects of success have been clouded by bloody infighting in the Taliban over the leadership succession which ...