GERMANY: An Afghan asylum seeker has set himself on fire in Germany due to unknown reasons, leaving serious burns over his body, it has been reported. The incident reportedly took place at a Supermarket located in Bavaria state in southeast of Germany. According to the police authorities, the man poured gasoline on his body as he was carrying a knife ...

The son of a Pakistani governor who was assassinated over his opposition to the nation’s blasphemy laws is now the subject of a fatwa calling for his death after he criticized the nation’s blasphemy laws and voiced his support for its victims on Facebook. Shaan Taseer, the son of slain Punjab Gov. Salman Taseer and a human rights activist, took ...

A Syrian man has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of seeking 180,000 euros (US$190,000) from the Islamic State group to buy vehicles that he intended to use for one or several bomb attacks, authorities said yesterday. The 38-year-old, who came to Germany in late 2014 as an asylum-seeker, was arrested on Saturday in Saarbruecken, close to the French border. ...

State Grid of China will help build a 4,000-megawatt power transmission line in Pakistan in a project valued at US$1.5 billion, Pakistan said yesterday, the latest in a series of Chinese investments in its South Asian neighbor. The high-capacity transmission line will be the first of its kind in Pakistan and will link Matiari town in the south, near a ...

The British government announced on Sunday that it would launch a new one pound coin at the end of March and scrap the current one pound coin by October. An announcement from the British Treasury said that the new 12-sided one pound coin would become legal tender on March 28 and the new coin would be produced by the Royal ...

Turkish state media aired new footage on Tuesday of a man believed to be the gunman who killed 39 people at a nightclub, showing a grim selfie video of the suspect as he circles Istanbul’s most famous square. The camera never leaves the man’s unsmiling face as he walks through Taksim square, one of Istanbul’s prime tourist spots, during the ...

Around 2,000 Shias in western Afghanistan organised a protest on Tuesday against growing sectarian attacks by the militant Islamic State (IS) group, as the government warned that IS had expanded its foothold into 11 provinces. Shouting slogans such as “Death to the enemies of Afghanistan!” and “Death to Daesh!”, the Arabic acronym for IS, the protesters in the city of ...

Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan is all set to challenge the findings of the Quetta Commission report. A source in the National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta) told DawnNews that it has finalised “responses” and “arguments” to be presented in the Supreme Court in response to a report probing the Quetta Civil Hospital carnage. The source said Nacta’s response to ...

KABUL: Scores of Afghan ministries have drafted different agreements to be signed with the Uzbekistan government in order to boost up mutual trade and transit deals. Afghanistan and Uzbekistan Inter-government commercial and economic commission on Tuesday launched the 2nd conference in Kabul attended by ministers of agriculture, commerce, public works, transportation, energy and water, as well as public health. Officials ...

KABUL: Members of the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) of Parliament on Sunday expressed deep concern over mounting insecurity throughout the country. The lawmakers called on the government to take measures and rebuff the threats. Ramp up insecurity in different parts of the country and high threats particularly against parliament is the matter of concern and needs to be focused, said ...