Tag: attack

Family of police ex-AIG survives attack on vehicle

LAHORE: Family of former police additional inspector general (AIG) Chaudhry Manzoor on Tuesday survived an attack on its vehicle. The police said that unidentified armed motorcycle...

Imran calls Nawaz ‘Godfather’, Shehbaz ‘Chhota Don’

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan on Monday said that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif have both been caught in...

ATC dismisses Imran Khan’s exemption petition in 2014 sit-in attack cases

ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) of Islamabad on Friday dismissed the appeal of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan seeking exemption from appearance in...

Three suicide bombers kill 18 in Nigeria’s Maiduguri

MAIDUGURI: Three suicide bombers killed 18 people in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, capital of the state worst hit by the Boko Haram...

DSP remains unhurt in attack in Baloch colony

KARACHI: One of Sindh’s Deputy Superintendent police (DSP), Iffat Chaudhry, remained safe when a group armed men started firing at his mobile van near Baloch colony,...

‘Pakistan will have to pay for attack in IoK’: report

Indian Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday blamed Pakistan for the terror attack at the Sunjuwan military camp in the Indian held Kashmir and...

CTD arrests facilitator in Peshawar agricultural directorate attack case

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pukhtunkhawa (KP) Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Saturday arrested an alleged 'facilitator' of a terror attack on the Directorate of Agriculture...

US army in Afghanistan attack anti-China militants

KABUL: US forces in Afghanistan have attacked networks of anti-China militants in an action that is likely to please Beijing, which had called for...

Two security personnel killed in North Waziristan checkpost attack

PESHAWAR: At least two personnel of security forces were killed and three others injured in a rocket attack on a checkpost in the Noorak area of...

Gunmen free suspected militant from Srinagar hospital

Gunmen fired at Indian police officers and freed a suspected militant being transported to a hospital for a medical checkup on Tuesday in the...

Kabul hospitals wary of another ambulance attack

KABUL: As Kabul ambulance driver Zemari Khan raced a bleeding patient to the hospital on Thursday, he came to one of the city’s latticework...

Paris attacks suspect tried in Belgium over shootout

Belgium will be on high alert today as the last surviving suspect in the 2015 Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, stands trial in Brussels over...

Singapore worries, prepares for militant attack

SINGAPORE: Armed officers patrol a train station where television screens and giant posters warn of the threat from militants. Nearby, fake gunmen storm a...

Uma Thurman details Weinstein attack, threat

Actress Uma Thurman, who is indelibly linked to Harvey Weinstein's Miramax studio thanks to her iconic roles in "Pulp Fiction" and "Kill Bill," has...

Seven Turkish soldiers die in Afrin ofensive

AFRIN: Seven Turkish soldiers were killed Saturday in Turkey's offensive against Kurdish militia inside Syria, including five who died in a single attack on...

Two injured in armed attack in Karachi

KARACHI: Two people were injured in an armed attack in Surjani town on Wednesday. According to rescue resources, a 20-year-old man, Sami-ud-din, and a 19-year-old...

Swedes charge Uzbek man with terrorism in truck attack

STOCKHOLM: An Uzbek man who rammed a stolen truck into a crowd in downtown Stockholm in April, killing five and injuring 14, was charged...