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Violence in Iraq’s disputed northern oil province of Kirkuk killed five people on Monday, the latest in a string of attacks in the region,...

A judicial inquiry was launched into the killing of five Chechens in Quetta on Wednesday that would be headed by of Balochistan High Court...

Five people, including three teachers and one student, sustained injuries when a Suzuki van collided with a car on Burki Road on Tuesday. The...

Nasrullah, a leading pro-government Taliban commander of Dara Adam Khel, and four others were killed in mysterious circumstances in Waziristan region. According to reports,...

NEW DELHI - Five senior Indian corporate executives accused in an alleged mobile phone licence sales fraud which may have cost the country up to $40 billion in lost revenue were arrested on Wednesday. The men were taken into custody after a special court hearing the case rejected their bail pleas, citing the "magnitude" of the corruption scandal -- potentially the biggest in independent India's history.
The five executives had been charged earlier this month with cheating,

KARACHI - At least five more persons were killed during ongoing target killing incidents here in the city on Wednesday, police said.
Some unidentified armed persons opened fire on a car at Rashid Minhas Road killing three people.
A body of a police constable, Ayub, was found from Jalbani Goth, Malir. Sources said that he was kidnapped and then murdered.
Ayub's body was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC) for legal formalities.
In another

GUWAHATI - At least 18 people died and five others were badly burnt on Tuesday when a helicopter crashed and exploded as it came into land in a mountainous region of northeast India, police told AFP. "The number of those killed are 18 and five people badly burnt have been taken to hospital in Tawang," said S.B. Singh, police inspector general of Arunachal Pradesh state, lowering the earlier death toll of 20. "There were 23 people including five crew members on board the helicopter,"

KARACHI - At lest five more persons were killed in different firing and torture incidents here in the city on Tuesday, police said.
A 40-year old man's bullet riddled body was found under a bridge in Lasbela's Gulbahar area.
The body of 21-year old Najmul Haq was found from Sirajul Dola College's ground near Karimabad area. The victim was a resident of Apsara Apartments.
Ziaullah, 32, was gunned down by unidentified people at Jogi Mour in Landhi.
A 22-year old

ISLAMABAD - The PPP core committee on Monday resolved to induct another five PPP leaders into the federal cabinet in the second phase of cabinet formation, with Sherry Rehman, Qamar Zaman Kaira, Faisal Raza Abidi, Raja Parvez Ashraf and Sardar Aseff Ahmed likely make it to the cabinet. A source told Pakistan Today that names of two former information ministers - Kaira and Sherry Rehman - were being considered for the foreign minister, while Sardar Aseff might also be considered for

KARACHI - At least five more people, including PPP and MQM workers, fell victim to the current spate of targeted killings in Karachi on Monday. Tension gripped parts of Gulistan-e-Jauhar and Orangi Town after the murders of political activists by unidentified motorcyclists. PPP activist Asghar Ali alias Behari was killed while his friend Ahmed Ali was injured when two motorcyclists opened fire at them in Bangla Bazaar.
Orangi Town Police Officer Khurram Waris told Pakistan Today

KHARTOUM - A Sudanese army helicopter crashed on Monday at El-Fasher airport in North Darfur, killing all five people on board, the army spokesman said, in the second accident of its kind in less than a week.
"The helicopter trying to land at El-Fasher airport experienced a technical problem and crashed," Sawarmi Khaled Saad told AFP. "The aircraft was completely destroyed and all five people on board were killed. Three of them were crew and two were passengers. They were all in

JALALABAD - A Taliban suicide bomber wearing an army uniform killed five foreign troops and four Afghan soldiers on Saturday in a brazen attack at the Afghan army's eastern headquarters. It was the deadliest single incident this year against foreign forces in war-torn Afghanistan and comes amid a wave of suicide attacks on security targets, three months before foreign forces start a limited pullback.
The latest strike was at an army base in the Gambiri desert area in Laghman

QUETTA - Five persons were abducted in two separate incidents in Panjgur and Bolan district on Monday. According to police Salahuddin Bahirani along with his nephew Asghar were coming to Quetta but went missing in Bolan area along with his vehicle. The police apprehended that both might have been abducted. In another incident three brothers were abducted by unknown gunmen in Panjgur Bazaar.
One Haji Ghulam Rasool told the police that his three sons namely Khud-e-Rahim, Abdul

KARACHI - Karachi police have arrested five of the "17 to 18" men suspected to be involved in the murder of journalist Wali Khan Babar, claimed Capital City Police Officer (CCPO)-Karachi Saud Mirza on Thursday while addressing a press conference in his office.
"The accused have confessed during interrogation that they were involved in the killing of Wali Khan Babar on January 13, 2011," Mirza claimed, adding that Babar was killed due to his daring reporting on target killers,

In each and every film you watch, certain aspects of the production stand out more than others. Sometimes the movie just looks incredible and you'll leave the theater gushing over the cinematography.
In other cases, you'll be quoting the film days after seeing it and will always think of how good the writing was; nay, how integral it was to its quality, almost as if it was a character unto itself. All the same, a narrative theme can be the driving force in a motion picture,

KARACHI - At least five more people including a trader's son were killed in separate violent incidents in various areas of the metropolis during the last 24 hours, police said.
The latest incident in the series took place in Liyari area of Miranaka, where a man was shot down.
According to details, some armed men opened fire at a car near SP Office in Liaquatabad area, killing 18-year Faraz Hasan Rizvi and injuring his father Mumtaz Hasan, a trader.
The deceased and the

KANDAHAR - At least nine people have been killed in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, officials said on Saturday, on a second day of violent protests over the burning of a Koran by a radical fundamentalist Christian in the United States.
A suicide attack also hit a NATO military base in the capital Kabul, the day after protesters over-ran a UN mission in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif and killed seven foreign staff, in the deadliest attack on the UN in Afghanistan.