Tag: Hostage

Robbers loot private hospital in Karachi after holding staff hostage

Medical facilities have come under robbers' radar as a private hospital situated in Joharabad was looted by seven robbers on Thursday, a private media...

Police register two cases against captor for holding co-workers hostage

Karachi Police on Wednesday registered two cases against Saleem Shehzad for taking his fellow employees hostage at a Karachi factory on August 7. Police booked...

40,000 POs were taken hostage during General Elections 2013: Arif Alvi

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Arif Alvi on Sunday claimed that as many as 40,000 presiding officers (PO) were taken hostages in General Elections...

Man holds family hostage, kills father-in-law

RAWALPINDI: A person, allegedly having a mental disability, held his family hostage in Morgah area of the city on Saturday. According to to rescue sources,...

American woman freed from Taliban captivity describes brutal treatment

NEW YORK: A US mother held hostage by Taliban-linked militants for five years has detailed the violence and sexual assault she said she endured...

We can’t let India-Pakistan relationship be hostage to dispute, says Hussain...

The former ambassador of Pakistan to the United States (US) Hussain Haqqani has said that instead of letting the ties between Pakistan and India...

Soldier facing desertion trial says Taliban more ‘honest’ than US Army

Bowe Bergdahl, the US Army sergeant who pleaded guilty Monday to deserting his post in Afghanistan in 2009, says his Taliban captors were more...

Wife of Taliban hostage says US govt did nothing to save...

The wife of an American held hostage in Pakistan has accused the Obama administration of not doing anything to help free her husband. In an...

Canadian hostage held in Afghanistan released after five years

A Canadian man, held by the Taliban in Afghanistan since 2010, has been released, Canada's government announced Monday. Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion said...

Canadian held hostage by Taliban released after 5 years

A Canadian man, held by the Taliban in Afghanistan since November 2010, has been released. Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion, in a statement on...

Indian Maoists take 250 villagers hostage

Indian Maoist rebels took 250 villagers hostage in restive Chhattisgarh just hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi toured the central state on Saturday, officials...

ISIS butchers a Japanese hostage, leave one alive

Even by the barbaric standards of the Islamic State, the video distributed on Saturday by the jihadists plumbs new depths of depravity. It shows...

Gunmen take hundreds of students hostage on Iraq university campus

Gunmen occupied a university in Iraq’s western province of Anbar on Saturday, taking hundreds of students and their professors hostage on campus, security sources...

Zamurad Khan’s heroics save the day

  Gunman arrested after holding capital hostage for five hours Wanted implementation of Islamic system in country Police, security forces play silent spectators     The mysterious gunman who held...

Hostage crisis in Chiniot bank

Dacoits attacked a private bank in Chiniot on Tuesday afternoon and engaged in a shoot-out with the police. According to reports by the local media,...

France confirms failed Somali hostage rescue

A French hostage kidnapped in Somalia is believed to have been killed during a failed rescue operation, the French defence ministry says. A French...

43 Indian sailors from six ships being held hostage by Somali...

The plight of 43 Indian sailors held hostage by Somali pirates on six ships has reached the government's doorstep, Indian media reported on Tuesday....