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The country’s sovereignty is at stake after the US operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif said on Monday. Describing the...

Iranian Intelligence Minister Heyder Moslehi said that al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had died long before the US army raided his compound in Pakistan,...

Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik told an Arab satellite TV on Monday he knew of the US raid which killed Osama bin Laden only...

CIA Director Leon Panetta said in an interview on Tuesday that officials ruled out informing Islamabad about a planned raid against Osama bin Laden’s...

MAZAR-I-SHARIF - NATO troops killed several people in northern Afghanistan overnight, giving rise to conflicting accounts of whether they were insurgents or civilians, officials said Tuesday. The incident came as international troops raided a house in the relatively peaceful northern Afghan province of Sari Pul late Monday.
The provincial governor, Sayed Anwar Rahmati, told AFP the raid had killed six civilians. "Foreign troops stormed a house in Sayyad district last night,

LAHORE - Panic gripped through the female population of University of the Punjab hostels when a number of varsity guards led by Chief Security Officer (CSO) Major (r) Arif raided a female professor's official residence to get it vacated.
Punjab University Academic Staff Association (PUASA), female students and faculty members residing in hostels condemned Major (r) Arif's commando-style action. Students said the retired major has no regard for women and has converted the varsity

JUBA - More than 40 militiamen and two soldiers died when rebel militias raided the capital of south Sudan's oil-producing Upper Nile state and took more than 100 children hostage in an orphanage, the southern army said. Renegade fighters attacked Malakal on Saturday in the latest violence to stoke fears for the stability of the south ahead of its independence from the north, due to take place on July 9.
Just short of 99 percent of southern voters chose to declare independence

KARACHI - Four suspects having links to banned terrorist group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were arrested during a raid in the Metroville area, the Crime Investigation Department (CID) said on Wednesday. Addressing a press conference, CID Senior Superintendents of Police Omar Shahid and Chaudhry Aslam said that a CID team raided a house in Metroville on a tip-off and arrested four suspects. The detainees have been identified as Musharraf, Sherz Ali, Hamidullah and Ahmad Ali, who

BAGHDAD - One of Al Qaeda leaders in Iraq, identified as the militant group's "war minister", has been killed in a raid, a senior Iraqi official said on Friday. Noman Salman, also know as Al-Nasser Lideen Allah Abu Suleiman, the war minister for the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), was killed on Thursday night in Hit, about 130 km west of Baghdad, a spokesman for the Baghdad operations command said.
"Based on intelligence, Iraqi security forces carried out the raid that killed him.

ATHENS - Greek police clashed with protesters on Wednesday as around 100,000 workers, pensioners and students marched to parliament in protest at austerity policies aimed at helping Greece cope with a huge debt crisis. Riot police fired scores of rounds of teargas and flash bombs at protesters hurling petrol bombs, choking the main Syndagma square with smoke and sending crowds of striking protesters running for cover.
Public and private sector employees' 24-hour strike grounded

LAHORE - Dozens of annoyed protestors broke into a North Cantonment police station on Wednesday and held hostage the police officers for several hours. Police officers, requesting not to be named, said the protestors of Sunni Tehreek had staged a protest demonstration against the statements of Vatican Pope Benedict when police officers intercepted the demonstrators.
"An ambulance was stuck in the demonstration upon which we approached to rescue the ambulance. The Sunni Tehreek

JERUSALEM - Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip and its deadly raid on a flotilla of aid ships bound for the coastal enclave last year conform with international law, an Israeli probe concluded on Sunday.
The May 2010 raid, in which nine Turkish activists were killed, soured relations between Ankara and Israel and earned the Jewish state widespread international censure. Israel set up its own commission of inquiry into the raid, headed by former judge Yaakov Tirkel, after

GAZA CITY - A Palestinian was killed and two were injured on Tuesday as Israeli tanks carried out an operation in the northern Gaza Strip, a medical official said. Hamas emergency services spokesman Adham Abu Selmiya named the victim as 17-year-old Amjad al-Zaanein, saying he died after being hit by Israeli tank fire near the northern town of Jabaliya. One of the two injured men, who were hit by shrapnel, was said to be in critical condition, he added. Seven Israeli tanks made a rare

BISHKEk - Kyrgyz security forces killed two suspected Islamist militants in a raid on Wednesday on rebels accused of killing three policemen on Tuesday.
One officer of the GKNB security service died of wounds sustained during the attack, a police spokesman said. Kyrgyz security officials had pledged tough punishment for "religious extremists" who they say shot the three policemen in a residential area of the capital Bishkek.
"Two terrorists were destroyed during the

KABUL - The NATO-led force in Afghanistan disputed on Monday an Afghan government accusation that foreign troops had violated a security deal by conducting a night raid in Kabul in which two guards were killed.
Under the 2008 deal, Afghan authorities have to approve and lead all security operations in the capital. But the Ministry of Interior (MOI) has said that foreign forces ignored the security rules and it was unaware of Friday's operation.
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KABUL: Two Afghan security guards have been killed after international forces raided the offices of a transportation company in Kabul, a senior police officer said Friday.
"Foreign forces have conducted an operation in district four of Kabul city in which two private guards of the business were killed," Mohammad Zahir, the city police's chief of criminal investigations, told AFP. He added that the guards worked for a private security company which provided services at Tiger

LAHORE: Six armed men stole two trucks of Water and Sanitation Authority (WASA) from its mini workshop located in Gowala Colony in the Harbanspura police precincts on Sunday.
Harbanspura police has claimed to have recovered one of the two stolen trucks and arrested a truck lifter from Pindi Bhatian later on.
Armed men, equipped with sophisticated weapons, barged in the office of Aziz Bhatti Town Administration in Gowala Colony where WASA had also set-up its mini workshop and