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Soldiers deployed in force in Lebanon’s main northern city Tripoli Saturday after seven people were killed in clashes between Alawites and Sunnis over a...

Punjab Finance Secretary Tariq Bajwa, Punjab Schools Secretary Aslam Janjua and Punjab Local Government Secretary Kizhar Hiyat appeared before the Lahore High Court on...

The Taliban targeted top government officials in Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing seven people in a suicide car bombing and firing rockets at the vice...

Seven people were gunned down in separate parts of the metropolis on Thursday, Pakistan Today has learnt. The Sachal Goth police said that two...

At least seven people were killed and several others injured when more than 200 militants attacked a police post in the Shal Talu village...

Seven soldiers from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed in a bomb attack in southern Afghanistan on Thursday. “Seven ISAF service members...

At least seven suspected militants were killed and another four injured when a US drone attacked a vehicle with two missiles in Machikhel village...

At least seven people, including a cousin of former Bank of Punjab president Hameesh Khan, were booked on the charge of snatching Rs 3.712...

KARACHI - Flood survivors of at least seven flood-ravaged districts of Sindh are likely to be compensated by the federal government for their losses suffered during last year's devastating floods, but only after a thorough survey of actual losses has been completed.
Well-placed sources told Pakistan Today that the decision to this effect was taken at a high-level meeting held in the federal capital recently, so that the flood-affected families could be provided with some

QUETTA - At least seven people, including a woman and children, were wounded in Dera Allayar area of Jaffarabad district when a boundary wall of a house collapsed owing to a heavy downpour on Saturday.
Reportedly, torrential rains hit different parts of Jaffarabad including Dera Allayar area where the boundary wall of a house located at Gott Muhalla Bhutti fell down causing injuries to seven people including a woman and children.
The injured were shifted to a nearby hospital

LAHORE - An alleged robber was killed during a "friendly fire" while two of his accomplices had been arrested, police claimed on Thursday. Police said that the alleged robber sustained a bullet and died soon afterwards, when his accomplices opened fire on the house-owner during a robbery attempt in Nishtar Colony area.
Police investigators said that three armed bandits barged into the house of Mohammad Tayyab and held up the inmates at gunpoint. As Tayyab offered resistance, they

KARACHI - There was no respite in violence in Karachi as at least seven more people were gunned down in the city in incidents of targeted killing on Wednesday.
The dead included six MQM activists and one of the ANP. Some unidentified armed persons attacked MQM Unit 125, Sector Orangi Town during the night and killed four people sitting outside. They were identified as Zaheer Ahmed, Waqas and Habib. Separately, two activists, one each of ANP and MQM, were shot dead over the issue

SANAA = At least seven people were killed including four policemen who clashed with a dissident army unit, as hundreds of thousands of anti-regime protesters rallied across Yemen on Wednesday. "Police attacked an army checkpoint in Amran province," 170 kilometres (105 miles) north of Sanaa, "killing one officer and wounding two soldiers," a military official told AFP. The four policemen died as the security forces traded fire with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades in the

LAHORE - DIG Operations Lahore Rao Sardar Ali Khan has dismissed seven Lahore Police officials including three inspectors after the charges of corruption, patronising land mafia and releasing a murder accused were provem in separate departmental inquiries on Tuesday. Lahore Police Spokesman Nayab Haider said DIG Operations has dismissed inspectors Tahir Zain ul Abidin and Muzammil Hussain and a sub-inspector Saeed Anwar from service after the charges of misuse of power, corruption and

SWAT/PESHAWAR - At least seven miscreants were killed during a clash with the security forces just on the borders with Lower Dir in the Matta area of Swat Valley. The officials said a group of militants was attempting to enter Swat.
The security forces directed them to stop, but they opened fire. After a brief shootout, all the seven militants were shot dead while two soldiers sustained injuries. The killed militants were coming from Mohmand Agency to Shangla district via Dir and

SHANGHAI - China said Sunday it had posted its first quarterly trade deficit in seven years, despite a narrow surplus in March, as rising commodity prices pushed manufacturers' costs higher.
China recorded a small trade deficit of $1.02 billion for the first quarter, its first since the beginning of 2004. But analysts said a large trade surplus was expected for the full year as its exports tend to grow later in the year.
"China's demand is strong and the prices of bulk

SWAT - Security forces on Sunday killed at least seven militants here, while security personnel lost his live during clash with militants in Mohmand Agency.
According to a private TV, a group of militants were tried to enter in Dir through Bajur Agency. The militants opened fire on security forces when they reached on a mountain.
A soldier was injured in the firing. Security forces opened fire in retaliation, killed seven militants. The forces also recovered arms and