Tag: Twin

The Pakistani Taliban on Friday claimed responsibility for a rare female suicide attack and another bombing against police to “avenge” military operations in the...

Heavy showers battered Peshawar and the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad in the wee hours of Friday. In Peshawar, the rain started during...

A twin attack Thursday involving a car bomb and a suicide bombing in Tikrit killed 12 people near a bank and a market crowded...

Twin shooting and bomb attacks left at least 91 dead in western Europe's deadliest carnage since the 2004 Madrid bombings as a Norwegian gunman...

Militants staged twin bomb and shooting attacks in Norway on Friday, leaving at least 30 dead as a blast tore through government buildings and...

Harmful banned drugs are selling under the nose of the health authorities in the medical stores of the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad...

Two suicide car bombs ripped through a guard post killing 26 people outside the provincial governor’s home in Diwaniyah city on Tuesday, officials said,...

At least 34 people were killed and another 94 injured when two simultaneous bomb blasts tore open a crowded super market in Peshawar late...

Two car bombs exploded in quick succession in a central street of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Saturday, killing six people and...

Extremely hot weather, like other parts of the country, has made life miserable for the residents of the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi....

ISLAMABAD - A 15-member team led by Dr Zaheer Abbasi at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad, on Tuesday successfully separated four-month-old incomplete conjoined boy from his brother. The conjoined twins were born at the Children Hospital PIMS four months ago and one of them was incomplete having lower body and a head. The other boy, Faisal, was healthy but shared abdomen and chest with his incomplete twin. The doctors took three hours for the surgery to

KARACHI - Two bomb explosions on the premises of two police stations in Karachi on Monday morning jolted sleeping cops. The blasts were declared by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) in their initial investigations as planted and operated with a time device. At least two people sustained injurie.
The first explosion took place in the backyard of Eidgah police station at 9.03 am. Five minutes later, cops who were still asleep at Shah Latif Town police station, were woken up

PESHAWAR - Six policemen were killed and 18 injured in two bomb attacks on the police on the Ring Road on Monday. The day began with a suicide attack on a police mobile van at Garhi Qamar Din, Kohat Road, killing DSP Rasheed Khan, his driver, a police constable and two passersby.
At least 15 people were injured in the attack, senior officials said. In the second attack, a remote-controlled bomb exploded near a police van at Tajajabad checkpost on Ring Road hours after the first

ISLAMABAD - Brick-kilns emitting poisonous smoke, which is deteriorating air quality of Rawalpindi and Islamabad but the authorities concerned have turned a blind eye to the environmental degradation.
Years ago, the Environment Ministry had identified 95 kilns in Rawalpindi and Islamabad as injurious to environment and planned to demolish them for pollution-free environment but the Environment Ministry officials demolished only those 27 kilns in Loi Bher whose owners already

RAMADI - Twin bombings targeting Iraqi government offices in Ramadi Monday killed seven people and wounded dozens, in a first test for Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki since he assumed the security portfolio.
Police said a car bomb exploded near the provincial headquarters in the heart of Ramadi city, 100 kilometres west of Baghdad, followed 15 minutes later by a suicide bombing which witnesses said occurred amid ambulances and rescue workers attending to victims of the first

ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has planned to launch a new bus service by March next to meet the growing needs of commuters, traveling between the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. A CDA official informed Pakistan Today on Monday that two local firms had pre-qualified to run 35 buses on four proposed routes likely to be approved in the next meeting of civic body's Board of Directors.
He said the successful bidder would get interest free government loan

PADANG
Indonesian rescuers searched for survivors Wednesday after a tsunami smashed into an island chain and a volcano erupted in twin disasters that have left scores dead and thousands homeless.
Ten villages were flattened when the tsunami triggered by a 7.7-magnitude earthquake pounded the Mentawai islands late Monday off the west coast of Sumatra, on a major fault line in a region known as the "Pacific Ring of Fire".
At least 154 people were killed and some 400