Tag: Violence

At least 14 people were killed on Sunday after Israeli forces fired at Palestinian demonstrators on its frontiers with Syria, Lebanon and Gaza on...

Three members of the same family and two other people were killed in violence in the capital and northern Iraq on Sunday, including a...

In occupied Kashmir, veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani has appealed to the international community to come forward in a big way to...

More than 80 rebels and civilians were killed when insurgents attacked a cattle camp in south Sudan, the army said on Tuesday, in the...

US officials in Kabul said on Monday the movements of staff in parts of Afghanistan’s volatile south were being restricted, warning of more attacks...

At least 25 people have been killed in communal violence in the southeastern Guinean town of Galakpaye, police said Thursday. However other sources reached...

The plan to provoke violence in Karachi would be foiled, Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon said on Tuesday. Those violating the law would...

KARACHI - At least six more people were gunned down in Karachi in various incidents of targeted killings on Tuesday. Bodies of five people were recovered from various parts of the city. A 30-year-old man, Aamir Ali, was found dead in Korangi No 6.
Awami Colony police said the victim was a worker of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi (MQM-H Afaq). The body of 35-year-old Ziaullah was found from Fauji Fertilizer Company, Shah Latif Town. Another body was found near Degree College,

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

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

BAGHDAD - Iraq's fiery anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr will "escalate military resistance" and unleash his Mehdi Army militia if US troops fail to leave Iraq as scheduled this year, his aides said on Saturday.
On the 8th anniversary of the day US forces toppled Saddam Hussein's statue in Baghdad, senior Sadr aide Hazem al-Araji told tens of thousands of followers: "We say to the Black House (White House), 'we are all time bombs and the detonators are at the hands of Moqtada

LAGOS - Nigerians voted in a delayed parliamentary election on Saturday, voicing determination to hold a credible poll in Africa's most populous nation despite chaotic organisation and violence.
At least seven more people were killed in four separate incidents in the last few hours before polling. Those deaths followed the killing of at least 10 people by a bomb at an election office late on Friday. Violence which has taken around 100 lives in the run-up to the election, as well

BAGHDAD - Iraq's fiery anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr will "escalate military resistance" and unleash his Mehdi Army militia if U.S. troops fail to leave Iraq as scheduled this year, his aides said on Saturday.
On the 8th anniversary of the day U.S. forces toppled Saddam Hussein's statue in Baghdad, senior Sadr aide Hazem al-Araji told tens of thousands of followers: "We say to the Black House (White House), 'we are all time bombs and the detonators are at the hands of

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) issued notices to the interior secretary and the Sindh home secretary on Tuesday on a constitutional petition about providing compensation to the heirs of targeted killing victims in the city.
A division bench headed by the SHC chief justice was hearing a petition filed by Iqbal Kazmi seeking provision of compensation to the heirs of the people killed in the recent incidents of targeted killings equal to that which is being provided to the

NAIROBI - A local tribunal would not be a credible mechanism to try Kenyan post-election violence suspects because the wealthy political elite would manipulate the court, Kenya's "Iron Lady" Martha Karua said on Monday. Six top suspects are due at the International Criminal Court (ICC) later this week, a move that has intensified infighting in the fractured coalition government as many members, including President Mwai Kibaki, want local trials.
Karua, known as the Iron Lady for

ABIDJAN - Mass graves have allegedly been found in western Ivory Coast as a picture emerged Saturday of carnage amid fierce post-election battles, which the ICRC said claimed 800 lives in a single day. The government of internationally recognised president Alassane Ouattara said numerous mass graves had been found, "especially in Toulepleu, Blolequin and Guiglo, whose authors are none other than the loyal forces, mercenaries and militias of Laurent Gbagbo." The accusation came after

LAHORE - The Advisor to the Punjab Chief Minister Begum Zakia Shahnawaz has called upon the women parliamentarians to utilize their development funds to resolve women issues and end domestic violence on women. She was addressing a meeting titled 'One Day Consultation with Parliamentarians and Political Parties on Domestic Violence Bill in Punjab' organised by Mumkin EVAW Alliance on Thursday.
Zakia said that it was the duty of the women parliamentarians of national and