Tag: War

Merkel says refugees must return home once war is over

German Chancellor Angela Merkel tried on Saturday to placate the increasingly vocal critics of her open-door policy for refugees by insisting that most refugees...

Hunger grips millions across Middle East as conflict fighters use food...

In a Middle East torn apart by war and conflict fighters are increasingly using food as a weapon of war. Millions of people across countries...

Weather, war threaten to leave millions more hungry in 2016

Millions more people globally are facing the threat of severe food and water shortages in early 2016 as droughts and flood devastate crops and...

War with Pak not an option, Swaraj tells Lok Sabha

Declaring, "war is not an option,” Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday said it had decided to hold dialogue with Pakistan as...

Air strikes kill 15 civilians in Yemen, hours before truce

Air strikes by an Arab coalition targeting Yemen's dominant Houthi group killed at least 15 people late on Monday, residents said, hours before a...

War comes at great cost!

Finance Minister Ishaq Dar says hike in duties on imported luxury items was required to foot bills of anti-terror war Federal Minister for Finance Ishaq...

War on IS needs ‘boots on ground’: US air force secy

The air campaign against the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group has made progress in degrading the organisation but will not be enough without local...

Truth or dare?

Terming the recent allegations against his party a nefarious plan and swearing that he or his party had no connection with the Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has warned that attempts to remove him as MQM chief would result in "war in every nook and corner" of the country.

Indian cricket tycoon Lalit Modi declares ‘war’, rattles Modi govt

Pressure is growing on India's foreign minister and a top member of the ruling party over help they gave to a disgraced cricket tycoon,...

Islamic State overtaking al Qaeda in South Asia social media war

Militant propaganda websites and social media accounts in South Asia are promoting Islamic State (IS) at the expense of al Qaeda, analysts said on...

Bombings, war, disease as Yemen marks start of Ramzan

War-torn Yemen began marking the Muslim fasting month of Ramzan Thursday after a wave of Islamic State group bombings, with little hope of a...

War in Pakistan, Afghanistan since 2001 has killed 149,000: study

A new study says civilian and military casualties in Afghanistan and Pakistan total almost 149,000 people killed, with 162,000 seriously wounded. The study, called Costs...

Weeklong war with dengue begins today

The district health department Islamabad will start a weeklong anti-dengue campaign in the rural areas of the Federal Capital from Monday. District Dengue Surveillance Cell...

RAW AT WAR WITH PAKISTAN

First time in recent years, military publicly cites Indian spy agency as behind terrorism in Pakistan COAS emphasises continued precision targeting of terrorists squeezed in...

UN experts seek more transparency on US drone war

UN rights experts on Wednesday hailed a US move to review counter-terrorism operations after a botched drone attack in Pakistan killed two foreign hostages,...

US drone war under scrutiny after botched strike

President Barack Obama’s admission Thursday that a US drone strike accidentally took the lives of two hostages has raised fresh questions about the limits...

We support Saudia, but Yemen war is…

Political leaders stutter over UAE official’s statement, Pak’s military’s involvement in Yemen As Pakistan’s political leadership appeared cautious in commenting over somewhat harsh statements by...