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Seven Bangladeshi hostages return home

Last Updated: Thursday, June 12, 2014, 16:20

Seven sailors freed by Somali pirates, returned to Bangladesh Thursday, nearly four years after their abduction.

Pak Taliban had sleeper cells in Karachi for attack: Report

Last Updated: Thursday, June 12, 2014, 15:59

The brazen Karachi airport attack clearly suggests the role of the Pakistani Taliban`s sleeper cells in the city that must have planned it during the interval when their central leadership was busy talking peace with the government, a media report said today.

Pak Taliban had sleeper cells in Karachi for attack

Last Updated: Thursday, June 12, 2014, 15:36

The brazen Karachi airport attack clearly suggests the role of the Pakistani Taliban`s sleeper cells in the city that must have planned it during the interval when their central leadership was busy talking peace with the government, a media report said today.

Pak Taliban threatening Art of Living volunteers: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Last Updated: Thursday, June 12, 2014, 14:03

The Art of Living (AOL) founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has alleged that his faculty members and volunteers in Pakistan have been receiving threats from Pakistan Taliban, who wants them to leave their country at the earliest.

Pervez Musharraf allowed to travel abroad by Pakistan court

Last Updated: Thursday, June 12, 2014, 16:28

In a significant development, a court in Pakistan on Thursday allowed former president Pervez Musharraf to leave the country. The court, however, gave the Pakistan government 15 days to appeal against its order.

Karachi airport attack signals alarming tactical shift by Taliban

Last Updated: Thursday, June 12, 2014, 13:04

It was the shoes that betrayed Corporal Faiz Mohammad`s would-be killers.

Panel formed to investigate Karachi Airport attacks

Last Updated: Thursday, June 12, 2014, 12:05

The police have constituted an inquiry committee to investigate the terror attacks at the Karachi International Airport, media reported Thursday.

Feared Uzbek jihadists behind deadly Pakistan airport attack

Last Updated: Thursday, June 12, 2014, 12:05

In a commando-style attack carried out with military precision, militants wearing Pakistani uniforms burst into the country`s busiest airport under cover of darkness in one of the most audacious attacks in Pakistan in years.

US drone strikes in Pakistan`s North Waziristan kill 16 militants

Last Updated: Thursday, June 12, 2014, 11:53

Sixteen militants were killed in in two US drone strikes within last 24 hours in Pakistan`s restive tribal region, ending a five-month hiatus.

Pak`s ex-spymaster says Abdullah best hope for Afghan peace

Last Updated: Wednesday, June 11, 2014, 22:55

He trained Afghan resistance fighters against the Soviets and helped create the Taliban, but today Pakistan`s former spymaster Hamid Gul says the Islamist group`s long-time foe Abdullah Abdullah has the best chance of securing peace.