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JENIN, West Bank (Reuters): At least nine Palestinians were killed on Wednesday as Israeli forces raided the flashpoint cities of Jenin and Tulkarm as well as other areas in the occupied West Bank in a major operation involving helicopters…

M. Irshadullah PESHAWAR: The family of a Christian youth, who was murdered about three weeks ago, has demanded that the killers should be arrested to provide justice to to them. Speaking at a press conference at Peshawar Press Club, the…

ISLAMABAD: The coordinator of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday said that retailers would have to come under tax net at all costs and the government would not come under any pressure of traders. Rana Ehsan Afzal stated this while…

WASHINGTON: A court in the US capital city of Washington DC has sentenced a man along with in the Capitol Hill riot case. According to the US media reports, the court sentenced Michael Sparks to over four years in prison and fined him 2000…

ISLAMABAD: Vice President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir chapter of PML-N and former acting prime minister of AJK Chaudhry Muhammad Uzair passed away in Islamabad on Wednesday morning. He remained three times members of the AJK legislative…

ISLAMABAD: A shutter-down strike is being observed across Pakistan against the rising cost of electricity and heavy taxes in the country. The call to observe the strike has been given by Jamaat-e-Islami chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman and…

MOSCOW (Reuters): Russia said the West was playing with fire by considering allowing Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with Western missiles and cautioned the United States that World War Three would not be confined to Europe. Ukraine…

QUETTA: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi visited Quetta in the aftermath of the terror incidents and killing of civilians by terrorists in different parts of Balochistan a day earlier. He held a meeting with Balochistan Chief Minister Mir…

BEIJING: China on Tuesday strongly condemned the wave of terrorism that has gripped different parts of Pakistan, especially the province of Pakistan. At a press briefing, a spokesman for the foreign affairs ministry said that China…

RAWALPINDI: Security forces conducted an intelligence based operation in Tirah valley of Khyber district in Khyber Pakthunkhwa and killed 25 terrorists and injured 11 others on Tuesday. In a statement issued in Rawalpindi, the inter…