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WANA: Five laborers were shot dead and two others injured when armed people opened fire on them in the South Wazirstan district. According to the police, the attack was carried out late on Thursday night at the Jazaghondai area of South…

PRAGUE (Reuters): A gunman killed 10 people and seriously wounded 11 others at a Prague university on Thursday before being "eliminated", according to police and Prague emergency services. Czech police said shortly after 3 p.m. (1400 GMT)…

WASHINGTON: Army chief Gen Asim Munir has stated that the general elections in Pakistan will be held on Feb 8 as scheduled by the Election Commission of Pakistan. The army chief stated this in reply to a question during his interaction…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan can achieve higher GDP growth and improve economic indicators by adopting technology at government and private level, said Saquib Ahmad, Managing Director of SAP Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan. Talking to media…

ISLAMABAD: Police in the federal capital on Wednesday night swopped on hundreds of protesters outside National Press Club and batoned charge them. The police later rounded up scores of protesters, including women, and shifted them to…

PESHAWAR: The postmortem report on the body of a foreign tourist has confirmed that he committed suicide in Peshawar early this month. The police have received the postmortem report which stated that the Italian man had died of hanging.…

NEW YORK: Pakistan has told the United Nations that it faces serious threats from Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)  terrorists and its affiliated outfits. Pakistan's permanent representative to the UN Ambassador Munir Akram told the United…

CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters): The U.S. said "very serious" negotiations were taking place on a new Gaza ceasefire and release of more Israeli hostages, but prospects for a deal remained uncertain as Hamas insisted it would not discuss anything less…

SWABI: Former speaker of National Assembly and PTI leader Asad Qaiser was on Wednesday released from the district jail of Mardan in Khyber Pakthunkhwa. The district administration of Swabi withdrew the arrest order of Qaiser issued under…

RAWALPINDI: Police here said that accountability court judge Muhammad Bashir was not the target of a firing incident in the Airport police area on Wednesday evening. Earlier, there were media reports that the judge had come under armed…