6 Pak cops arrested for murders
Karachi: Six policemen have been arrested for shooting dead two youngsters who were earlier believed to have been murdered by target killers in Pakistan’s largest city.
Pakistani beheaded in Saudi Arabia
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia on Sunday beheaded a Pakistani national convicted of drug trafficking, bringing to 84 the number of such executions in the kingdom in 2015.
Taliban release dozens of kidnapped Afghanis
Kabul: Taliban insurgents who kidnapped dozens of people in southeast Afghanistan have released most of them but at least two are still being held, officials said.
Russia will not sign UN arms trade treaty
Moscow: Russia will not sign the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty that requires Governments to ensure their exports will not fuel conflicts, a senior foreign ministry official said on Sunday.
Morsi verdict alarms US, experts see ‘war’
Cairo: The United States expressed alarm on Sunday at death sentences for Egypt’s ousted President Mohamed Morsi and dozens of others, a verdict experts called a declaration of “total war” on his Muslim Brotherhood.
India won’t forget Kargil war: Mush
Islamabad: Recalling the Kargil conflict of 1999 between India and Pakistan, former military strongman Pervez Musharraf on Sunday said New Delhi would never be able to forget the three-month-long battle when his armed forces “grabbed India by the throat”.
Suicide car bomb near Kabul airport kills 3
Kabul: A Taliban suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car near the international airport in Afghanistan’s capital on Sunday, killing at least three people and wounding 18 others in an attack that appears to have targeted vehicles of the EU police training mission, officials said.