Afghan police chief shot dead outside home
Kabul: Motorcycle-riding gunmen assassinated a police chief in front of his house after he led an anti-Taliban campaign in western Afghanistan, an official said on Saturday. Police Chief Abdul Ghani was leaving his driveway in his car outside his home in Farah province when the two raced up and opened fire.
Twin blasts kill 15, 25 injured in Pak
Islamabad: At least 15 people were killed and 25 injured when twin blasts hit two mosques in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province ahead of the Friday prayers, Geo News reported. The blasts occurred in Malakand district of the province from where the bodies and injured were shifted to a hospital.
JuD leader found murdered in Pakistan
lahore: A Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) leader has been found murdered near this eastern Pakistani city, the group said on Saturday. The body of Khalid Bashir, who was associated with JuD’s information wing, was found in Sheikhupura, 40 km from lahore, on Friday.
Gunmen kill 9 in Iraq, 8 police kidnapped
Baghdad: Gunmen killed an anti-terrorism policeman and his family in Baghdad on Saturday, while kidnappers abducted 8 cops guarding a post on Iraq's main highway to Jordan and Syria, the latest in a wave of violence to grip the country.
Bombs targeting Sunnis kill at least 76 in Iraq
Baghdad: Bombs struck Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas on Saturday, killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight months, officials said, as a spike in violence has raised fears the country could be on the path to a new round of sectarian bloodshed.
Court extends Musharraf’s remand
Islamabad: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday extended by 14 days ex-President Pervez Musharraf’s remand over the detention of judges during the 2007 emergency. Judge Syed Kausar Abbas Zaidi accepted a plea from Musharraf’s lawyers that he should be exempted from appearing in the court on Saturday.