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Police said five other people were wounded in the blast at Pathang intersection on the well-known ring road around the city. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. A suicide attack rocked Matani district near Peshawar on Sunday, killing...

A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday in a market in northwest Pakistan. The market was crowded with shoppers ahead of a Muslim holiday; the bomber killed twelve people, including a mayor who once supported but had turned against the...

PESHAWAR: FIR against unknown persons have been registered on charges of carrying out Sunday’s suicide attack in livestock market in Matni, an area located in the outskirts of Peshawar. Peshawar police told Geo News that the attack killed 16 people...

The crisis facing the 18-month-old BJP government in southern state of Karnataka has blown over. The Reddy brothers, who have been leading the rebel charge, on Sunday were nudged by senior party leader Sushma Swaraj to accept the peace deal...

Devvarman will now meet second-seeded American Kevin Kim who beat compatriot Donald Young 6-2, 7-5 in the other semifinal. The 23-year-old was off to a good start as he won the opening set to take the early lead. But Sweeting,...

IT department sources said in New Delhi that Koda will be questioned on the "concealment of income and illegal investments found during their searches". A wheel-chair bound Koda while leaving a Ranchi hospital after undergoing treatment for five days told...

Surekha Sellahewa, the exchange’s chief executive, told the Financial Times that demutualisation would “take the exchange to the next level”, as it seeks to introduce derivatives and attract greater foreign participation. “The potential for this market, now that the war...

Former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev has opposed the US' move to send more troops to Afghanistan by arguing that the "withdrawal should be the goal" and said the crisis needs to be addressed in consultations with key...

Appointment of a body to probe war crimes and also the prosecutors for the trial will be made by the time. He said the existing Administrative Tribunal will be shifted to the Janata Tower Building at Karwan Bazar from Abdul...