South Asia Conflict & Tragedy News

The Navy on Monday announced that it foiled in the afternoon an attempt by pirates to attack a tanker flying a Norwegian flag during patrolling off the Gulf of Aden. Responding to a distress call from “Nordic Spirit,” belonging to...

At least four including three of a family died in elephant attack in Dhanusha district in central Nepal on Monday.     According to myrepublica.com report, the elephant has killed four locals of Godar village, some 125 km south of Kathmandu.     Half-a-dozen...

Government ministers were today accused of lying in an attempt to cover up Britain's role in the so-called extraordinary rendition of two men captured in Iraq and sent to Afghanistan for interrogation. Both men have been detained without trial or...

The trial of the seven Pakistani men accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack case was deferred by a week on Saturday, reports in Pakistan media said. The reason for the delay was a day-long strike by defence lawyers. These...

Chandak was shot and seriously injured on Saturday night by two men riding a motorcycle, in the Ramnagar locality of Sabarmati. The police have registered the case under various sections of the IPC, including 307 (attempt to murder) 120-B (conspiracy...

A sessions court in Karachi has acquitted twenty policemen in the Murtaza Bhutto murder case pertaining to an armed attack on a police team in which two officials were wounded and a taxi driver were also killed. The same court...

A reward is being offered for the four men involved in the 1986 hijacking of Pan American World Airways Fight 73, the U.S...The State Department authorized a reward of up to $5 million each for information leading to the arrest...

The deadly blast hit a shopping area close to the city's main Khyber Bazaar on Friday morning. A Press TV reporter in the city said at least fifteen people were killed and more than three dozens were injured in the...

They’re making a villain out of a hero," said filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, referring to media reports about his son Rahul, who is being treated as a suspect in the David Coleman Headley case. Bhatt had taken Rahul — a trainer...