KARACHI  – Two people were killed and 15 others wounded when a bomb exploded near a local party office in Pakistan’s Karachi late Tuesday, officials said, the latest attack ahead of historic polls next month. Police officer Imran [...]

QUETTA, Pakistan A suicide bomber blew up his car at a check point near a Shiite dominated area in southwest Pakistan late on Tuesday, killing six people and wounding more than 30, officials said. The attacker had attempted to drive his vehicle [...]

BRUSSELS :  NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen welcomed Afghan President Hamid Karzai Tuesday as the alliance prepares for a difficult withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2014 after years of fighting the Taliban. NATO forces in Afghanistan are steadily [...]

Lahore :  Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Chief Munawar Hasan said on Tuesday that his party would pull the country out of energy crises within six months by following its manifesto. He said that main points of their manifesto are division of resources [...]

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan :  Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday appeared before an anti-terrorism court for the first time over the murder of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Musharraf was driven to the court [...]

LAHORE, Pakistan – A Pakistani court on Monday allowed former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf to contest May 11 polls, striking down a disqualification order by an election tribunal, his lawyer said. Ashraf, a candidate for the outgoing [...]

ISLAMABAD  – Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf is being held in “isolation” in his luxury farmhouse, confined to two rooms and stripped of his personal staff, his party spokesman said Sunday. A court [...]

Washington,  Wearing a knee brace offers significant relief to patients suffering from a type of osteoarthritis affecting the kneecap, according to a new study. Current treatments are limited to pain relief and joint replacement. Osteoarthritis [...]

KHAR, Pakistan  – A female suicide bomber blew herself up outside a hospital in a lawless tribal area of northwest Pakistan Saturday and killed at least four people and wounded four others, officials said. The attack took place in Khar, [...]

ISLAMABAD :  A Pakistani anti-terrorism court ordered former military ruler Pervez Musharraf to be remanded in custody for two weeks on Saturday, a day after his arrest ahead of key elections, officials said. The arrest Friday relates to Musharraf’s [...]