Soldiers face charges over secret ‘kill team’ which allegedly murdered at random and collected fingers as trophies of war Chris McGreal in Washington The Guardian, Thursday 9 September 2010 Twelve American soldiers face charges over a secret “kill team” that allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their [continue....]
Officials fear the number could rise once emergency teams are able to survey devastated areas. Authorities are stepping up efforts to provide relief and rescue stranded villagers. As the death toll from this week’s flash floods rose to at least 800 Saturday, authorities tried desperately to rescue thousands of stranded villagers from [continue....]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani passenger plane crashed in fog and intense rain near this capital city on Wednesday morning, killing all 152 people on board, according to civil aviation and airline officials. Rescue helicopters fought against thick smoke and flames as they tried to find survivors amid the wreckage — about a two-hour drive [continue....]
PESHAWAR: A series of powerful explosions and gunfire rocked Peshawar area of Saddar on Monday as heavy grey smoke spewed into the sky, witnesses and a security official said. The causes of the blasts were not immediately clear, said the security official and local residents. Television footage showed a heavy mushroom cloud [continue....]
Updated at: 2148 PST, Friday, March 12, 2010 Back-to-back 5 blasts hit Iqbal Town LAHORE: Five back-to-back blasts have happened in Iqbal Town of Lahore within the last 45 minutes, Reported: Voice.pk (M.Rayhan Sheikh) All the five blasts have taken place in the premises of Iqbal Town. The first blast occurred in an empty plot near crowded [continue....]
LAHORE: The Close Circuit Television (CCTV) footage of Monday’s suicide attack on FIA building has been released to the media, ARY NEWS reported. The CCTV footage shows two suspects alighting from an explosive-laden double-cabin vehicle minutes before the deadly attack. The driver of the vehicle later rammed it into the FIA and the Special [continue....]
MINGORA: An explosion ripped through a busy market area in Mingora, the main town of Swat Valley, killing at least ten people and wounding many others. The blast occurred near Mingora Police Station at Nishat Chowk area of the city. Intense firing was also witnessed outside the police station. Officials said a suspected suicide bomber attack [continue....]
PESHAWAR: A bomb blast ripped through a tribal police vehicle in the Khyber Agency on Wednesday, killing at least 19 people, officials said. Nineteen people, including 11 khasadars (tribal policemen) and eight civilians were killed in the car bomb attack. The blast destroyed the vehicle as it was travelling through the Wazirdand area of Khyber, [continue....]
KARACHI: A motorcycle rigged with explosives rammed into a bus carrying Shias near the Nursery bridge in Karachi Friday, killing 12 people and wounding close to 50, while a second explosion inside Jinnah Hospital left at least ten people dead and injured another 20. Twelve people were martyred and 50 injured in the first blast. [continue....]
QUETTA: Three, including two policemen, were injured when a blast occurred in Quetta’s Sariab police limits on Friday, DIG Operations Quetta Asif Ejaz Sheikh. Sheikh said a police mobile team signalled a suspicious person to stop in Killi Ibrahimzai. As the policemen tried to search the individual, the blast took place due to the triggering of [continue....]
