Bomb blast in Pakistan park kills 60, wounds 300
The Latest on the bombing of a park in the Pakistani city of Lahore (all times local): 10.00 p.m. A spokesman for the Punjab government says that a bomb attack…
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Militants kill 20 in assault on Pakistani university
By RIAZ KHAN and ZARAR KHAN Islamic militants stormed Pakistani university in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people and triggering an hours-long gunbattle with security forces in…
Afghan defense minister says Taliban hid in bombed hospital
By LYNNE O’DONNELL Afghanistan’s acting defense minister said Monday that the Doctors Without Borders hospital bombed by U.S. forces in the northern city of Kunduz was being used by insurgents…
The Latest: Al-Jazeera vows to free journalists in Egypt
Here are the latest developments in Egypt’s retrial of three Al-Jazeera English journalists (all times local) 3:45 p.m. The lawyer for Al-Jazeera English correspondent Peter Greste says his three-year jail…
Indian authorities detain, then release Kashmiri separatists
By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Indian authorities detained and later released two key Kashmiri separatist leaders Thursday ahead of talks between Indian and Pakistani security advisers, while a third remained under house…
Pakistan police officers, spy fired over child abuse case
A top government official in eastern Pakistan says he has fired a provincial intelligence chief and three senior police officers for failing to act against a gang that blackmailed the…
Afghan Taliban confirm Mullah Omar’s death, choose successor
By LYNNE O’DONNELL and KATHY GANNON Afghanistan’s Taliban on Thursday confirmed the death of Mullah Mohammad Omar, who led the group’s self-styled Islamic emirate in the 1990s, sheltered al-Qaida through…
Major heat wave in southern Pakistan kills over 600 people
A scorching heat wave across Pakistan’s southern Sindh province has killed at least 622 people, authorities said Tuesday, as morgues overflowed with the dead and overwhelmed hospitals struggled to aid…