Kabul: Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned photographs of US soldiers posing with the bloodied remains of three suicide bombers as "disgusting" and said on Thursday that only a quicker exit of international forces can prevent such missteps. Karzai joined top American officials in denouncing that two-year-old photos, the latest in a string of embarrassing controversies that have jeopardised relations between the two countries in the midst of negotiations over the...
11:03 PM, Apr 19, 2012
Kabul: A team of six suicide bombers launched a coordinated assault on a provincial governor's compound in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing 19 people in the latest high-profile attack to target prominent Afghan government officials, authorities said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in the Parwan provincial capital of Charikar, some 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Kabul. Afghan police said the assault began with a car bomb outside...
04:41 PM, Aug 14, 2011
Baghdad: A suicide bomber attacked a mosque filled with Iraqi politicians and policemen on Friday and another blew himself up inside the hospital where the wounded were taken, killing a total of 21 people in Saddam Hussein's hometown. The twin attacks as well as the fact that the bombers were able to infiltrate areas that were supposed to be secure, left people in Tikrit feeling under siege. It was the...
02:06 AM, Jun 04, 2011
Islamabad: The Pakistani Taliban shot dead the head of a pro-government tribal militia, his son and a passer-by in the country's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, police said. The attackers, who were riding a motorcycle, fled after the incident in Swabi district, officials said. Two armed militants fired at Etbar Khan, the head of an anti-Taliban militia of Mohmand tribal region, when he was waiting for some persons along a road. Khan...
10:37 PM, May 15, 2011
Kabul: The orders from their religious teacher were clear, "Go to Afghanistan, strap on a suicide vest and kill foreign forces". With that, 9-year-old Ghulam Farooq left his home in Pakistan with three other would-be boy bombers and headed into eastern Afghanistan. They were told there would be two members of the Taliban waiting for them at the Torkham border crossing in Nangarhar province. Instead, members of the Afghan intelligence...
07:40 PM, May 15, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistani Taliban have established an all-women wing of suicide bombers to carry out terror missions across the country, dramatically revealed a 12-year-old girl who managed to escape from the clutches of the rebels from near the Afghanistan border. Meena Gul's brother, a Taliban commander, told her, "You will go to heaven before any of us, if you blow up yourself the way I tell you." 'The Express Tribune' reported...
01:03 PM, Dec 29, 2010
Karachi: Two suicide bombers on Thursday struck venerated Sufi shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi in Pakistani port city Karachi, killing at least 10 people and wounding 60 others in the latest in a slew of attacks on sacred places. The blasts occurred on Thursday evening in quick succession at the entrance of the packed shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi, considered to be patron saint of Karachi and is revered by...
08:49 PM, Oct 07, 2010
The youth was arrested by the BSF as he was carrying out a recce of the border belt. ...
02:54 PM, Jan 14, 2010
The boys, aged from six to 13 years, were rescued in Mardan. ...
08:35 AM, Jul 28, 2009
Taliban are using suicide bombers on relatively low level targets. ...
01:48 PM, Jul 07, 2009
The arrest was made south of the Afghan capital of Kabul. ...
10:23 PM, Jul 05, 2009
Pak Minister says terrorists are using children in their suicide missions. ...
11:21 AM, Jun 16, 2009
Suicide bomber attacks Sunni Muslims at prayers in restive NWFP district. ...
06:38 PM, Jun 05, 2009
Govt troops pushed into the rebel-held village of Karayamulliavaikkal. ...
05:33 PM, May 07, 2009
Suicide bomber fails, runs away after guards fire at him. ...
06:15 PM, Mar 11, 2009
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