KABUL: The death toll for foreign soldiers in Afghanistan neared the grim milestone of 100 for June alone on Monday as the CIA chief warned the anti-Taliban war would be tougher and longer than expected.

SRINAGAR: A separatist protester in Indian-administered Kashmir was killed and several others wounded Monday when security forces opened fire to disperse a violent demonstration, police said.

An Afghan police official said on Monday that eight civilians were killed in a NATO raid in the southern province of Kandahar, but the alliance claimed the victims were Taliban fighters.

KABUL (AFP) – The death toll among foreign soldiers fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan closed in on the grim toll of 100 for June alone as the CIA chief warned that the war will be tougher and longer than expected.

OCCUPIED KASHMIR: Another youth was killed in this north Kashmir town on Sunday when [Indian] paramilitary CRPF troopers opened fire on protesters. The killing comes barely 3-days after two youth were shot dead by the CRPF men in the town.

Kyrgyzstan has voted in a referendum on a new constitution amid fears of renewed inter-ethnic violence. Voting ended at 8pm local time (1400GMT) on Sunday. The country’s election commission said 58 per cent of registered voters cast their ballots. Results are due on Monday.

Another deadly US drone attack has killed at least six people and injured several others in the troubled northwestern Pakistan, officials say.

SARGODHA: An Anti Terrorism Court in Sargodha on Thursday sentenced five Americans accused of contacting militants in Pakistan over the Internet and plotting terrorist attacks to 10 years each in prison, Pakistani media reported on Thursday.  “Each of them have been sentenced to 10 years in jail on terrorism charges,” Nadeem Akram Cheema told AFP […]

LAHORE: A Pakistani court has ordered the authorities to block access to nine websites including Google, Yahoo and YouTube for allegedly offending Muslims with blasphemous material.

At least 15 US-led troops have been killed in Afghanistan in two days amid a surge in Taliban attacks against the foreign forces in the war-torn country.