The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for a car bomb that destroyed a police facility in Karachi, the country’s biggest city, killing at least 17 people and wounding more than 100 others.

Taliban militants have stormed a police checkpoint in southern Uruzgan province killing seven policemen, deputy provincial governor said. “The attack happened in Khas Uruzgan district at 01:00 a.m. local time as a result seven policemen were killed and others sustained injuries,” said Khudai Rahim, Uruzgan’s deputy provincial governor, reported Xinhua on Wednesday.

Foreign troop death toll in Afghanistan has hit 633 so far this year after the deaths of 3 US-led soldiers in the country as the rising casualties have increased opposition to the war.

JAKARTA: U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday much more needs to be done to repair frayed U.S. relations with the Muslim world in an acknowledgement of the difficulties in eradicating “years of mistrust.”

The US commander in Afghanistan has prepared a color-coded timetable for handing over the control of Afghan provinces to local security forces. US Army General David Petraeus plans to submit his timetable to NATO leaders at a summit in Lisbon on November 19, The Times reported.

ZAHEDAN: The new phase of the expansion project of Makki mosque is going on well by the help of almighty Allah and your pray to Him, we do not take financial help from any foreign country, Shaikh Abdul Hameed, Imam of the Sunnis in Zahedan has said.

The NATO says six of its soldiers have been killed in combat operations in Afghanistan as the death toll of US-led forces continues to climb in country.

PESHAWAR: A suicide bomb tore through a Pakistani mosque during weekly prayers on Friday, killing 50 people and bringing down the roof, trapping victims under pulverised rubble.

ZAHEDAN: In a series of pressure on the Sunnis in Iran, Sheikh Ismaeel Mullazai, teacher of Darululoom Zahedan and son-in-law of Sheikh Abdul Hameed, prominent leader of Ahl-us-Sunna, was arrested on Monday here in Zahedan, Iran.

Two US-led soldiers have lost their lives in a bomb attack in southern Afghanistan, the NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) says.Two soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan in “an improvised explosive device attack”, ISAF said in a statement on Tuesday, a Press TV correspondent reported.