30 May , 2010
KUNAR: Taliban militants captured the administrative headquarters of a remote Afghan district Saturday, officials said, while a suicide bomber blew himself up near a Nato base in Kabul.
A US drone attack which left 23 Afghan civilians dead when they were mistaken for Taliban fighters occurred due to the “unprofessional” approach of the soldiers involved, an internal military report has found.
LAHORE: Eighty people were killed and over 120 others injured when armed men launched simultaneous attacks on worship places of Qadianis in Garhi Shahu and Model Town areas here on Friday. The assailants made the worshippers hostages after making their way to both the worship places, hurling hand grenades and spraying volleys of bullets.
PESHAWAR – At least 11 suspected militants were killed and three others got injured in a US drone attack in South Waziristan Agency on Friday.
KANDAHAR: As many as 35 Afghan and US-NATO soldiers took losses of life and injuries with more than 170 vehicles and motorcycles destroyed as a van filled with explosives detonated in the parking area of PRT building on Wednesday noon, May 26.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says it has given first aid training to dozens of Taliban members in Afghanistan.
ZAHEDAN: The twelfth annual competition which consist of debates & writing articles has started on Tuesday, 25th May 2010, in DarulUloom Zahedan University.
Somalia’s al-Shabab, the armed anti-government group, has attacked the presidential palace in Mogadishu, leaving at least 14 civilians dead, officials and witnesses say.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has blocked 800 web pages and URLs to limit access to “blasphemous” material, extending a crackdown that has already banned access to Facebook and YouTube, an official said Saturday.
US-led soldiers and civilian contractors sit in a shelter during a ground and rocket attack at Kandahar military base on May 22, 2010. Gunmen have attacked the main military base for US-led forces in southern Afghanistan as anti-US sentiment in the war-weary nation reaches new heights.
