US-led Nato troops have launched a long-expected attack on the biggest Taliban-held town in the south of the country.

At least 15 people have been killed and 20 wounded in two blasts at a police compound in northwestern Pakistan, officials say.

At least 185 people have been killed in avalanches that blocked a mountain pass north of the Afghan capital, according to official sources.

Engineer Iqbal Mohammadi, the representative of “Mariwan” city in the Islamic Consultative Assembly (parliament of Iran) – to remind him through a constitutional article – has asked to give opportunity to qualified people of the Sunnis in government ministries.

RAWALPINDI: Chief of Awami Muslim League Sheikh Rashid survived an armed attack on his election office here on Monday.

LAKI MARWAT: The Ameer (chairman) Jamiat Ulama -e- Islam (JUI-F) Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman has said that Blackwater is present in Islamabad and there were more than 9,000 Black Water personnel in the city.

Thousands of Nato and Afghan troops are gearing up to launch a massive offensive in southern Afghanistan – the largest the country has seen since the 2001 US-led invasion.

Thousands of people have gathered in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, for a mass funeral after 25 people were killed and more than 150 were wounded in bomb attacks on Friday.

Afghan border police have killed seven civilians after opening fire on a group of villagers they mistook for fighters, according to a police official in Kandahar province.

KARACHI – News that an American court has found Pakistani scientist Aafia Siddiqui guilty of trying to kill US servicemen in Afghanistan drew rebuke from her family and lawmakers.