May 20
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami member sentenced to hang for genocide

DHAKA: A Bangladeshi court sentenced a senior figure in the country’s largest Islamic party to death on Thursday for crimes including genocide dating back to the 1971 war with Pakistan. Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, 61, the assistant secretary general of the opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party, was the fourth person to be convicted by the much-criticised International Crimes Tribunal and the third senior politician. The tribunal headed by Justice Obaidul Hassan found Kamaruzzaman guilty of genocide, torture, abduction and crimes against humanity including a mass killing at a site which has since become known as the “Village of Widows”, according to an AFP correspondent at the court hearing. “He has been sentenced to death by hanging for crimes such as genocide and murder. We feel relieved,” AttornFull story

 
Several trapped as fire erupts at LDA plaza in Lahore

LAHORE: A fire that erupted at the LDA plaza situated on Lahore’s Edgerton road trapped several peFull story

 
Counter-reaction: Mainstream parties shun reservations over self-governance order

GILGIT: Leaders of mainstream political parties in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) shunned the reservationsFull story

 
Six killed in clashes at Afghan protest: Officials

KANDAHAR: At least six people were killed during clashes with police at a protest in southern AfghFull story

 
Whistleblower: Benghazi a Terror Attack from 'Get-Go'

Last September's deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is back in the spotlight thFull story

 
Al Qaeda's track record with chemical weapons

(CNN) -- On Monday, a U.N. official said that Syrian rebels had likely used the nerve agent sarin.Full story

 
‘Token strike’: Religious parties protest against Self-Governance Order 2009

GILGIT: Religious parties in Gilgit and Diamer districts called for a new and ‘acceptable’ governiFull story

 
Pakistani prisoner attacked in India jail dies: Hospital

AMRITSAR: A Pakistani prisoner who was savagely beaten in an Indian jail in an apparent tit-for-taFull story

 
Indonesian police in shoot-out with Myanmar plot suspects

BANDUNG, Indonesia: Indonesian anti-terror police exchanged fire Wednesday with four men holed up Full story

 
Imran Khan's recovery will be based on further tests, doctor says

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e- Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s doctor Faisal Sultan, said Khan canFull story

 
Anti-Blasphemy Protests in Bangladesh Turn Violent

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Violence erupted across Bangladesh on Monday as Islamist fundamentalists demanFull story

 


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Death toll rises to eight in Quetta blast

Death toll rises to eight in Quetta blas…

QUETTA: Death toll in Sunday’s suicide attack in Quetta has reached eight as one of the injured succumbed to his wounds at the Combined Military Hospital Quetta on Monday, officials...

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Egypt claims foiling Al Qaeda plot to bomb a Western embassy

Egypt claims foiling Al Qaeda plot to bo…

CAIRO: Egypt’s interior minister said on Saturday police arrested three members of an Al Qaeda-linked cell in an alleged transnational plot to bomb a Western embassy and other targets in...

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Memos from Guantanamo: ‘Algerian involved in Pak attacks was double agent’

Memos from Guantanamo: ‘Algerian involve…

KARACHI:At least one Guantanamo Bay detainee discovered to be involved in a plot to attack the US Consulate in Peshawar and believed to have carried out a string of bombings...

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