The mastermind behind the Karachi airport terror attacks was killed Sunday during air strikes carried out by Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in North Waziristan, a media report said.
Military sources told Dawn online that Abu Abdur Rehman Almani was a key commander of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), the militant group which along with the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility of the attack on Karachi's Jinnah International Airport last Sunday night that killed 30 people, including 10 militants.
According to reports, some East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) terrorists were also killed during the air strikes.
The East Turkestan Islamic Movement is a separatist militant outfit blamed for numerous terror attacks in China's restive western region of Xinjiang.
Two US lawmakers asked Secretary of State John Kerry to demand India to release a New York police officer after a tabloid termed his arrest as New Delhi's revenge for the Khobragade affair.
Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Yarema Friday said his country is suspending military cooperation with Russia over Moscow's troops movements near the Ukrainian border.
Music lovers paid a small fortune to a rock singer Ted Nugent NOT to sing at their local festival the other day. Officials booked the screaming rocker but Texas residents paid $16,200 for him to shut up and stay away.
If you thought weather prediction was a recent phenomenon, you would be in for a surprise if told that weather prediction was done in ancient Egypt some 3,500 years ago!
The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 ended for the day Thursday with no sightings made in the search area in the southern Indian Ocean yet again and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the search operation is "the most difficult in human history".
A senior UN official Thursday urged Afghans to use the presidential and provincial council elections two days hence to shape the future of the country through peaceful, democratic means.
