Pakistan may soon have 3rd largest nuke stockpile
ISLAMABAD:-Pakistan is well on its way to amassing the world’s third largest nuclear weapons stockpile and its decision to deploy low-yield (5 to 10 kiloton) battlefield weapons, represents a dangerous new strategy that could have a telling impact on South Asia’s future stability, claims a military history and world affairs expert. In an article written […]
Afghanistan war veteran receives penis, scrotum transplant in surgery doctors hail as a medical first
kabul:-An Afghanistan war veteran who had his genitals blown off by a roadside bomb is the recipient of a donated penis and scrotum that doctors hope will restore his ability to function normally, after a 14-hour surgery that doctors hailed as a medical first. Doctors at a Baltimore hospital have performed the world’s most extensive […]
Ahead of summits, US tones down war games with S. Korea
South Korea — Spring on the Korean Peninsula is normally the season of D-Day-style beach landings with big guns thumping in the distance and skies crisscrossed by the contrails of fighter aircraft. But as the North and South prepare for their first summit in more than a decade this Friday, there is something different in […]
US diplomat put on ‘blacklist’ over Pakistani motorcyclist’s death
Islamabad : Pakistan’s Interior Ministry on Tuesday placed US diplomat Colonel Joseph Emmanuel Hall on the “blacklist” for killing a motorcyclist in a road accident here, prohibiting the US defence and air attache from leaving the country. Hall was driving a Land Cruiser and jumped a red signal on April 7 near Islamabad’s Daman-e-Koh Chowk, […]
Afghan girl spends life disguised as ‘son’ her parents wanted
SULTANPUR, Afghanistan: Sitara Wafadar yearns for long hair like other girls. Instead, the Afghan teenager has disguised herself as a boy for more than a decade, forced by her parents to be the “son” they never had. With five sisters and no brothers, Sitara lives by the gender-twisting custom known as “bacha poshi”, which in […]
36 killed in N.Korea accident
Beijing, At least 36 people, including 32 Chinese tourists, were killed in a bus accident in North Korea, China’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday. Besides the 32 Chinese, the victims also comprised four North Korean workers while two other Chinese citizens were seriously injured, Efe news reported. China’s National Health Commission said on its website […]
Taliban Attacks Kill At Least 14 Troops, Police
Afghan officials say two near-simultaneous Taliban attacks in western Badghis province have killed at least 14 troops and policemen. Ghulam Sarwar Haidari, the deputy provincial police chief, says a large number of insurgents attacked army units in the district of Ab Kamari, killing nine soldiers in that attack on Monday. He says that at the […]
US man who went on sex trips to Philippines gets 330 yrs jail for child porn
Washington: A nude gunman shot dead three people and injured at least four more in the early hours of Sunday at a restaurant on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee, police said. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said in a statement that the shooting occurred at a Waffle House restaurant in Antioch, a suburb southeast of […]
Afghan official says Taliban kill 6 at police checkpoint
KABUL, — An Afghan official says that at least six local police were killed when a group of Taliban fighters attacked and overran their checkpoint in northern Sari Pul province. Zabi Amani, spokesman for the provincial governor, said Saturday two other policemen were wounded in the late Friday night attack. Amani said reinforcements arrived and […]
Four Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in Gaza border protest
Gunfire from Israeli soldiers across a border fence killed four Palestinians, including a 15-year-old boy, and wounded more than 150 others, health officials said, as several thousand people in blockaded Gaza staged a fourth round of weekly protests on the border with Israel. The latest deaths brought to 32 the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli troops […]
