8 die in attack on British Council in Kabul

Kabul, Aug 19: Eight people were killed as a wave of suicide explosions rocked a British cultural centre in Kabul today, a public holiday marking Afghanistan's independence from Britain in 1919. Five blasts, claimed by the Taliban, struck the British Council offices in Kabul amid bursts of More

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Suicide bomber blew himself up in Pak Masjid

FIRST MAJOR ATTACK DURING RAMADAN; 53 KILLED

REZAUL H LASKAR/PTI

Islamabad, Aug 19: At least 53 people were killed and 123 injured when a teenage suicide bomber blew himself up in a Masjid packed with hundreds of worshippers on the third Friday of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Pakistan's restive tribal belt, the deadliest attack in the country in three months More

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11 killed in Karachi violence

MQM activists besiege Sindh CM's house

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Karachi, Aug 19: Violence raged unabated in Pakistan's commercial capital Karachi, with the toll from armed ethic clashes jumping to 60 as hundreds of activists of MQM surrounded the Sindh CM's house demanding stern steps to check the bloodshed. Eleven more people were killed in the ongoing More

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Nepalese parties in conundrum

Formation of national unity govt

SHIRISH B PRADHAN/ PTI

Kathmandu, Aug 19: Nepali Congress, the main opposition party, is determined not to allow the Maoists to lead a national unity government in Nepal unless they lay down their arms and agree to rehabilitate and integrate their former combatants with the security forces, a top leader said today.& More

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