PESHAWAR: The government of Khyber Pakhtunkwa has decided to award compensation to members of parliament who have been victim to terrorism, ARY News reported.
MUNICH: The teenager who shot dead nine people in Munich had likely hacked a Facebook account and used it to lure victims to the McDonald's outlet where he began his rampage, the German interior minister said Saturday.
WASHINGTON: Thousands of US troops who say they were unfairly discharged from the military after reporting sexual assaults are unable to access veterans' benefits and find decent new jobs, Human Rights Watch said in a report Thursday.
LAHORE: Two women, allegedly raped in a lockup, were recovered from Chiniot Saddar police station and presented before Lahore High Court on Monday, ARY News reported.
CHARSADDA: Families buried the last of 21 people killed by militant gunmen at a university in Pakistan's troubled northwest on Thursday, with security tight as relatives questioned how the attack happened despite a national crackdown on extremism.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan Thursday said that he would seek compensation for victims of a controversial US drone strike program, vowing to take their cases to parliament and the courts.
STOCKHOLM: A masked swordsman who killed a teaching assistant and a boy and wounded two others sought out his victims, all with immigrant backgrounds, by skin color in an attack that has fueled fears that a big refugee influx is polarizing Swedish public opinion.
KASUR: Former CM Punjab Chaudhry Pervez Ilahi Sunday suggested CM Shahbaz Sharif to quit other activities and provide justice to innocent Kasur children at any cost, ARY News reported.
TIANJIN: Residents around the site of giant chemical explosions in the Chinese port of Tianjin were evacuated Saturday over fears of highly-poisonous sodium cyanide, state media said, as fresh blasts were heard and the death toll rose to 85.
DHAKA: A gang armed with machetes hacked a secular blogger to death at his home in Dhaka Friday, sparking protests in the capital over the fourth such murder in Bangladesh this year.
SUKKUR: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday granted Rs 1 billion relief fund to the Sindh government for flood victims and vowed that the government will provide all possible assistance to the affectees in this testing time, ARY News reported.
JIANLI, CHINA: Chinese officials and rescuers bowed in mourning towards a battered cruise ship which capsized during a storm in the Yangtze River, as the death toll from the disaster reached 406 on Sunday, leaving fewer than 40 still missing.
SALGAR, COLOMBIA: Colombian rescuers continued searching for victims of a landslide that sent torrents of water and mud crashing onto a neighborhood in the town of Salgar, killing more than 60 people and injuring dozens in the worst disaster of its kind for a decade.
KATHMANDU: Bureaucracy at Kathmandu airport was holding up vital relief supplies for survivors of the earthquake in Nepal on Saturday as the death toll from the disaster passed 6,600.
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on late Saturday called his Nepalese counterpart Sushil Koirala, expressed shock over devastating quake and extended all possible assistance for the quake-hit people of Nepal, ARY News reported.
LAHORE: The emir of Jamaat e Islami (JI) Siraj ul Haq on Sunday once again suggested Altaf Hussain to withdraw his candidate from the by-election in NA-246 Karachi, ARY News reported.