At least 11 people, including a young schoolgirl and her mother, were killed and 61 others injured, when a suicide bomber rammed his car laden with 600 kilograms of explosives into the Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) office in Lahore on Monday.

Gun battles between the Taliban and another Islamist faction in the north-eastern Afghan province of Baghlan claimed the lives of at least 50 people on Sunday.

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that his country would soon be free from terrorists, as security forces continue their offensive against militants.

General David Petraeus, the head of U.S. Central Command, has stated the NATO forces are heading towards a decisive victory against the Taliban.

Pakistani security agencies have claimed another prized catch as they reportedly nabbed the son-in-law of Afghan Taliban’s supreme commander Mullah Omar here on Thursday.

A US general in charge of negotiating with the Afghan Taliban has estimated that there are nearly 36,000 insurgents in Afghanistan.

A 60-year-old Indian-origin man living in Australia was left alone to fight a gang of 25 drunken racists for a terrifying 2 1/2 hours to prevent them from intruding his Melbourne home when Victoria Police refused to help him out of situation.

An expert has said that Jihadist terror organizations have set economic terrorism as their new target, intending to harm and paralyze Western economies, the United Sates in particular.

The United States has ruled out any India-like civil nuclear cooperation deal with Pakistan, dashing Islamabad’s hopes of getting an atomic power plant.

Dialogue between India and Pakistan must be meaningful and address the core issues lingering between both countries, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said.