DHAKA: The Pakistani cleric leading thousands of protesters occupying parts of the capital Islamabad has firmly rejected allegations he is linked with the army. Tahirul Qadri told the BBC he has never been in contact with the military. Qadri has been seen as close to the army, with this

DHAKA: An airport is also a beautiful place, surely you will think, if you follow the mantra of Jeffrey Milstein, a pilot who has spent days hovering over airports for his epic photo series, "Flying."The aerial photographer has a friend take the controls in planes or helicopters when

DHAKA: Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan on Monday declared a ‘civil disobedience movement’ against the Nawaz Sharif-led government, saying ‘the country’s future is bleak under the rule of businessmen’, as cleric Tahirul Qadri gave a 48-hour ultimatum to

DHAKA: The US state of Missouri is sending the National Guard to the town of Ferguson as protests escalate over the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager. Governor Jay Nixon signed an order to ‘help restore peace and order and to protect the citizens of Ferguson’, reports the

DHAKA: Kiev on Monday accused pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine of killing ‘many’ civilians trying to leave a conflict-torn area by shelling them with equipment provided by Moscow.‘Militants shot at a convoy of civilians trying to flee the conflict area not far from

DHAKA: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said he would leave London’s Ecuadorean embassy “soon” after two years, reports BBC.He did not clarify when he would depart but said it was “probably not” for the reasons reported by the UK press.Stories had suggested he was suffering

DHAKA: Eleven members of a single family have died in a road crash on the way to Qassim, orphaning a 10-year-old girl who had opted to stay back with her grandmother in Shuqairy, Jazan, where the family had spent Eid. Their vehicle had crashed into a tanker on the Shaqra-Qassim road in

DHAKA: Kurdish Peshmerga fighters backed by United States warplanes pressed a counter-offensive against jihadists on Monday after retaking Iraq’s largest dam alongside federal forces, as the United States and Britain stepped up their military involvement. The recapture of Mosul dam

DHAKA: Pope Francis has called for reconciliation on the Korean peninsula, on the final day of his visit to South Korea. Koreans, the pope said, should reject a ‘mindset of suspicion and confrontation’ and find new paths to build peace. He spoke at a Mass in Seoul’s main cathedral

DHAKA: Philippine president Benigno Aquino said two Chinese survey vessels had been sighted in a gas-rich area of its exclusive economic zone, raising concerns of heightened tensions in the disputed South China Sea. China claims almost the entire South China Sea, believed to be rich in

DHAKA: Heavy monsoon rains have created flood havoc in four states across north India - Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Uttarakhand and West Bengal - with dozens killed and lakhs affected. 28 people have died in Uttar Pradesh due to floods so far and more than a thousand villages have been

DHAKA: Police in the US state of Missouri have fired smoke canisters into a crowd of about 400 people, protesting against the killing last week of an unarmed black teenager by police in the town of Ferguson. Barely hours ahead of a second night of curfew that was to come into effect in

DHAKA: Kurdish forces in northern Iraq are in near complete control of Iraq's largest dam after ousting Islamic State (IS) militants, Kurdish officials say. Ground forces supported by US air strikes launched the operation to take Mosul dam on Sunday. Kurdish sources said they were still

DHAKA: Forces loyal to president Bashar Assad hammered the eastern Syrian city of Raqqa with more than two dozen air strikes on Sunday, targeting areas controlled by the Islamic State militant group.A monitoring group said, reports The Jerusalem Post.The Syrian Observatory for Human

DHAKA: UN nuclear agency chief Yukiya Amano said Sunday’s visit to Tehran was useful and that he was very glad to hear a firm commitment from Iran to resolve all outstanding issues through cooperation between the two sides.Amano's trip came ahead of an August 25 deadline for Iran

DHAKA: A quarantine centre for suspected Ebola patients in the Liberian capital Monrovia has been attacked and looted by protesters.Police say, reports the BBC.The incident happened in the densely populated West Point township on Saturday evening.The protesters were unhappy that

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia and Kuwait agreed to comply with a United Nations resolution aimed at stopping financing for Islamist militant groups in Syria and Iraq after four of their nationals were named among a group blacklisted by the international body.The UN Security Council unanimously

DHAKA: Israel warned Sunday it would not countenance any long-term truce deal that did not answer its security needs as Gaza ceasefire talks were set to resume in Cairo.Egyptian-brokered indirect negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians are taking place during a five-day lull

DHAKA: Kurdish sources say their forces ‘are advancing’ in an offensive to retake Mosul dam from the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group.A joint operation involving both Kurdish forces and US air strikes has been under way since 05:00 local time (03:00 GMT), the sources said,

DHAKA: Israel is developing a new system that will detect and destruct tunnels as they are dug by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. Britain’s weekly The Sunday Times reported, says Al Arabiya. The new system, which was developed by a consortium led by Elbit Systems, Israel’s