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Saif Ullah Paracha, 75, returns to Pakistan amid a US push to release uncharged detainees. Source link

Businessman Saifullah Paracha, who was arrested in 2003 and accused of financing al-Qaeda, was never charged like most prisoners.The oldest inmate at the United States-run Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba Saifullah Paracha has been released to his home country Pakistan after nearly 20 years of detention without trial, ...

ISLAMABAD — One of the world's oldest preserved human settlements has been significantly damaged by torrential rain in Pakistan as the country battles the worst floods in its history.Moenjodaro (also styled Mohenjo-daro), a World Heritage site in the Indus River Valley 508 kilometers (316 miles) from Karachi, was built ...

An Oakville, Ont., woman became the oldest female to climb the second highest mountain in the world at the age of 62, after picking up Alpine climbing at 50.Liliya Ianovskaia, not only managed to successfully summit Mount Everest in Nepal, she went on to climb two more mountains above 8,000 ...

SRINAGAR: Security forces gunned down Hizbul Mujahideen’s oldest commander Mohammad Ashraf Khan, 57, and two more terrorists on Friday afternoon in a shootout inside the forests of Srichand Top in Pahalgam, close to the Amarnath Yatra route in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district. The other two terrorists were identified as ...

The top cop told news agency ANI, "On the basis of joint interrogation of the terrorist, raids were conducted where three other terrorists were killed. They were involved in killings and attacks on security personnel," Kumar added.The operation took place on the route of the yearly Amarnath Yatra. It ...

SRINAGAR, Jammu and KashmirThis Christmas has been a little more joyous for Christians in Srinagar, the capital of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir.As Saturday dawned, final preparations were being made for the first Christmas prayers in almost four decades at the 125-year-old St. Luke’s Church.Nestled in the foothills of the ...

Among the numerous treasures in its vast collection, the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris holds a valuable 8th century manuscript. Handwritten on a scroll, the manuscript has about 6,000 classical Chinese characters spread over 227 lines and is one of the oldest surviving historical accounts of India.The scroll, ...

New Delhi: The oldest person on the earth, Francisca Susano, who was born in the 19th century passed away on Monday (November 22) in the Philippines' Negros Occidental province. Francisca Susano or 'Lola' was 124 years old which makes her the oldest person in the world breaking the record ...

KARACHI, Pakistan The family of a Pakistani businessman, who is the oldest prisoner at the notorious Guantanamo Bay jail, excitedly awaits his return after more than 17 years as the US government approved his release earlier this week.The family which lives at a high-end locality of the southern port ...