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Yesterday, a manhunt was underway for a man, wearing a yellow t-shirt and heavy-framed glasses, seen in CCTV footage apparently depositing a black rucksack at the scene before vanishing into the crowd only minutes before the explosion.

Authorities have called it the worst attack in Thai history. But, “authorities don’t know whether the man is still in the country”.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu abandoned efforts to build a coalition government on Tuesday, following the failure of talks with the leaders of two smaller parties.

The tape had been played to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif, the minister said.

The government said Monday evening’s attack at the popular Erawan shrine in the heart of Bangkok was aimed at wrecking the economy, which depends heavily on tourism.

Thai police said Wednesday the prime suspect in the bombing of a Bangkok religious shrine in which 20 people died was overheard speaking a foreign language other than English.

The suspect doesn’t look like an average Thai national and a motorcycle taxi driver who said he took the suspect away from the scene after the explosion stated that he spoke a foreign language and that it didn’t seem to be English.

Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif called on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at the PM House in Islamabad on Tuesday to deliberate on the proposed agenda.

Burns told a television news channel that he nearly had a panic attack when he saw himself being mistaken by people on social media for the Bangkok bomber.

Sources in the federal government said the prime minister – who held hours long meeting with his aides on Monday to discuss the agenda of the upcoming NSA meeting in New Delhi – finalised the strategy by getting input from the military leadership. Underworld don...

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday held a groundbreaking ceremony for two controversial Chinese nuclear plants near Karachi, which are set to add 1,100 megawatts to the country’s electric grid.

The UN statement was approved one day after Assad regime warplanes struck a rebel-held town near Damascus, killing at least 96 people.

The attacks took place in the Shawal area of the North Waziristan tribal region, hours after a suicide attack killed 18 people, including the home minister of the northeastern Punjab province.

Funeral prayers were held late Sunday for Shuja Khanzada, the home minister for Pakistan’s populous Punjab province, who was killed in a suicide bombing, along with 14 other people. One of the bombers detonated his device at the entrance to the hall, and the other in a back...

However, investigators have not been able to determine the nationality of the man or ascertain if he was still in Thailand, National Chief of Police Somyot Poompanmoung said Wednesday, according to Reuters. A government spokesman said that both bombs used TNT but no link has been...