The United Nations Security Council has removed the names of Taliban from its sanctions list, saying they are not much of a threat. Three of them have already made peace with Kabul, and the other two are dead.
Israel has launched air strikes on targets in the Gaza Strip after a rocket fired from Palestinian territory exploded in an Israeli town ‘Ashkelon’, the first such attack in more than a year.
A Lahore police officer, Aslam Tareen, has warned that the city’s courts are on the hit list of terror groups, as miscreants can enter them by wearing the uniform of lawyers and police officials.