Taliban gunned down US drone

Taliban spokesman Zabihollah Mojahed claimed that the militants gunned down the aircraft late on Saturday. Reports quoted witnesses as saying that they saw the drone catching fire mid-air and crashing into a civilian house. Earlier this week, another US drone crashed due to technical problems in eastern Ghazni Province, NATO said in a statement. But Taliban claimed the first crash as well.

The Taliban militants say they have shot down several aircraft and NATO choppers in different parts of Afghanistan over the past few months. Taliban have stepped up their attacks on US-led forces in the recent months.

No progress in Margalla air crash probe

ISLAMABAD: The probe into Margalla air crash has no progress, as the investigators are now focusing the search on the aircraft’s black box, hoping the flight data recorder will provide valuable clues to the fate of the 10-year-old Airbus 321, which was piloted by an experienced captain.

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No progress in Margalla air crash probe

Udaan

Udaan is a simple story told with a lot of heart.

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Udaan

Shahrukh and Juhi bond in London

MUMBAI: Shahrukh Khan and Juhi Chawla, who share an old bond of friendship, recently shared some great time in each other’s company in London.

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Shahrukh and Juhi bond in London

Priyanka and her12 bikinis

MUMBAI: Priyanka Chopra is getting ready to let her hair loose.

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Priyanka and her12 bikinis

Balochistan CM airplane makes emergency landing

QUETTA: The special airplane of Balochistan Chief Minister Sardar Aslam Raisani made emergency landing at Quetta airport after one of the engines of the aircraft caught fire.

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Balochistan CM airplane makes emergency landing

Plane Crash lands in Iran, 46 Injured

TEHRAN: An Iranian passenger plane caught fire on Sunday as it was landing in the northeastern city of Mashhad, injuring at least 46 people on board, state television reported.

Iranian officials told local news networks that the rear end of the Russian-built Tupolev 154 plane belonging to Taban Airline caught fire as the aircraft was landing at Mashhad airport.

“The plane went off the runaway upon landing and part of its rear end broke away,” state television quoted as saying Javad Erfanian, head of disaster management of Khorasan Razavi province of which Mashhad is the capital.

“Forty-six people have been injured, but most of them are not serious.”

The English language state-owned television said the plane, traveling from Abadan located in southwest Iran to Mashhad, had 157 passengers on board. Erfanian said the plane also had 13 crew members on board.

Reza Jafarzadeh, spokesman of Iranian civil aviation, said the plane had left Abadan on Saturday, but bad weather in Mashhad led to the aircraft landing in the central city of Isfahan for the night before it took off again for Mashhad early Sunday.

“The captain had a critical patient on board and so had do an emergency landing (in Mashhad) which is why the aircraft met with an accident,” he was quoted as saying on the website of state television.

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