Pakistan: Troops 'end attack on Mehran naval air base'

The security forces in Pakistan have fought a lengthy battle with militants who storm a naval base in the city of Karachi overnight. 12 people were reported to have been killed. Security sources said that after around twelve hours during which numerous explosions and sporadic...

Taliban ambushed road workers killed 35 in Afghanistan

The authorities in eastern Afghanistan said 35 road workers have been killed in an attack by insurgents. The attack happened in the early hours of the morning, insurgents opened fire on the road workers compound where the men were building a road funded by the international...

First drone attack since American terrorism in Lahore kills six

In first such attack since an American terrorist, Raymond Davis, gunned two Pakistanis in Lahore on January 27, a US drone attack in the wee hours of Monday killed at least six persons in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal district."PESHAWAR: A US drone attack late Sunday...

Human Rights Watch: Systematic Killing of Teachers in Pakistan.

" Militants are systematically targeting and killing teachers in Pakistan's south-western province of Balochistan, says Human Rights Watch. At least 22 teachers were killed in the province between January 2008 and October 2010, says a report released by the organisation. ...

Wikileaks files reveal secret US-Yemen bomb deal

"US cables released by the Wikileaks website suggest that Yemen allowed secret US air strikes against suspected al-Qaeda militants. President Ali Abdullah Saleh claimed raids were conducted by Yemen's military when they were in fact carried out by the US, according to...

3 killed in fierce clashes in tehsil Safi area of Mohmand, FATA

Three persons including a Khasadar were killed and 3 others were injured on Wednesday after fierce firing among security forces and Taliban in Qandharo area of Tehsil Safi, Mohmand Agency, sources told. The sources said that clash triggered when security forces launched...

Mumbai attacker appeals against death penalty

"There is tight security in Mumbai where a court has begun hearing an appeal by the sole surviving gunman of the 2008 attacks on the Indian city. Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab, a Pakistani national, is contesting the death sentence passed in May. Due to security...

The Headley Conundrum

"David Headley is a Pakistan origin American—American mother and Pakistani father. His US passport and American credentials gave him instant and suspicion free access to India and his Pakistan origin credentials made him welcome in Pakistan. The US was quick to identify him...

Female dancer killed in Pakistan as robbers ambush troupe in rest

In bizarre act of crime, some unidentified robbers killed a female dancer on Sunday in Pakistan's troubled North West Frontier Province. Militants have been threatening performing artistes for past couple of years in the restive north of the country, killing some of them...

30 militants including key commanders killed in Mohmand

Twenty five to thirty suspected militants are confirmed to have died in the shelling of helicopters and artillery on the previous day (Friday) in Dawezai area of tehsil Pindiali. However the death of three high value targets has still to be confirmed, told Political Agent,...

5 militants killed, Nato fuel tanker destroyed in Pakistan

Five militants were killed in an early morning clash with Pakistani security forces in the troubled Swat Valley while miscreants attacked an oil tanker carrying fuel for Afghanistan-based Nato forces with guns and rockets on Monday on the outskirts of Peshawar, the capital...

Pakistan arrests nephew of top Swat militant

Pakistan on Friday arrested a nephew of the head of Swat chapter of the banned militant outfit, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), in a raid in Nowshera district and also seized a bag full of books, certificates, some other important documents and a pair of clothes, his family...

Militants blow up 32nd school in Pakistan’s Mohmand tribal region

Militans blew up another government school in Pakistan's troubled Bajaur tribal district on Friday. With this, the number of schools so far destroyed by militants in the Mohmand Agency reached 32."PESHAWAR: The militants blew up another government school in Safi tehsil of...

Bangladesh won't be base for another nation's terrorists: Hasina

New Delhi: Bangladesh will not allow its territory to be used by 'militants and terrorists of another country', Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said. Hasina Tuesday said she would 'not invite trouble for the...

U.S. Aids Yemeni Raids on Al Qaeda

New Delhi: American Government provided firepower, intelligence and other support to the government of Yemen as it carried out raids this week to strike at suspected hide-outs of Al Queda  within...

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