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Jalalabad (Punjab), Mar 19 (ANI): Border Security Force (BSF) officials seized heroin worth 1.8 millions here on Thursday.
Acting on a tip off, BSF personnel laid the trap and seized the contraband items like heroin and fake currency from the Pakistani intruders out of whom one was shot dead by the security personnel.
“We recovered 26 kilograms [...]

PESHAWAR: All that the Pakistani Taliban wanted was money and that’s all they talked about, says Gurvinder Singh, one of the two Sikhs from Peshawar who were rescued after 40 days of captivity with the Pashtun-speaking terrorists. The Taliban beheaded the third abducted Sikh trader last month because their ransom demand wasn’t met.
Gurvinder’s story blows [...]

Kabul, Aug. 31 (ANI): The Afghanistan Taliban slashed off a man’s ears and nose for defying their order and casting his vote in the country’s presidential elections.

Lal Mohammed, 40, was on his way to the polling station on August 20 when he was held by Taliban militants, beaten brutally, and then had his nose [...]

Kanker (Chhattisgarh), Aug 30 (ANI): A Head Constable of the Chhattisgarh Armed Police committed suicide using his AK-47 service rifle at Kanker in Chhattisgarh.

He died on Saturday evening after shooting himself on his chest.

“Manoj Tigga was deployed at the Jungle Warfare College. He was in-charge of the mess, ” said Sunil David, in-charge of [...]

Gulrez (Jammu and Kashmir), July 4 (ANI): The army has recovered bodies of six terrorists found burried in the snow in the Gurez sector of the state.

According to army sources, the terrorists had attempted to enter Indian territory in March this year, but heavy snow and an avalanche claimed the lives of six to eight [...]

Guwahati, June 30 (ANI): At least four Hindi-speaking people were shot dead and two others injured by heavily-armed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants in Assam’s Sonitput District on Tuesday.

According to the police, the incident took place at around 9:30 a.m. near the Naharani tea estate at Rangapara in Sonitput district when militants [...]

Mumbai, June 22 (ANI): The lone surviving gunman behind the Mumbai terror attacks, Ajmal Amir Kasab, has been reprimanded by lawyers for laughing during the court proceedings, and recently a lawyer asked him to be serious or else he would call Dara Singh.

Kasab is the gunman captured alive during the terrifying three days beginning November [...]

The bullet-proof jacket that apparently failed to save the life of Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare and CCTV pictures of a hapless Railway constable struggling to shoot at Ajmal Amir Kasab and Abu Ismail from his jammed carbine at CST station may be two among the more well-known instances where equipment used by security [...]

Kabul- US and Afghan troops killed 29 suspected militants, including six wound-be suicide bombers, in a clash and airstrike in south-eastern Afghanistan, the US military said Thursday.
The operation in Paktika province’s Wor Mamay district began when the joint forces targeted a compound used by a “senior” militant leader identified only as Sangeen, the US military [...]

Kabul, May 17 (Xinhua) Six Afghan police personnel and six Taliban militants have been killed in two separate clashes in southern Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.
In one incident, Taliban fighters Sunday raided a police check post in southern Helmand province, killing six police personnel.
‘The rebels stormed into a police checkpoint in Gereshk district at 7.00 a.m. [...]

Amsterdam – A Dutch court Friday fined a man for sending a death threat to controversial right-wing politician Geert Wilders.
The man, who has not been named, emailed Wilders with a message “We will get you, Kalashnikov AK-47.”
Wilders, the leader of the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV), hit headlines worldwide last year for his film Fitna, [...]

Guwahati, April 20 (IANS) At least seven people, including five paramilitary troopers, were killed in an ambush by tribal separatists in Assam Monday, police said.
Heavily armed militants belonging to the outlawed Dima Haolam Daoga (DHD), popularly known as the Black Widow group, attacked a convoy of trucks carrying cement near Doyangmukh village in North Cachar [...]

Khunti (Jharkhand), Apr 11 (ANI): Five Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were killed in an encounter with the naxals here.

The incident took place hours before Congress President Sonia Gandhi held a poll rally in the district.

According to sources, [...]

A wave of arrests of Sunni Arab guards in a Baghdad district has spooked other units who helped rid the capital of al Qaeda, and who fear the Shi’ite-led government is out to get them for their Sunni insurgent past.
In interviews on Thursday in several Baghdad districts, U.S.-backed Sunni Arab patrolmen who switched sides to [...]

Poonch, Mar 23 (ANI): Police have seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch District.

Four AK-47 rifles, two Pakistani cylinders filled with guns, 15 grenades, two Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) fitted in transistors and communication paraphernalia was recovered by [...]

Kabul, Mar.23 (ANI): United States Special Forces reportedly killed five people near the Afghan-Tajik border on Sunday, and claimed that they were militants.

The United States military said in a statement that its forces had also detained four suspects in an [...]

Srinagar, Mar 4 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, on Wednesday said Pakistan needs to take a stringent action against perpetrators of the recent attack on touring Sri Lankan team, which visited that nation after Indian team opted not to visit [...]

Poonch, Feb 9 (ANI): Security personnel in Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir have arrested an armed militant suspected to have links with Pakistan.

Identified as Khurshid Ahmed Lashkar, this militant was arrested at Malti Checkpost by army authorities when he failed to disclose his identity to the officials.

According to Mohammed Rafiq Chowdhury, Deputy Superintendent of Police, [...]

Washington, Jan 13 (ANI): The constantly worsening law and order situation and weakening control of government in Pakistan has forced middle class citizens to carry loaded AK-47s with them in order to protect themselves from being kidnapped.
For years, guns have been signs of prestige for young men in Pakistan, especially in the rugged tribal regions [...]