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Imphal, Mar 10 (ANI): The efforts to bring the Kuki National Front (KNF) which signed an agreement for suspension of operations with the Union Government in 2005 to negotiating table have gained momentum following Union Home Secretary G K Pillai’s recent visit to the state.
Pillai held a series of meetings with the Kuki leaders.
Pillai [...]

Voting in Iraq’s parliamentary election has finished and as the long process of counting the votes begins, Iraqis have celebrated their national elections.
Counting of the votes is already underway and it is expected to be some days before official results are announced, but there is still danger that the militants who tried to derail yesterday’s [...]

Islamabad, Mar 8(ANI): The lingering small-scale border disputes between Pakistan and Afghanistan are reportedly making it difficult for the security forces in the country to fight terrorism and eliminate cross-border movements.
Well-placed military sources have claimed that the US supported Pakistan-Afghan border management project was unlikely to achieve its objectives because of the border disputes between [...]

Jammu, mar 8 (ANI): Security forces gunned down a top Hizbul Mujahideen militant on Monday in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district.
Soldiers belonging to the Rashtriya Rifles and police launched a joint operation in the Bagwa forest area after receiving a tip off last evening.
The militants opened fire on troops during the search [...]

PESHAWAR: The Taliban on Friday responded to the military’s allegations that the militants were being backed by India and Israel by distributing pamphlets that described the Pakistan Army as an “impure force” working at the behest of the CIA and FBI.
The local Taliban distributed the pamphlets at mosques after Friday prayers in Miranshah and other [...]

Pakistan military on Tuesday said it would soon launch an anti-Taliban offensive in Orakzai and Khyber in the country’s tribal northwest.
The US has been pushing Pakistan to go after the militants in other tribal regions after the Pakistani army managed to drive out the Taliban from Swat and South Waziristan in July and October last [...]

Islamabad, Mar.6 (ANI): At least 30 extremists, including top Taliban commanders Maulana Faqir Mohammad, Qari Ziarur Rehman and Fateh Mohammad were reportedly killed as helicopter gunships pounded a suspected militant hideout in Mohmand Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
“The Taliban surround attacked sites when they lose important leaders or commanders and that is [...]

Srinagar, Mar. 5 (ANI): Army officials on Friday paid tribute to Captain Deepak Sharma, who was martyred on Thursday during an encounter with Hizbul Mujahideen militants in Tral region of Jammu and Kashmir.
“Captain Deepak Sharma killed at least three militants before he died and ensured that none of his colleagues came to any harm,” said [...]

London, Sep. 19 (ANI): President Asif Ali Zardari has revealed that extremism was a by-product of Pakistan’s past mistakes and was deliberately created during the 1980s.

He said the employment of a liberal policy encouraged religious fanaticism and achieved of certain strategic objectives of terror perpetrators.

“What we are witnessing today is the outcome of that [...]

Srinagar, Sep 16 (ANI): Indian security force on Wednesday killed a militant in an encounter while three others are still holed up in border area of Mendhar in Poonch district.

Sources said that the army and the police in Chajla area [...]

Mingora (Swat, Pakistan), Sep.15 (ANI): U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, Anne W. Patterson, visited Mingora, the biggest town in Swat, last week, becoming the first senior American official to visit the region since the army took over.

The visit assumes significance in view of the fact that the Pakistan Army is being accused of extra-judicial killings and [...]

Islamabad, Sep.14 (ANI): Security forces killed 16 more militants, at least two of them senior Taliban members, while one soldier was killed in clashes during searches in Swat on Monday, the military said in a daily update.

Over 1,700 militants have been killed since Pakistani security forces launched the military operation against Taliban militants in [...]

Imphal, Sep 12 (ANI): Armed militants near Oksu village in Imphal district of Manipur killed three jawans of the Border Security Force (BSF) on Saturday.

According to sources, heavily armed militants belonging to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) opened indiscriminate fire on the BSF near Oksu village, 20 km east of Imphal.

According to Manipur police, the [...]

Kabul, Sep. 11 (ANI): Almost eight years after the war began in Afghanistan in the aftermath of the 9/11 carnage, the Taliban insurgency has spread across 80 percent of the country.

The violent incidents this week have drawn attention to the deteriorating security situation of northern Afghanistan, which had largely remained peaceful so far, the Christian [...]

Darjeeling, Sep 12 (ANI): A militant of the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) outfit was arrested from West Bengal’s Darjeeling district.

Talking to reporters here on Friday, Deboprasad Singh, district Superintendent of Police, said: “Dasarath Singha alias Manik Barman, who was nabbed from Khoribari area of the district, was trained in Bangladesh.

“This militant was arrested from Khoribari [...]

Lahore, Sep.10 (ANI): A former Pakistani spymaster has revealed that former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif maintained a close relationship with Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and claimed that the chieftain had sponsored the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief’s election campaign in 1988.

Former [...]

New Delhi, Sep 10 (ANI): Visiting Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni today said India and Bangladesh are close to finalizing an extradition treaty.

Talking to reporters at Bangladesh House in Delhi, Moni said that the extradition treaty is under discussion.

She also assured the Indian leadership that Bangladesh would not allow [...]

Poonch (Jammu), Sep 9 (ANI): A pall of gloom enveloped the household of the Army major who was killed in an encounter with the militants in Mendhar sub-sector of Poonch district in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday.

Major Akash Singh was killed while trying to foil an infiltration bid across the Line of Control (LoC) [...]

Islamabad, Sep 8 (ANI): The Pakistan Police has said that unknown armed men on two motorbikes opened fire on oil tankers in Akhtarabad area of Quetta destroying eight of them.

The tankers, which were carrying fuel for NATO forces in Southern Afghanistan, caught fire soon after [...]

Kabul, Sep 8 (ANI): At least two civilians were killed and six others were injured when a suicide car bomb exploded near Kabul’s military airport on Tuesday.

The windows of the city center were rattled due to the blast.

The car bomber rammed the main gate of the airport’s military base [...]