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FACTBOX-Security developments in Pakistan, July 17
July 17 (Reuters) – Following are security developments in Pakistan at 0555 GMT on Sunday: KALAYA – Pakistani helicopter gunships attacked positions of Taliban militants in the northwestern Orakzai region on Sunday, killing at least 15 militants and destroying their three hideouts, officials said. Eight militants were also wounded but there was no independent verification [...]
Taliban hit Afghan police posts; free 23 prisoners
HERAT, Afghanistan, July 18 (Reuters) – Taliban guerrillas staged a series of raids in western Afghanistan on Sunday, blowing up the gate of a jail and freeing 23 insurgent prisoners, officials said. Ousted in a U.S.-led invasion in 2001, the Taliban have made a comeback in recent years, dealing heavy losses to Afghan and foreign [...]
Afghan Taliban kill 11 Pakistani travellers – official
KABUL, July 10 (Reuters) – Suspected Afghan Taliban insurgents killed 11 Pakistanis who crossed into Afghanistan in order to detour around a dangerous part of the border area, officials said on Saturday. Paktia governor spokesman Rohullah Samon said gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying the travellers in Samkani district, as they made their way [...]
Upto 45 people killed in Pakistan suicide attack
July 9 (Reuters) – Up to 45 people were killed in a suicide attack outside the office of a senior government official in Pakistan’s northwest on Friday, the official said. “There were two blasts. The first one was small but the second was a big one. Up to 45 people have been killed,” Rasool Khan, [...]
Pakistan says forces kill 23 militants in northwest
Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani forces killed 23 militants early on Tuesday in fighting that erupted after insurgents fired on troops during a search operation in the country’s northwest, police and intelligence officials said. The search was launched after a suicide bomb attack on a paramilitary fort in Lower Dir district, where troops killed hundreds of [...]
Pakistan says forces kill 23 militants in northwest
Pakistan, July 6 (Reuters) – Pakistani forces killed 23 militants early on Tuesday in fighting that erupted after insurgents fired on troops during a search operation in the country’s northwest, police and intelligence officials said. The search was launched after a suicide bomb attack on a paramilitary fort in Lower Dir district, where troops killed [...]
FACTBOX-Security developments in Pakistan, July 5
July 5 (Reuters) – Following are security developments in Pakistan at 0835 GMT on Monday: * denotes new or updated developments. LOWER DIR – Four suicide bombers were killed in a failed attack on a paramilitary fort in the northwestern district of Lower Dir that wounded 11 soldiers and two policemen, police and intelligence officials [...]
FACTBOX-Security developments in Pakistan, July 5
July 5 (Reuters) – Following are security developments in Pakistan at 0450 GMT on Monday: LOWER DIR – Four suicide bombers were killed in a failed attack on a paramilitary fort in the northwestern district of Lower Dir that wounded 11 soldiers and two policemen, police and intelligence officials said. One bomber rammed an explosives-laden [...]
FACTBOX-Security developments in Pakistan, June 27
(Reuters) – Following are security developments in Pakistan at 1036 GMT on Sunday. ORAKZAI – Warplanes targeted militants’ positions in the northwestern region of Orakzai, killing eight militants and destroying two hideouts, a government official said. SOUTH WAZIRISTAN – Security forces killed four militants and wounded six in a clash after militants attacked them in [...]
FACTBOX-Security developments in Pakistan, June 20
(Reuters) – Following are security developments in Pakistan at 0602 GMT on Sunday. QUETTA – A car-bomb blast wounded four soldiers and four passersby on the outskirts of Quetta city, police said. Quetta is the capital of southwestern Baluchistan province where Baluch militants have waged a low-level insurgency for decades for greater autonomy. MOHMAND – [...]
FACTBOX-Security developments in Afghanistan, June 13
(Reuters) – Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 1400 GMT on Sunday (* denotes new or updated item): * SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN – A service member of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) for Afghanistan died in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast. KANDAHAR/URUZGAN – Afghan police and foreign forces killed 39 insurgents during [...]
One Pakistani killed, 15 abducted in Kyrgyzstan
ISLAMABAD, June 13 (Reuters) – One Pakistani student has been killed and around 15 reportedly taken hostage in Kyrgyzstan’s riot-stricken city of Osh, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Sunday. “Our first priority is to ensure safety of our brethren stranded there. We are trying to establish contact with Kyrgyz authorities,” Qureshi told Reuters. [...]
FACTBOX-Security developments in Pakistan, June 11
(Reuters) – Following are security developments in Pakistan at 1100 GMT on Friday: NORTH WAZIRISTAN – A U.S. drone fired three missiles into a Taliban compound in North Waziristan region near the Afghan border, killing 11 militants and wounding four, Pakistani officials said. It was the second drone strike in the last 24 hours in [...]
Somali pirates hijack Panama-flagged cargo ship
June 2 (Reuters) – Somali pirates hijacked a Panama-flagged cargo ship and its 24-strong crew in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday, the European’s anti-piracy taskforce said. EU NAVFOR said an American warship had seen at least one person with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher on board the MV QSM Dubai. It said the crew were [...]
Woman crosses over to PoK
A woman on Monday crossed over to Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) from a border village along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. Noorjahan, 32, married to Abdul Majeed of Gotaraya village crossed over from Kerni forward belt along the LoC early today, they said. Police have registered [...]
Attacks on minority mosques kill 9 in Pakistan
Gunmen attacked worshippers from a minority sect in two areas of the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Friday, taking hostages and killing at least nine people, a senior government official said. “It’s difficult to confirm exact casualty figures but nine bodies have been shifted to Jinnah hospital,” Khusro Pervez Khan, the commissioner of Lahore, [...]
Qadir welcomes Akhtar’s inclusion
Karachi, May 26 (IANS) Pakistan’s legendary leg-spinner Abdul Qadir has welcomed the inclusion of Shoaib Akhtar in the national team for Asia Cup and England tour. The former Test cricketer said the selectors took the right decision by including the pacer in the preliminary squad. ‘It’s a good decision, Shoaib Akhtar is a kind of [...]
At home in Dubai, Sania trains with Malik for Big W
Sania Mirza is finding Dubai to be a home away from home. The other day she was training on the courts of an academy housed in a star hotel in the UAE metropolis when the temperature touched 41 degrees Celsius at 9.30 in the morning. By afternoon she got to hear that it was 45 [...]
All issues with SC to be resolved amicably: Pak PM
Lahore, May 21 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilaniis hopeful that all issues with the Supreme Court will be settled soon. Gilani denied any rift between his government and the judiciary on the issue of upholding the sentence of Interior Minister Rehman Malik by the Lahore High Court and awarding of the presidential remission [...]