Dera Ismail Khan: Military operations and insurgent attacks in lawless districts of Pakistan on Sunday left eight members of the security forces and around 30 militants and criminal suspects dead, officials said. Two soldiers and 16 militants were killed in clashes in the Tirah Valley area of the Khyber tribal region in the northwest, the military said in a statement. Another three soldiers were wounded in the remote mountainous district near the Afghan border.
The army launched an offensive in April 2013 into the valley targeting the Pakistani Taliban and an allied group, Lashkar-e-Islam. The military statement said the latest fighting forced the militants to flee from two of their hideouts, leaving behind a huge cache of arms and ammunition. In the North Waziristan tribal region, another northwestern district bordering Afghanistan, a roadside bomb attack on a convoy killed two soldiers and wounded three, said two Pakistani intelligence officials.
They spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorised to talk to the media. The tribal region is home to both Pakistani and Afghan militant groups, including al-Qaeda-linked organisations with significant numbers of foreign fighters. The military carries out raids against the insurgents, inflicting losses but not preventing them from striking back with roadside bombs and ambushes. Also on Sunday, two members of the paramilitary Frontier Corps were killed in clashes in the Bolan district of the southwestern province of Baluchistan, said government official Waheed Shah. He said the fight also killed 13
01:50 AM, May 06, 2013
United Nations: Despite being outnumbered, Indian peacekeepers fought with valour and prevented more casualties in the recent attack against a UN peacekeeping convoy that killed five Indian soldiers in South Sudan, a senior UN official said on Sunday. Assistant Secretary General for Field Support, United Nations, Anthony Banbury travelled to Jonglei state in South Sudan and met the Indian contingent in the wake of the April 9 attack that killed...
08:56 PM, Apr 14, 2013
New York: Members of the UN Security Council have condemned in the strongest terms the killing of five Indian peacekeepers in South Sudan and asked that the perpetrators be brought to justice. The members condemned the April 9 attack by unidentified armed persons on a UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) convoy in Jonglei, South Sudan, in which five Indian peacekeepers and at least seven civilians were killed, said a...
11:50 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Seven US Marines were killed and seven people injured during a training exercise at a military ammunition storage facility in western Nevada, US military officials said Tuesday. The explosion occurred Monday at 10 pm PDT (5 am BST Tuesday) during a Marine training exercise at the Hawthorne Army Depot in western Nevada, said facility manager Russ Collier. ...
07:42 PM, Mar 19, 2013
External Affairs Minister, Salman Khurshid on Saturday took jibe at the BJP for the criticism for hosting a lunch for Pakistani Prime Minister saying he was only following the traditions established by the opposition party when it was in power. "This path was shown by the BJP. Atalji had fed biryani to Musharraf in Agra, we are only trying to tread the same path. BJP has to oppose the government...
01:35 AM, Mar 17, 2013
Indian Army sources have confirmed that there have been at least 24 cases of ceasefire violations from Pakistan in 2013 alone. ...
09:38 AM, Mar 04, 2013
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02:30 PM, Feb 17, 2013
The three-member Justice Verma Committee on Wednesday sought review of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) - a suggestion that may be welcomed by social groups and activists who have been demanding abolition or amendment of the act. The act allows an officer of the armed forces to use measures such as make unwarranted arrests or search any premises to make arrests. ...
07:35 PM, Jan 23, 2013
Pakistan will stick to a policy of non-escalation with India in the wake of increased tensions over a string of ceasefire violations along the Line of Control, its Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has said. In the face of a call from Pakistan's leader of Opposition Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan for a "befitting" response to "propaganda from the Indian government" over the ceasefire violations, Khar reiterated her government's "commitment not...
06:45 PM, Jan 22, 2013
The Central leadership has shown "maturity" in defusing tensions along the LoC with Pakistan following the brutal killing of two Indian soldiers, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on January 19 said. "You cannot expect India to ignore what was done to its soldiers on the LoC in Jammu," he said of India's reaction after the incident. ...
05:20 PM, Jan 19, 2013
Hina Rabbani Khar has suggested talks at the foreign ministry level to resolve the Indo-Pak crisis. ...
09:58 PM, Jan 17, 2013
To what extent are the incidents of ceasefire violation and soldiers' deaths along the LoC likely to affect Indo-Pak ties? CNN-IBN's Senior Editor Suhasini Haidar joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
04:32 PM, Jan 16, 2013
India and Pakistan gained their independence 65 years ago and have fought four wars since then. After the humiliating defeat in the 1971 war, Pakistan has been increasing its military strength at a rapid pace. ...
02:30 PM, Jan 15, 2013
Indian Army will celebrate its 65th Indian Army Day on Tuesday. The Army marks this day, which is held every January 15, to pay homage to the valiant soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country. ...
08:11 AM, Jan 15, 2013
Even as the country is angered by the beheading of an Indian soldier by Pakistani troops on the Line of Control, three similar incidents have taken place in the past 13 years in which four army personnel have fallen victim. ...
02:41 AM, Jan 15, 2013
India has formally lodged a strong protest with Pakistan on Monday over the beheading of an Indian soldier at Poonch by Pakistani troops. During a Brigadier-level flag meeting that concluded at Chakan-Da-Bagh in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, India also asked Pakistan to respect the ceasefire that the two nations have mutually agreed upon. ...
01:34 PM, Jan 14, 2013
A roadside bomb killed as many as 14 Pakistani soldiers in the northern border region of North Waziristan on Sunday, military officials said, a day after the Pakistani Taliban leader called for attacks on the military in the area to stop. ...
12:33 AM, Jan 14, 2013
The wife of the deceased soldier, Lt Lance Naik Hemraj Singh, has been put on a drip after her health deteriorated following a hunger strike she is holding, along with her family, in Mathura. ...
08:39 PM, Jan 13, 2013
The wife of the deceased soldier, Lt Lance Naik Hemraj Singh, has been put on a drip after her health deteriorated following a hunger strike she is holding, along with her family, in Mathura. The family of the soldier, who was brutally tortured and killed by the Pakistani army on January 8, said it will not break it fast till the government brings back the head of the martyr. ...
03:08 PM, Jan 13, 2013
A group of intellectuals and scholars from Muslim community has condemned the ghastly killing of two soldiers by Pakistani troops near the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir, terming it as "un-Islamic". At a meeting on Saturday, the Forum for Muslim Studies and Analysis (FMSA) passed a resolution describing the January 8 incident as "un-Islamic and barbaric", its secretary Jasim Mohammad said in a statement. ...
03:20 PM, Jan 12, 2013
