At least 16 militants were killed and seven others injured in a coordinated attack by US drones which fired a volley of missiles at three Taliban hideouts in the restive South Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan on January 6. Four CIA-operated spy planes carried out the attack in Babargarh area of South Waziristan, security officials said. ...
05:00 PM, Jan 06, 2013
India on Friday reacted guardedly to Pakistan Army's new military doctrine that described homegrown militant groups and internal dangers as the biggest threat to the country's security. This is seen as a paradigm shift as for decades the Pakistan Army has focused on perceived danger from India. ...
09:21 PM, Jan 04, 2013
Gunmen kidnapped seven soldiers from a bus in Pakistan on Wednesday, military officials said, just days after Taliban forces executed 21 pro-government paramilitaries they had seized. ...
02:39 AM, Jan 03, 2013
The State Department made a "grievous mistake" in keeping the US mission in Benghazi open despite inadequate security and increasingly alarming threat assessments in the weeks before a deadly attack by militants, a Senate committee said on December 31. A report from the Senate Homeland Security Committee on the September 11 attacks on the US mission and a nearby CIA annex, in which the US ambassador to Libya and three...
11:50 AM, Jan 01, 2013
Pakistani intelligence officials say they have found the bodies of nine militants dumped in the North Waziristan tribal region. Three intelligence officials say the nine people were shot several times in the head and chest. ...
08:06 PM, Dec 31, 2012
Gunmen suspected to belong to a radical Islamist sect attacked a village in northeast Nigeria, tying up men, women and children before slitting their throats, killing at least 15 in the troubled region's latest attack, witnesses said on Saturday. ...
02:21 AM, Dec 31, 2012
Twenty-one Pakistani security personnel kidnapped by the Taliban from check posts near Peshawar were gunned down by the militants on December 30, police officials said. The bullet-riddled bodies of the policemen were found in Jabai area of Frontier Region Peshawar, located a short distance from the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, shortly after midnight. ...
04:00 PM, Dec 30, 2012
Government officials say 21 tribal policemen believed to have been kidnapped by the Taliban have been found shot dead in northwest Pakistan. ...
01:54 AM, Dec 30, 2012
The head of Pakistan's Taliban said his militia is willing to negotiate with the government but not disarm, a message delivered in a video given to Reuters on Friday. The release of the 40-minute video follows three high-profile Taliban attacks in the northern city of Peshawar this month - an attack by multiple suicide bombers on the airport, the killing of a senior politician and eight others in a bombing...
08:44 PM, Dec 28, 2012
Two Lashkar-e-Taiba militants and a policeman were killed in a fierce gunbattle between ultras and security forces in Kulgam district of south Kashmir on Monday, police said. ...
10:31 PM, Dec 24, 2012
Syria's chemical weapons are still secure despite the fact that President Bashar al-Assad has lost control of parts of the country, a senior Israeli defence official said on December 23. Amos Gilad told Army Radio that the civil war between Assad and opposition forces fighting to topple him had become deadlocked, but that the Syrian leader showed no signs of heeding international calls to step down. ...
05:43 PM, Dec 23, 2012
An alliance of Pakistani clerics will hold demonstrations across the country against the killings of polio eradication campaign workers. ...
05:21 PM, Dec 20, 2012
A labourer was killed and two others seriously injured when militants exploded a powerful grenade at the house of a government contractor in Imphal West district of Manipur. ...
02:35 PM, Dec 20, 2012
Five terrorists were killed in an encounter with security forces in Sopore area of Baramulla district in north Kashmir on Tuesday. The ultra was killed in a joint operation launched by police and army in Saidpora village of Sopore town, 55 kms from Srinagar, a police spokesman said. ...
11:06 AM, Dec 18, 2012
Two alleged Sikh militants, sent back to India in 2000 after serving a life term in Pakistan for hijacking an Air India plane to that country in 1981, have moved a Delhi court seeking stay of a fresh trial against them here for the same offence. The two, in their plea to Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sameer Bajpai has said the trial in the case be stayed as the matter...
07:45 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Intelligence inputs indicate that the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Indian Mujahideen are scrounging for a window to carry out terrorist attacks in India while there are no such hints from the Taliban, the government said on Tuesday. Minister of State for Home RPN Singh told the Lok Sabha that the Babbar Khalsa International and the Khalistan Tiger Force too fell in the category of groups planning to stage attacks in India....
06:46 PM, Dec 11, 2012
The Pakistani Taliban has said that it will carry out more attacks on the country's 'secular' political parties like the Awami National Party and Muttahida Quami Movement, warning people to stay away from their rallies, a day after a blast outside an ANP gathering injured about 10 people. ...
04:28 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Srinagar: The Army on Wednesday foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control (LoC) in Kupwara district of north Kashmir, killing two militants while three Army jawans were also killed. "A major infiltration bid was foiled in Nowgam sector of Kupwara district after alert troops noticed movement of a group of about five militants near the LoC," Army spokesman Colonel A Vashisht said. Two militants have been killed so...
03:12 PM, Nov 14, 2012
Jammu: At least 250 militants are active in Jammu and Kashmir and there is a lot of pressure from the other side of the border to infiltrate more terrorists, Director General of Police Ashok Prasad said on Monday. However, only 100 militancy related incident were witnessed this year in the state so far, as compared to 190 last year, the DGP said. "230-250 militants are active in Jammu and Kashmir...
12:37 AM, Nov 06, 2012
Islamabad: Gunmen attacked a bus in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province on Friday, killing at least 18 people including a woman and a child, police said. Most of the victims died from fire caused by the attack at a petrol station in Khuzdar, a town about a four-hour drive from Quetta. The fire engulfed the van, the petrol station and four nearby shops. No further details were available. Several militant groups...
04:26 AM, Nov 03, 2012
