Sanaa: Islamic militants have consolidated their hold over a southern city in Yemen, forcing merchants to lower food prices and helping residents who want to flee shelling by government forces outside the city, residents said on Monday. In contrast, militants in control of another nearby city are enforcing a stringent version of Islamic rule, forcing women to stay home and trying to recruit young men to their ranks, according to...
02:25 AM, Jun 28, 2011
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said there was an urgent need to chalk out a policy to rehabilitate the released militants in the state. "There is an urgent need to work out a policy to rehabilitate them (released militants)," Omar told reporters in reply to a question about the verification drive of former militants launched by police. He said the verification drive was a regular...
09:02 PM, Jun 27, 2011
Sanaa, Yemen: At least 57 al-Qaeda militants escaped from prison on Wednesday in the latest sign that Yemen's political upheaval has emboldened them to challenge authorities in the country's nearly lawless south. In a carefully choreographed escape, the militants attacked their guards and seized their weapons just as bands of heavily armed attackers descended on the prison in Mukalla on the Arabian Sea. The escapees included militants convicted on terror...
03:26 PM, Jun 22, 2011
Islamabad/Washington: CIA chief Leon Panetta has confronted Pakistan's military leadership with evidence of collusion between militants and security officials in the country, causing fresh strains in the troubled US-Pak ties. Panetta, who arrived in Islamabad on Friday, presented the evidence during meetings with Pakistan army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and ISI head Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha late on Friday night, media reports said on Saturday. The CIA had...
11:28 AM, Jun 11, 2011
Islamabad: A driver of a NATO oil tanker was killed and his assistant injured when suspected militants attacked the vehicle in Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan on Friday, police said. The tanker was on its way to Karachi from Afghanistan when armed men riding a motorcycle opened fire at it near Pishin. Driver Abdul Hameed died instantly while his assistant was taken to a hospital in provincial capital Quetta with...
12:29 AM, Jun 11, 2011
Srinagar: Army Chief General V K Singh on Wednesday arrived in Kashmir valley on a two-day visit amid intelligence reports suggesting presence of large number of militants at launching pads across the Line-of-Control (LoC). Singh was received by General Officer Commanding of Srinagar-based 15 Corps Lt Gen S A Hasnain and General Officer Commanding Victor Force Major General Gurdeep Singh at Awantipora, 32 kms from Srinagar, a defence spokesman told...
09:23 PM, Jun 08, 2011
Islamabad: Hundreds of Taliban fighters on Friday carried out fresh attacks in a remote area in northwest Pakistan bordering Afghanistan though security forces claimed to have regained control of the region after fierce fighting that killed nearly 80 people, including 28 troops. The militants, who sneaked into Upper Dir district from Afghanistan on Wednesday, destroyed eight schools as skirmishes between the rebels and security forces continued for the third day...
02:20 AM, Jun 04, 2011
Srinagar: Three suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba militants, including one from Pakistan, were killed in an encounter with security forces on Friday in Sopore town of north Kashmir's Baramulla district. "All the three militants have been killed and the operation is over," Srinagar-based Defence spokesman Lt Colonel J S Brar said, adding further details of the incident were awaited. The encounter broke out last evening when troops of 52 Rashtriya Rifles and police...
08:05 AM, Jun 03, 2011
Imphal: Manipur government have imposed restrictions on both print and electronic media in the state from publishing news items, reports or statements which directly or indirectly supported unlawful activities, official sources said on Sunday. A government order in this connection was issued on Saturday by the state special secretary (Home) A K Sinha. Newspapers and state-based electronic media have been freely publishing news items or statements which directly or indirectly...
09:59 AM, May 29, 2011
Srinagar: Two unidentified militants were on Friday killed in an encounter with security forces in Sopore area of north Kashmir Baramulla district, officials said. A gunbattle broke out in Nowpora locality of Sopore town, 55 kms from Srinagar, after security forces came under fire from militants during a cordon and search operation, the officials said. Two militants have been killed so far, they said, adding that the search operation was ...
02:11 PM, May 27, 2011
Srinagar: Two unidentified militants were on Friday killed in an encounter with security forces in Sopore area of north Kashmir Baramulla district, officials said. A gunbattle broke out in Nowpora locality of Sopore town, 55 kms from Srinagar, after security forces came under fire from militants during a cordon and search operation, the officials said. Two militants have been killed so far, they said, adding that the search operation was...
02:11 PM, May 27, 2011
Berlin: The United States has told Germany that evidence pulled from Osama bin Laden's hideout shows the terror chief was linked to a plot to attack targets in Europe last year, a senior German official has told The Associated Press. Two US officials also told the AP that bin Laden had advised Europe-based militants to attack in unspecified mainland European countries just before Christmas. The officials offered no details. Separately,...
08:21 AM, May 26, 2011
Islamabad: A group of highly-trained militants with night-vision goggles and the collusion of sympathetic Islamist military officials storm a heavily-guarded navy base situated only a few miles from where a unstable Pakistan stores some of its nuclear weapons. That is the scary way of looking at the attack on the navy base in Karachi on Sunday night that destroyed two US-built aircraft and killed 10 military personnel, fuelling worries about...
04:40 PM, May 25, 2011
New Delhi: The government on Monday reviewed the country's security and directed all states to step up vigil at vital installations in the wake of a major terror attack in Pakistan on Sunday. A high-level meeting, convened by Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar and attended by top security officials, took stock of the country's security situation in the wake of the terrorist strike on a key military base in Karachi...
08:43 PM, May 23, 2011
Anatnag: The stage is set for the return and rehabilitation of 20 young Kashmiris who have been stranded across the Line of Control (LoC) - all of them are former-militants. Families in Anantnag are eagerly awaiting for their sons to return. Iqbal was 16 when he left his Shangus home to cross over to Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) for arms training. He has since been stuck across the border, his ...
08:18 AM, May 17, 2011
Anatnag: The stage is set for the return and rehabilitation of 20 young Kashmiris who have been stranded across the Line of Control (LoC) - all of them are former-militants. Families in Anantnag are eagerly awaiting for their sons to return. Iqbal was 16 when he left his Shangus home to cross over to Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) for arms training. He has since been stuck across the border, his...
08:18 AM, May 17, 2011
Washington: The ISI facilitated militants to cross the border to carry out strikes on Indian targets chosen by the Pakistan Army, several detainees at the Guantanamo Bay facility told US interrogators, according to a fresh set of American diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. The interrogation reports quoted a detainee as saying that ISI "allowed" militants to travel to India where they conducted bombings, kidnappings and killing of Kashmiri people and...
08:15 AM, May 09, 2011
Washington: The United States of America launched another Predator drone strike inside Pakistan killing 12 suspected terrorists on Friday. The drone strike was the first since the killing of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and came just a day after Pakistan warned the US against violating its sovereignty. An unmanned US aircraft targeted a terrorist hideout in the tribal region of north Waziristan killing 12 and injuring several others. ...
07:56 AM, May 07, 2011
Washington: The United States of America launched another Predator drone strike inside Pakistan killing 12 suspected terrorists on Friday. The drone strike was the first since the killing of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and came just a day after Pakistan warned the US against violating its sovereignty. An unmanned US aircraft targeted a terrorist hideout in the tribal region of north Waziristan killing 12 and injuring several others....
07:56 AM, May 07, 2011
Washington: While Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), blamed for the Mumbai terror attacks, is unlikely to replace Al Qaeda at the forefront of global jihad, it has the capability to threaten the US, a counter-terrorism expert says. Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's death has badly weakened the terrorust group and deprived Islamic extremists of their most visible leader, but even with his death LeT is unlikely to take its...
10:39 AM, May 04, 2011
