Kabul: A total of 10 militants, including a Taliban key commander Mawlawi Nasratullah, were killed in Afghanistan’s Faryab province on Sunday, an army spokesperson said. The security forces, acting upon an intelligence report, attacked a Taliban gathering in Dawlat Abad district in the wee hours of Sunday, killing 10 rebels[Read More…]
Tag: Militants
Ten militant associates arrested in J&K
Srinagar: Ten associates of militants were arrested in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Monday as the police busted two modules of militant outfits, officials said. “Two militant modules of Hizbul Mujahideen and Jaish-e-Muhammad were busted after 10 associates of militant outfits were arrested,” a police officer said. Police said[Read More…]
Gunfights in J&K
Srinagar, Gunfights started in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama and Kulgam districts on Tuesday, police said. Following specific inputs about presence of militants, security forces surrounded Redwani village in Kulgam, while a cordon and search operation was on in Hafoo village in Tral area of Pulwama. Gun battles were underway in[Read More…]
2 militants killed in J&K gunfight
Srinagar: Two militants were killed on Thursday in a gunfight with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Badgam district, police said. Following information about the presence of militants in Bugoo village in Arizal area, the security forces started a cordon and search operation. “The hiding militants fired at the[Read More…]
More jawans die in Maoist-hit areas than in Kashmir
According to government reports, the number of security force personnel killed in Maoist-affected areas was more than that in conflict-hit Jammu and Kashmir. The report further added that the left-wing insurgency accounted for the death of 67 soldiers out of 106 casualties in the first seven months of 2017. According[Read More…]
Qatar crisis: Man airlifts 4,000 cows to maintain milk supplies in market
The current diplomatic crisis between Qatar and five other Middle East nations has upset the trade in several ways. The crisis has also pressed a Qatari businessman to airlift 4,000 cows to the Gulf desert to carry on the milk supplies in the market. It is one of the biggest[Read More…]
Nagaland encounter: Three militants killed, Army officer martyred
In an encounter in Nagaland, three militants were killed and one Army officer was martyred, the force said on Wednesday. The officer of the Territorial Army lost his life during the battle with terrorists in Nagaland’s Mau. The encounter broke in the early hours of Wednesday. Additionally, one civilian and[Read More…]
Twin blasts in Jakarta claim three lives
In twin blasts that happened in Jakarta on Wednesday night, two suspected suicide bombers killed three Indonesian police officers and injured 10 people. The blasts happened near a bus station in the eastern part of the capital, according to police. The blasts went off five minutes apart at Jakarta’s Kampung[Read More…]
SC lawyer fighting case against Manipur CM’s son gets death threats from militants
A Supreme Court lawyer has been allegedly threatened by the militants as he was legally assisting the family, whose son was murdered allegedly by the son of Manipur CM N Biren Singh. Utsav Singh Bains, the SC lawyer, has written a letter to the Union Home Secretary to provide him with adequate[Read More…]
The soldier soldiers on because he signed up to die
Two kinds of people die at regular intervals in Kashmir – soldiers and militants. The militants are driven by hatred fed by religion, with no other aim than to destroy, kill, and maim. The soldiers are driven by the duty to their profession of arms – to protect, to nurture,[Read More…]
Carpet bomb Kashmir, says Pravin Togadia
Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Pravin Togadia demanded the government to carry out “carpet bombing” in Kashmir Valley to stop the attacks on security forces. “After attacks on Army camps in Uri and Kupwara, our government should carry out carpet bombing in Kashmir Valley area to stop such attacks. The attacks[Read More…]
Suspected US drone kills 7 in Pak
108 militants killed in Pakistan’s anti-terror operation
Attack in Nowhatta, 11 security personnel injured
Soon after PM Modi’s speech in the valley, a grenade blast by militants killed one police jawan was killed in Nowhatta area of Srinagar. The policeman has been identified as Shamim Ahmad from Gurez Bandipora. This attack injured 4 CRPF personnel and 7 police jawans, who were rushed to the SMHS[Read More…]
Kashmiri youth may choose between tourism and terrorism: PM Modi
PM Modi on his visit to Kashmir on Sunday while addressing a rally in Udhampur after inaugurating the Chenani-Nashri tunnel said that while some people in the valley are busy throwing stones, some are trying to change the future of the state by cutting the same stone and making a tunnel[Read More…]
Srinagar: Army convoy attacked; one injured
Kashmir unrest: Extra forces deployed after clash
The government has got extra forces into action in the sensitive areas of Kashmir Valley. Normalcy of the valley was disrupted as over sixty people were injured and 3 persons were killed in clash stone-pelters trying to disrupt an anti-militancy operation in Budgam. A strike has been called by separatists[Read More…]
Stone-pelter killed in firing at Budgam encounter
J&K: Encounter underway in Budgam, 2 militants trapped
J&K: Two militants killed in Pulwama ambush
Two militants were killed on Sunday when they tried to ambush a police party that included three officers of the rank of superintendent of police in south Kashmir. The incident happened at Padgampora when a cavalcade of senior superintendents of police of Pulwama and Awantipora Raees Ahmed and Zahid Malik[Read More…]
J-K: Encounter underway in Pulwama district
After yesterday’s incident, an encounter broke out between security forces and militants in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, according to police. According to reports, the militant has fled from the spot. This comes two days after a clash between the ultras and security forces in north Kashmir’s Kupwara[Read More…]
J&K: Encounter underway in Kupwara
Afghan police of the crucial south region haven’t received payments in weeks
As Taliban militants attacks intensify day by day, police in various parts of southern Afghanistan have not been paid for weeks, says an official. The efficiency of police and soldiers to fight the insurgency has been undermined by irregular pay and leave, exacerbated by corruption and weak leadership from commanders.[Read More…]
