India asks Pakistan for 20 fugitives

Same story of  handing  over fugitive terrorist to India is being repeated again.Last time it was just after the attack on parliament Indian goverment handed over list of terrorist to Pakistan , but Pakistan...

Tension with India: 'Terrorists' turn patriotic citizens of Pakistan

Although the tension between South Asian nuclear-armed archrival India and Pakistan is mounting, the developments in the wake of the Mumbai terrorist attack have brightened hopes of a ceasefire between militants and Pakistan government in the northwest of the country.The...

Five Pakistani security personnel among eight killed in Bannu clashes

Eight persons including five Pakistani security personnel and three militants were killed in the military operation against militants after a police checkpoint was attacked by militants in Bannu district of the country's troubled North West Frontier Province."Five security...

FACTBOX-Highs and lows in Pakistan-India ties

With the most recent violence in mind, a little history lesson is in order:"Source: Reuters Nov 30 (Reuters) - Tension is running high between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan after militants attacked India's commercial capital, Mumbai. India says...

Britons 'among Mumbai attackers'

Some reports seem to indicated that British citizens were involeved in the Mumbai attacks. However, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said it was to early to say Britons were involved. "But Indian Chief Minister Vilasrao...

US drone attacks: Pakistani Taliban vow to continue attacks on allied troops

The banned outfit of Pakistani militants, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), on Wednesday threatened that if the US drone attacks in the tribal areas of the country continued, it would continue targeting the convoys carrying supplies for the US and Nato forces stationed in the...

Afghans Arrest Schoolgirl Acid Attackers

"They were walking to school in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, a group of teenage girls discussing a test they had coming up, when two men on a motorcycle sprayed them with a strange liquid. Within seconds a...

Local PPP leader, lady councillor shot dead in Pakistan's restive Swat region

Some unidentified persons shot dead a local leader of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and a lady councillor in separate incidents in Kabal tehsil and Mingora, the headquarter of the restive Swat district on Monday.The incident occurred two days after target killing...

Chinese telecom engineer kidnapped in Pakistan three months ago still languis...

A telecom engineer of Chinese origin, who was kidnapped by militants in Pakistan's mountainous Dir Lower district bordering the restive tribal region on August 29 along with another Chinese colleague, a guard and...

Brother of provincial minister shot dead in Pakistan, 3 video shops torched

Some unidentified gunmen reportedly shot dead a senior police officer, who was brother of a provincial minister, while the miscreants also torched three video shops in Mingora, the district headquarter of Pakistan’s restive Swat region.Reports said that unknown armed...

Five killed in fresh US missile strike inside Pakistan

Five persons were reportedly killed and six others sustained injuries in a US missile strike in Alikhel area of Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal district on Saturday.Reports claimed that two al-Qaeda operatives, Rashid Rauf and Abu Al-Asr Al-Misri, were among those killed...

25 militants, eight civilians killed in two troubled regions of Pakistan

At least 33 persons including 25 militants and eight civilians, were killed in two troubled regions of Pakistan -- Bajaur Tribal Agency and Swat vally -- in operations by the security forces on Thursday. Nine militants were killed in Bajaur Agency while 16 were killed when...

Militant group claims downing of Nato chopper in Afghanistan

An Afghan militant group led by former Afghan Prime Minister Gulbadin Hekmatyar has claimed to have shot down a Nato helicopter gunship in Afghanistan."Hizb-i-islami, a banned militant outfit, has claimed to have brought down a gunship helicopter of Nato in...

Israeli tanks forge into Gaza

" Israeli tanks pushed into the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, drawing mortar fire from Palestinian militants and intensifying violence that has chipped away at a tenuous cease-fire. Israel and Gaza's ruling...

Taliban hijack NATO convoy in Pakistan

Latest reports coming in from Pakistan says that  Pakistani security forces have retrieved 15 trucks that had been hijacked by the Taliban earlier in the day en route to Afghanistan to deliver goods to US-led coalition forces.A convoy carrying supplies for NATO forces...

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