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by Maaz Khan QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) — Heavily-armed Islamist militants wearing suicide vests stormed a Pakistani police academy, killing at least 58 people and wounding dozens more, officials said Tuesday, in one of the deadliest extremist attacks this year. Three gunmen from a Pakistani Taliban-linked group burst into the sprawling academy, targeting sleeping quarters that are home to some 700 recruits, sending terrified young men fleeing. “I saw three men in camouflage whose faces were […]
by Maaz Khan QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) — At least 44 people were killed and more than a hundred wounded in an overnight raid by militants on a police academy in southwest Pakistan, officials said Tuesday, after declaring a military counter-operation was finished. The attack on the Balochistan Police College, located 20 kilometres east of provincial capital Quetta, began at around 11:10 pm (1810 GMT) Monday, with gunfire continuing to ring out from the site hours […]
(REUTERS ) Indian officials said elite troops crossed into Pakistan-ruled Kashmir on Thursday and killed suspected militants preparing to infiltrate and carry out attacks on major cities, in a surprise raid that raised tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals. Pakistan said two of its soldiers had been killed in exchanges of fire, but denied India had made any targeted strikes across the de facto frontier that runs through the disputed Himalayan territory. Indian special forces […]
MULTAN, Pakistan (AFP) — At least four people were killed and more than 100 injured when two trains collided in central Pakistan early Thursday, officials said. The accident occurred near the city of Multan when a Karachi-bound passenger train rammed into a goods train which had stopped after running over a man crossing the railway track. “At least four people have been killed and scores others wounded,” local district administration official Nadir Chattha told reporters. […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) – by Nicolas REVISE The United States and India urged Pakistan Tuesday to do more to counter extremist groups operating from its soil as the world’s two largest democracies announced measures to strengthen security and energy ties. Speaking on a visit to New Delhi, US Secretary of State John Kerry declared that ties once clouded by suspicion had progressed “amazingly” in the last two years and echoed President Barack Obama’s description of […]
SRINAGAR, India (AFP) – by Parvaiz BUKHARI A police paramilitary commander was shot dead in Kashmir’s main city while at least two suspected separatist militants were killed in gun-battles Monday as violence flared in the disputed Himalayan region on Indian Independence Day. The unnamed commander was critically injured in an ambush and died in hospital, a senior officer of India’s Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) confirmed to AFP, adding that two other members of the […]
QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) — A roadside bomb apparently targeting a judge injured at least 13 people in Pakistan’s southwestern city of Quetta on Thursday, officials said, days after a major attack killed most of the city’s senior lawyers. “The bomb was planted on a bridge in the city, which went off immediately after the vehicle of an Islamic court judge passed by it,” Akbar Harifal, the home secretary of southwestern Balochistan province, told AFP. The […]
QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) – by Maaz KHAN At least 45 people were killed Monday when a powerful explosion ripped through a Pakistani hospital, officials said, as witnesses described tearful staff rushing towards the smoking blast site to help dozens of wounded. The explosion in the Balochistan provincial capital Quetta came as up to 200 people gathered at the Civil Hospital after the fatal shooting of a senior local lawyer, AFP reporters on the scene said. […]
QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) — At least 40 people were killed and dozens wounded when a bomb ripped through a crowd of mourners Monday at a hospital in southwest Pakistan, officials said, with fears the toll will rise. The blast in the Balochistan provincial capital Quetta came after mourners including journalists and lawyers had gathered at the hospital following the fatal shooting of a senior local lawyer. Video footage showed bodies strewn on the ground, some […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump launched new attacks on immigrants Thursday, telling supporters that Somalis and other refugees from “terrorist nations” should be barred entry to the United States. “We are letting people come in from terrorist nations that shouldn’t be allowed because you can’t vet them,” Trump, who has built his campaign around an anti-immigration platform, said at a rally in Portland, Maine. “You have no idea who they […]
by Nasir JAFFRY ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AFP) — Pakistan’s lonely elephant Kaavan has become the subject of a high-profile rights campaign backed by music icon Cher, but efforts to improve the pachyderm’s lot appear limited. The 32-year-old Asian elephant is suffering from “mental illness”, and without a better habitat his future is bleak even if a long-promised new mate finally arrives, experts told AFP. Outrage over Kaavan’s treatment went global — with a petition garnering over […]
LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) — Relatives slit the throat of a young mother who was pregnant with her second child after she married against their will in eastern Pakistan, officials said Friday, the latest in a spate of so-called “honour killings”. Muqaddas Bibi, 22, married Taufiq Ahmed three years ago in defiance of her family, who considered a marriage for love — rather than an arranged marriage — shameful, police investigator Mohammad Arshad told AFP. Bibi’s […]
