A group of assailants with knives killed and injured dozens of people in Kashgar Prefecture, in the autonomous province of Xinjiang, in northwestern China. Official media has declared the attack as a “terrorist ” act, a concept that is becoming more present in the Chinese media, and particularly affecting the provinces where there is a […]
Jul 31 2014 | Posted in
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Two people were killed after a firing incident in Lyari, Karachi. Police report that unknown gunmen fired Agra Taj Colony. During the process one person died instantaneously while two were badly injured. The injured were carried to the Civil Hospital for treatment. One of them could not succumb to the wounds. Third one’s condition is […]
Nov 7 2013 | Posted in
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Oslo shooter Anders Behring Breivik deemed sane Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik was sane when he killed 77 people last summer in attacks he saw as punishing pro-immigration “traitors”, a psychiatric team said on Tuesday, contradicting a prior report that found him psychotic. Breivik has insisted he is mentally stable and demanded that his attacks – the […]
Apr 11 2012 | Posted in
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Terrorist Designations of Yassin Chouka, Monir Chouka and Mevlut Kar Washington DC: (Thursday, January 26, 2012) Today, the US Department of State designated Yassin Chouka, Monir Chouka and Mevlut Kar as Specially Designated Global Terrorists under section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224. The consequences of these designations include a prohibition against engaging in transactions with […]
Jan 26 2012 | Posted in
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US to withhold $70 million aid for Pakistan A crisis in relations looked set to deepen after a US House-Senate negotiating panel agreed to freeze $700 million in US aid to Pakistan until it gives assurances it is helping fight the spread of improvised explosive devices in the region. Pakistan is one of the largest […]
Pakistani Taliban confirm contact with government for peace talks The Pakistani Taliban is in peace talks with the Pakistani government, a senior commander in the militant group said Saturday. He said negotiations were “progressing well” and could soon end in a formal agreement. The statement by Maulvi Faqir Mohammad is the first time a named […]
ISPR denies contact with Taliban, no peace talks in progress The media reports that Pakistan authorities were in talks with Taliban as part of the efforts to ensure durable peace and stability were widely welcomed by people of this country but the ISPR threw cold water on them by issuing a surprising denial on Tuesday. […]
Nov 24 2011 | Posted in
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Pakistan Army: No negotiation or secret talks going on with Taliban The Pakistan Army on Tuesday said it was not engaged in any secret negotiations with the Taliban or other militants groups and such parleys would have to be handled by the civilian government. The statement by a spokesman for the Inter-Services Public Relations came […]
Karachi blast leaves six dead in Pakistan A blast in Karachi killed two police constables and at least four suspected terrorists under mysterious circumstances in Karachi’s posh Sea View locality near the Village restaurant on Wednesday night at around 10:30pm. While police claimed that the heroics of their two constables Maula Bakhsh and Mamraiz Iqbal […]