Pakistan says US aid ’signal of long term commitment’WASHINGTON - Even as Pakistan’s military questioned the anti-terror strings attached to the proposed $7.5 billion US aid package, its foreign minister said it was crucial to fight terrorists and the US assured that it would not impinge on Islamabad’s sovereignty. Some Indians hurt in Kabul bombing outside embassy: Indian envoyKABUL - No Indians had been killed in the suicide blast outside the Indian embassy here Thursday morning but some had been injured, Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan Jayant Prasad said. Suicide bombing near Indian embassy in Kabul, 3 deadKABUL - At least three people were killed in a suicide bombing near the Indian embassy in the Afghan capital Thursday morning. Obama’s war council focusing on Al Qaeda in PakistanWASHINGTON - As US President Barack Obama met his top national security officials to discuss Afghanistan-Pakistan policy, media reports suggested that the emerging war strategy was focusing on the campaign against Al Qaeda in Pakistan. Peace with India in Pakistan’s self-interest: QureshiWASHINGTON - Calling those who carried out the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks as no friends of Pakistan, its Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said it’s in Islamabad’s enlightened self-interest to normalise and live in peace with India. At least five killed, 15 injured in Iraq attacksBAGHDAD - At least five people were killed and 15 others injured Wednesday in violence around Iraq, police told DPA. Pressurise Pakistan to stabilise Afghanistan: India (Roundup)NEW DELHI - Barely days before Afghan polls results become clear, India Wednesday asked the international community to put effective pressure on Pakistan to crack down on terrorists on its territory and asked it to maintain a long-term commitment to Afghanistan’s reconstruction. Al Qaeda calls for holy war against ChinaCAIRO - A senior Al Qaeda leader in a video distributed Wednesday urged Muslims to launch a holy war against Chinese “invaders” in response to the “massacre” of Uighurs in western China. India for more ‘pressure’ on Pakistan to stabilise AfghanistanNEW DELHI - Linking growing violence in Afghanistan to support from across the border, India Wednesday asked the international community to put effective pressure on Pakistan to crack down on terrorists within its territory, including Al Qaeda, Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). Reports of Taliban militants entering Kashmir baseless: ChidambaramMUMBAI - Home Minister P. Chidambaram Wednesday said reports of Taliban militants infiltrating into Jammu and Kashmir lack credence. Senior Taliban commander killed in Pakistan’s Swat valleyISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s security forces Wednesday killed a senior militant commander in Swat valley, as troops swooped for the holed-up Taliban leaders, the military said. Day after: Police admit it knew of Induwar’s whereaboutsRANCHI - A day after the shocking killing of a police officer by Maoist guerrillas, officials in Jharkhand Thursday admitted that police had specific information that Francis Induwar, whose decapitated body was found six days after he had been abducted, had been taken to the Bundu forests near here. Maoist leader Kundan Pahan unleashes terror in Jharkhand junglesRANCHI - Kundan Pahan, a self styled zonal commander of the outlawed Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-Maoist), accused of master-minding the killing of Jharkhand police inspector Induwar Francis, has become a synonym for terror in the bordering jungles of three districts of the state, say the police. Three guerrillas killed in Kashmir gunbattleSRINAGAR - Three separatist guerrillas, including a top militant belonging to the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were killed early Wednesday by security forces in a forested area of Jammu and Kashmir’s north Kupwara district, officials said. Toll in Assam violence rises to 13GUWAHATI - The toll in the weekend massacre by tribal separatists in an Assam village rose to 13 with a woman succumbing to her injuries at a hospital here Wednesday, government officials said. Abjure violence for dialogue, Chidambaram tells MaoistsMUMBAI - Maoist guerrillas should give up their “armed liberation struggle” to pave the way for dialogue and the development of violence-hit states, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said here Wednesday, a day after the decapitated body of a Jharkhand police officer who had been abducted by guerrillas was found. Tears and anger as Induwar buried with state honoursRANCHI - Thousands of people Wednesday bid a tearful adieu to Jharkhand police inspector Francis Induwar, whose mutilated body was found on the Ranchi-Jamshedpur highway six days after he had been abducted by Maoist guerrillas. Jharkhand police knew where Induwar was keptRANCHI - Jharkhand police had specific information that Francis Induwar, whose decapitated body was found six days after he had been abducted by Maoists, had been taken to the Bundu forests near here, senior officials admitted here Wednesday. Three guerrillas killed in Kashmir gunfightSRINAGAR - Three separatist guerrillas were killed early Wednesday by security forces in a forested area of Jammu and Kashmir’s north Kupwara district. US may know about Osama’s whereabouts: QureshiISLAMABAD - US may know the whereabouts of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Wednesday. Obama vows to target Al Qaeda in Pakistan and beyondWASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has vowed to continue targeting the Al Qaeda that is threatening the US from Pakistan and beyond, even as the terror network is said to have “lost operational capacity” after a series of recent missile strikes. Nine dead in Iraq car bomb attackCAIRO - A car bombing at a market near the western Iraqi city of Fallujah killed at least nine people Tuesday, al-Jazeera reported. 9 killed in Iraq car bomb explosionBAGHDAD - At least nine people were killed and 31 injured when a car bomb exploded in a town near Iraq’s western city of Fallujah Tuesday, an interior ministry report said. Tharoor terms Pakistan bomb blast at UN office as ‘tragic’NEW DELHI - India’s Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor Tuesday described the suicide bomb attack on the office of the World Food Programme in Islamabad as “tragic”. Maoists made no swap demand before killing cop: ChidambaramNEW DELHI - Terming the killing of a Jharkhand police officer by Maoists as “cold blooded”, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said Tuesday that no demand was being made for a swap of prisoners. Two killed in blast near MaduraiCHENNAI - At least two people were killed and four injured when an explosion rocked the Cholavanthan railway station near Madurai Tuesday evening, police said, adding that the nature of the blast was under investigation. Four wounded in Srinagar blast, militant killed in gunfightSRINAGAR - Four people, including two paramilitary Border Security Force (BSF) troopers were wounded Tuesday afternoon in this Jammu and Kashmir summer capital in a powerful explosion, officials said. Maoists behead abducted cop, leave body on highway (Second Lead)RANCHI - The decapitated body of a Jharkhand police officer, who had been abducted by Maoists and was sought to be swapped for three of their leaders including Kobad Ghandy, was found on the Ranchi-Jamshedpur highway Tuesday morning. 10 Afghan soldiers killed in Taliban ambushKABUL - Ten Afghan soldiers were killed in a Taliban ambush in southern Afghanistan while the defence ministry said Tuesday that more than 100 Taliban militants were killed and wounded elsewhere in the country. Two held for funding Chhatradhar MahtoKOLKATA - Two members of the city-based Lalgarh Sanhati Mancha were arrested here for allegedly funding Maoist leader Chhatradhar Mahto, police said Tuesday. |
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