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Suicide bombing in Islamabad kills 2 suspects and policeman
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A powerful car bomb detonated in a residential area in Pakistan's capital on Friday, killing two suspected militants and an officer, police said, raising fears that militants have a presence in one of the country's safest cities, reported Irish Examiner.
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Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan expands footprint, Baloch militant group joins
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
This is the second such group from Balochistan to join the TTP.
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Pakistan's home-grown "asset" TTP haunts its master
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
This year ends on an alarming note in Pakistan as many as 33 Islamist militants, who were under detention and interrogation, snatched the guns from security personnel on duty and made them hostage in their own office for three days and killed two.
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Pakistan: Militants storm police station in South Waziristan, flee with we
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Militants armed with rocket launchers and heavy weapons forced their way into the police station in Wana, the Dawn newspaper reported. A policeman inside at the time of the attack told Dawn that around 50 militants entered the station after blowing up the front gate.
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Assam: Gunfight between security forces and ULFA-I takes place Tinsukia
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A gunfight between security forces and suspected ULFA-I militants took place in the Tinsukia district in Assam on Wednesday morning.
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Era of peace started in the Northeast after 2014: Anurag Thakur
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
"The era of peace started in the northeast after 2014. 80 per cent reduction in insurgency violence, 89 per cent reduction in civilian deaths and 6000 militants surrendered after 2014. 265 per cent reduction in left-wing extremism," said Union Minister Anurag Thakur.
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Taliban militants claim responsibility for last Tuesday attack in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Taking to Twitter, Midstone Centre for International Affairs (MCIA) senior associate Shemrez Nauman Afzal said, "Note that #TTP spokesman's claim said "Tuesday past week" at the start of the statement. This could imply that the claimed attack took place on Tuesday 13th Dec, and after 5 days
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Militants seize police station in northwest Pakistan's Bannu district
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The provincial government claimed no one had attacked the police station. But added that some suspects in custody under suspicion of terrorism tried to snatch weapons from security personnel deployed on-site, the report said.
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Two security personnel injured in clashes with "militants" in northwest Pa
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Taking to Twitter, Pakistani journalist Roohan Ahmad said that there was an intense gun battle between the security personnel and "militants" in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Bannu area.
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1,179 Bru-Reang militants lay down arms at arms laying ceremony in Assam's
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A total of 1,179 Bru-Reang militants on Monday laid down their arms and returned to the mainstream at arms laying ceremonial programme held in Assam's Hailakandi district.
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Assam: More than 1,100 Bru-Reang militants to lay down arms at programme i
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Over 1,100 Bru-Reang militants will lay down their arms and return to the mainstream at a programme to be held in Assam's Hailakandi district on Monday.
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'Deeply disturbing': UN on first public execution since Taliban takeover
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Taliban on Wednesday carried out the first public execution of a man charged with murder since the militant group took over the country last year, Voice of America (VOA) reported. Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said the public execution of a man took place in a sports stadium in wes
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