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.
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.
One person was killed and a security personnel was injured in an attack when unknown militants opened fire on a girls' school in Pakistan's South Waziristan on Thursday, according to Dawn. The attack took place in a school in the Azam Warsak area of the South Waziristan district.
The police had received credible information about the presence of active terrorists of The Resistance Front (TRF), an off-shoot of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), in a few residential houses of Barthana in Qamarwari area, the release stated.
The list of designated terrorists includes Osama Mehmood the emir of AQIS, Atif Yahya Ghouri the deputy emir of AQIS and Muhammad Maruf, responsible for AQIS' recruiting branch. The State Department has also designated the deputy emir of TTP Qari Amjad, who oversees operations and militants
In order to avenge the killing of a most-wanted criminal, a militant group in Pakistan's Rajanpur district threatened to attack six police stations following which the police have withdrawn the force from the stations, Dawn reported on Saturday.
The four accused persons are alleged to have links with Hizbul and also accused to be involved in terror funding through hawala channels, the police said.
The first incident, which was claimed by outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), occurred in the Lakki Marwat's Kurrum Par area when militants opened fire on a police van, killing six personnel. In a separate incident, two soldiers were killed and a militant killed in a clash near the Pak
Major Purushottam, who was posted as a Public Relations Officer (Defence) along with five of his comrades, fought the militants who had launched the attack on his office on November 3, 1999. He and his colleagues were killed while trying to save the journalists who were present in the PRO's
127 members of United Gorkha Peoples' Organization, 74 members of Tiwa Liberation Army, 38 members of Kuki National Liberation Army, 33 members of Kuki Liberation Front, 35 from ULFA, 11 members from Dimasa National Liberation Army were given Rs 1.5 lakh each.