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18 terrorists neutralised in Turkey, Iraq
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Mar 11 (ANI): A total of 18 Kurdistan Workers' Party (PYD/PKK) terrorists have been neutralised in Turkey's southeastern provinces of Diyarbakir in Mardin and northern Iraq this week, Anadolu Agency quoted a Turkish General Staff as saying.
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Pakistan Army at the heart of Baloch rights abuse, say activists at UNHRC
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 10 (ANI): Pakistan's armed forces and intelligence agencies are at the heart of the continuing human rights violations in that country's Balochistan Province, claimed three senior Baloch activists in separate addresses at the 37th session of the United Nations Hum
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Activists in UN raise voice against atrocities in Balochistan
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 10 (ANI): In an attempt to draw the world's attention towards human rights violations in Pakistan's Balochistan province, Baloch activists on Friday spoke at the 37th UN Human Rights Session in Geneva and urged the world community to take action in the matter.
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16 Afghan security personnel killed in Afghanistan
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Mar 9 (ANI): As many as 16 Afghan security personnel were killed after Taliban militants attacked check posts in Khwaja Ghar district of Takhar Province in eastern Afghanistan, according to officials on Friday.
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Tibet's govt-in-exile laments another self-immolation incident
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Dharamshala (Himachal Pradesh) [India], Mar. 09 (ANI): The Tibetan Government in Exile on Thursday criticised Chinese government, a day after a Tibetan self-immolated himself in China's Sichuan province.
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Over 20 TTP militants killed in US drone strike
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Mar. 08 (ANI): ISLAMABAD: U.S. drone strikes killed 20 Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants and their trainer in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province on Wednesday, according to Pakistan-based news website, the Daily Times.
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Taliban commander killed in clash in Afghanistan
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Mar 7 (ANI): A Taliban local commander, including three others, were killed in a clash on Tuesday with Afghan security forces in Dawlat Abad district of Balkh province in Afghanistan, local officials said on Wednesday.
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2 Pak nationals held for supplying suicide vests in Afghanistan
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Mar 6 (ANI): Two Pakistani nationals were arrested on charges of supplying suicide vests allegedly to the insurgents in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province on Tuesday.
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Sri Lankan govt condemns Kandy riots
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Mar 6 (ANI): The Sri Lankan government on Tuesday strongly and unequivocally condemned the recent sporadic incidents of violence that had sparked off in Ampara and Digana near Kandy in Eastern Province in the country.
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China accused of detaining Muslim women married to Pakistani men
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 6 (ANI): China has allegedly detained dozens of Chinese Muslim women in its restive Xinjiang province, located in the north-western part of the country, for marrying Pakistani men belonging to Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) region of Pakistan.
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22 militants killed in Afghanistan
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Mar 5 (ANI): Afghanistan's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said that at least 22 militants have been killed in a series of airstrikes carried out in southern Helmand and Uruzgan provinces of the country.
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The Pashtun Awakening
Updated : 8 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 5 (ANI): The January 2018 murder of a young Pashtun shopkeeper, Naqeebullah Mehsud, in Karachi who aspired to be a fashion model may not have been the spark that lit the flame for a Pashtun Spring but it has certainly set the stage for what many commentators describ
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