One more civilian succumbed to his injuries taking the number of killed to seven in the firing that took place in the Dhangri area of Rajouri district, officials said on Sunday.
Two terrorists have been neutralised so far following the killings of six civilians in the terror attack of January 1 this year, the White Knight Corps official said on Saturday.
In a massive crackdown on the alleged gangster-terrorist nexus in the state, the Punjab Police on Saturday launched massive raids on suspected hideouts of persons linked with gangster-turned-terrorist Arshdeep Singh alias Arsh Dalla.
Punjab's Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) spokesperson said that they belonged to various banned religious organisations, including the proscribed militant group Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Dawn newspaper reported.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Saturday designated Hizb-ul-Mujahideen operative Dr Asif Maqbool Dar as a "terrorist" under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967.
A man, identified as Sharbat Khan, and his son Noshaid Khan, were killed after assailants shot at them in North Waziristan's Datta Khel tehsil on Friday, the Dawn reported, adding that Sharbat's other son, Torab Khan, suffered injuries in the attack.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday filed a chargesheet against four accused in Bihar Popular Front of India (PFI) case, pointing "criminal conspiracy was hatched with an intention to carry out acts of terror and violence, leading to an atmosphere of terror and endangering th
Against the deteriorating law and order in the region, several locals of the South Waziristan region staged massive protests in the tribal district and chanted slogans against a surge in terrorism in the tribal district, Geo News reported.
The MHA made the announcement through a late Friday night notification, stating that Mir, who belongs to Jammu and Kashmir, is presently based in Pakistan and is working for LeT from across the border.
The PAFF emerged in the year 2019 as a proxy outfit of JeM, a proscribed terrorist organisation listed at serial number 6 of the First Schedule under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967.