According to a preliminary police assessment, a short circuit in the ammunition depot was the main cause of the two explosions at a Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) police station in Swat on Monday, Geo News reported.
MDA reported that medics and paramedics provided medical treatment and referred a 28-year-old man to Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem in moderate condition with a gunshot wound in the hand.
Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla, which was a witness to terrorism before the abrogation of Article 370, has now bagged the Prime Minister's Award for Excellence in Public Administration-2022, India's highest award in civil services.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday (local time) took a veiled dig at Pakistan and said that it is very difficult to engage with a neighbour, who practices cross-border terrorism against India.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif strongly condemned the blast. He expressed grief over the lives lost and prayed for the speedy recovery of the injured, reported Geo News.
A great friend of India, Tarek Fatah passed away in Toronto at the age of 73. He authored several books and was a lifelong and vocal advocate for Baloch human rights. He was a fierce critic of the cross-border terrorism perpetrated by Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir.
"Terrorists fired upon & injured a civilian, Aqib Dar of Zafarpora Marhama, Bijbehara area of Anantnag, near his house. He has been shifted to the hospital for treatment. Area cordoned off," said J-K Police.
"The open fundraising by the banned terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) in Peshawar, Pakistan, has raised concerns about the resurgence of extremist groups in the country. The group, responsible for several terrorist attacks," tweeted Shaukat Ali Kashmiri, exiled leader & found
At a time when Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari's is scheduled to visit Goa and terrorists have carried out an attack in Poonch, Congress MP Manish Tiwari on Saturday asked what has happened to the NDA government's policy of not holding a dialogue when there is terror.
Following the terror attack on troops in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch that claimed the lives of five soldiers the previous day, the Indian Army has launched a massive operation to hunt down a group of around six to seven terrorists who are behind this attack.
A team from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is to visit Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch where five Indian Army soldiers were killed on Thursday in a terrorist attack on a truck they were travelling in.
An Army vehicle moving between Bhimber Gali and Poonch in the Rajouri sector was fired upon by unidentified terrorists on Thursday, the Army said. The vehicle caught fire, due to the likely use of grenades by terrorists the army statement added.