Tag: ATTACKS

PARIS (AFP) — Described as France’s most wanted woman, Hayat Boumeddiene has been on the run ever since her partner Amedy Coulibaly killed a policewoman and four Jews in the January 2015 terror attacks that shook the country. Boumeddiene left France in the days before the attacks on satirical ...

Rawat also added, “India faces threat of coordinated action along northern and western fronts which we have to consider in our defence planning.”“Pakistan could take advantage of any threat developing along northern borders and create trouble for us,” said Rawat.Commenting on the recent India-China skirmish in Ladakh, Rawat said, ...

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - Taliban insurgents have staged a suicide car bombing and armed assault against a police base in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least three security officers and injuring several others. Tuesday’s attack in the border province of Paktia came hours after U.S. National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien renewed ...

The United States has not publicly objected to the expected release of the three prisoners; instead, negotiators are exploring other options, including temporarily placing the inmates under house arrest, the two officials said, both speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the ...

ISLAMABAD - Taliban insurgents carried out a suicide bombing and other attacks against government security installations in Afghanistan, killing up to 20 people and injuring dozens more. Tuesday’s deadly violence comes as the opening of U.S.-backed peace talks between Afghan rivals to end the country’s long war face delays. ...

#Pakistan News At least 12 people are dead and more than 40 wounded in attacks that come during a Taliban delegation visit to Pakistan to discuss starting Afghan peace talks. Relatives of the wounded react to news of the blast in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan on August 25, 2020. (Reuters) A ...

ISLAMABAD - In rare testimony Tuesday, two dozen female Pakistani journalists complained that they have encountered “coordinated” vicious social media campaigns to harass, discredit and intimidate them for their work. The highly emotional testimonies before a parliamentary committee on human rights brought some of the journalists from various Pakistani ...

Vigilantes “will take matters into their own hands” if trust in the criminal justice system crashes after the coronavirus pandemic, lawyers have warned. With the backlog of court cases nearing 570,000 in England and Wales, some trials are not being scheduled until 2022 and victims face a wait of ...

A group of women journalists have decided that enough is enough and have released a joint statement condemning the climate of abuse and threats that has been created on social media by accounts that are allegedly connected to people belonging to, or professing to be followers of, the Pakistan ...