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Islamabad —  Eleven militants accused of being involved in carrying out the deadly March suicide attack on Chinese engineers are in custody, according to Pakistani officials. Following the arrests, Beijing urged Islamabad to continue the investigation. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said Monday that China was attaching great ...

The Union Minister’s new policy is also likely to impact the families of thousands of street protesters or stone-throwers who have been booked under several cases since 2008. File photo | Photo Credit: NISSAR AHMAD An expansion of the “deep-vetting” process for government job aspirants in Jammu and Kashmir by ...

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Monday allowed contractors, who were delisted for being relatives of militants and separatists, “to participate in the tendering process” and quashed an order of the Department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj. “I find merit in these petitions...The impugned communication dated March 15, ...

ISLAMABAD —  Heavily armed militants attacked a Pakistani security outpost near the border with Afghanistan early Monday, resulting in the deaths of five soldiers and seven assailants in the ensuing firefight. Security officials confirmed the deaths to VOA, saying the attack occurred in the remote Tirah valley in northwestern ...

Canada pledges more visas for Gazans, says it’s ‘horrified’ by Israeli attack in Rafah OTTAWA: Canada said on Monday it will issue visas to 5,000 Gazans, more than it originally pledged, and said it was “horrified” by an Israeli airstrike in Rafah that triggered a blaze causing 45 deaths. ...

Pakistani authorities have arrested 11 Islamist militants who were involved in the suicide bombing that killed five Chinese engineers in March in the north of the country which borders Afghanistan, officials said on Sunday. The announcement was made at a news conference held by Pakistan's counter-terrorism chief Rai Tahir ...

Baramulla: The match was underway, yet a team of young cricketers decided to step off the field out of a sense of social responsibility and a desire for change — they were among those who exercised their franchise in the Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency that saw record polling on ...

A tourist couple was injured and a former village leader shot to death in two separate militant attacks in India's Kashmir on Saturday, officials said. The militant attacks come amid ongoing parliamentary elections in India. Both the attacks took place in southern Kashmir. The couple was attacked in the ...

Four militants, including a “target killer”, of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were killed by security forces in Punjab province, police said on Sunday. The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab police arrested TTP “target killer” Faizan Ahmad Butt last week in connection with the killing of policemen in Lahore ...

Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday released the sketches of six terrorists, who infiltrated from Pakistan into Basantgarh area of Udhampur district and killed a village defence guard in a gunfight before fleeing deep into the forest, officials said.Udhampur Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Joginder Singh announced the ...