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Colombo, Jan 7 (DPA) The father of slain Tamil rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, who led a failed 26-year armed campaign for a separate state for Sri Lanka’s Tamil ethnic minority, died Thursday while in military custody, an army spokesman said.
Thiruvendran Velupillai, 82, and his wife had been in military custody since they surrendered to the [...]
Rawalpindi, Dec 4 (IANS) At least 10 people were killed and 40 wounded Friday in a terror attack at a mosque where army personnel offer prayers in this Pakistani garrison city.
Ten people died and over 40 were wounded in the suicide blast and firing incident, Online news agency reported.
According to some eyewitnesses, the terrorists threw [...]
Srinagar, Nov 17 (IANS) One militant was killed and another terrorist, who was trained in Pakistan, was arrested as the army foiled yet another infiltration bid from across the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir, an army spokesman said here Tuesday.
Lieutenant Colonel J.S. Brar, spokesman of the army’s 15th corps, said: ‘Terrorists made yet [...]
Chandigarh, Nov 11 (IANS) Lt. Gen. Shankar Ranjan Ghosh will take over as the general officer commanding-in-chief (GOC-in-C) of the Indian army’s Western Command, a defence official said here Wednesday.
He will assume charge Dec 1, an army spokesman said. Ghosh will replace Lt. Gen. T.K. Sapru.
An alumni of the National Defence Academy at Khadakvasla, Ghosh [...]
Islamabad, Oct.30 (ANI): The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has once again denied its hand in the devastating Peshawar blast, which killed over 100 people, mostly women and children, and blamed the private US security firm Blackwater for the blast.
TTP chief Hakimullah Mehsud said if the Taliban could target [...]
Islamabad, Oct. 26 (ANI): Around 200,000 people have reportedly abandoned their homes in South Waziristan as the Pakistan Army has stepped up its offensive in the region, an army spokesman said on Monday.
Colonel Waseem Shahid, a spokesman for the army’s special support group, was quoted by a foreign news agency as saying that 26,165 families [...]
Kabul, Oct 11 (IANS) The Afghan troops have captured a Taliban spokesman during an operation in the country’s Herat province, the Online news agency reported Sunday citing the army.
Taliban spokesman Bashir Qinaat and four of his associates were captured in Gazara district of the province, Afghan army spokesman Abdul Basir Ghori said.
Qinaat was captured a [...]
Rawalpindi, Oct 11 (DPA) Pakistani commandoes stormed a building Sunday morning in an army compound here, freeing more than two dozen hostages held by militants, an Army spokesman said.
Explosions and gunfire were heard from inside the premises when the troops moved into the building shortly before dawn. Ambulances were later seen rushing to the nearest [...]
Rawalpindi, Oct 10 (DPA) An unknown number of insurgents took hostage around a dozen soldiers, including two senior officers, after a raid on the Pakistani Army headquarters in this garrison city Saturday in which six troops were killed, an army spokesman said.
Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said more than two insurgents managed to sneak into the [...]
Islamabad, Oct 8 (IANS) The bullet-riddled bodies of 15 suspected Taliban militants were found Thursday in Pakistan’s Swat region, an official said.
‘I can confirm that 15 bodies were found today (Thursday) and our information is that they are militants,’ Geo TV quoted army spokesman Major Mushtaq Khan as saying.
‘They might have been the victims [...]
Islamabad, Oct 7 (DPA) Pakistan’s security forces Wednesday killed a senior militant commander in Swat valley, as troops swooped for the holed-up Taliban leaders, the military said.
Nisar Ahmed, alias Ghazi Lala, was a close aide of Swat’s Taliban chief Maulana Fazlullah and served as his local commander in the Matta area.
‘Nisar was killed in a [...]
Kampala, Oct 6 (DPA) A Rwandan citizen suspected of being one of the orchestrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide has been arrested in Uganda, an army official said Tuesday.
Army spokesman Felix Kulayigye told DPA that Idelphonse Nizeyimana – who is wanted by the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) – has been arrested and [...]
Manila, Sep 25 (DPA) Ten communist rebels were killed Friday in two clashes with government troops in the eastern Philippines, a regional army spokesman said.
Nine guerillas died in fighting in a remote village in Pilar town in Sorsogon province, 345 km southeast of Manila, Lieutenant Colonel Arnulfo Marcelo Burgos said.
Burgos said troops recovered eight assault [...]
New Delhi, Sep.21 (ANI): Pakistan troops, in yet another violation of the ceasefire, fired on the Indian positions in Mendhar and Krishanghati areas of Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch sector for at least 15-20 minutes.
There were no casualties and Indian troops did not retaliate, said an Indian Army spokesman.
Till now, over 40 incidents [...]
Dera Ismail Khan (Pakistan), Sep.15 (ANI): Pro-government militias in the Dera Ismail Khan area of Pakistan wear their hair and beards long, Taleban style, and support attacks on NATO troops in Afghanistan, but are tolerated by Pakistan because they share a [...]
Peshawar, Sep.11 (ANI): The Taliban, for the first time, has admitted that it is negotiating secret peace talks with the Pakistan Army, and has claimed that five of its leaders have been held captive by the security forces for the last eight days.
The Swat [...]
Islamabad, Aug.10 (ANI): * Army spokesman Major General Athar Abbas has said that information gleaned from multiple sources have confirmed the death of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud in a CIA missile strike last Wednesday.
Claims and counterclaims about whether Mehsud is alive or dead have swirled since the Wednesday drone strike in South Waziristan. [...]
