Islamabad, Dec 9 (IANS/AKI) Taliban militants have used a ceasefire agreement between the Pakistani security forces and North Waziristan Taliban leader Hafiz Gul Bahadur to remobilise and expand their operations.
As the military began its offensive against militants in South Waziristan in mid-October, those aligned with Pakistan’s Tehrik-e-Taliban began launching terror attacks in Peshawar, capital of [...]
Mogadishu, Dec 3 (DPA) A bomb blast ripped through a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu Thursday, killing at least seven people, including three ministers.
A DPA correspondent at the scene said the apparent suicide attack took place during a graduation ceremony for dozens of university students at the Shamo Hotel.
Nobody claimed immediate responsibility for the [...]
Peshawar, Oct 16 (IANS) A suicide bomber exploded close to a police station in this northwestern Pakistan city Friday, killing 14 people and injuring 15, the third terror attack here in a week. Sixty-eight people have been killed in the three incidents.
Online news agency said the attacker rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into the building of [...]
Islamabad, Oct 16 (IANS) The Taliban, which has staged two audacious attacks in Pakistan in five days, has said it will turn its guns on India after turning this country into an Islamic state.
‘We want an Islamic state. If we get that (in Pakistan), the we will go to the borders of India,’ TV footage [...]
Peshawar, Oct 16 (IANS) Ten people were killed and 11 injured when a suicide bomber exploded close to a police station in Pakistan’s Peshawar city Friday, the second terror attack here in as many days.
An official said that 10 people were killed in the afternoon explosion at the Cantonment Area and that two of the [...]
Peshawar, Oct 15 (IANS) An eight-year-old child was killed and nine other people were injured Thursday in a car bomb attack in Pakistan’s northwestern Peshawar city, media reports said.
The blast occurred around 5.00 p.m. in the Gulshan Rehman Colony that houses the government officials of Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
Nine people [...]
Baghdad, Oct 11 (Xinhua) Fourteen people were killed and 64 others injured in three car bomb attacks in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi Sunday, the interior ministry said.
‘The latest police reports said a total of 14 people were killed and 64 others injured, including policemen, in twin car bombings and a suicide car bomb [...]
Kabul/New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao Friday visited the Indian embassy in Afghanistan, which was the target of a suicide attack Thursdar that left 17 people dead. She, however, refrained from pointing fingers at Pakistan.
‘I think the investigation should be completed,’ Rao told reporters in Kabul when asked if Pakistan was behind [...]
Stockholm, Oct 8 (Xinhua) The European Union (EU) has condemned a suicide car bomb attack that killed 17 people outside the Indian Embassy in Kabul Thursday.
‘The presidency is appalled by this atrocious form of terrorism, taking place in the close vicinity of a diplomatic mission which enjoys protection under international law,’ Sweden, which holds the [...]
Islamabad, Oct 8 (ANI): The Pakistan Government on Thursday condemned the car bomb attack outside the Indian Embassy in Kabul, saying elements in Afghanistan were intent on sabotaging the peace efforts initiated by allied forces.
Foreign Office spokesperson Abdul Basit told media [...]
New Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) British Foreign Minister David Miliband Thursday rang up his Indian counterpart S.M. Krishna and expressed his sympathies at the suicide car bomb attack outside the Indian embassy in Kabul.
‘I condemn unreservedly the awful terrorist attack which took place in Kabul earlier today. Our thoughts and condolences are with the injured [...]
New Delhi, Oct.8 (ANI):The Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday confirmed news of an explosion taking place outside the heavily fortified walls of the Indian Embassy in Kabul.
A spokesman of the ministry said that the blast took place at 8.27 a.m., and added that the walls of the complex had sustained some damage.
Other unconfirmed media [...]
New Delhi/Kabul, Oct.8 (ANI):An Indian Embassy official speaking on the condition of anonymity told ANI over phone that all embassy staff were safe and that only one Afghan policeman had been killed in a bomb explosion that took place outside the embassy premises on Thursday morning.
He also confirmed that four others had been injured.
According to [...]
Peshawar, Aug 15 (ANI): At least five security personnel were killed and four others including a civilian,were injured in a suicide car bomb attack at a checkpoint in Swat valley on Saturday.
“A suicide bomber blew up his vehicle near [...]
