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Syrian National Coalition receives $6m in US aid
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Pakistan: Five killed in suicide attack in Tirah Valley
KHYBER AGENCY, (The News): Five persons were killed and seven others injured when a suicide blast occurred in Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency, Geo News reported on Wednesday. According to security forces, a suicide blast occurred … Continued
Pakistan: Nato helicopters violate Pakistani airspace near Pak-Afghan border
By Zahir Shah Sherazi PESHAWAR, (Dawn): Nato gunship helicopters violated Pakistani airspace and entered Pakistani territory where they stayed for 10 minutes before returning, official sources told Dawn. At least five helicopters were seen flying near the … Continued
India: How Africans shaped India’s history
[A Mughal painting shows two Africans in a group sharing a light moment.] By Manimugdha S Sharma Times of India: Behind the high walls of a lost fortress in what is today south Delhi blossomed the love … Continued
Pakistan: 300,000 people have left Balochistan due to terrorist attacks
[Photo: HRCP chairperson Zohra Yusuf addresses a press conference here on Sunday. — INP] By Amanullah Kasi QUETTA, (Dawn): Zohra Yusuf, the chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), has said that Balochistan has been … Continued
Pakistan: US drone strike kills four people on Pak-Afghan border
By Zahir Shah Sherazi PESHAWAR, (Dawn): A US drone strike on Saturday killed four suspected militants and left several others injured on the Pak-Afghan border area near Khyber Agency’s Tirah valley. Official sources said that the drone … Continued
Pakistan: US drone strike kills three in North Waziristan
By Zahir Shah Sherazi PESHAWAR, (Dawn): At least three people were killed and two others injured in a US drone attack in the North Waziristan tribal region, security sources said. Sources said the drone fired missiles targeting … Continued
Pakistan: Drone strike kills eight, wounds six in North Waziristan
By Zahir Shah Sherazi PESHAWAR, (Dawn): In the second attack within 24 hours, an unmanned drone killed eight persons and wounded six others in Shawal district of North Waziristan tribal region on Monday. Intelligence sources say the … Continued
Pakistan: US drone strike in NWA kills five, injures three
MIRANSHAH, (The News): Five people were killed when a [US] drone fired two missiles in an area of North Waziristan on Sunday. According to sources, the unmanned aircraft fired two missiles on a house in Kundghar area … Continued
Pakistan: Three killed, two injured in Khuzdar firing
QUETTA, (Dawn): At least three people were killed and two others injured in a firing incident in the Khuzdar area of Balochistan on Monday morning. Levies officials told Dawn that armed men opened fire at a pickup van and … Continued
Pakistan: Four killed, five injured in firing along working boundary
ISLAMABAD, (Dawn): Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) personnel on Monday resorted to unprovoked firing along the working boundary in Sialkot as a result of which four people were killed whereas five others sustained injuries, said an Inter Services Public … Continued
Pakistan: Six killed, 12 injured in Kohat bus blast
KOHAT, (The News): Six people were killed and 12 others injured when a blast occurred in a passenger bus at Peshawar Chowk in Kohat Saturday morning. According to police, miscreants had planted a bomb near the … Continued
India: Patna stampede death toll rises to 33, most died of suffocation
[Family of injured victims weep outside a hospital where the stampede victims were admitted. PTI Photo] Patna, (Hindustan Times): With one more person succumbing to injuries on Saturday, the toll in the stampede outside Patna’s Gandhi Maidan after Dussehra celebrations … Continued
Pakistan: Explosion injures seven in Quetta
[Police on the site of explosion: Screengrab] By Syed Ali Shah QUETTA, (Dawn): At least seven people, including a child, were injured on Saturday in a powerful blast on the Spini road in Balochistan’s capital … Continued
Pakistan: Jet fighters kill 15 suspected militants in Khyber
By Zahir Shah Sherazi PESHAWAR, (Dawn): At least 15 militants were killed early on Friday in jet strikes in the Jamrud and Bara areas of northwestern Pakistan’s Khyber tribal region, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. Sources told … Continued
Pakistan: Blast and firing on Quetta’s Double road; seven injured
By Syed Ali Shah QUETTA, (Dawn): At least seven people were injured on Wednesday when an explosion took place on Quetta’s Double Road which was followed by firing, DawnNews reported. Police said unknown assailants hurled a … Continued
Pakistan: One killed, 14 injured in Sibbi blast
QUETTA, (The News): A man was killed while fourteen others were injured when a blast occurred at at Chakar Khan Road in Sibbi District of Balochistan on Saturday morning, Geo News reported. According to police, the miscreants … Continued
Pakistan: Bomb attack on police officer kills two, injures six in Karachi
[Security personnel stand near the blast site in Karachi. Photo by Online] KARACHI, (Dawn): Unknown assailants carried out a bomb attack on a senior police officer in Karachi’s upscale Defence Housing Authority (DHA) neighbourhood on Thursday night, killing … Continued
India: Freedom struggle’s first journalist Martyr, Maulvi Muhammad Baqir
[A sketch of Maulvi Baqir’s execution. He and other scholars were tied to canons and were publicly blown away] Maulvi Muhammad Baqir was a great advocate of Hindu Muslim unity. When in order to weaken the freedom struggle the British started … Continued
Pakistan: Woman among 3 killed in Peshawar blast
[Security personnel cordon off the site of the explosion on Peshawar’s Saddar Road. — DawnNews screengrab] By Zahir Shah Sherazi PESHAWAR, (Dawn): At least three people — including a woman and a security official — were … Continued
India: Right wing RSS rewrites history: Dalits ‘created’ by Muslim invaders
By DK Singh New Delhi, (Hindustan Times): In its renewed impetus to woo Dalits, various other castes and sub-castes, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has embarked on an ambitious exercise to re-write history. Emboldened by the BJP’s success in the … Continued
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