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Agencies: At least ten people were killed, including a police official, and 50 others were injured after an explosion hit Pakistan’s Balochistan province on Friday, according to the police. Mastung Assistant Commissioner Atta Ul Munim said the blast was of a “massive nature” and took place near the Madina mosque where people were gathering to […]

7th Sep 2023

Pakistan: 4 troops, 12 terrorists killed in NW Pakistan

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least four Pakistan army troops and 12 terroirsts were killed in a conflict near the country’s border with Afghanistan, the military said on Wednesday. A “large group of terrorists equipped with latest weapons” attacked two military posts near Kalash, Chitral district, it said in a statement, adding that […]

8th Aug 2023

Pakistan: Roadside bombing kills 7 in Balochistan

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least seven people were killed in a remote-controlled blast in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Monday night, police and local media reported. The incident took place in the remote Kech district located some 772 kilometers (480 miles) from the provincial capital Quetta. The explosion targeted a vehicle, killing […]

30th Jul 2023

Pakistan: 20 killed, 50 injured as blast rips through rally preparations in NW Pakistan

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least 20 people were killed and dozens injured in an explosion at a public rally in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday evening, police and local media reported. The explosion occurred at around 5 pm The convention had been organized by the Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), a coalition partner in […]

26th Jul 2023

Bangladesh: 200 die as Dengue spreads, 2,418 new cases reported

By SM Najmus Sakib DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): Entomologists described the dengue situation in Bangladesh as epidemic as the country on Tuesday reported 16 more deaths taking the death toll to 201 this year. They said the dengue has spread to 64 districts of the South Asian country and the situation has gone out of […]

24th Jul 2023

India: 2 prominent 400 year old mosques in New Delhi get ‘encroachment’ notices

By Anadolu staff ANKARA, Turkey (AA) – Authorities in the Indian Railways have issued notices to two prominent mosques in the national capital New Delhi, asking them to remove “encroachments” within 15 days, local media reported on Sunday. Local news broadcaster India Today said in a report that notices were issued to two prominent mosques […]

13th Jul 2023

Pakistan: 9 soldiers among 15 killed in militant attack on Balochistan military garrison

By Aamir Latif and Alperen Aktas KARACHI, Pakistan / ISTANBUL (AA): The death toll from a militant attack on a garrison in southwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border rose to 15, including nine soldiers, on Wednesday, the military’s media wing said in a statement. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations, five injured soldiers died as […]

11th Jun 2023

Pakistan: Heavy rains kill 28 as Cyclone Biparjoy heading towards coastal areas

(Agencies) : At least 28 people, including women and children, died after heavy rains battered parts of Pakistan on Saturday, local media reported. Meanwhile, The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Sunday urged people to stay away from shorelines as Cyclone Biparjoy, which is heading towards the coastal areas of Pakistan and India, lay at […]

3rd Jun 2023

India: 280 dead, high-level probe into massive train crash

By Anadolu staff ANKARA (AA): The death toll surpassed more than 280 in a crash involving three trains in eastern India, with 900 injured, officials said Saturday. The accident occurred in the Balasore district of Odisha state late Friday and a massive rescue operation was launched involving the National Disaster Response Force, military and other […]

28th May 2023

Pakistan: 11 dead after avalanche hits herders camp in northern Pakistan

By Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD (AA): At least 11 people are dead and over a dozen wounded after an avalanche hit a herders camp in northern Pakistan, officials said Saturday. An avalanche near the Shounter Valley Pass at the Bakarwal Camp site in the Gilgit Baltistan region hit a herders camp at a low elevation, the […]

24th May 2023

Pakistan: Former Premier Khan gets bail in multiple cases

By Aamir Latif and Riyaz ul Khaliq KARACHI, Pakistan / ISTANBUL, Turkey (AA): An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Islamabad on Tuesday granted bail to Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan in multiple cases. Khan, who has more than 100 cases filed against him since being removed from power last year in April, traveled to the […]

17th May 2023

Myanmar: 400 people dead from Cyclone Mocha in Rakhine state

By SM Najmus Sakib DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): More than 400 people are dead in Myanmar’s Rakhine state from Cyclone Mocha, which made landfall Sunday on the coast between Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district and Myanmar Kyaukpyu township, a rights group said Wednesday. The Arakan Rohingya National Alliance (RNA) in a statement said that coastal villages […]

15th May 2023

Pakistan: 6 Pakistani army troops killed in Balochistan

By Aamir Latif KARACHI Pakistan (AA): At least 13 people, including six Pakistani army troops and as many suspected attackers, were killed during a night-long battle after a group of militants stormed a military compound and held families hostage, the military said on Saturday . The heavily armed militants stormed a compound of Frontier Corps, […]

6th May 2023

Jammu & Kashmir: 5 Indian soldiers killed in blast during gunfight

By Anadolu staff ANKARA, Turkey (AA): Five Indian military personnel were killed and a major was injured in a blast during a gunfight with militants in the Jammu and Kashmir region, the Indian army said on Friday. An official statement by the Indian military said the army has been conducting “relentless intelligence-based operations to […]

5th May 2023

Pakistan: 7 teachers among 8 killed in school shooting

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least eight people, including seven teachers, were killed on Thursday when gunmen opened fire in a school in northwestern Pakistan, police said. The shooting occurred at a high school in the remote town of Parachinar, nestled on the border with neighboring Afghanistan. Mohammad Imran, a senior police officer, […]

29th Apr 2023

Pakistan: 7 terrorists, 3 soldiers killed in NW Pakistan clashes

By Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD (AA): At least seven terrorists and three Pakistan Army soldiers were killed during clashes in the country’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military said on Friday. According to a statement by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), a media wing of the Pakistan Army, security forces repulsed three attacks in the Lakkhi Marwat […]

22nd Apr 2023

India: Court acquits all suspects accused of killing 11 Muslims during communal riots in 2002

By Shuriah Niazi NEW DELHI (AA): A special court in the western Indian state of Gujarat on Thursday acquitted 67 accused in a case related to the 2002 Naroda Gam massacre, in which 11 Muslims were killed during communal riots. Maya Kodnani, a former lawmaker from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and Babu Bajrangi, […]

10th Apr 2023

Pakistan: 2 soldiers killed in blast in NW, 2 policemen killed in Balochistan

By Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD (AA): At least two Pakistani army soldiers were killed and wounding four others in a roadside bomb blast in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military said on Saturday. Two policemen were killed and one was injured in an attack by unknown assailants in the Killi Spine area of Kuchlak district, […]

30th Mar 2023

Pakistan: 4 policemen killed in NW Pakistan terror attack

By Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD (AA): At least four policemen, including a senior officer, were killed in a terrorist attack in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the country’s interior minister confirmed on Thursday. “Deputy Superintendent of Police Iqbal Mohmand along with three other police personnel have been martyred,” said Rana Sanaullah in a statement. Last night, […]

29th Mar 2023

India: Removing jobs, education quota for Muslims by Karnataka state slammed

By Shuriah Niazi NEW DELHI (AA): Last week’s decision by the Hindu nationalist right-wing government of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the southern Indian state of Karnataka to remove the 4% quota for the Muslim minority in employment and educational institutions has been heavily condemned by political leaders and others, who described the decision […]

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