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NAB to quiz Sharif over use of bulletproof cars
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will be questioned by the anti-corruption body for allegedly using 20 of the 34 bulletproof cars purchased from Germany for guests of the 2016 Saarc Summit, for himself and his family, the media reported.
Police bust hideout in Rajouri, 4 AK rifles among 15 weapons recovered
In a significant anti-terror operation, the police Wednesday bust a major militant hideout in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir and recovered 15 weapons including three AK 47 and one AK 56 rifles from there. Acting on a tip of existence of a militant hideout in Chatyari forest area of Rajouri, the police launched a search operation deploying several police teams, which cordoned off the entire jungle and conducted an extensive physical search across it through the entire day, said Rajauri's Senior superintendent of police Yougal Manhas. Following the search, a militant hideout was spotted, he said, adding the police eventually recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition from it. The SSP said recoveries from the hideout include one AK 56 automatic assault rifle, three AK 47 automatic assault rifles, 11 pistols, eight magazines of AK rifles, 21 pistol magazines and two magazines of modified pistols, besides 606 rounds of AK 47 rifles ann 36 of pistols. Manhas further said it ...
Ex-minister among five killed in Mogadishu car bomb
A former Somali foreign minister was among five killed Wednesday when a car bomb exploded in the capital Mogadishu, according to the country's information minister. The bombing was claimed by Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab, which said in a statement it had targeted a convoy escorting officials and lawmakers heading to the presidential palace. "The security forces stopped... a vehicle loaded with explosives which was aiming to target a security forces base. We have confirmed five killed and 11 wounded in the blast," deputy police chief Zakia Hussein wrote on Twitter. Information Minister Mohamed Abdi Hayr told a press conference that former foreign minister Hussein Elabe Faahiye, who served under former premier Ali Mohamed Gedi in 2007, was among those killed. Witness Mohamed Saney said he had seen a female soldier among the dead. "Several vehicles were destroyed in the blast and ambulances rushed to the scene to collect wounded people." Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab fighters have been .
Taliban kill 8 in Afghanistan truck bombing
At least eight people were killed and 10 injured when a Taliban truck bomb exploded after coming under fire by security forces in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, officials said.
Lanka Prez Sirisena extends emergency by month
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena Wednesday extended by a month the state of emergency imposed in the wake of the deadly Easter Sunday bombings that killed nearly 260 people. The president issued a special gazette notification extending the state of emergency by a month, citing "public security". The emergency law gives police and the military extensive powers to arrest, detain and interrogate suspects without court orders. Sri Lanka initially imposed the emergency on April 23 to crack down on the nine suicide bombers who attacked three churches and as many luxury hotels April 21, killing more than 258 people and injuring 500 others. The ISIS terror group claimed the attacks, but the government blamed the local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jammath (NTJ) for the Ester Sunday bombings. Following the deadly blasts, anti-Muslim riots broke out in the north of the capital as a backlash against the attacks. The riots killed one person and caused extensive damage to ...
Arunachal NPP urges Centre to apprehend Tirong Aboh's killers
The Arunachal Pradesh unit of National People's Party (NPP) on Wednesday urged the state and the central governments to apprehend the insurgents behind the killing of MLA Tirong Aboh and 10 others. Suspected NSCN militants on Tuesday gunned down Aboh, also an NPP assembly poll candidate, and 10 others, including his son and two security personnel, in Tirap district of Arunachal Pradesh. The NPP, which called an emergency state executive meeting, appealed to the investigating teams to trace "political leaders of the district, who are involved with the militant groups responsible for killing Aboh". Aboh, 41, was seeking re-election from the Khonsa West constituency. "This is the first-ever incident in which an insurgent group ambushed and killed a contested candidate in the state," said Gicho Kabak, the party's state unit president. It also urged the state government to provide adequate security to NPP candidates and party leaders. Meanwhile, a massive combing operation was
Four killed as Afghan forces fire rocket on explosives-packed Humvee
At least four people were killed and more than a dozen injured when Afghan security forces fired a rocket on a Humvee stolen by the Taliban and packed with explosives, officials said Wednesday. The US-made armoured vehicle was being chased by security forces as it raced for the gates to the eastern city of Ghazni, an interior ministry spokesman said. "After it failed to stop at the signal of security forces, they opened fire, first hitting its tyres, then hitting it with a rocket," the spokesman, Nasrat Rahimi, said. Local officials in Ghazni confirmed the account, saying that two civilians and two members of the Afghan security forces were killed in the explosion. "Ten civilians and five security forces were injured," Ahmad Khan Sirat, a spokesman for provincial police in Ghazni, told AFP. Several previous deadly attacks in Afghanistan have begun with militants blowing up a Humvee or another vehicle outside a target to devastate security forces protecting it, before gunmen rush to ...
State of emergency extended in Sri Lanka by one month
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Wednesday extended the state of emergency in the nation by one month in the aftermath of the devastating Easter attacks.An extraordinary gazette was issued by Sirisena to extend the emergency period, according to The Daily Mirror.The emergency was declared after multiple locations across Sri Lanka were bombed by terrorists on Easter Sunday. At least 250 people lost their lives while over 500 were injured in the terrorist attacks, which have been widely condemned.Local terror group National Thawheed Jamaath (NTJ), which is an ISIS-affiliate, claimed responsibility for the bombings that targeted three luxury hotels and three churches in Sri Lanka on April 21.Police Spokesperson SP Ruwan Gunasekara recently confirmed that DNA tests proved that Mohamed Zahran, NTJ's leader, was one of the bombers killed in the explosions.
Sushma refers to Pulwama at SCO meet
India on Wednesday spoke about the Pulwama terror attack at a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) here and said the subsequent terror strikes in neighbouring Sri Lanka had made it more determined to fight the scourge firmly.
Taliban leader among 16 killed in Afghan air raids
As many as 16 Taliban militants, including one of their local leaders, were killed in a series of air-strikes in Afghanistan's Helmand province, officials said on Wednesday.
LTTE ban faces legal challenge in UK
A Sri Lankan diaspora body has challenged Britain's proscription order, imposed on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) since 2001, on the grounds that the outfit is no longer active and that it is inhibiting other non-violent political activities of Sri Lankan Tamils. The Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE), which describes itself as a "government-in-exile" body, had challenged the proscription in a petition to the UK Home Office but its plea to reverse the ban on the LTTE was turned down earlier this year. It has now filed a legal challenge to the ban via Prof. Conor Gearty of Matrix Chambers and the London School of Economics (LSE), which will be heard before an independent tribunal specially constituted for this purpose under the UK's Terrorism Act 2000 the Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission (POAC). "In its petition to the Home Secretary, the TGTE members argued that the ban on the LTTE is misperceived as a ban on advocacy for the establishment of a ...
Sri Lanka court recalls bailed employees of bomber's factory
A Sri Lankan court Wednesday ordered nine workers of a copper factory owned by a suicide bomber of the Easter terror attack to reappear in the court on May 27 after they were granted bail. The nine employees, arrested from the factory at Wellampitiya in Colombo suburb on April 22 over the attack, were granted bail on May 6 by the Colombo Magistrate's Court due to lack of documents and it was alleged that police may have erred by not filing the case under the anti-terrorism law. While granting bail, the court said the police had failed to mention the offences the suspects were alleged to have committed. Colombo Additional Magistrate Priyantha Liyanage Wednesday ordered the suspects to reappear on May 27. The order came after the Sri Lankan authorities launched a probe into any lapses on the part of the police which led to the bail of the nine workers. The copper factory where the nine suspects were working was owned by Mohamed Ibrahim Insaf Ahmed, the suicide bomber at the Cinnamon ...
Afghan official: Taliban explosion kills 2 police, civilian
Afghan officials say a confrontation with the Taliban in eastern Ghazni province has killed two members of the security forces and a civilian passer-by. The Taliban were driving in a stolen Humvee packed with explosives that detonated as the police fired warning shots to get the suspicious vehicle to stop. The incident took place on Wednesday in the city of Ghazni, the provincial capital. Hospital chief Baz Mohammad Hemat says 10 civilians and five policemen were also wounded in the explosion. Arif Noori, the provincial governor's spokesman, says officials had received intelligence reports that the Taliban were preparing to stage such an attack. Noori says four Taliban were also killed in the incident. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Taliban hold much of Ghazni province.
SL expresses doubt over FDI target post Easter bombings
The Sri Lankan government has expressed doubts over achieving its Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) target for this year following the Easter bombings, the media reported on Wednesday.
4 killed, 12 injured in Mogadishu car bombing
At least four people were killed and 12 others injured in a car bomb attack in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, the police said.
Mumbai: strict security around counting centers
Police will maintain strict security around three counting centers in Mumbai Thursday with the help of Central forces, officials said. Counting of votes for six parliamentary constituencies in the city will be held at NESCO Complex in Goregaon, Udayanchal School in Vikhroli and New Sewree Warehouse in Sewree East. Strict security arrangements have been put in place in other parts of Maharashtra too for the counting day, a senior state police official said. Counting will begin at 8 am. As many as 1,500 police officers and personnel will guard the three counting centers in Mumbai alongwith the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Reserve Police Force, Quick Response Teams (QRT) and Riot Control Police, said a city police spokesperson. There would be adequate police deployment all over the city to maintain law and order, he said. Keeping in mind that workers of political parties may break into celebrations on roads during the counting and afterward, Traffic Police have made
Assam Rifles and Coast Guard personnel to train together
In a first, the Assam Rifles (AR) would be training together with the Indian Coast Guard to enhance inter-forces cooperation and interoperability.The charter of affiliation, in this regard, was signed by the Director General (DG) of the Indian Coast Guard, Rajendra Singh and DG, Assam Rifles Lt Gen Sukhdeep Sangwan on Wednesday."It is a permanent affiliation of Assam Rifles with the Coast Guards. Besides building camaraderie, the training will involve the exchange of information and personnel of the two Forces. They will work together in humanitarian missions and other areas," said a senior Assam Rifles official, adding that the objective of the affiliation is to promote bilateral cooperation between the two Services and contribute in joint capacity for training, sports, adventure and sustainable development.A combat battalion of Assam Rifles will soon be training onboard ICGS Shaurya (16), an offshore patrol vessel in Chennai. In due course of time, arrangements will be made for ...
Indian Army launches search operations to nab killers of Arunachal MLA
The Indian Army has launched a massive search operation in the jungles of Tirap, Longding, and Changlang districts to nab the killers of National People's Party (NPP) MLA Tirong Aboh and ten others near Khonsa in Arunachal Pradesh's Tirap district on Tuesday, sources said here on Wednesday.According to Army sources, all the likely routes of escape have been effectively blocked. Troops have launched intensive checks along Nagaland - Arunachal borders."The Army has intensified operations with increased area domination teams and mobile check posts being deployed in the adjoining districts of Nagaland," sources said. "Additional forces including troops of Special Forces have also been inducted in the team," they said.The Army has confirmed the deployment of specialist helicopters with night flying ability and night vision equipment to ensure "dynamic, real-time and all-round surveillance of the area during the prevailing bad weather conditions."According to sources, reconnaissance ...
J-K: 2 Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists neutralised in Kulgam encounter, huge cache of arms recovered
Two Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists were neutralised in the encounter and huge cache of arms and ammunition were recovered from their possession, the police said on Wednesday."Two terrorists identified as Zahid Mantoo of Shopian and Irfan Ahmad Bhat of Kulgam were neutralised in the encounter. Both were affiliated to proscribed terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen," said Atul Kumar Goel, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) South Kashmir."Huge quantity of arms, ammunition and explosives were recovered from their corpse," the senior police official added."As per police records, Zahid was involved in planning and executing series of terror attacks in the area and many other civilian atrocities. Several terror crime cases were registered against him. He was involved in a case pertaining to the killing of three policemen at Batgund Shopian last year and also in other case pertaining to terror attacks and civilian atrocities in the area," the police had said in a press release.
Nigerian bandits kill at least 20: police
Bandit gunmen have killed at least 20 people in separate attacks in northwestern Nigeria, police said Wednesday, the latest violence in the restive region of Katsina. Armed bandits on motorcycles stormed into a farming village on Tuesday, spraying the people with gunfire, Katsina state police spokesman Gambo Isah said. "They killed 18," Isah said. That attack happened on at Yargamji village in Batsari district, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the state capital Katsina. A self-defence militia from another village then chased the bandits, ending in a gun battle in the forest. Police said the bodies of two militia members shot dead were brought back and buried from that fight, but residents said more people were killed. "We lost 11 people who went to fight the bandits in the bush," resident Sada Iro said. There had also been attacks in a nearby village called Mara Zamfarawa, in which five residents were killed, Iro said. Katsina state, 350 kilometres (220 miles) north of Nigeria's ...