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Afghan forces kill 100 militants in past 24 hours
Afghanistan's Ministry of Defence said on Sunday that at least one hundred militants were killed by the security forces in the past 24 hours across the country.Tolo News quoted ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri as saying that an operation was carried out in Faryab, Kandahar, Ghazni, Nangarhar, Helmand, Maidan Wardak and Logar provinces.He further said several weapons have also been seized.The operation was conducted after three major militant attacks had taken place in Kabul during the past two weeks.Since January 20, militants have stormed a luxury hotel, bombed a crowded street and raided a military compound in Kabul, killing more than 130 people.
Woman labelled suicide bomber handed over to family: police
A Pune woman labelled a suicide bomber by the Jammu and Kashmir police has been handed over to her family as there is no case against her, the police have said. "Yes, we have handed her to her family," Director General of Police S P Vaid told PTI. Sadiya Anwar Shaikh, who turned 18 in November 2017, had travelled to Kashmir from Pune and had been staying in Bijbehara as a paying guest. The police, who claimed she wanted to join the ISIS, detained her on January 25 from South Kashmir and subjected her to intense questioning during which they found nothing incriminating. On sustained questioning, it was revealed that the woman, a school dropout, had been "brainwashed" online about the supposed suffering of the Kashmiri people at the hands of security forces and had "fallen prey to false propaganda" on social media, the police said. The Jammu and Kashmir police had been informed by central security agencies that a Pune-based woman, who had been detained on various ...
Xi says improving China-Lanka ties have his 'high attention'
Chinese President Xi Jinping today said he pays "high attention" to strengthening strategic ties with Sri Lanka, as Beijing beefed up plans to build a Maritime Silk Road project in India's backyard -- the Indian Ocean. In a message to congratulate Sri Lanka on its 70th anniversary of Independence from British rule, Xi told his counterpart Maithripala Sirisena that China is willing to work with it for better development of strategic cooperative partnership between the two countries. "I pay high attention to the development of China-Sri Lanka relations, and I am willing to make concerted efforts with President Sirisena to push the China-Sri Lanka strategic cooperative partnership of sincere mutual assistance and long-standing friendship to keep achieving greater development in the better interest of the two countries and its people," he said. Xi also said that China and Sri Lanka have achieved "fruitful results" by their display of "pragmatic cooperation" within the ...
On I-Day, Sri Lanka vows to achieve economic freedom
Sri Lanka celebrated the 70th anniversary of its Independence here on Sunday with grand military parades and attendance of political leaders.
Roadside bomb in Sinai kills 2 Egyptian security forces
Egyptian security officials say a roadside bomb has targeted a pickup truck carrying members of the security forces in the turbulent north of the Sinai Peninsula, killing two. The officials say that today's blast took place on a road just south of the coastal city of el-Arish. Five other members of the security forces and a civilian were wounded in the attack. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which bore the hallmarks of the extremist Islamic State group, now leading a long-running insurgency in Sinai. The insurgency has expanded and become deadlier since the military's 2013 ouster of Mohammed Morsi, an Islamist president whose one-year rule proved divisive.
China 'firmly opposes' US nuclear report for adversary claims
China today criticised a US report which said that Beijing could secure limited advantage in Asia through limited use of nuclear weapons, saying it has adhered to the policy of "no-first-use" of nuclear weapons under any circumstances. The Pentagon on Friday released the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) in which it said that the US wants to prevent China from mistakenly concluding that any use of nuclear weapons, however limited, is acceptable. China said that it "firmly opposed" to the NPR published by the US Department of Defence. It is the Pentagon's first NPR since 2010. The 74-page report cast China as "a major challenge to US interests in Asia". China's Defence Ministry spokesman Ren Guoqiang said that the US document presumptuously speculated about the intentions behind China's development and played up the threat of China's nuclear strength. The report said the US strategy for China is designed to "prevent Beijing from mistakenly concluding that it could secure an ...
Maldives police 'uses pepper spray' against Chief Justice supporters
The Maldives police has allegedly used force and pepper spray on a group of people gathered outside Chief Justice Abdulla Saeed's residence in Male to stop his arrest."#Maldives Police use pepper spray to disperse the protesters," tweeted Maldives Voice.Moreover, in a video posted on the Twitter handle of Maldives Voice, the police was also seen obstructing the media.There were scuffles between the protesters trying to protect the Chief Justice from getting arrested and the police dressed in riot gear outside the former's residence.However, the police denied the reports that they entered his house and arrested him."Reports about police entering the Chief Justice's residence and that he was arrested is not true," they tweeted.Describing the ordeal, Eva Abdulla, Member of Parliament of the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), told ANI over the phone, "Absolute breakdown of law and order. The public is on the edge. I am very concerned as we are facing increased unrest. They (police) have ...
Second NIA chargesheet against NDFB terrorists
The Guwahati National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a second supplementary chargesheet against the terrorists who had attacked the Adivasi Community in Shantipur village in 2014.The chargesheet was filed on February 2 in a Special NIA Court.In the incident that took place on 25 December 2014, the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) terrorists killed 12 villagers and injured three.According to the chargesheet, the killings and injuries were caused due to "indiscriminate firing with sophisticated weapons".The evidences till date have been collected by the NIA on the basis of field investigation as well as technical and forensic reports against the accused persons.The accused terrorists are still absconding, while further investigation is going on in the matter.
Afghan airstrikes kill 8 Taliban militants
At least eight insurgents were confirmed dead as warplanes struck a Taliban bastion in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province on Sunday.
8 Taliban militants killed in Afghanistan
At least eight militants affiliated to terror outfit Taliban have been killed during "Alburz 12" operation in Chamtal district of Afghan's northern Balkh province. In addition, 12 other militants were wounded, TOLO News reported."Two Afghan security forces were also wounded in the clashes," a spokesman for the military in the north of Afghanistan Nastratullah Jamshidi said.The Taliban has not commented on it by far.
Taliban bomber kills 11 soldiers in Pak's Swat Valley
A Taliban suicide bomber managed to enter the restricted area of the armed forces' unit and blew himself up near the troops playing volleyball, killing 11 soldiers and wounding 13 others, in the first big attack after 2013 in Pakistan's northwestern Swat Valley. The Inter-Services Public Relations, the Pakistan Army's media wing, said the attacker yesterday targetted the sports area of the armed forces' unit and those killed include seven soldiers who were critically injured in the attack. A captain of the Pakistan Army was among the dead. Thirteen people were injured in the blast in Swat district's Kabal Tehsil. The injured persons were taken to Saidu Teaching Hospital in Mingora in Swat, it added. Citing the army officials in Swat, The News that the soldiers were playing a volleyball match outside their base camp in Kabal last evening when a young suicide bomber managed to enter the restricted area and blew himself up near the soldiers. The Afghanistan-based Pakistani .
China firmly opposes US Nuclear Posture Review
China firmly opposes the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) published by the US Department of Defence, a spokesman from China's National Defence Ministry said on Sunday.
Drone strikes kill 3 IS terrorists in Afghanistan
At least three Islamic State (IS)-affiliated terrorists have been killed in drone strikes in Afghan's eastern Nangarhar province.In a statement, the governor's office in Nangarhar said that the airstrikes were carried out by the unmanned aerial vehicles of the United States (US) forces in Haska Mina district, reported Khaama Press.Some weapons, ammunition, and explosives of the terror group were also eliminated during the airstrikes, the statement added.Nangarhar is among the relatively calm provinces in the country's Eastern side but the Taliban and the IS have been attempting to expand their foothold in some remote districts of the province in recent years, the report said.The Afghan forces, along with the US forces, conduct operations regularly to eliminate militants from the area.
Maha police returns third of total bullet-proof vests
A total of 1430 bulletproof jackets out of 4600 received by the Maharashtra Police in the aftermath of the 26/11 terror attacks are returned to their manufacturer as they failed the AK-47 bullet test during trials. "We have sent back more than 1400 bulletproof jackets to their manufacturer as they did not pass our test with AK-47 bullets," Additional Director General of Police (Procurement and Coordination), V V Laxminarayana told PTI. The jackets returned to a Kanpur-based manufacturing firm were from three different batches. The police department had ordered 5,000 bullet-proof vests from the company, which also provides such jackets to other Central security forces, for Rs 17 crore but received 4600 pieces after factoring in Customs duty and other charges. During the trials conducted at the Chandigarh-based Central Forensic Science Laboratory, only around 3,000 jackets passed the test, another official said, adding that the rest 1,430 jackets were rejected as AK-47 ...
Russian air strikes kill 30 militant after jet downed
In a retaliatory move, massive Russian air strikes have killed at least 30 militants in Syria, where a Russian fighter jet was shot down, an official said on Sunday.
YouTube apologises for Polish PM translation error
Online video sharing service YouTube has apologised for a translation error that misrepresented Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki by suggesting that Nazi German death camps "were Polish", the media reported.
Pashtuns hold anti-Pakistan protest in Islamabad; demand Azadi
Thousands of Pashtuns gathered outside the press club in Islamabad and chanted Azadi (Freedom) slogans by highlighting human rights violations against the community.They undertook a Long March demanding justice for Naqeeb Mahsood, a Pashtun killed in a fake police encounter on January 13 in Karachi.Police had also put forged charges against Naqeeb with having links with terrorist groups like Jashkar-e-Jhangvi and Islamic State of Syria and Iraq.The false claim was challenged by the family and relatives of Naqeeb Mahsood and subsequently an inquiry commission was established by the government of Sindh province to investigate the police encounter.The investigation team has announced Naqeeb innocent and killed in fake police encounter.Youth from Waziristan started a long march from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on January 26 against the ongoing slow motion Pashtun genocide in Pakistan, human rights violations in FATA and State imposed terrorism and militarism.Protesters loudly chanted slogans ...
Sitharaman meets Indian troops in Ladakh
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has visited the forward posts along the Sino-India border in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir and interacted with the jawans deployed there.Sitharaman visited Daulat Beg Oldie, the world's highest airfield, situated at a height of 16,700 feet in eastern Ladakh, where the temperature plummets as low as -55°C in winters in the area, on Saturday.A defence spokesperson said, "The Defence Minister had earlier arrived at Thoise, a base-camp of the Indian Army along the India-China border, where she was briefed on the operational preparedness by the officers of the Army. She then visited the highest post in the Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO) sector and Chushul along the Sino-India border in Eastern Ladakh and interacted with troops".This was the first ever visit of the defence minister to the DBO sector and to one of the highest posts in Eastern Ladakh."She was flown in an Army Aviation advanced light helicopter (ALH) helicopter. Lieutenant General D Anbu, ..
Russian warplane shot down by Syrian rebels
During a fierce fight with the forces of President Bashar al-Assad and his foreign backers, a Russian fighter jet was shot down by Syrian rebels in northern Syria's Idlib province.The pilot of the warplane Su-25 was later killed on the ground by the rebels, said the Russian defence ministry.Initial reports said that a portable ground-to-air missile was used to hit the plane in an area under the control of al-Qaida's Syrian link, the Guardian cited the Ministry as saying.Although the rebels wanted to capture the pilot alive, he was shot when he opened fire at them.The pilot has not been identified yet.Russia has lost four warplanes, four helicopters and about 50 servicemen in the conflict, local media said.
Maldives police dismisses reports of Chief Justices arrest
The police took to Twitter and said in Dhivehi, "Reports about police entering the Chief Justice's residence and that he was arrested is not true."The police made the statement after rumours of his arrest spread in the country.The current political unrest in the Maldives took a new turn when agitators massively protested outside Chief Justice Saeed's house in Male late on Saturday.Reportedly, there were scuffles between the protesters and police in riot gear outside the Chief Justice's residence.The agitators are trying to force Justice Saeed and another supreme justice, Ali Hameed to resign.Eva Abdulla, Member of Parliament, of the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) describing the ordeal told ANI over the phone, "Absolute breakdown of law and order. The public is on the edge. I am very concerned as we are facing increased unrest. They (police) have just used pepper spray and tear gas on the crowd."Meanwhile, Justice Saeed said, "We need our neighbours, especially India to do all that ..