Militants on Tuesday stormed a bus carrying Shia Muslims in Baluchistan province of southwest Pakistan, killing 13 men and injuring seven others in the latest in a string of attacks targeting the minority community. Three gunmen travelling in a pick-up truck stopped the bus with nearly 30 passengers in Akhtarabad area on the outskirts of provincial capital Quetta. Two gunmen entered the bus and fired indiscriminately.
The war between Israel and the militant Palestinian group Hamas raged for a fifth day on Wednesday, October 11, 2023, as Israeli warplanes hammered neighbourhood after neighbourhood in the Gaza Strip, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety.
'Assam Rifles have prevented a large number of genocides and killings.'
The Pakistan Cricket Board's new boss wants to welcome international tours back to the country but has urged for patience because of the prevailing security situation.
Tunisian security forces arrested nine people linked to the deadly attack on the National Bardo Museum that left 23 dead, scores wounded.
Both Israel and Hamas claimed that gunfights were ongoing at numerous locations within Israeli territory.
According to several news reports, at least 15 people had died and many injured. Gunfire echoed round the seaside city after the blast and ambulances raced to the scene.
A senior Chinese diplomat was among those injured in terrorist attack.
The attack in Lahore, where a group of armed gunmen took policemen at a training academy hostage, bears resemblance to the Mumbai terror attacks, Pakistan Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik said on Monday.
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'If we have to restrict and fight terrorism, first and foremost, we have to ensure communal harmony in the country.'
Rediff.com takes a look at an exercise in London where 2,000 firearms officers from the police forces took part in a mock terror attack in London on Tuesday.
The incident occurred at Kwakeithel Mayai Koibi under Lamphel police station a day after classes 1 to 8 began in the state after two months because of the violence.
Sheeja Anand, a native of Payyavoor in Kannur district of Kerala, was injured in the missile strikes on Ashkelon, a coastal city in the southern part of Israel on Saturday, while she was on a video call with her husband, her family said.
The witness, owner of Callphonex, is the fourth to reveal Pakistan's link to the November 26 terror attacks case. "The 26/11 terrorists were in constant touch with their handlers in Pakistan through Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) account they had opened in October last year," the witness told the court via video link from Canada.
Muslim scholars on Friday trashed as "cheap publicity gimmick" and "childish" Bahujan Samaj Party leader Haji Yakub Qureshi's alleged statement hailing terrorists who truck at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and demanded strict action against him.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned the attack on the offices of a Pakistani television channel and called on authorities to immediately investigate the attack and bring the perpetrators to justice.
Gunmen allegedly shot dead two women in southwest Delhi's RK Puram in the early hours of Sunday over a suspected financial dispute with their brother, police said.
At least 105 terror suspects, including Afghans, were arrested in Peshawar as part of the Pakistan government's offensive against militants after the Taliban's deadly school attack in the city.
A gun battle was still continuing inside the old airport near the hangars and workshop as military and other security personnel tried to clear up the runaway and surrounding area from the terrorists.
France is mourning the deadliest attack in the country in four decades in which at least 12 people were shot dead by heavily-armed gunmen shouting Islamist slogans at the office of Charlie Hebdo, a controversial satirical magazine, in Paris.
Former Uttar Pradesh minister and Bahujan Samaj Party leader Haji Yakub Qureshi on Thursday courted controversy when he sought to defend the terror attack on French satiricial magazine Charlie Hebdo, saying whoever shows disrespect to the Prophet will invite death.
Pakistan Punjab governor Salmaan Tahseer, Governor of Pakistan's Punjab province on Tuesday, said the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team's bus in Lahore was similar to the Mumbai's 26/11 attack. Four Pakistan players -- Kumar Sangakkara, Ajantha Mendis, Thilan Samaraweera and Tharanga Paranavithana -- were injured after armed gunmen attacked the team bus and hurled grenades as they made their way to the Gaddafi stadium in Lahore to take part in the second Test.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has bought four bulletproof buses as it tries to convince other teams to shed their security apprehensions and visit the country. Pakistan has largely been shunned by teams since 2009 when gunmen attacked a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketers, injuring six players and killing six security personnel and two civilians. The incident has forced Pakistan to play their 'home' matches at the United Arab Emirates and the country has since remained starved of international cricket at home, barring Zimbabwe's limited-overs tour in 2015.
The son of the chief of the Haqqani terror network, blamed for attacks on US forces and the Indian Embassy in Kabul, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen near the Pakistani capital, leaders of the group said on Monday
The squad includes representatives from seven nations for the games, which will have international status, in Lahore on September 12, 13 and 15.
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The ITLF alleged that thousands of weapons looted from state armouries in capital Imphal are being used in the "ethnic cleansing campaign".
The terror attacks in Mumbai revealed deficiencies in law enforcement, especially in the areas of crisis response and management, Ratan Tata, owner of the Taj hotel, which bore the brunt of the carnage, has said.
'India is respected by both Israel and Palestine.' 'India can push the international community for the peace process.'
'Israel has received an extremely hard and rude reminder that it cannot go ahead and talk of normalisation of relations with other Arab countries without addressing the issues pertaining to Palestine.'
Three gunmen opened fire inside the Imam Bargha Mehdi, a Shiite mosque in Karachi, when worshippers were offering prayers.
During their state-wide operation, police seized one .315 bore rifle, seven 12 bore rifles, one revolver, and 373 live cartridges of different caliber, they said.
The Islamists, who carried out Bangladesh's terror worst attack at a cafe in Dhaka, had slaughtered all the 20 hostages within 20 minutes of the brazen assault, a top police official said.
The two Sikhs were in the business of spices and had shops in the Bata Tal bazaar in Sarband, about 17 km from Peshawar.
Mir says, "We are not surprised. Similar attacks are being carried out every day in Swat valley. Today it has happened before the full glare of the media.'' He said the timing of the attack is significant.
Panjwar, 63 was involved in drug and weapons smuggling and was designated as a terrorist under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in July 2020.
The team heard a loud crackle. Then the scream came from Dilshan at the front of the bus. 'Get down.' Jayawardene was hit first; his sock filled with blood. Outside, twelve gunmen blocked the exit. A revealing excerpt from Nicholas Brookes's An Island's Eleven: A History of Cricket in Sri Lanka.
It's been seven years since 10 Pakistani terrorists arrived by sea route and opened fire indiscriminately at different sites in Mumbai, killing 166, including 18 security personnel, and injuring several others, besides damaging property worth crores.
A US expert has termed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's claim of a "potential link" between Indian government agents and the killing of a Khalistani leader a "shameless and cynical action" and urged the United States not be part of it.
