The New York Times has shifted its editorial tone, addressing the Pakistan-based perpetrators as “terrorists” in its headline following India’s cross-border strikes under Operation Sindoor. The front-page headline on its website read: “India Strikes Pakistan Two Weeks After Terrorist Attack in Kashmir,” marking a departure from the paper’s previously criticised nomenclature. The coverage addressed India’s…
Pakistan’s military said on Sunday that it had killed 54 militants trying to infiltrate the country from Afghanistan, highlighting the challenges its forces face on multiple fronts as tensions with India also rise rapidly. The operation against the fighters from Afghanistan took place on Friday and Saturday nights in North Waziristan, a remote district along…
Eight Pakistani workers were killed by Baloch militants who stormed a car repair workshop and opened fire after tying up the victims in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan province, officials said on Sunday. All eight workers hailed from several areas of Punjab, the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan reported. It said that the armed men barged into the…
Outlawed Kurdish militants on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey following a landmark call by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan asking the group to disband and end more than four decades of armed struggle. It was the first reaction from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) after Ocalan this week called for the dissolution of the…
IMPHAL: Amid mass surrender of firearms by village volunteers in strife-torn Manipur, unidentified militants on Friday opened fire at a Meitei religious site in Imphal East district from adjoining hills, officials said. However, no casualties were reported in the incident. The incident took place around 9.30 am when a group of devotees, under heavy security…
Eighteen paramilitary soldiers and 24 militants were killed in fighting in south-western Pakistan, the military’s media wing said in a statement on Saturday. The militants had tried to set up roadblocks overnight in the restive province of Balochistan and most of the deaths had taken place as security forces removed them, the military said. Eleven…
Israel’s military on Thursday pressed ahead with its offensive in and around Jenin, a city known as a center of militant opposition to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, killing two men in a nearby village who were wanted for the murder of three Israelis. The men, identified on Thursday as Mohamad Nazzal and…
For more than seven years, an insurgency backed by the Islamic State has raged across Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, completely upending life in this coastal province rich with natural resources. John Eligon, The New York Times Johannesburg bureau chief, traveled across the province to speak with people trying to rebuild their lives. Source link
Biren Singh (Picture credit: Agencies) NEW DELHI: Manipur CM N Biren Singh on Saturday condemned “indiscriminate firing by Kuki militants” in two villages in Imphal East district that left civilians and security personnel injured. Calling for calm and unity in the face of fresh violence, Biren Singh said all necessary measures have been put in…
NEW DELHI: Police on Saturday said that four militants from two banned outfits in Manipur have been arrested for illegal possession of firearms and involvement in extortion.According to the police statement the three members of the Kangleipak Communist Party (People’s War Group) were arrested on Thursday for their role in extortion and possession of weapons.The…