Turkish authorities said Sunday they arrested a Swedish journalist dispatched to cover ongoing nationwide protests on charges of terrorism and insulting the president. Joakim Medin of the daily Dagens ETC was detained as he arrived at Istanbul airport on Thursday and placed under arrest on Friday on charges of “membership in a terrorist organisation” and…
SRINAGAR: Continuing its crackdown on separatists for the second consecutive day, Jammu and Kashmir police on Wednesday raided multiple locations in Srinagar, Anantnag, and Sopore, including at residences of members of Hurriyat Conference and Tehreek Hurriyat Conference, as part on its probe into UAPA cases.Armed with search warrants issued by a NIA court, police raided…
Pakistani security forces have been locked in a deadly standoff with armed militants for more than a day after the attackers seized a passenger train on Tuesday and held hundreds hostage. The Baloch Liberation Army, or B.L.A., a banned separatist group, seized the train, which was carrying more than 400 people, in a remote mountainous…
Separatist militants hijacked a train carrying more than 400 people in an isolated mountainous area of southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday. The fate of the passengers, dozens of whom the militants said they were holding hostage, was not immediately clear. The militants, Baloch ethnic fighters, forced the train to stop in the Bolan district of Balochistan…