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MINGAWARA - Four militants were killed during bloody encounter with security forces in the border area of Dir and Swat districts, official sources informed on Sunday.
The clash occurred when militants, who were entering from Dir district to Swat, refused to stop for search and started firing at security forces at the border area. As result of shootout, four militants were killed. The security forces claimed recovering automatic weapons and rounds from the possession of

PESHAWAR - Forces Saturday gunned down six militants and destroyed their two dens during a retaliatory action in Karanjoki area of Upper Orakzai Agency after an attack on a security check post here, officials said.

KUNDUZ - Police in northern Afghanistan said on Thursday that German troops based in the area had accidentally killed one woman and injured another during an exchange of fire.
The incident happened in the Chahar Dara district of Kunduz province on Wednesday when German troops came under attack and retaliated with gunfire, provincial police chief Abdul Rahman Sayedkhili said. "German troops patrolling Chahar Dara district opened fire on civilian houses yesterday afternoon,"

PESHAWAR - At least four militants were killed and several others injured when a US drone targeted a house in Mandi Doog near Wana in South Waziristan Agency on Tuesday afternoon. As per details, a US drone fired several missiles at a compound. The house was allegedly being used by militants since long. The hit left the house flattened.
Soon after US attack, the militants cordoned off the site and did not let local tribesmen to help in rescue activities.
The officials in

PESHAWAR - One member of a local amn lashkar (peace squad) was killed and seven others injured in a militants' attack near Baizai area of Mohmand Agency on Sunday morning. Two men of lashkar were missing, believed to be abducted by militants. The officials have also confirmed that two volunteers were missing.

TEHRAN - Four Iranian forest guards have been killed in what an official said was a "terrorist act" in the western province of Kurdistan, ISNA news agency reported on Saturday.
"Preliminary investigations show that this terrorist act was brutally carried out by anti-revolutionary forces," Kheyrollah Moradi, head of the provincial environmental organisation, was quoted as saying. He said the four went missing from an area called Dooshan at about 09:30 am (0600 GMT) on Friday, and

PESHAWAR - A suicide car bombing and an ambush by militants targeting police in the northwest of the country killed 15 people including nine officers on Thursday. In Hangu, a suicide car bombing targeting police killed nine people, including three officers and injured more than 30. Officials said police patrolling the Hangu bypass road attempted to stop a car reportedly loaded with 300 kilogrammes of explosives, but the bomber hit a police van killing nine people.
Hangu police

PESHAWAR - Four bullet-riddled bodies of local tribesmen were found on the main Miranshah-Datta Khel Road in North Waziristan Agency with a letter accusing them of being 'American spies', tribal sources and officials said on Tuesday. They said the bodies with gun shots were dumped on the roadside and it was evident that they had been killed early in the morning.
An official in the political administration told Pakistan Today that "all the four killed were local tribesmen and had

KARACHI - The Institution of Engineers Pakistan (IEP) said on Monday that the proposed 'Sindh Protection and Prohibition of Amenity Plots Bill, 2009, if passed, would be disastrous for the citizens and the future generations
In a statement issued on Monday, Engineer Ayaz stated that most areas of Karachi that were well-planned by competent town planners over the initial 35 years of the country, are being systematically destroyed by blatant abuse and violation of building and

KABUL - Four NATO soldiers were killed on Monday in a wave of insurgent attacks across Afghanistan, the international force said. Three of the soldiers died in separate improvised bomb blasts in the west, south and east of Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.
An Afghan government spokesman in the western city of Herat said that the soldier who died in the province was Italian and that three other Italian soldiers were wounded in the same blast.

ADEN - Gunmen killed two soldiers in the southern Yemen town of Zinjibar on Monday in separate shootings which a local official blamed on Al Qaeda.
The attacks came in different neighbourhoods of Zinjibar, the capital of restive Abyan province, the official said on condition of anonymity. "They bear the hallmark of Al Qaeda, which often attacks soldiers," he added.
A hospital source confirmed the deaths of the two soldiers.
Militants of Al Qaeda have been increasingly

ARGHANDAB - Two bomb explosions on Sunday tore through a crowd of villagers watching a dogfight in the southern Afghanistan province of Kandahar, killing at least 10, officials said. Zemarai Bashary, Afghan interior ministry spokesman in Kabul, told AFP the bombing in Arghandab district targeted villagers and a police vehicle, killing eight civilians and two police.
"There have been two bomb blasts, one at the middle of a gathering and the other on the side of the road nearby.

ISLAMABAD - Apparently following a policy of reconciliation and engagement with all political parties, the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has decided to pitch two major factions of the PML - Nawaz and Quaid - against each other not only for a political gain in Punjab but also to shift the public's attention from the issue of Raymond Davis.
A PPP insider informed Pakistan Today that the government was mulling a strategy to divert focus from the Davis' issue and its break up with

PESHAWAR - Unidentified armed men attacked a security check post in a remotest bordering area in Landi Kotal Tehsil, killing 5 soldiers of Khasadar Force and local tribal levies and wounding 2 others, security officials said Thursday.
The suspected militants have carried a well-coordinated armed attack on a security check point of Khasadar Force in Prang Sang a far-flung area in Landi Kotal Tehsil at 4 kilometers distance from the Afghan border late night between Wednesday and

KARACHI - A government female teacher was shifted to the hospital in a critical condition after she attempted self-immolation Wednesday in protest against her transfer to Murad Memon Goth and non-payment of salary for the last three months.
Shama W/O Habib of Government Primary School Memon Goth used kerosene oil to set herself on fire when she reached the school. According to the police, School teacher was transferred to another school in Murad Memon Goth about ten months

PESHAWAR - At least five people, including three women, were killed and 10 others injured when rockets fired by the Taliban hit a residential area in Hangu district on Tuesday.
The militants sheltering in the nearby mountainous region had intended to target the security forces' checkpost at Tora Ghundai in the Doaba area but the rockets missed the target and resulted in civilian casualties. According to police officials, three rockets landed in an unpopulated area whereas five

SINGAPORE - Two Afghans hired by a Singapore-based engineering firm were killed last week by "friendly fire" from NATO-led security forces in Afghanistan's Helmand province, the company said on Monday. A third Afghan employee of the Central Asia Development Group (CADG) was seriously injured in the incident on February 3, CADG spokesman Matthew Goldthwaite said in an email to AFP.
"On February 3, 2011, a CADG vehicle, carrying four of CADG's Afghan national staff were caught in