Tag: Killed

LAHORE - An alleged robber was killed during a "friendly fire" while two of his accomplices had been arrested, police claimed on Thursday. Police said that the alleged robber sustained a bullet and died soon afterwards, when his accomplices opened fire on the house-owner during a robbery attempt in Nishtar Colony area.
Police investigators said that three armed bandits barged into the house of Mohammad Tayyab and held up the inmates at gunpoint. As Tayyab offered resistance, they

PESHAWAR - Troops and paramilitary forces, backed by helicopter gunships and warplanes, targeted Taliban positions in Mohmand Agency near the Afghan border on Thursday, killing at least 18 militants, a regional government official said.
The military has recently mounted an offensive in villages bordering Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar in pursuit of militants linked to Al Qaeda and Taliban who want to destabilise the US ally and impose Taliban-style rule.
"We are

ISLAMABAD - Over 900 people were killed due to American Drone attacks in the tribal areas of Pakistan, while as many as 12,580 people were murdered, 581 kidnappings for ransom and 16,977 cases of abduction were also reported, according to Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in its annual report stated that 957 people were killed due to American Drone attacks in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
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KARACHI - There was no respite in violence in Karachi as at least seven more people were gunned down in the city in incidents of targeted killing on Wednesday.
The dead included six MQM activists and one of the ANP. Some unidentified armed persons attacked MQM Unit 125, Sector Orangi Town during the night and killed four people sitting outside. They were identified as Zaheer Ahmed, Waqas and Habib. Separately, two activists, one each of ANP and MQM, were shot dead over the issue

ISLAMABAD - In Indian occupied Kashmir, two persons were killed and another was injured in a blast on Wednesday in Jammu district.
A powerful blast occurred at Jourian town in Akhnoor area of the district as the shell exploded in a scrap dealer's shop, KMS reported.
The scrap dealers, Rampaul (44) and Preetam Chand Lal were killed in the blast while Gurdyal (25) was injured. The injured was admitted in GMC Hospital
Jammu, the police officer told media men.
On the

AMMAN - Syria's main human rights movement said the death toll from pro-democracy protests against President Bashar al-Assad had reached 200 and urged the Arab League to impose sanctions on the ruling hierarchy.
Syria, the latest Arab country shaken by mass uprisings against authoritarian rulers, has witnessed unprecedented protests across the tightly-controlled country for the last three weeks.
Assad has responded with force -- witnesses say security forces have opened fire

QUETTA - Lawyers in Quetta continued their token hunger strike for the fifth consecutive day on Monday against the government's failure to recover two of their colleagues, Munir Ahmad Mirwani and Agha Zahir Shah. Balochistan High Court Bar Association Secretary General and Lawyers' Committee Spokesman Bashir Ahmed Qazi told reporters that despite lawyers' hunger strike lasting five days, the rulers were doing nothing for the recovery of Mirwani and Shah. Separately two mine workers

PESHAWAR - At least three militants were gunned down in a clash with police at Hayatabad Industrial Estate in the wee hours of Monday. The encounter also left a police officer dead and a constable injured. The incident occurred when dozens of militants attacked a police post at Hayatabad Industrial estate before the dawn. They killed an assistant sub inspector (ASI), Sajid Khan and injured one police constable.
In retaliation, the policemen cordoned off the militants and killed

MAKHACHKALA - At least three policemen and 3 suspected Islamist militants were killed in clashes in Russia's North Caucasus on Monday, media reported, underlining the Kremlin's struggle to contain violence there.
A decade after Russian federal forces drove separatists out of power in Chechnya, almost daily violence plagues the mainly Muslim North Caucasus where rebels want to establish an Islamic state under strict sharia law. "The police returned fire at a group of militants,

FALLUJA - Two bombs exploded near a crowded market in the Iraqi city of Falluja on Monday, killing up to six people and injuring about two dozen, security and hospital sources said. The first blast killed two police officers with a bomb disposal unit that had been sent to dismantle a car bomb, and a second device exploded shortly after the first, killing four civilians, an Interior Ministry source said. A police officer who asked not to be identified said the first explosion was

PARACHINAR - A landmine blast hit a passenger van in the northwestern tribal region of Kurram Agency, killing three people and wounding 11, a regional government official said.

SWAT/PESHAWAR - At least seven miscreants were killed during a clash with the security forces just on the borders with Lower Dir in the Matta area of Swat Valley. The officials said a group of militants was attempting to enter Swat.
The security forces directed them to stop, but they opened fire. After a brief shootout, all the seven militants were shot dead while two soldiers sustained injuries. The killed militants were coming from Mohmand Agency to Shangla district via Dir and

NICOSIA - Syrian security forces killed a total of 28 people on Saturday, human rights activists said Sunday. Twenty-six died at the funerals of protesters killed in and around the southern agricultural town of Daraa, while two more were shot dead in the industrial town of Homs, in west central Syria.
"Police and security services broke up peaceful demonstrations on Saturday by firing live ammunition, causing the death of 26 people," six Syrian human rights group said in a joint

SWAT - Security forces on Sunday killed at least seven militants here, while security personnel lost his live during clash with militants in Mohmand Agency.
According to a private TV, a group of militants were tried to enter in Dir through Bajur Agency. The militants opened fire on security forces when they reached on a mountain.
A soldier was injured in the firing. Security forces opened fire in retaliation, killed seven militants. The forces also recovered arms and

NICOSIA - Syrian security forces killed 26 people at the funerals on Saturday of protesters killed in and around the southern town of Daraa the previous day, a human rights activist said.
"Police and security services broke up peaceful demonstrations on Saturday by firing live ammunition, causing the death of 26 people," six Syrian rights group said in a joint statement.
The funerals had been held for 17 people gunned down in the southern agricultural town of Daraa,

GAZA CITY - An Israeli tank round killed a Palestinian in the Gaza Strip early on Saturday, bringing to 12 the overall toll from the deadliest 24 hours of violence since a devastating war more than two years ago.
A truce declared by Palestinian armed groups in the enclave unravelled even before it could take hold as militants fired dozens of mortar rounds and rockets into southern Israel and the military retaliated.
Hamas put security forces and emergency services in Gaza on

SANAA/CAIRO - Protests erupted across much of the Arab world on Friday, where demonstrators were killed in Syria and Yemen while Egyptians staged one of the biggest rallies since President Hosni Mubarak's fall.
State television reported that armed groups killed 19 policemen in Syria's southern city of Deraa, as activists and residents said at least 17 people were killed when Syrian security forces opened fire on thousands protesting against President Bashar al-Assad in the