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PESHAWAR - The authorities have claimed killing more than 60 militants so far as the security forces continued operation in Tehsil Baezai of Mohmand agency on second consecutive day Friday. The security forces backed by gunship helicopters and artillery targeted the militants' hideouts in different localities.
The local tribesmen say the military action is focused on Sooran Dara, Chamarkand, Sheikh, Shamsha and Meenai areas. The action had been launched after an attack on a check

QUETTA - A man was killed and 19 others, including nine FC personnel, were injured in a bomb attack in Balochistan's Punjgur district on Friday. Police said the target of the bomb attack was a vehicle carrying Balochistan FC personnel, but police and civilians also became targets.
Police officer Amir Humza Langov said the FC vehicle was passing Chitkan Bazaar when the remote-controlled bomb fitted to a parked motorcycle was detonated. As a result, nine FC personnel, three police

ISLAMABAD - The Senate was informed on Friday that 2,488 terrorist acts, including a large number of suicide attacks, occurred in the country during 2008-9 and 2009-10, killing 3,169 people.
In a written reply, Interior Minister Rehman Malik informed the Upper House on Friday that 6,540 people sustained injuries terror attacks in the last two years. Malik said during the mentioned period, 606 accused were arrested from across the country for their links with terrorists, with 352

QUETTA - At least 6 people including a woman were killed on Friday in a road accident took place near Kuclak some 30 km from, Police said.
Police official said that Karachi-bound NATO trailer was returning from Afghanistan when in a bid to overturn a vehicle, it rammed into a Taxi car coming from opposite side at Jalogir Mor. Resultantly, a woman among six commuters died on the spot. The ill-fated passengers were rushed to the Pishin Civil Hospital for medico-legal

PESHAWAR - At least four security personnel were killed and eight others injured in an attack by militants in Waleed Koroona area of Mohmand Agency's Baezai tehsil on Thursday, while the forces killed at least 25 Taliban in attacks on various hideouts.
Reports said a large number of militants attacked a Frontier Corps checkpost in Baezai. Officials in Mohmand administration claimed that 10 militants were killed and five injured in retaliatory action. Meanwhile, Mohmand

GUJRANWALA - A notorious criminal was shot dead in an encounter with police near Sheranwala Park at GT Road while his three accomplices managed to escape. Reportedly, Ladhewala Warraich police conducted a raid in the residential area in the Sheranwala Park locality to arrest a robber, Sarfraz of village Varpal Chattha.
Sarfraz started firing to avoid his arrest. The police also opened fire killing him instantly.
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AJDABIYAH - A NATO air strike killed at least five rebels near the Libyan port of Brega on Thursday, medics said, and insurgents reported Muammar Gaddafi's forces killed five more in a bombardment of besieged Misrata.
Wounded rebels being brought to the hospital in Ajdabiyah in rebel-held east Libya said their position was hit by an air strike on Thursday outside the contested port.
"It was a NATO air strike on us. We were near our vehicles near Brega," wounded fighter

PESHAWAR - At least eight people, including four children and a woman, were killed and several others injured in separate incidents in Kohat and Mohmand Agency on Wednesday. Officials said some children were busy playing along the bank of a rain-fountain in village Jarma in the outskirts of Kohat when explosives dumped by unidentified people exploded.
The blast killed four children and injuries three others. Meanwhile, a mortar shell accidentally hit a house in Baezai area of

GAZA CITY - A Gazan man was killed by Israeli fire in northern Gaza on Tuesday, medical sources said, as Palestinian factions met to discuss tensions with Israel along the border. "A Palestinian was killed by an Israeli tank shell near Erez," Adham Abu Selmiya told AFP, identifying him as 21-year-old Mohammed Ziyad Shalha.
Earlier, witnesses reported seeing Israeli troops firing at two men in the same area who were said to be collecting gravel, in what was understood to be the

MAZAR-I-SHARIF - NATO troops killed several people in northern Afghanistan overnight, giving rise to conflicting accounts of whether they were insurgents or civilians, officials said Tuesday. The incident came as international troops raided a house in the relatively peaceful northern Afghan province of Sari Pul late Monday.
The provincial governor, Sayed Anwar Rahmati, told AFP the raid had killed six civilians. "Foreign troops stormed a house in Sayyad district last night,

GAZA CITY - A Gazan man was killed by Israeli fire in northern Gaza on Tuesday, medical sources said, as Palestinian factions met to discuss tensions with Israel along the border.
"A Palestinian was killed by an Israeli tank shell near Erez," said Adham Abu Selmiya, identifying him as 21-year-old Mohammed Ziyad Shalha.
Earlier, witnesses reported seeing Israeli troops firing at two men in the same area who were said to be collecting gravel, in what was understood to be the

SANAA - Security forces and armed men in civilian clothes opened fire during protests in the Yemeni city of Taiz, south of the capital, on Tuesday, a day after clashes there killed 15 people, witnesses said.
Witnesses told that several people had been hurt, but there was no word yet from medical sources on casualties.
They said hundreds of security troops attacked tens of thousands of protesters, and said men they believed were plainclothes police were wielding bats and

DERA GHAZI KHAN - A Station House Officer (SHO) was killed while two other people including another policeman were injured in a firing incident in the city in the wee hours of Tuesday.
According to police, some unidentified miscreants opened fire at a car near Taunsa Bypass area of Saddar Police Station here some hours before the dawn, killing SHO Kala Police Station, Safdar and critically injuring Sub-Inspector Nasrullah and their servant Mushtaq.
After the incident, the

KARACHI - An alleged bandit was killed in a police encounter near Kalapul on Monday. Defence police said that two suspects riding a motorcycle had robbed a hawker of cash, mobile phone and his motorcycle near the Kalapul when the police reached the spot.
On getting information from the victim, the police gave the alleged bandits a chase and intercepted them near the Kalapul flyover. However, the suspects opened fire on the police party and when the law enforcers retaliated, one

PESHAWAR - At least nine people were killed and more than 20 injured in a suicide bomb attack at Munda Bazaar, a border town of Lower Dir district on Monday. The deceased included two leading tribal elders from Bajaur Agency - Malik Akbar Khan and Malik Karim Khan - who had played a key role in the formation and organisation of traditional peace lashkars against militants.
The two tribal elders appeared to be the targets of the bombing. District Police Officer Salim Marwat said

PESHAWAR - At least 15 militants were killed and several of their hideouts destroyed in operations in Toor Chappar area of Darra Adam Khel and Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency. According to the officials, the security forces launched the action in retaliation after militants attacked a convoy at Toor Chappar, located on the border with Hangu a settled district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in the early hours of Sunday.
The attack claimed the life one member of the security forces. The

KABUL/KANDAHAR - Two policemen were killed and more than 30 people were wounded in Kandahar during the third day of violent protests across Afghanistan against the burning of the Holy Quran by an American pastor as US President Barack Obama condemned the pastor's action.
"The information I have is that two policemen have been killed and 20 others, including police, protesters and citizens, have been wounded," Ahmad Wali Karzai, head of the Kandahar provincial council, said. "The