Tag: Kills

Man kills friend over minor dispute

A man killed his friend over a minor dispute in Mohallah Faizabad Saturday night. Abdullah and Rameez Ahmed, the two friends, quarreled with...

Russia kills top ‘Al Qaeda militant’ in Chechnya

Russian security forces have killed a top Al Qaeda militant in Chechnya who coordinated foreign rebels in the North Caucasus, the national anti-terror committee...

Son kills father over property dispute

Rab Nawaz, a resident of Chak 68-4R, killed his father over an agricultural piece of land dispute the other day. Reportedly, the accused had a...

Man kills brother for stealing 40-kg wheat in Hafizabad

A man killed his younger brother for stealing 40 kilograms of wheat in village Solingi Kharal near Hafizabad. According to details, Javed Iqbal, a...

Man kills brother for insulting mother

LAHORE - A man killed his younger brother for insulting their mother in the Shalimar police precincts on Wednesday. The deceased man, identified as Muhammad Ashfaq, was a resident of Aliya Park, Chand Town. The police said that he was an addict and was demanding money from his mother to buy drugs. Upon refusal, he started hurling abuse at his mother. Meanwhile, Ashfaq's elder brother returned home and when he saw Ashfaq insulting his mother, he took out his gun, opened fire on Ashfaq

Bomb kills three NATO troops in Afghanistan

KABUL - A bomb killed three NATO soldiers in southern Afghanistan, the joint force said Sunday, bringing to eight the number of foreign troops killed in the country in the deadliest day since June last year.
On Saturday, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said five of its troops had been killed in a suicide attack at an Afghan army base in the eastern province of Nangarhar, in which four Afghan soldiers also died.
On Sunday ISAF said three more of its

Son kills father over monetary dispute

KASUR - Chuniaan police registered a case against Gulzar Ahmed for allegedly killing his father at Mughlanpur village. Reportedly, Gulazar exchanged hot words with his father Shafi over a monetary issue and shot him dead.
TWO BLIND MURDERS' MYSTERY SOLVED: Kasur police on Saturday claimed they had traced two blind murders. According to Station House Officer (SHO) Mian Muazzam, the accused Hassan Ali killed Bashir over the suspicion that he had developed illicit relations with his

Afghan suicide blast kills five foreign troops

JALALABAD - A Taliban suicide bomber wearing an army uniform killed five foreign troops and four Afghan soldiers on Saturday in a brazen attack at the Afghan army's eastern headquarters. It was the deadliest single incident this year against foreign forces in war-torn Afghanistan and comes amid a wave of suicide attacks on security targets, three months before foreign forces start a limited pullback.
The latest strike was at an army base in the Gambiri desert area in Laghman

Suicide bomber kills Kandahar police chief

KANDAHAR - A suicide bomber killed on Friday the police chief of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, a stronghold of the Taliban-led insurgency, after penetrating tight defences at the police headquarters, government and security officials said.
Khan Mohammad Mujahid, one of the most prominent government targets in one of Afghanistan's most dangerous provinces, had survived two previous attacks, one on his home and one on his motorcade as it travelled through the city.

Afghan suicide bomber kills Kandahar police chief

KANDAHAR - A suicide bomber killed the police chief of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province on Friday after penetrating tight defences at the police headquarters, a spokesman for the provincial governor said.
"Initial information shows that the police chief and two other policemen were killed inside his office," said spokesman Zalmay Ayoubi.
Southern Kandahar province is the birthplace of the Taliban and their spiritual heartland, and has seen heavy fighting over the

Taliban suicide squad kills three Afghan police

KHOST - Three Afghan policemen were killed Thursday when Taliban militants struck at a police training centre in one of three suicide attacks to hit Afghanistan on the same day.Insurgents are increasingly targeting Afghan security forces, whose role will increase as US-led NATO troops prepare to hand over responsibility for security in seven areas from July and end frontline fighting in 2014.There has also been a recent rash of suicide bombings, a key Taliban tactic, with authorities

Drone strike kills six in South Waziristan

PESHAWAR - At least six militants were killed and several others injured when a US drone targeted a compound and vehicle in Baghar Camp near Angora Ada in South Waziristan on Wednesday.
Reports from Wana reveal that the US drone fired three missiles on a house, occupied by local and foreign militants, and razed it whereas two vehicles were also damaged. Soon after the missile attack, the site was cordoned off by other militants and they took the bodies and the injured to an

U.S. drone strike kills 6 in South Waziristan

ISLAMABAD - Four missiles fired by two U.S. pilotless aircraft struck a moving vehicle in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal region on the Afghan border on Wednesday, killing six militants, residents and officials said.
It is the first strike since March 17, when a similar attack killed 38 suspected militants and drew very rare condemnation from the country's powerful military chief.

Man demands his child, kills couple upon refusal

LAHORE - A couple was murdered in Kamahan Village in the Nishtar Colony police precincts on Monday evening. The deceased were identified as Nawaz and his wife Irshad, residents of Kamahan Village. Nawaz was a gardener by profession. A police investigator said that the accused, identified as Murtaza, was Irshad's cousin. Irshad had reportedly eloped with Murtaza, and they had a son, SHO Nishtar Colony Police Station claimed. Later, Irshad had returned home and had started living with

Gunfight in Peshawar kills one policeman, three miltants

PESHAWAR - Three militants and a policeman were killed in a pre-dawn gunfight in Peshawar on Monday, police said.
The clashes took place in the wealthy suburb of Hayatabad when a group of five militants attacked a police patrol with small machine guns and Kalashnikovs, police said.
"Three militants were killed during the exchange of fire. We also lost one of our policemen," said Shafiullah Khan, a senior police officer.
Two militants managed to flee the scene, Khan

Bomb blast kills three, injures six

MIRPURKHAS - Three laborers, including a woman and a child, were killed and 6 injured when a buried bomb exploded at Jumma Khan Magsi in the limit of Umer Sand police station district Tandoallahyar.
Pervez Junejo, SHO Piaro Lund police station told Pakistan Today that the laborers were harvesting the wheat crop when the buried bomb exploded suddenly, killing Ashok, Makhan and woman Shremti Pathani and injuring 6 others. He said that the dead bodies and the injured were rushed to

Bomb in Indian Kashmir kills prominent Muslim leader

SRINAGAR - A bomb went off outside a mosque in Kashmir's main city on Friday, killing a prominent Muslim cleric, police and witnesses said, the first such attack near a religious place in recent years.
Moulana Showkat Shah, chief of the Jammu and Kashmir Jamiat-e-Ahle Hadith which is involved in social work, was entering the mosque to lead Friday prayers when the bomb went off. One worshipper was wounded.
No militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack in