Eight Indian police officials dead, 20 injured in Occupied Kashmir attack
SRINAGAR: Eight Indian police officials were killed and 20 were injured in an attack in Jammu & Kashmir state on Saturday, a police spokesman said.
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Pakistan key counterterrorism partner, says US report
WASHINGTON: Acknowledging Pakistan’s effort in fighting against terror in the region, the US State Department has said that despite flaws in Pakistan’s counterterrorism strategy, it ‘remained a critical counterterrorism partner in 2015’.
Interior Ministry bans media coverage of Jamaat-ud-Dawa
ISLAMABAD: Interior Ministry has imposed a ban on the media coverage of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, Falah-e-Insaniyat (FIF) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) under the National Action Plan (NAP), ARY News reports.
Appeal delayed against Pakistan bail order for Mumbai attacks suspect
ISLAMABAD: Government prosecutor, Mohammad Azhar Chaudhry said Monday he had been forced to delay his appeal against a court order which grants bail to the alleged mastermind of the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai.
U.S. says Pakistani ‘charity’ front for banned militants
ISLAMABAD: The U.S. State Department has named a self-proclaimed Pakistani charity as a "foreign terrorist organization", a status that freezes any assets it has under U.S. jurisdiction.
Jamaat-ud-Dawa calls itself a humanitarian charity but is widely seen as a front organization for the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET), a Pakistan-based group accused of orchestrating attacks in India, including the 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people.
The designation comes as NATO troops in Afghanistan are drawing down, and regional rivals…