Asia

Taliban detain veteran militia chief Mohammad Ismail Khan in Afghanistan’s Herat

KABUL — Taliban insurgents detained veteran militia commander Mohammad Ismail Khan on Friday after they seized the western city of Herat, a provincial council member said. Khan, who has been leading fighters against the Taliban in recent weeks, was handed over to the insurgents along with the provincial governor and security officials under a pact, provincial council […]

Kashmir

35-year-old Bandipora man charged under PSA allegedly for shooting video of accident in which an elderly woman was run over and killed by an army truck

SRINAGAR — The family of Bashir Ahmad Bhat, a 35-year-old shopkeeper in the Nadihal area of Bandipora district, alleges that he has been charged under the Public Safety Act (PSA) and shifted to a jail in Jammu because he had shot a video of an accident in which an elderly woman was run over by […]

Kashmir

ACB books Technical Education Department official in disproportionate assets case

SRINAGAR — The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has registered an FIR against one Raja Ashraf Ali Khan, a Vocational Instructor in Technical Education Department Srinagar in a disproportionate assets case. As per an official spokesperson, an FIR under Prevention of Corruption Act was registered on outcome of a verification conducted by ACB into allegations of accumulation […]