PESHAWAR — Suspected militants riding a motorcycle shot and killed two police officers assigned to protect polio workers during a door-to-door vaccination campaign Tuesday in northwestern Pakistan, officials said. The drive-by shooting in Mohmand, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that borders Afghanistan, also wounded a third officer. The police officers were traveling to a […]
SRINAGAR — In the first non-combatant killing of the year, militants shot dead an ex-serviceman and injured his wife and 13-year-old niece in an attack in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Monday, officials said here. Details so far indicate that two militants armed with pistols arrived at the residence of Manzoor Ahmad Wagay in Beehi […]
JAMMU — An Army personnel was injured when militants opened fire on a security post in a village in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir early Sunday, officials said. The militants fired on a sentry post of Territorial Army at village Galuthi in Manjakote area around 4 am, prompting retaliation by troops, they said. They […]
JAMMU — The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday released sketches of four militants involved in two attacks in Doda district and announced a reward of Rs 20 lakh for information leading to their arrest. On Tuesday militants fired on a joint checkpost of the 4 Rashtriya Rifles and police at Chattergalla in Bhaderwah while […]
JAMMU — A policeman was injured Wednesday evening when militants opened fire on a search party in a village in Gandoh area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district, officials said. The firing was reported from the Kota top area of Bhalesa around 7.41 pm to which security forces retaliated, they said. An intermittent exchange of […]
JAMMU — Militants fired at the vehicles of two senior police officers on Wednesday in the Hiranagar area of J&K’s Kathua district both officers escaped unhurt. Official sources said hiding militants fired at the vehicles of Dr Sunil Kumar, DIG (Jammu-Kathua-Samba) range and Anayat Choudhary, SSP (Kathua) in the Hiranagar area of the district. Earlier, […]
JAMMU — A militant holed up in a border village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district was killed by security forces on Wednesday in a more than 15-hour operation during which his partner was also shot dead and a CRPF jawan lost his life, officials said. According to them, two senior officers escaped unhurt even […]
JAMMU — A suspected Pakistani militant was killed by security forces after the ultras attacked a village near the International Border (IB) in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday evening and injured a civilian, police said. A massive operation is on to flush out the remaining holed-up militants who are believed to have […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha has approved an ex-gratia of Rs 10 lakh each for the next of kin of those killed in the militant attack on a bus in Reasi district, an official spokesman said on Monday. Sinha has also approved Rs 50,000 each for those injured, the spokesman said. […]
JAMMU — Nine people including three women were killed and 33 injured as a bus carrying pilgrims from Uttar Pradesh and Delhi plunged into a deep gorge after an ambush by militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district on Sunday evening, police said. The militants opened fire at the bus when it was en route […]