Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Source: BBC
Hundreds of thousands of troops are based in Kashmir
The Indian army says it has killed five militants who were trying to cross the Line of Control which divides Indian- and Pakistani-administered Kashmir. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘South Asia’
INDIA: Indian army kills ‘Kashmir infiltrators’
Posted in Body Count, India, Kashmir, Military, Pakistan, South Asia, tagged India, Kashmir, militants, Pakistan, South Asia on June 29, 2010 |
SRI LANKA: UN agency assists Sri Lanka to create jobs for war widows
Posted in Compensation, Displacement, Government, Internal Displaced Persons, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, United Nations, tagged internally displaced people, jobs, South Asia, Sri Lanka, UN, Widows on June 14, 2010 |
UN agency assists Sri Lanka to create jobs for war widows
11 June 2010
Source: UN News Centre
The United Nations Industrial development Organization (UNIDO) said today it was helping the Sri Lankan Government to provide jobs to an estimated 40,000 widows in the island country’s northern and eastern regions, which bore the brunt of nearly three decades of civil war. (more…)
PAKISTAN: Suspected U.S. missile kills 3 in Pakistan
Posted in Air Strike, Central Asia, Civilian Casualties, Government, Military, Pakistan, Police, South Asia, Targeted Death, Targeted Injury, Terrorists, United States, tagged al-Qaida, Central Asia, Civilian Casualties, civilian deaths, Government, innocent civilians, innocent victims, militants, Military, missile, Nato, Pakistan, Police, South Asia, Taliban, United States, war victims on April 8, 2009 |
By The Washington Times
UPDATED:
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — A suspected U.S. missile strike on a car killed two alleged militants and a civilian in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, intelligence officials said, a day after the U.S.-allied country reiterated its opposition to such attacks to visiting American officials.
The suspected strike indicates the Obama administration is unlikely to give up a Bush-era tactic American officials say has killed a string of al-Qaida operatives, even if it strains the relationship with Islamabad.
The attack came as residents elsewhere in Pakistan’s northwest tried to push out a group of Taliban militants who ventured into their territory from their stronghold in the Swat Valley and killed five people. In the south, meanwhile, police announced the arrest of five men alleged to be planning suicide attacks on the city of Karachi.
INDIA: Eight killed in Assam explosions
Posted in Bomb, Civilian Casualties, Government, India, South Asia, Terrorists, tagged Bomb, Civilian Casualties, Government, grenade, India, innocent civilians, innocent victims, intelligence, South Asia on April 8, 2009 |
By BBC News
Eight people have been killed and dozens hurt in explosions in four towns and cities in India’s north-eastern state of Assam.
Seven people died when a bomb exploded outside a restaurant in Guwahati and another in a bomb attack on a market in the town of Dhekiajuli.
Grenade attacks in Mankachar and Udalguri caused a number of injuries.
Police told the BBC the separatist United Liberation Front of Assam (Ulfa) was responsible for the explosions.
PAKISTAN: Aid Workers Shot Dead in Pakistan
Posted in Central Asia, Civilian Casualties, Gunfire, NGOs, Pakistan, Peacekeepers, Police, South Asia, Targeted Death, tagged Afghanistan, aid workers, Central Asia, Gunfire, Kashmir, militants, NGOs, Pakistan, Police, South Asia, USAID on April 7, 2009 |
By BBC News
Police in north-western Pakistan say they have found the bodies of three local female aid workers and their male driver, all with gunshot wounds.
They were kidnapped and killed after they left Mansehra town to inspect a school for possible funding by the American development agency, USAID.
Police said the women worked for a USAID partner organisation, the National Rural Support Programme.
