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TruthSpreader:
--- Quote from: syyuge on January 22, 2014, 03:13:25 PM ---Pakistan jets target militant hideout near Afghan border:
Pakistan military launches air strikes against Taliban militants as domestic pressure grows on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to take action following a series of attacks across Pakistan.
Pakistani fighter jets pounded tribal areas near the Afghan border in an operation against Taliban militants on Tuesday, flattening several houses and sending villagers fleeing from their homes, military sources and local residents said.
Residents of North Waziristan, a lawless region where many al Qaeda-linked militants are based, said there were numerous civilian casualties but the army was not immediately available to comment on the nature of the operation.
The air strikes took place as domestic pressure grew on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to take tougher action against Taliban militants following a string of insurgent attacks against security forces across Pakistan in the past week.
The army was not immediately available for a comment. Tribal elder Malik Jan Mohammad in the Mir Ali area said 15 people were killed. A Taliban source put the death toll at 27, including civilians.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/10585793/Pakistan-jets-target-militant-hideout-near-Afghan-border.html
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syyuge:
Bus bombing kills 24 Shiites in southwest Pakistan:
Bus carrying Shiite pilgrims on way back from Iran hit by bomb in south west Pakistan, killing at least 24 passengers and injuring scores more.
At least 24 Shiite pilgrims returning from Iran were killed and 31 others wounded when a bomb hit a bus in the southwest Pakistan province of Baluchistan on Tuesday, officials said.
The attack took place at Dringhar village on the Pakistan-Iran highway some 37 miles west of Quetta, Baluchistan's capital.
"At least 24 people were killed and 31 others were wounded," provincial home secretary Asad Gilani said.
A purported spokesman of Sunni militant outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed the responsibility for Tuesday's attack.
Lashkar-i-Jhangvi is regarded as the most extreme Sunni terror group in Pakistan, and is accused of killing hundreds of Shias since its emergence in the 1990s.
It developed close ties to al-Qaeda and the Taliban, which ruled in Afghanistan from 1996 until the 2001 US-led invasion.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/10588722/Bus-bombing-kills-24-Shiites-in-southwest-Pakistan.html
syyuge:
Baloch Separatists Blow Up Key Gas Pipelines:
Punjab province faces gas shortages after three pipelines simultaneously blown up by the Baloch Republican Army.
Separatist insurgents in Balochistan province have blown up three pipelines supplying natural gas to Punjab province, depriving factories and homes of fuel for several days, officials said Monday.
The explosions occurred Sunday night near the Punjabi city of Rahim Yar Khan, which lies close to the border with Balochistan, said Arif Hameed, a spokesman for Sui Northern Gas company. “Three gas pipelines were simultaneously blown up, measuring 36, 18 and 13 inches in diameter, that disrupted gas supply to Punjab,” he said, adding workmen would have the lines repaired over the next two days.
Sarbaz Baloch, a spokesman for the Baloch Republican Army, told AFP by phone his group had carried out the attacks.
Balochistan is Pakistan’s biggest but least populous and least developed province. A long-running separatist movement is seeking more autonomy and a greater share of natural resources, including the gas the province supplies to the whole country.
Hameed said Punjab, home to around 100 million people, was being supplied by a single pipeline as a result of the attack. “We are working on the 36-inch pipe, hopefully it will be repaired by Tuesday morning and 70 percent of the gas supply will be restored,” he said.
A bomb attack claimed by the separate Baloch Liberation Army on Monday in the district of Sibi injured 11 paramilitary troops, according to spokesman Abdul Wasey.
http://newsweekpakistan.com/baloch-separatists-blow-up-key-gas-pipelines/
syyuge:
13 killed in Pakistan bomb blast :
An explosive laden vehicle rammed into a Sindh police bus killing at least 13 men and injuring over 40 others on Thursday morning in Karachi. The bus was leaving the police training centre at Razzaqabad in Karachi east when the explosion took place on a U turn, police said. While initially it was suspected to be a suicide bombing, TV reports said they had CCTV footage which showed a motorcycle rider leaving the van who probably detonated it using a remote controlled device. The policemen were going to Bilawal House for security detail and there were some 50 of them on the bus.
Doctors at the Jinnah hospital said the victims mostly suffered head, face and upper torso injuries and at least ten of them were in a critical condition. About 50 people are reportedly injured including passersby. An estimated 25 to 30 kg of explosives could have been used in the attack.
Meanwhile, Dawn reported that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for the attack. The TTP said this was in retaliation for targeted killings in Mardan, Swabi and Peshawar. The government has repeatedly said that talks cannot go on in the background of terror strikes.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/south-asia/13-killed-in-pakistan-bomb-blast/article5683991.ece
syyuge:
Syria peace talks break down as death toll passes 140,000:
Syria peace talks break down without any progress made – or a date set for the next round as death toll passes 140,000:
A second round of peace talks between Syria's warring sides broke off on Saturday without making any progress and without a date being set for a third round, the UN mediator said.
The failure of the talks came as the death toll in the civil war passed 140,000 people, over 7,000 of them children, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The death toll is now at 140,041, according to the Observatory, which is based in Britain but has a network of activists across the country. Among the dead were 7,626 children and 5,064 women.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10640755/Syria-peace-talks-break-down-as-death-toll-passes-140000.html
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