Pakistani security forces have killed four terrorists in two separate encounters in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said on Friday. Pakistani security forces have killed four terrorists in two separate encounters in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said on Friday. Heavily-armed militants attacked a police mobile van on Thursday in the Nisatta village of Charsadda district. A police […]

Pakistani troops on Friday raided a militant hideout in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban militant group, in the country’s northwest and near the border with Afghanistan, the military said. The raid triggered a shootout that killed that killed two militants. The shootout in North Waziristan, a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, came days after a suicide bomber attacked […]

India proposed on Wednesday 5.94 trillion rupees ($72.6 billion) in defence spending for the 2023-24 financial year, 13% up from the previous period’s initial estimates, aiming to add more fighter jets and roads along its tense border with China, Reuters reported. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman allocated 1.63 trillion rupees for defence capital outlays – an expenditure that would include new […]

The government’s watchdog for Afghanistan reconstruction said Thursday that the Taliban is growing ever more oppressive, and lawmakers need to consider whether too many U.S. aid dollars are ending up in their hands. The report to Congress by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, is an update for lawmakers on rebuilding and aid efforts following the U.S. […]