Quetta, April 21 (IANS) Attacks on Pakistani forces continued for the second consecutive day in Balochistan’s Mastung district on Tuesday with one paramilitary officer getting killed and six left injured, local media reported citing officials and sources. Reports suggest that an armed group once again targeted Pakistani personnel at multiple locations in the Dasht region of Mastung, destroying two vehicles in separate attacks and reportedly seizing weapons from personnel killed in the clashes….
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New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) Lone actor terrorists are increasingly using drones to carry out reconnaissance missions of potential targets. Literature that is regularly posted by the various media wings of the Islamic State has been encouraging lone-actor terrorists to use drones to get information about the targets. The Islamic State has been encouraging these persons through their various propaganda channels to use Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) drones both for reconnaissance and for attacks. T…
Raipur/Bijapur, Jan 29 (IANS) The security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district engaged in a fierce encounter with Maoists in the southern part of the region on Thursday, recovering the bodies of two insurgents along with a cache of weapons and ammunition as operations continued into the afternoon.According to officials, the District Reserve Guard team launched a search operation in South Bastar based on specific intelligence about the presence of armed Maoist cadres. Intermittent exchange …
Imphal, Jan 6 (IANS) The Manipur government has handed over the investigation into the incident, in which two persons, including a woman, were injured in two consecutive explosions in Bishnupur district, to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), officials said on Tuesday. A police official said that the case relating to the two consecutive explosions on Monday, triggered by locally made Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), has been forwarded to the NIA for an in-depth investigation.He said tha…
Raipur/Jagdalpur, Dec 30 (IANS) In a significant blow to the banned CPI (Maoist) terrorist organisation, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a supplementary charge-sheet against five accused individuals, including four absconders, for their alleged role in procuring and supplying explosives intended for attacks on security forces. The charge sheet was submitted on Tuesday before the NIA Special Court in Jagdalpur. The accused—arrested individual Manish Sodhi alias Hurra, and fugi…
Raipur/Bijapur, Dec 25 (IANS) In a significant victory against Left-Wing Extremism on Christmas Day, security forces from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) successfully thwarted a potentially devastating Maoist attack by recovering and neutralising two high-powered Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in the restive Bijapur district, police officials said. The operation was conducted during a routine anti-Maoist area domination exercise launched from the Forward Operating Base (FOB) Kandlap…