Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa said on Saturday that so far 80 terrorists had been killed while 100 others injured during current phase of military operations Zarb-e-Azab and Khyber-2.
Thursday, 19 March, 2015
Burma-Myanmar: Clashes intensify between army and Kokang rebels
Rebels in Myanmar’s Kokang region say fighting has intensified in the area since the military launched a large scale offensive against rebel positions this week.
Tun Myat Lin, a spokesman for the Kokang rebels, told VOA’s Burmese service the government is treating the offensive like it is handling a foreign invasion.
Monday, 16 March, 2015
Afghanistan: Army killed 10 militants affiliated with Islamic State in Helmand
Afghan security forces have killed 10 fighters who claimed to be from Islamic State (IS) in Afghanistan, officials said, amid reports that growing numbers of disgruntled Taliban fighters have joined the militant group that controls much of Syria and Iraq.
Defense ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri said the militants were all associated with the Islamic State, known in Afghanistan as “Daesh”. They were killed in an operation in the southern province of Helmand on Sunday.
Sunday, 15 March, 2015
Pakistan: 15 people killed in Taliban attack on Lahore churches, claimed by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s Jamaat-ul-Ahrar faction
At least 15 people were killed and more than 70 injured when two Taliban suicide bombers attacked churches in Lahore on Sunday, sparking mob violence in which two other suspected militants died.
China: China sends fighter jets to Burma border after bomb kills four people
China sent fighter jets to patrol its border with Burma after a bomb dropped by a Burmese warplane killed four Chinese in southwestern Yunnan province, state media reported Saturday.
The bomb hit a sugarcane field in Lincang city on Friday, killing four workers and injuring nine others, China’s official news agency Xinhua said.