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DERA MURAD JAMALI: Two highway robbers looting passengers on the Natio­nal Highway near Bakhtia­rabad area of Sibi district on Tuesday were killed in an exchange of fire with members of the Levies Force. Levies Force officials said that after receiving information about robbing of passengers by some dacoits on the National Highway, a heavy contingent of Levies Force rushed to the scene and cordoned off the area before launching an operation against the robbers. After an exchange of fire lasting several hours, two dacoits were killed but an accomplice of theirs escaped from the area. Publish...

Last Updated: US To Expand Afghan Refugee Resettlement Program As Taliban Violence Escalates In light of increased levels of Taliban violence, government is working to provide certain Afghans, including those who worked with the US, state dept. said IMAGE: AP The US State Department on Monday announced that it was expanding the eligibility for Afghan refugee resettlement program for those fleeing Afghanistan as violence and political turmoil continue to escalate in the conflict-ridden country. The US is expanding opportunities for Afghans and their families at-risk to the Taliban terror...

ISLAMABAD: Amid a volatile situation in Afghanistan, the Pakistan Army has provided ‘refuge and safe passage’ to as many as 46 soldiers and officers of the Afghan National Army (ANA) and Border Police who lost their military posts along the border. A statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Monday explained that a local ANA commander opposite Arundu, Chitral, had requested help for the 46 soldiers — including five officers — as “they were unable to hold their military posts along the Pak-Afghan international border due to evolving secu­rity situation in Afg...

New Delhi, July 24 Despite the Taliban slowly taking over Afghanistan, a repeat of the post-1989 events in Kashmir may not be possible today. Gun-trotting Afghan Taliban terrorists, backed by Pakistan’s ISI, may not be able to come into Kashmir across the well-defended 772-km Line of Control (LoC). After 1989, when the Soviet Union Army exited Afghanistan, a large number of foreign terrorists who were fighting the Soviets were directed by the ISI towards Kashmir, which gave birth to terrorism in the Valley. In the past 20 years, the LoC has been fortified with an electrified fence, latest t...

Last Updated: Pakistan Deploys Army On Afghan Border Fearing 'uncontrollable Refugee Influx' Amid Crisis Regular army troops are manning the border after replacing the paramilitary, Frontier Constabulary, (FC), Levies Force, Rangers, and other forces. IMAGE: Twitter/ After the Taliban’s declaration that it now controls 90 per cent, approximately 2,640 km border with Afghanistan, Pakistan on Saturday scrambled to deploy army troops on the front line position citing the threat of violence, uncontrollable refugee influx and ‘worsening’ volatile border situation. The army troops replac...