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China seeks Xinjiang most-wanted, offers reward: media
Jul 03, 2013 (AFP)
Authorities in China's restive Xinjiang region have issued a "most wanted" list and offered rewards for tipoffs, a government website said Wednesday, continuing...
Pakistan PM heads to China, eyes big investment
Jul 02, 2013 (AFP)
Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif heads to China this week on his first foreign tour, eyeing high-impact Chinese infrastructure projects as an answer to ec...
US drone strike kills 4 in NW Pakistan: officials
Jul 02, 2013 (AFP)
A US drone strike early Wednesday killed four militants in the northwestern tribal area of Pakistan, local officials said. Four unmanned aircrafts fired as many...
West encouraging Xinjiang 'terrorism': media
Jul 01, 2013 (AFP)
Western media are encouraging "terrorism" in Xinjiang by misrepresenting violence in the region as ethnic conflict between minority Uighurs and Han Chinese, sta...
Policeman, rebel killed as Indian Kashmir shuts down
Jul 01, 2013 (AFP)
A policeman and a rebel were killed in Indian Kashmir on Monday as the troubled region shut down to protest at the weekend shooting of two civilians by the army...
US upbeat on forging security deal with Afghanistan
Jul 01, 2013 (AFP)
The Pentagon on Monday expressed optimism on the prospects of an eventual security agreement between the United States and Afghanistan, despite a vow by Kabul t...
Soldiers kill two in Indian Kashmir, new protest fears
Jun 30, 2013 (AFP)
Indian soldiers opened fire on demonstrators in restive Kashmir on Sunday, killing one person, during protests over the shooting death of a teenager in a milita...
Afghan-US pact only when Taliban start talks with Kabul: Karzai
Jun 30, 2013 (AFP)
The Afghan government on Sunday said talks on a key security pact with the US would only re-start when Taliban rebels meet with Kabul's negotiators, further com...
China ramps up response after Xinjiang 'attacks'
Jun 30, 2013 (AFP)
China has vowed to ramp up patrols and "crack down upon terrorist groups" after staging large military exercises in the ethnically-divided Xinjiang region follo...
Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill 27: Xinhua
Jun 26, 2013 (AFP)
Riots in China's ethnically divided Xinjiang have left 27 dead in the latest outbreak of violence in the troubled western region, according to state media which...
Militants kill 8 soldiers in Kashmir
Jun 25, 2013 (UPI)
Militants killed eight soldiers in Srinagar, Kashmir, a day before a visit by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and United Progressive Alliance party chairperson So...
Militants kill eight in Kashmir ahead of India PM visit
Jun 24, 2013 (AFP)
Heavily-armed militants killed eight soldiers in Indian Kashmir Monday in the deadliest such attack in five years, marring a landmark visit by Prime Minister Ma...
Pakistan faces blow to tourism after 10 climbers killed
Jun 24, 2013 (AFP)
Pakistan on Monday suspended expeditions on its second-highest peak and evacuated climbers after Islamist gunmen shot dead 10 foreign trekkers, braced for the c...
Kerry seeks India role on Afghanistan, climate
Jun 23, 2013 (AFP)
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday urged a greater role for India on Afghanistan and climate change as he sought to revive stuttering cooperation betwee...
Taliban kill nine foreign tourists in Pakistan
Jun 23, 2013 (AFP)
Gunmen dressed as police killed nine foreign tourists in an unprecedented attack in the Pakistani Himalayas claimed by the Taliban, who said they had set up a n...
Kabul lashes out over prospective Taliban-US talks
Jun 20, 2013 (AFP)
The Afghan government lashed out Wednesday at US efforts to broker peace with the Taliban, suspending security talks with Washington and threatening to boycott ...
China used military in Xinjiang: exiled Uighur leader
Jun 20, 2013 (AFP)
Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer claimed Thursday the Chinese government used military force in the latest episode of what she calls "ethnic cleansing" in the...
Pakistan closes university and hospital after fatal attacks
Jun 19, 2013 (UPI)
Pakistani authorities have closed Sardar Bahadur Khan Women's University and Bolan Medical Complex in Quetta after terrorist attacks killed nearly 90 people. Th...
Karzai suspends US talks in row over Taliban office
Jun 19, 2013 (AFP)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai Wednesday broke off crucial security talks with the United States, angry over the name given to a new Taliban office in Qatar that...
US to meet with Taliban as militants open Qatar office
Jun 18, 2013 (AFP)
US envoys will launch talks this week with the Taliban, officials announced Tuesday, in a tentative first step towards finding a negotiated escape from the 12-y...
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