The mastermind behind the Karachi airport terror attacks was killed Sunday during air strikes carried out by Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in North Waziristan, a media report said.
Military sources told Dawn online that Abu Abdur Rehman Almani was a key commander of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), the militant group which along with the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility of the attack on Karachi's Jinnah International Airport last Sunday night that killed 30 people, including 10 militants.
According to reports, some East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) terrorists were also killed during the air strikes.
The East Turkestan Islamic Movement is a separatist militant outfit blamed for numerous terror attacks in China's restive western region of Xinjiang.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Saturday that the communications system of the Malaysia Airlines jet that went missing March 8 was disabled just before it reached the east coast of peninsular Malaysia even as India intensified its end of the multinational search operation.
Yet another Indian American, Puneet Talwar, a longtime White House national security staffer, has been confirmed by the US Senate to the key job of serving as a bridge between the state and defence departments.
Crimea is seeking to join Russia rather than win independence like in the case of Abkhazia, Crimean Prime Minister Sergey Aksenov said Friday even as it was announced that some 50 foreigners from 21 countries will be present as international observers during Sunday's referendum.
Venezuela's Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz in a telephone interview with a state-run TV channel said Thursday three National Guard members were among the dead, and of the injured, 109 were police or military personnel
Morocco is winning the fight against terrorism particularly through the promotion and dissemination of moderate Islam as an antidote to religious fundamentalism, according to a leading Italian daily.
