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Turkish security officials said that the PKK members planted an explosive device on the side of a road near the village of Araköy in Şırnak, “and detonated it when a Turkish armored vehicle approached the location”.

Kurdish militants have raided a Turkish police station and fired on railway workers in two separate attacks, leaving five people dead.

At least two Turkish soldiers were killed and 24 others were injured in a suspected suicide attack in Turkey’s eastern Agri province early on Sunday, an official statement said.

The attack is the latest to be blamed on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which is engaged in an escalating cycle of violence with the security forces. The attacks ended a two-year cease-fire between the Turkish government and the PKK, effectively derailing a projected...

It also accused Iraq of failing to keep to a pledge to prevent PKK attacks on Turkey from its territory.

Turkey says its attacks are “in retaliation” for the killings of two Turkish police officers last week, for which the PKK claimed responsibility.

India’s Home Minister Rajnath Singh told the Lok Sabha today that the gunmen who stormed a police station and killed seven people in India’s Punjab had come from Pakistan, according to a preliminary report. Pakistan regrets the unsubstantiated and unwarranted...

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has issued an advisory against carrying live media coverage of anti-terrorist operations by security forces at Gurdaspur in Punjab.

He, however, lauded the efforts of Punjab police and SWAT team for their bravery in killing the three terrorists.

When talks re-start, Pakistan will have to extend the non-discriminatory market access (NDMA) status to India (the earlier term “most favoured nation” has been discarded because of political reasons), which basically means that it will treat India the same as its...