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Maoist attack on India police patrol leaves 16 dead

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<strong style="color: #2558ad;"><span style="color: black;">11 members of the national paramilitary CRPF were killed along with 4 members of the</span> <span style="color: black;">police force.</span></strong><br />
            <br />RAIPUR (AFP) - Maoist rebels killed at least 15 
members of India s security forces Tuesday in a massive attack in 
restive Chhattisgarh state, less than a month before the country holds 
elections, police said.<br />

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Security officials and police sources said the victims were all 
killed when up to 200 rebels ambushed a patrol in forests to the south 
of the state capital Raipur before a major gun battle erupted.<br />

Eleven members of the national paramilitary Central Reserve Police 
Force (CRPF) were killed along with four members of the state police 
force, said Mukesh Gupta, one of Chhattisgarh s most senior police 
officers.<br />

"As of now, a total of 11 CRPF, four policemen and one civilian have died," Gupta told AFP.<br />

Others suggested the death toll was even higher.<br />

Rajinder Kumar Vij, the head of anti-Maoist operations in the central
 state, put the number of CRPF personnel dead at 15 and said that five 
state policemen had also been killed.<br />

There were no figures on the number of Maoist casualties.<br />

The forces were involved in an operation to clear and open a road in 
Sukma district when the rebels detonated a landmine and started firing 
indiscriminately, Vij told AFP.<br />

"The attack sparked a gun battle that lasted about three hours."<br />

Several people were injured in the attack and were being airlifted to
 Raipur for treatment. Security reinforcements have been rushed to the 
area, along with top state government officials.<br />
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Gupta said the attack took place at around 10:30am in a 
heavily-forested area during the operation to clear the road some 400 
kilometres (250 miles) from Raipur.<br />

"The attack was on one of our police parties as the Naxalites 
(Maoists) have been frustrated at our increased presence in the area," 
he said.<br />
"We don t yet know the casualties on the attackers side... It is difficult for us because of the topography of the area.<br />

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"The attack was close to the site of an ambush in May last year on a 
convoy carrying members of India s ruling Congress party in which 24 
people were killed, including the state party president and his son.<br />

The latest deaths will heighten fears of unrest in the Maoists  
stronghold in the build-up to the nationwide elections which begin in 
early April.<br />
Voting will take place in Chhattisgarh in three phases, on April 10, 17 and 24.<br />

The Maoists, who have been described by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
 as the country s most serious internal security threat, have been 
fighting since 1967 for a communist society by toppling what they call 
India s "semi-colonial, semi-feudal" form of rule.<br />

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with much action focused around the insurgent-dominated, so-called "Red 
Corridor" stretching through central and eastern India.<br />

In 2010, rebels killed 35 people in a landmine attack on a bus in 
Chhattisgarh. The explosion tore the front off the bus, killing 24 
civilians and 11 police personnel.<br />
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Maoist attack on India police patrol leaves 16 dead

11 members of the national paramilitary CRPF were killed along with 4 members of the police force. RAIPUR (AFP) - M...

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Sindh govt busy in singing, dancing while children starve to death: Imran Khan

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<strong style="color: #2558ad;">Imran Khan demanded of Sindh government to provide immediate medicine and food items to affectees.</strong><br />
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ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf 
(PTI) Chairman Imran Khan termed Sindh government responsible for 
Tharparkar’s drought tragedy on Saturday, Dunya News reported.<br />
Government is busy in cultural festivals while thousands of citizens suffer from shortage of food, he said.<img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxZZt2_ekHtJ3qyeQaERWZyA9T7YoiUb10sd_7YTgrir5xO-DDAyoDdSA9DgSI01G2KA_o4-p1NJS9RkbXzu3OtzHu434FrFetgdFc7afIKHZQ3GZ8yjiAXVw8gCcgEZUpu0lQfjNcL5_L/s1600/sindh-festival-pictures-2013-4.jpg" width="640" /><br />
PTI Chief expressed concerns over conditions of drought-stricken 
citizens of Tharparkar. He said that Sindh government, despite having 
all resources, handed over the Tharparkar citizens to drought and famine
 adding that it is highly regrettable.<br />
Imran Khan demanded of Sindh government to provide immediate medicine 
and food items to the affectees. People are targeted by terrorism in 
Karachi while poor are killed by food shortage and poverty in rural 
areas of Sindh, he said.<img border="0" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Z-qMdslKrPL0lC2IsIlON2Z0di5YZWpZeZpNMYf6D5I8ZwYwe7Cc5X1En14-gqf_ub4D0uQNFKYoB0iqtkl0VVyksUZnaN_-MVS2c6Zv8V9YgI3J1nN6_bHjH2snwnBJ6OSl2VsOs1XZ/s1600/tharparkar.jpg" width="640" /><br />
It merits mentioning here that Tharparkar drought has worsened to a 
dangerous level, raising the death toll of starving children to 33, 
Dunya News reported on Thursday.<br />
Reportedly, shortage of food and drought has left people of Tharparkar fighting for their lives.<br />
The famine is ongoing for the past 3 years in Chachru Tharparkar; and 
according to Mathi hospital sources, the death toll of starving children
 has reached to 32 only in the past one month.<br />
According to Dr Abdul Jalil Bargari, starvation has caused death of 121 children thus far.<br />
Confirming the number of deaths, the health department has expressed concerns. <br />
At least 6 districts of Tharparkar desert is hit by the famine and drought causing the situation to turn extreme.<br />
Meanwhile, no notice by the Sindh government has been taken thus far despite dozens of deaths.<br />
It is pertinent to mention here that Sindh government has dozens of 
employees dedicated to a number of projects related to food security and
 crises management with studies sponsored by Asian Development Bank and 
United Nations.<img border="0" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsvwWFHSPtELiJ2rXGoD1S0T10nMzvha3GNapdBCgCX3knlayM9-yJa1XFeMBCmNtjXAfi3ha7lfG2n51hc0D8PLdrAU6xtjMSZ0gZnND__Di68fnRg6KwdJLtilrUnbrG9Hc-4SbQn5Oc/s1600/531ab0f3ae849.jpg" width="640" /><br />
According to Sindh government’s finance department’s Public Private 
Partnership (PPP) Unit website, the government lacks wheat storage 
capacity by 40-50% which causes ‘intense’ wastage of food.</div>
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Sindh govt busy in singing, dancing while children starve to death: Imran Khan

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Mayhem in the capital: Gun-and-suicide attack kills 11 at district courts

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into a scene of death and destruction when two suicide bombers and their armed
accomplices attacked the compound, killing 11 people, including an additional
sessions judge, and injuring over two dozen others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">By noon, the labyrinthine and congested compound of the district
courts in Sector F-8 echoed with a silence that only death can master.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Police put the number of attackers at three to four. They entered
the district courts through an entrance in the back. Later in the day, it
transpired that the attackers belonged to a little-known militant group called
Ahrarul Hind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">“We claim responsibility for the attack,” a purported spokesman for
the group told The Express Tribune by phone from somewhere in Afghanistan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The spokesman, who said he was speaking on behalf of the group’s
leader Umer Mansoor, opposed the ongoing peace dialogue. “We do not favour the
ceasefire and peace talks as it is un-Islamic,” he added. “Our main demand is
implementation of Sharia [law] and it has not been mentioned in the talks.”</span></div>
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scanners and over 20 side street entrances, had around 50 policemen on security
duty at the time of the attack, according to police officials.</span></div>
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said were in their mid-20s, wore short beards and khaki shalwar kameez.</span></div>
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Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Eyewitnesses, most of whom put the number of attackers between four
and seven, said they started firing near the courts of civil judges Naveed Khan
and Azhar Nadeem, who also sustained injuries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">“The firing lasted for around 15 minutes,” SSP Operations Muhammad
Rizwan told The Express Tribune. During this time, eyewitnesses said the gunmen
‘roamed freely’ through the narrow streets lined with lawyers’ chambers, firing
at will.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Lawyers said the death toll could have been higher if a hand
grenade hurled by one of the attackers into the Waqar Gillani hall, a
cafeteria-like area where lawyers huddle in the morning, had actually exploded.
Some eyewitnesses said the attackers were only targeting government servants
and lawyers and told other civilians to leave the premises. There was also
speculation about the kind of cases that a judge killed in the attack was
hearing or had heard in the past to fix the motive.</span></div>
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initial investigation report submitted to the interior ministry by security
agencies stated “the attackers had no specific target”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Medics said 29 people were injured in the attack – three of them
critically.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The dead included people who were in court for hearings, a police
constable, lawyers and Additional Sessions Judge Rafaqat Awan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Awan was hunted down in a chamber inside his court by one of the
gunmen, according to Muhammad Banaras, a Munshi at the district courts. “The
gunman shot straight at the judge,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Awan was known for rejecting a petition by the Shuhada Foundation
seeking registration of FIR against former military ruler Pervez Musharraf for
the 2007 Lal Masjid operation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The attackers used hand grenades, automatic rifles and suicide
vests during the attack, Rizwan said. IGP Sikandar Hayat confirmed that two
suicide bombers blew themselves up at separate locations inside the compound.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The worst hit was Block number 3, where the attacker who had shot
Awan exploded after being hit in a fire exchange with an Anti-Terrorist Squad
officer. The block included Awan’s court and the courts of two additional
sessions judges Muhammd Adnan and Sikandar Khan, who escaped in time before the
blast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Their courtrooms, however, were destroyed in the blast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Shattered white-tinted glass littered the floor of the alley in
front of the courts. Inside the rooms, furniture and file cabinets were smashed
violently against each other. Throughout the compound, there were bullet holes
staring back from windows and blood stains and tiny bits of flesh strewn on the
streets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The second bomber blew himself up a few blocks to the south of
Awan’s court, causing a crater. Police found the head and legs of one of the
bombers. Intelligence sources claimed one gunman, wearing a red sweater,
escaped.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Police were conducting search operations in the twin cities to find
him but no arrests were made till the filing of this report. The capital was
put on high security alert and security was beefed in the city’s sensitive Red
Zone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Monday’s suicide blasts were the first in Islamabad since the 2011
suicide attack outside a private bank. A suicide bomber tried to blow himself
up at a mosque in Bara Kahu in August 2013 but his vest malfunctioned and he
was killed by a security guard. </span></div>
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-  Thirteen soldiers and a child were killed and eight others injured when
two roadside bombs followed by gunfire targeted a polio vaccination team in
tehsil Jamrud of restive Khyber Agency on Saturday, in the latest attack on
efforts to combat the crippling disease.<br />
Jamrud Assistant Political Agent (APA) Jahangir Azam Wazir said a group of
paramilitary Khasadar and Levies soldiers assigned to escort anti-polio teams
in Walomena rural area of Lashora were targeted with remote-controlled roadside
bombs.<br />
He said the troops were protecting a convoy of health workers who were on their
way to administer anti-polio drops to children as part of a three-day campaign
against polio that started Friday. The militants, who had taken positions on
the nearby hills, also started firing at the soldiers after the bomb
explosions, local tribesmen said.<br />
“A convoy of three vehicles was taking polio workers to administer the drops
and the bombs exploded after the first vehicle that was carrying polio workers
crossed the spot,” Khan said. A second bomb was blasted when another vehicle of
the forces came for the rescue. Thirteen soldiers and a child were killed on
the spot, the APA said. Eight Khasadar troops were also wounded in the attack,
Khan said. Two vehicles of force were also destroyed by the bombs, he said.<br />
Soon after the incident, heavy contingents of security forces and the
administration officials reached at the site. The area was cordoned off and
wounded and dead were taken to Jamrud and Peshawar hospitals, sources said. The
deceased included officers Akhtar Munir, Said Karim, hawaldar Taufeeq, Said
Kamal, Saddam, Noor Wali, Mohammad Ullah, Qadeer, Ferhad, Riaz, Amjad and a
small boy, Razaq.<br />
Khyber Agency Political Agent Shahab Ali while talking to the media persons on
his visit to the area said, the moral of Khasadar force and Levies is high and
they will never hesitate to render sacrifice for the noble cause. He vowed that
soon the culprits will be netted and brought to justice. Nobody had claimed
responsibility for the attack till the filing of this report.<br />
Due to security reasons the anti-polio drive could not be completed in the
previously fixed time that ended on Friday; therefore, it was extended for a
week to cover the whole 38 areas of tehsil Jamrud, health sources said. Rehman
Khan, a senior health official in Khyber tribal district, said the polio
campaign has been temporarily suspended in the Jamroud area. “We will resume
administering of polio drops when the security situation is better,” he said. <br />
Militant strikes and threats of violence have badly hampered campaigns to stamp
out polio in Pakistan, one of only three countries where the disease remains
endemic. Militant groups see vaccination campaigns as a cover for espionage,
and there are also long-running rumours about polio drops causing infertility. <br />
More than 40 people, including health workers and police guarding the teams
which administer polio drops to children, have been killed in Pakistan since
December 2012. Last week gunmen kidnapped a six-member polio vaccination team
in southwest Pakistan. They were released two days later after the intervention
of local tribal elders. Masked gunmen kidnapped another six-member polio
vaccination team southwest of Peshawar earlier last month. Their whereabouts
are currently unknown.<br />
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Pakistan recorded 91 cases of
polio last year, up from 58 in 2012. Pakistan’s failure to defeat polio stands
in stark contrast to its neighbour and great rival India, which recently
celebrated the eradication of polio three years after its last case. The WHO
has warned that Peshawar, the main city of the northwest, is the world’s
“largest reservoir” of polio. Afghanistan and Nigeria are the other countries
where the disease persists. Victims are left dead, paralysed or with withered
limbs.</span></b></span></div>
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Two bombs kill 13 of polio team escort

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Blast in eastern Afghanistan kills 13

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<b>KABUL: Officials say a car packed with explosives blew up and killed 13
people including nine insurgents in eastern Afghanistan. </b><br />

<b>Dind Mohammad Darwesh, spokesman for the governor of Logar Province, said
it was probably a case of militants killed by their own weapon. </b><br />

<b>He said it appeared the car was being prepared for a terror attack but
that investigations are ongoing.</b><br />

<b>He said Sunday that those killed in the blast included nine insurgents,
plus two women and two children who were nearby. </b><br />

<b>Darwesh had no further details. The area is a Taliban stronghold, and
dangerous for journalists to independently verify claims.</b><br />

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