Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan responsible for over 100 cross-border attacks last year: UN report Saturday, February 06, 2021 By: ET
Terror group Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), responsible for more than 100 cross-border attacks within three months last year, oversaw a reunification of splinter groups that took place in Afghanistan and was moderated by al-Qaeda, a development that was expected to increase the threat to Afghanistan and the region, a UN report has said.
The 27th report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team said TTP was reported to have overseen a reunification of splinter groups that took place in Afghanistan and was moderated by al-Qaeda.
Udhagamandalam: A 96-year-old Urdu medium elementary school in Ooty, which was upgraded to a middle school, was inaugurated by Nilgiris collector J Innocent Divya on Thursday.
The Gandhi Nagar Municipal Urdu medium Elementary School at Kandal, the only one of its kind in the district, was started on January 1, 1925 with 23 students.
“Till the academic year 2016-17, the school maintained more or less the same strength. The number of students increased after Mohamed Ameen took over as the headmaster in 2017,” said chief education officer Nazarudeen. “As many as 14 new students jointed Class VI after upgradation. There are 154 students now.”
There was a need to upgrade the school as Muslim population is more in Kandal area, said Divya. “The Ooty municipality facilitated the school with two more classrooms.”
Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan responsible for over 100 cross-border attacks last year: UN report
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Last Updated: Feb 06, 2021, 12:03 AM IST
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The report said that according to Member State assessments, the TTP fighting strength range between 2,500 and 6,000.
The overall number of members of al-Qaeda and its affiliates in Afghanistan is currently estimated at between 200 and 500, spread across at least 11 Afghan provinces: Badakhshan, Ghazni, Helmand, Khost, Kunar, Kunduz, Logar, Nangarhar, Nuristan, Paktiya and Zabul.
United Nations: Terror group Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), responsible for more than 100 cross-border attacks within three months last year, oversaw a reunification of splinter groups that took place in Afghanistan and was moderated by al-Qaeda, a development that was expected to increase the threat to Afghanistan and the region, a UN report has said.
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04 February 2021, MVT 17:39
The Criminal Court, on Wednesday, ordered the house arrest transfer of Mohamed Ameen, the first Maldivian on the list of terrorists publicised by America s Department of the Treasuries Office of Foreign Affairs Control (OFAC).
According to the court, Ameen was transferred due to the lack of adequate medical treatment as well as not receiving the opportunity to exercise outside his jail cell.
The transfer was finalised on the condition that Ameen refrain from committing another terrorist offence or leaving the house.
However, officers of Maldives Correctiona Service (MCS) repeatedly stated that Ameen repeatedly received medical treatment for Rheumatism.
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‘A ghost that haunts’: Living with landmines in Kashmir
January 30, 2021 By Hassan
A Kashmiri boy with a bicycle walks past a crater caused by a landmine blast, in a photo from December 2004 [File: Reuters]
For those living along Kashmir’s Line of Control, landmines destroy lives and livelihoods
One night in December 2000, Mohammad Yaqoob says he was selected by the Indian army for patrol duty along the Line of Control (LoC), the border dividing the Indian and Pakistani-administered regions of Kashmir.
Twenty years ago it was standard but informal practice in parts of Indian-administered Kashmir for the army to select young men from nearby villages for night patrol along the 734km LoC, to keep watch for “infiltrators” from the other side of the border. For this, Yaqoob says he and other men from his village did not receive any training, pay or compensation.