The police in Washington DC said that they were “working to thoroughly investigate” bomb threats made to eight schools around the US capital. The public schools and charter schools had all been.
The Taliban government in Afghanistan has urged professors who fled the country after the fall of the former administration in August last year, to return home and resume teaching.
India has criticized a report of the UN Secretary-General on terrorism for ignoring the Lashkar-e-Taiba (Let) and the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militant groups despite drawing attention to them.
The US State Department has expressed concerns over the attacks on statues of Mahatma Gandhi and is asking law enforcement to investigate the incidents, according to a spokesperson.
Since the beginning of this year, violent attacks by secular ethnic Baloch separatists in Pakistan’s restive southwestern province of Balochistan have dramatically risen.