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In his recent visit to the Ladakh sector, Army chief Gen Manoj Pande reviewed the security situation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in view of the Chinese threat for which the Indian Army has shifted six Divisions which were earlier deployed in counter-terrorism roles and after taking care of Pakistan front. The military standoff with China has been going on for over two years now when the Chinese side attempted to change the status quo unilaterally by moving troops in large numbers against Indian positions. The Indian Army has been doing rebalancing and realignment of its forces which...

A bomb tore through a huge funeral procession for a slain Shiite Muslim leader in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least six people and wounding several more, police said. Rising sectarian violence threatens to further destabilize nuclear-armed Pakistan just as it faces renewed U.S. pressure to crack down on Taliban and al-Qaida militants. Friday's explosion tore through crowds streaming toward a graveyard for the burial of Sher Zeman, a Shiite leader who was gunned down in the city the day before. City police official Miran Shah said at least six of the estimated 1,000 mourners were killed. Others wounded...

Attack of the red Mosque: “of the corpses everywhere” ISLAMABAD - “Corpses” strew the basement with the fundamentalist red Mosque of Islamabad where an attack was in progress Tuesday in order to dislodge of islamist marked to retain hostages, a source inside the building, questioned by telephone by AFP indicated. “There is no contact between us because nobody can leave the parts and the basements. There are corpses everywhere”, indicated a man answering one of the many portable telephones of Abdul Rashid Ghazi, chief of the irreducible ones. Ghazi is still in life but his/her mother died, specified the...