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Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI or HJI) meaning “Islamic Struggle Movement”, is an Islamic fundamentalist organization most active in South Asian countries of Pakistan, Bangladesh and India since the early 1990s. HuJI or HJI was formed in 1984 by Fazalur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Akhtar, as the first Pakistan-based jihadist, during the Soviet-Afghan War.Khalil later broke away [...]

The Terror Act Three near-simultaneous explosions rocked Mumbai at rush-hour on Wednesday, 13th July 2011, killing at least 17 people and injuring 141 in another terrorist strike in the city. One blast hit the crowded neighborhood of Dadar in central Mumbai. The others were at the Zaveri Bazaar, which is a famed jewelry market, and the [...]

At least 45 people have been killed in twin suicide bomb attacks targeting Shia Muslim pilgrims near the Iraqi city of Karbala. More than 170 people were injured in the blasts, with the death toll likely to rise. The first attack struck Karbala’s northern outskirts, while the second blast occurred about 15km south of the [...]

About 360 doctors, staff and students of Christian Medical College (CMC) Vellore have signed a memorandum demanding a review of the legal process that led to the arrest of Binayak Sen, noted physician, human rights activist and an alumnus of their college. The memorandum also called for granting bail to Dr. Sen at the earliest [...]

The army was called out in Meghalaya’s violence-hit East Garo Hills district after four people were killed Wednesday in an ethnic clash between Garo and Rabha tribals. ‘Three Rabha youths died and eight – were injured after they were attacked by Garos at Golkugre area,’ Sylvester Nongtynger, police chief of Meghalaya’s East Garo Hills district, [...]

Six people, including a woman, were killed and over 20 injured in firing by suspected armed CPM cadres in Lalgarh in West Midnapore district today even as the administration attributed it to a political clash. The villagers, who had gathered to protest the demand by armed Marxist cadres that they volunteer for night patrols and [...]

West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Saturday condemned the killing of seven villagers in Lalgarh area and said that all political parties should restrain themselves from violence. “We want peace in the state. What happened yesterday (Friday) at West Midnapore is not good. Many people died. Each and every political parties should restrain themselves from violence,” [...]

At least five Maoist militants were killed in combat by government forces in India’s eastern state of Orissa on Sunday, a news report said. Police teams raided a rebel hideout in a forested area of the Jajpur district some 100 kilometres north-east of state capital Bhubaneshwar Saturday night, the IANS news agency reported. Senior police [...]

Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Police claimed on Sunday to have unearthed a nexus between stone-throwers and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in south Kashmir. They said they busted two modules of LeT and arrested nine people who were instigating youths to pelt stones. “Our investigation shows that LeT divisional commander for south Kashmir Abdul Rehman alias Rehman Bhai [...]

  Iran’s Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar said the “terrorists” who carried out the bomb attacks yesterday received training in Pakistan. “A group of terrorists who are unfortunately being trained on the other side of our eastern borders, in Pakistan, committed this terrorist act,” he said, cited by the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency. At least [...]