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Kyrgyz to need specific measures to fight extremism - Central Asia Online
By Asker Sultanov BISHKEK – Kyrgyzstan needs to devise specific measures for combating extremism, a government official said April 28. Musa Alimbekov, chief of the juridical department of the Presidential Academy of Management, made that contention ...
TTP leader Hakimullah Mehsud's fate uncertain - Central Asia Online
“We cannot confirm or deny the reports yet,” said one official who requested anonymity, noting that earlier claims of Hakimullah's death have twice proved untrue. “I believe the TTP, already broken into fragments, is gone if the man has really died,” ...
Abbottabad has history as terrorist refuge - Central Asia Online
“Patek was tracked down from an electronic device that he was carrying,” said a top security official who requested anonymity. “He was shot as he fled the raid. Two officers also were injured.” Police said nothing at the time to prevent media coverage. ...
Sibi bus attack kills 15, including women, children - Central Asia Online
[Javed Khan] QUETTA – At least 15 passengers burned to death and several others were injured April 25 when militants torched a Quetta-bound bus in the Pirak area of Sibi, a government official said. The dead include eight women, five children and two ...
Rasht counter-insurgency operation begins - Central Asia Online
Tajikistan's security forces and supporters of former insurgent field commander Mirzokhudzhi Akhmadov (Mullo Abdullo), who aligned with the government late last year, were participating, according to an Akhmadov spokesman who requested anonymity. ...
Mohmand operation kills 54 militants - Central Asia Online
[Maks Maksudov] KHAR – Pakistani security forces claimed to have killed 54 suspected militants in a ground and air offensive in Mohmand Agency April 7-8, a government official said. Three troops and three civilians also died in the operation, ...
Balochistan officials rescue 2 kidnapped judges - Central Asia Online
... Deputy Commissioner Naseerabad Fateh Muhammad Khajak said. The kidnappers fled before the raid. Authorities arrested over 50 suspects during the past 10 days, which led to information on the judges' whereabouts, a government official said.
Tajiks release 4 women charged with extremism - Central Asia Online
... Tajikistan — Tajik authorities have released four women arrested last year in connection with charges of circulating extremist literature, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported March 4, quoting an anonymous source in the oblast general ...
Turkmen president wants reform - Central Asia Online
... the agencies and the agencies' work be of higher quality,” said political analyst Alovuddin Farhadi The change in the president's behaviour comes in an effort to integrate into the global community, an anonymous source at the Foreign Ministry said. ...
Pakistan orders Blackberry service cut for foreign missions - Central Asia Online
A senior official at a mobile company, who declined to be identified, said the PTA sent instructions to his company to stop all Blackberry services to ...
Mohmand: 18 terrorists killed - Central Asia Online
Local administration officials said most of the militants were Tehreek-e-Taliban members, according to AFP reports in Dawn. The Pakistani military began its ...
Rasht sees new terror group emerge - Central Asia Online
Security Council Chairman Amirkul Azimov has gone to Rasht to supervise operations in person, the source said. Interior Minister Abdurahim Kahhorov had a ...
Khyber authorities find 3 drivers' bodies - Central Asia Online
"The three drivers were shot in their heads from close range," a government official said. Letters in Pashtu and Urdu found with the bodies warned ...
1430 Tajiks have left foreign madrassas - Central Asia Online
... madrassas have quit their studies, AsiaPlus.tj reported January 19, quoting an anonymous source in the government's Committee for Religious Affairs. ...
Khyber Agency militant group splits in two - Central Asia Online
“The taking into confidence of the dissident group by the government could not be ruled out,” said the same source who asked to remain anonymous for ...
Tajikistan's Isfara becomes terrorist hub - Central Asia Online
An anonymous source at the Sughd Oblast Prosecutor's Office said those three terror suspects are linked to 14 alleged members of an extremist religious ...
SARAZM, Tajikistan – Tajik border force sources said Uzbekistan plans to close ... - Central Asia Online
[Aman Durdiyev] By NV Maximenko SARAZM, Tajikistan – Tajik border force sources said Uzbekistan plans to close the border between Sarazm and Dzharteppa in ...
Said Muhammad Shah Baba shrine blown up - Central Asia Online
... the mausoleum of a saint, Said Muhammad Shah Baba, in the Loy Shalman area of Landi Kotal in Khyber agency October 14, an administration official said. ...
Karachi TTP militant network shattered police claim - Central Asia Online
On September 22, two Afghan Taliban suspects, Abdullah Al-Hajri and Qari Hamza Ali Shah, were arrested on Super Highway, police sources said. ...
Tajikistan feels menace of terrorism - Central Asia Online
"They are simply eluding us," the source said. "We deployed our best unit to Rasht, but, regrettably, we have yet to manage to arrest a single direct ...
Uzbek police arrest 4 suspected militants - Central Asia Online
... a shootout in Tashkent Oblast that wounded one suspect, Uznews.net reported August 27, quoting an anonymous source within internal security agencies. ...
Safwat Ghayyur killed in suicide attack - Central Asia Online
He is the most senior (police officer) killed so far in the war on terror,” said a police official who requested anonymity. Apart from heading the FC and ...
Mohmand Agency attack kills at least 56 - Central Asia Online
A large explosion followed a smaller initial blast, local administration officials said, according to Dawn. Reports differ on whether the explosion was a ...
Turkmenistan tries to revive civil society - Central Asia Online
... media as well as with all civil society is a difficult one”, said a source at the Bulgaria-based Turkmen Helsinki Foundation who requested anonymity. ...
Rogun dam money collected, but sits stagnant - Central Asia Online
... for basic services and groceries because most of their earnings are redirected to Rogun GES's accounts”, said another economist who requested anonymity. ...