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South Asia
Pakistan: Police shoot dead a doctor accused of blasphemy, set his body on fire
By Nasir Aijaz The AsiaN Representative KARACHI, SINDH, PAKISTAN: The police on Thursday September 19, 2024, reportedly shot dead a doctor, identified as Dr. Shahnawaz Kumbar, accused of blasphemy, in Mirpurkhas city of Southern Sindh province of Pakistan, declaring that he was killed during an ‘encounter with the police’. The…
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South Asia
Pakistan: 23 soldiers killed in suicide attack
By Nasir Aijaz The AsiaN Representative ISLAMABAD: At least 23 soldiers embraced martyrdom as a group of six terrorists attacked security forces’ post in Dera Ismail Khan’s Daraban area in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, bordering Afghanistan, in the early hours of Tuesday December 12, 2023, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said…
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East Asia
S. Korea: Police on high alert nationwide ahead of Trump’s visit
Police have been put on high alert nationwide one day ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s two-day visit as a number of rallies for and against the visit are scheduled, the National Police Agency said Friday. “We put police in Seoul at the highest level of alert at 9:00 a.m.…
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Turkish Police Chief drives stolen car, goes undetected
Mahmut Karaaslan, the police chief of the Provincial Security Directorate of Ankara, exposed the security weakness of the Turkish capital. He tried an extraordinary tactic to control the works of policemen. He drove a stolen car for three days in all streets of Ankara, but he couldn’t be detected…
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East Asia
Korean arrested in Japan on suspicions of Yasukuni bombing
A Korean man was arrested on suspicions of causing an explosion in a public restroom at Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, Japanese media reported Wednesday. Several Japanese news outlets said that the Metropolitan Police Department (MDP) detained the 27-year-old Korean man, surnamed Jeon, on charges of trespassing on shrine premises, allegedly linking…
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