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Two injured in attack on Bara checkpoint:

Report in The News, April 26, 2023BARA: Two personnel of a paramilitary force sustained injuries when unidentified armed men attacked a check-post with heavy weapons in the Bara tehsil of Khyber tribal district, official sources said on Tuesday. It was learnt that several unidentified men on late Monday attacked the Frontier Constabulary (FC) check-post in Spin Qabar in Sipah area with hand grenades and rocket launchers. The FC repulsed the attack while two cops identified…

IMF bailout not a silver bullet for Sri Lanka, says Moody’s Analytics

By Swati Bhat and Uditha Jayasinghe in Reuters, Mar 22, 2023MUMBAI, March 21 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka has a difficult road ahead irrespective of how much funding it receives from multilateral and global financial agencies, a senior economist at Moody’s Analytics told Reuters on Tuesday. Moody’s Analytics is independent of Moody’s Investors Service, the rating agency. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a nearly $3 billion bailout for Sri Lanka on Monday and the country’s…

14 ‘militants’ held in operation on Swabi mountain

report in Dawn, March 1st, 2023SWABI: The police arrested 14 suspected militants during an operation conducted on the Karamar Mountain here on Tuesday. District police officer Najamul Husnain told mediapersons that drone technology was used to locate the movement of suspected persons on the mountain. He said since surge in militant activities in the district the police had kept the Karamar Mountain under tight watch. He said personnel of Elite Force, Rapid Response Force, bomb…