Kabul: The Taliban on Friday denied shooting dead Indian writer Sushmita Banerjee, whose murder Afghan officials blamed on the insurgent militia fighting against the government for 12 years.
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Kabul: Indian national Sushmita Banerjee, whose memoir about her dramatic escape from the Taliban was turned into a Bollywood film, was shot dead in Afghanistan by militants, police said.
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Six Taliban militants were killed on Friday as US Predator drones targeted a vehicle used by them in the lawless North Waziristan tribal region of northwest Pakistan, officials said.

About 150 Taliban militants attacked five security posts in the restive Mohmand tribal region in northwest Pakistan early on Friday, triggering a gun battle that killed three soldiers and 24 terrorists, security officials said.

Pakistani security forces on Friday gunned down three Taliban militants during a skirmish in the country's restive northwest while the rebels blew up two state-run schools in the restive tribal belt,

Islamabad, Nov. 20: Suspected Taliban militants in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday torched 10 lorries carrying oil supplies for Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) troops in Afghanistan, polic