The Maldives coastguard opened fire on a vessel suspected of carrying members of the Tamil Tigers from Sri Lanka [May 17], after a 12-hour stand-off. The boat was sunk and five people on board detained. [Maldivian authorites say the vessel… Read moreTamil Tigers in naval battle with Maldives?
From the Times of India, May 16: NEW DELHI — The government on Tuesday informed Parliament that naxalites were working in close coordination with some terrorist outfits operating in J&K and were also in touch with the Liberation Tigers of… Read moreIndia: Naxalite-Tamil Tiger convergence?
Two people were killed [May 14] in bomb blast in a marketplace [at Guwahati] in the restive northeastern state of Assam, where separatists continue to mount a violent insurgency. [AFP, May 14] Elsewhere in Assam, protests staged over the killing… Read moreIndia: more terror in Assam
Several Bangladeshi railway stations have been targeted by a series of small bombs [May 1]. The devices were detonated in the capital, Dhaka, the southeastern port of Chittagong and the northern city of Sylhet, at around 7:30 AM local time…. Read moreAl-Qaeda in Bangladesh?
Canada’s Canoro Resources has signed an agreement with India’s parastatal Oil & Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) to explore for crude in the jungles of Nagaland, a state in the country’s remote northeast, where large swaths of territory have been controlled… Read moreOil cartel eyes Nagaland; factional strife in guerilla struggle
India’s Maoists guerillas threatened more attacks March 26, 11 days after they killed 55 police and tribal militia in a raid on their camp in the central state of Chhattisgarh. The two-page statement signed by “Azad” called the attack a… Read moreIndia: Maoists pledge to resist anti-guerilla drive
The Tamil Tiger rebels launched their first air strike March 26, hitting a Sri Lankan air base near Colombo. They Defense Ministry said three airmen were killed and 16 wounded, but the military’s newly-purchased MIG fighter jets were not damaged…. Read moreAl-Qaeda link to Tamil Tigers?
Police in Nepal are searching sugarcane fields in the southeast for bodies after clashes between Maoists and the Madhesi People's Rights Forum left at least 27 dead. The clash in the town of Gaur, on the Indian border, was the… Read moreMaoist-Madhesi violence in Nepal
As Bangladesh prepares to hang six militants convicted in a string of bombings, a newly “interrogated” member of the network claims some 5,000 followers of outlawed Islamist groups are still active in the country, and receiving aid from supporters abroad,… Read moreBangladesh: terror suspect claims 5,000 militants
Continuing protests over the suspension of the chief justice, thousands of opposition activsts and lawyers rallied in major cities across Pakistan and clashed with police, demanding President Pervez Musharraf’s resignation. In Islamabad, around 1,000 protesters staged an angry rally outside… Read morePakistan: protests sweep nation over judicial crisis
Dozens of police in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh were killed when their forest outpost was raided by Maoist [Naxalite] rebels March 14. Fighting has intensified between leftist insurgents and police and paramilitary forces in vast swathes of central… Read moreRural violence in India
Police are seeking 10 men, including several tribal elders, accused of pressuring a Pakistani woman to hand over her teenage daughter as payment for a 16-year-old poker debt. Nooran Umrani of Hyderabad says that, despite paying off her late husband’s… Read morePakistan: girl was poker debt bride
