Taliban armed with 100 rocket launchers attacked a Pakistani checkpost in South Waziristan on Thursday, gunbattles that killed eight soldiers. More than ten Taliban were also killed in the firing.
Afghanistan-Pakistan border a region which is one of the most dangerous place on earth.
`Eight soldiers were killed and ten were wounded in the attack. More than ten taliban were also killed in the retaliatory firing, a security official told in peshawar, the main town in Northwest Pakistan`
More than four thousands people killed in attacks by Taliban on Pakistan and other Islamist extremist. Pakistan was the main supporter of the Taliban.
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DHAKA, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- At least 35 people were killed and about 10 people went missing as a boat capsized in Bangladesh's Sunamganj district, 296 km northeast of capital Dhaka, on Saturday.
Local private news agency BDnews24.com reported the boat clashed with a sand-laden trawler around 9:30 p.m. local time in the Surma river in the district.
Sonarnagh Union Chairman of the district Azhar Hossain Bablu was quoted as saying 35 bodies have been recovered so far.
The boat was carrying around 50 passengers.
About 10 people went missing since the boat capsized, the news agency said.
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NEW DELHI: High technology, says Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, is the focus of India-Russia relations. As Medvedev arrives in India on Sunday for his annual summit with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the effort continues in both countries to broadbase the bilateral relationship from purely defence and nuclear issues to more areas of India's economy.
Among the discussions with the Indian leadership, Medvedev said he hopes to solve "problems" with the nuclear liability law. Russia has said the Indian law should conform to the 1963 Vienna Convention, which it does not at present. But unwilling to make heavy weather of it at present, Medvedev said, "We seek to solve the relevant problems in a constructive way through negotiations."
An Indian mini moon rover will be added to the India-Russia spacecraft that will be launched in 2013, he said. "The Indian side is particularly interested in the Russian components for life-support and thermal control systems of Indian spacecraft."
With US-led forces readying to leave Afghanistan, India and Russia have resumed their conversation on the future of Afghanistan; Russia has begun a separate dialogue with Pakistan
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