This month, militants barged into his shop in a bustling market and shot him four times at point-blank range.“ He died before reaching the hospital, ” his son, Siddharth, said. The others killed included two schoolteachers and a street hawker.... Nine militants have been killed in gunfights in recent days.... One of those who left last week was Sunny Raina, a government engineer living in south Kashmir’s Anantnag town....

NEW DELHI: In the last few weeks, as the Taliban launched multiple offensives against Afghan forces loyal to President Ashraf Ghani, the country has plunged into disarray.... In an interview to Afghanistan’s Tolo News last month, Pakistan’s foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi accused India of carrying out terrorist activities against Islamabad from Afghan soil.... Pakistan has long sought a pliant government in Kabul— one that it can fall back on in case of hostilities with India....

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT Supported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENT Could Ethnic Conflict in India Become an Issue Modi Cannot Ignore?... Although they control the levers of state power, they have had a small share of the state’s land. Tribal communities protested the ruling and met with violence from Meitei mobs that activists and rights groups say have been enabled by the state government.... India’s Supreme Court has since declared the lower court’s ruling “ completely factually wrong, ” but it