At a makeshift landing station on the Bay of Bengal, 19-year-old Mohammed Rubel described how traffickers transported the terrified migrants to the large boats that carry them out to sea.
Deputy Interior Minister Mohammad Ayub Salangi said the siege ended in the morning with the deaths of four heavily armed attackers though no civilians or security personnel were injured or killed.
For these seven families who lost a member each to the twin earthquakes in Nepal, it is the little belongings they left behind that keep the memories alive.
Khurram says that in the first raid, three militants were trapped in a building and killed themselves by detonating explosive vests.
Bloggers Avijit Roy, Ananta Bijoy Das and Washiqur Rahman were hacked to death by Islamic militant groups earlier this year as they wrote against certain aspects of Islam.
A Taliban truck bomber detonated about 1,000 kilograms of explosives, outside a government complex in southern Afghanistan wounding more than 70 people.
Two persons have been arrested in Bangladesh for their alleged links to the dreaded Islamic State (IS) militant group, the police said.
Gilani's son Ali Haider was kidnapped by gunmen in Multan, his hometown, two days before the May 11, 2013 general election.
While it could not be independently verified by The AP, the man in the video resembled other known photographs of Hong Xudong, kidnapped in May 2014.
A tremor measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale was recorded at 7.06 am with epicentre in Dolakha, according to the National Seismological Centre.
The landslide created a dam and a lake 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) long on the Kaligandaki River, said government administrator Yam Bahadur Chokhal.
Pakistan expressed serious concern over Defence Minister Parrikar's remarks that "terrorists have to be neutralised only through terrorists," saying it confirms about India's involvement in terrorism.
About 240 Nepalese nationals and 89 foreigners have still been missing since the April 25 earthquake, police said.
Nobody has taken responsibility but Baloch nationalists often attack the security forces in the region.
"They have all studied from reputed institutions and one of them has personally met Osama bin Laden and Aiman al-Zawahari in the past," said a police officer.
Earthquakes on April 25 and May 12, killed at least 8,622 people and damaged 756,000 houses and other buildings in Nepal. Now its time for them bring in good urban planning like Mexico.
Pakistan's military are now being progressive in firing airstrikes on the foreign and local militants inside the border. It has cleared more than 90 % of the region since the start of the JUNE 15 mission.
The Indian Army is primarily involved in helping the Nepal administration clear debris and bring down hazardous structures.
The blast was strong enough to rattle windows several kilometres away in Kabul's diplomatic district.
Koirala asked the citizens to inform the government about misuse of the relief aid, black marketing and hoarding for urgent legal action.
The Afghanistan judge announced the sentences as part of a trial of 49 suspects, including 19 police officers for brutally killing a woman.
Musharraf said Pakistani armed forces had won the Kargil battle in 1999 but the then Nawaz Sharif-led government converted the success into a political defeat.
200 religious scholars in Pakistan have issued a fatwa terming suicide attacks as "un-Islamic" and said the Islamic governments are bound to crush rebel groups like the Taliban, ISIS and al-Qaeda.
Taliban attack on a district headquarter in southern Uruzgan province in Afghanistan has killed at least seven people.
The temblor was experienced in Muzaffarpur, Madhubani, Kisanganj, East Champaran, Lakhisarai, Munger and many other parts of the state.






