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Trade comes to a halt at Attari border after Pulwama attack, India imposes 200% RD on non-essential imports
•Following the 14 February terror attack in Pulwama, Indian importers and manufacturers have cancelled all the orders to neighbouring Pakistan and are also demanding the return of advance payments.
Pulwama attack may popularise trend of 'rare' suicide bombings, fear security forces; locals call it un-Islamic
Sameery •In Kashmir, the idea of suicide bombing has never gained social sanction as a means of political struggle. This perhaps explains why even the new age militants, mostly homegrown, have stayed away from it.
Pulwama terror attack kills 42 jawans: Full list of slain CRPF personnel in Thursday's JeM suicide bombing
Fp Staff •Militant group JeM claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama. JeM spokesperson Muhammad Hassan told local media that the attacker was a local militant, Aadil Ahmad alias Waqas Commando.
Pulwama terror attack: Navjot Singh Sidhu asks whether Pakistan can be blamed for actions of a 'handful of people'
•Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu condemned the Pulwama terror attack, but also asked: "For a handful of people, can you blame the entire nation and can you blame an individual?"
Rajnath Singh leaves for J&K: Minister to asses situation in state, pay respect to jawans killed in Pulwama terror attack
•During the visit to Jammu and Kashmir, Rajnath Singh will take part in a high-level meeting in Srinagar to be attended by Governor Satya Pal Malik and top civil, police and other security officials.
Suicide attack at Libya's foreign ministry kills at least three, injures 21; Islamic State claims responsibility
•Suicide attackers stormed the Libyan foreign ministry in the capital Tripoli on Tuesday, killing at least three people including a senior civil servant in an attack claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group. Twenty-one other people were wounded in the attack, authorities said.
Afghanistan: Suicide bomber, extremists attack govt building in Kabul; 43 killed, 10 injured
•It was the deadliest assault in Kabul since a suicide bomber blew himself up in the middle of a religious gathering last month, killing at least 55 people.
Afghanistan: 12 people including four security forces killed in Kabul suicide bombing; Taliban claims attack on convoy
•In November Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani said nearly 30,000 soldiers and police officers have been killed since 2015 - a figure far higher than anything previously acknowledged.
68 killed, 165 injured in suicide attack in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province; no group claims responsibility so far
•Scores of demonstrators had blocked the highway between Afghanistan's Jalalabad and a major Pakistan border crossing, in protest over the appointment of a local police chief when the suicide bomber blew himself up.
Islamic State claims responsibility for suicide blast that struck Shiite area in Kabul, left 34 students dead
•IS says its bomber, identified as "martyrdom-seeking brother Abdul Raouf al-Khorasani" carried out the attack, allegedly killing or wounding more than 200 students.