Terrorism

ISLAMABAD - At least 15 militants were killed and five others were seriously injured in a US drone strike in North Waziristan Sunday that apparently targeted Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Hakimullah Mehsud, reports from the area said.

BHUBANESWAR - Two Maoists Sunday surrendered to the police in Rayagada district of Orissa.

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's strategic assets are as safe as those of any other nuclear weapon's state and are fully safeguarded and secure under a well-established command and control system, the foreign office said Sunday.

ISLAMABAD - A suspected US missile strike killed at least 15 Taliban fighters in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal district near Afghanistan Sunday, security officials said.

TORONTO - Canada has refused to allow the mastermind of the 1984 hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight to Lahore to practise law.