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2016 Uri attack

Index 2016 Uri attack

The 2016 Uri attack was an attack by four heavily armed militants on 18 September 2016, near the town of Uri in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. [1]

129 relations: Abbas Nasir, Abdul Basit (diplomat), Ajit Doval, AK-47, Amnesty International, Azad Kashmir, Badminton Association of India, Ban Ki-moon, Baramulla district, BBC News, Bihar Regiment, Board of Control for Cricket in India, Border Security Force, Boris Johnson, Burhan Wani, Chief of Army Staff (Pakistan), Chief of the Army Staff (India), Daily Excelsior, Daily News and Analysis, Dalbir Singh, Dana Rohrabacher, Dawn (newspaper), Dawn News, Deutsche Welle, Dogra Regiment, Embassy of Afghanistan, New Delhi, Fedayeen, Fire retardant, First Information Report, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Grenade, Grenade launcher, Guerrilla warfare, Gujranwala, Gurdaspur, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Hizbul Mujahideen, Hotline, Human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir, Human Rights Watch, Incendiary ammunition, India, India Today, India Today (TV channel), India–Pakistan relations, Indian Army, Indian National Congress, Indian Standard Time, Indus Waters Treaty, Insurgency, ..., Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, Intelligence Bureau (India), International Business Times, International Cricket Council, Islamabad, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Jammu and Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir Police, Jihad, John Kirby (admiral), Kashmir Valley, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Kulbhushan Jadhav, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Lee Hsien Loong, Line of Control, List of terrorist incidents in India, London, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, Mainstream media, Maithripala Sirisena, Manohar Parrikar, Media of India, Ministry of External Affairs (India), Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Pakistan), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, Narendra Modi, National Investigation Agency, Nawaz Sharif, New Delhi, Nicolás Maduro, Nisar Ali Khan, Pakistan Armed Forces, Pakistan International Airlines, Paolo Gentiloni, Para (Special Forces), Pashto, Pathankot Air Force Station, Pervez Musharraf, Police brutality, Poonch, Potha Bainsi, President of Venezuela, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Raheel Sharif, Rajnath Singh, Sartaj Aziz, Sayeed Salahudeen, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Shaida Mohammad Abdali, South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, Subhash Chandra, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Sushma Swaraj, Taliban, Ted Poe, The Daily Telegraph, The Diplomat, The Economist, The Express Tribune, The New York Times, The Telegraph (Calcutta), The Times of India, The Washington Post, United Nations General Assembly, United Nations Human Rights Council, United States House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade, United States House of Representatives, United States Secretary of State, Uri, Jammu and Kashmir, Vijay Kumar Singh, Yahoo! News, Zee Entertainment Enterprises, Zindagi (TV channel), 19th SAARC summit, 2015 Gurdaspur attack, 2016 Pathankot attack, 2016–18 Kashmir unrest, 40 mm grenade. Expand index (79 more) »

Abbas Nasir

Abbas Nasir is Pakistani journalist and former editor of Pakistan's English language daily DAWN.

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Abdul Basit (diplomat)

Abdul Basit is a retired Pakistani diplomat who served as the former high commissioner of Pakistan to India.

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Ajit Doval

Ajit Kumar Doval, IPS (Retd), PM, PPM, KC (born 20 January 1945) is a former Indian intelligence and law enforcement officer, who, since 30 May 2014, is the 5th and current National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of India.

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AK-47

The AK-47, or AK as it is officially known, also known as the Kalashnikov, is a gas-operated, 7.62×39mm assault rifle, developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov.

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Amnesty International

Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is a London-based non-governmental organization focused on human rights.

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Azad Kashmir

Azad Jammu and Kashmir (آزاد جموں و کشمیر Āzād Jammū̃ o Kaśmīr, translation: Free Jammu and Kashmir), abbreviated as AJK and commonly known as Azad Kashmir, is a nominally self-governing polity administered by Pakistan.

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Badminton Association of India

Badminton Association of India (BAI) is the governing body of badminton in India.

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Ban Ki-moon

Ban Ki-moon (born 13 June 1944) is a South Korean politician and diplomat who was the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 2007 to December 2016.

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Baramulla district

Baramulla district is one of the 22 districts in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Bihar Regiment

The Bihar Regiment is an infantry regiment of the Indian Army.

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Board of Control for Cricket in India

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is the national governing body for cricket in India.

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Border Security Force

The Border Security Force (BSF) is the primary border guarding force of India.

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Boris Johnson

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964), best known as Boris Johnson, is a British politician, popular historian and journalist serving as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs since 2016 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015.

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Burhan Wani

Burhan Muzaffar Wani was the commander of a Kashmiri militant group Hizbul Mujahideen.

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Chief of Army Staff (Pakistan)

The Chief of Army Staff (سربراہ پاک فوج) (reporting name: COAS), is a military appointment and statutory office held by the four-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army, who is appointed by the Prime Minister of Pakistan and final confirmation by the President of Pakistan.

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Chief of the Army Staff (India)

The Chief of the Army Staff is the commander and usually the highest-ranking officer of the Indian Army.

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Daily Excelsior

The Daily Excelsior is an English-language newspaper published in Jammu, a city in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

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Daily News and Analysis

Daily News and Analysis (DNA) is an Indian broadsheet newspaper launched in 2005 and published in English from Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Pune, Jaipur, Bengaluru and Indore in India. It is the first English broadsheet daily in India to introduce an all-colour page format. It targets a young readership and is owned and managed by Diligent Media Corporation.

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Dalbir Singh

Dalbir Singh Suhag, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC (born 28 December 1954) was the 26th Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) of the Indian Army, who assumed office on 31 July 2014, following the retirement of General Bikram Singh.

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Dana Rohrabacher

Dana Tyrone Rohrabacher (born June 21, 1947) is a member of the U.S House of Representatives representing.

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Dawn (newspaper)

DAWN is Pakistan's oldest, leading and most widely read English-language newspaper.

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Dawn News

Dawn News is one of Pakistan's 24-hour Urdu news channel.

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Deutsche Welle

Deutsche Welle ("German wave" in German) or DW is Germany's public international broadcaster.

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Dogra Regiment

The Dogra Regiment is an infantry regiment of the Indian Army.

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Embassy of Afghanistan, New Delhi

The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in New Delhi (Pashto: د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوریت لوی سفارت په نوې ډهلي کې) (Dari: سفارت کبرای جمهوری اسلامی افغانستان در دهلی نو) is the diplomatic mission of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the India.

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Fedayeen

Fedayeen (فِدائيّين fidāʼīyīn) is a term used to refer to various military groups willing to sacrifice themselves.

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Fire retardant

A fire retardant is a substance that is used to slow or stop the spread of fire or reduce its intensity.

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First Information Report

A First Information Report (FIR) is a written document prepared by police organizations in countries like Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan when they receive information about the commission of a cognisable offence, or in Singapore when the police receives information about any criminal offence.

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Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Frank-Walter Steinmeier (born 5 January 1956) is a German politician serving as President of Germany since 19 March 2017.

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Grenade

A grenade is a small weapon typically thrown by hand.

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Grenade launcher

A grenade launcher is a weapon that fires a specially-designed large-caliber projectile, often with an explosive, smoke or gas warhead.

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Guerrilla warfare

Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants, such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or irregulars, use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics, and mobility to fight a larger and less-mobile traditional military.

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Gujranwala

Gujranwala (Punjabi, گوجرانوالا) is a city in Punjab, Pakistan, that is located north of the nearby provincial capital of Lahore.

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Gurdaspur

Gurdaspur is a city in the state of Punjab, situated in the northwest part of the Republic of India, between the rivers Beas and Raavi, 10 km from the international border between India and Pakistan.

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Hafiz Muhammad Saeed

Hafiz Muhammad Saeed (حافظ محمد سعید, born June 5, 1950) is a Pakistani Islamist militant, who is a co-founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the chief of Jama'at-ud-Da'wah (JuD), UN-designated terrorist organisations operating mainly from Pakistan.

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Hizbul Mujahideen

Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (حزب المجاھدین, Ḥizb al-Mujāhidīn, meaning "Party of Holy Warriors" or "Party of Mujahideen") is a Kashmiri separatist militant organization founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989.

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Hotline

A hotline is a point-to-point communications link in which a call is automatically directed to the preselected destination without any additional action by the user when the end instrument goes off-hook.

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Human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir

Human rights abuses in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir state are an ongoing issue.

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Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.

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Incendiary ammunition

Incendiary ammunition is a type of firearm ammunition containing a compound that burns rapidly and causes fires.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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India Today

India Today is an Indian English-language fortnightly news magazine and news television channel.

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India Today (TV channel)

India Today is a 24-hour English language television network based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh that carries news, current affairs and business programming in India.

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India–Pakistan relations

Relations between India and Pakistan have been complex and largely hostile due to a number of historical and political events.

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Indian Army

The Indian Army is the land-based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces.

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Indian National Congress

The Indian National Congress (INC, often called Congress Party) is a broadly based political party in India.

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Indian Standard Time

Indian Standard Time (IST) is the time observed throughout India, with a time offset of UTC+05:30.

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Indus Waters Treaty

The Indus Waters Treaty (English) or सिंधु जल संधि (Hindi) or "سندھ طاس معاہدہ" (Urdu) is a water-shareing treaty between India and Pakistan, brokered by the World Bank (then the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) The Guardian, Monday 3 June 2002 01.06 BST The treaty was signed in Karachi on September 19, 1960 by the first Prime Minister of India Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and then President of Pakistan Ayub Khan.

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Insurgency

An insurgency is a rebellion against authority (for example, an authority recognized as such by the United Nations) when those taking part in the rebellion are not recognized as belligerents (lawful combatants).

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Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir

The insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir or the Kashmiri Insurgency (also known as Kashmir Intifada) is a conflict between various Kashmiri separatists and the Government of India.

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Intelligence Bureau (India)

The Intelligence Bureau (IB) (Aasoochana Byooro) is India's internal intelligence agency.

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International Business Times

The International Business Times is an American online news publication that publishes seven national editions and four languages.

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International Cricket Council

The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the international governing body of cricket.

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Islamabad

Islamabad (اسلام آباد) is the capital city of Pakistan located within the federal Islamabad Capital Territory.

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Jaish-e-Mohammed

Jaish-e-Mohammed (جيش محمد, literally "The Army of Muhammad", abbreviated as JeM) is a Deobandi: "Deobandis like Masood Azhar, a graduate of Jamia Binouria who later set up a jihadist outfit named Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) in 2000, reportedly at the behest of Pakistan's military establishment." jihadist: "as soon as he was freed, Masood Azhar was back in Pakistan where he founded a new jihadist movement, Jai-sh e Mohd Shaikh, which became one of the jihadist groups the ISI used in Kashmir and elsewhere." group active in Kashmir.

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Jammu and Kashmir

Jammu and Kashmir (ænd) is a state in northern India, often denoted by its acronym, J&K.

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Jammu and Kashmir Police

The Jammu and Kashmir Police or JKP, was established in 1873 and is the law enforcement agency, having primary responsibilities in law enforcement and investigation within the twenty two districts of the state of Jammu and Kashmir in India.

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Jihad

Jihad (جهاد) is an Arabic word which literally means striving or struggling, especially with a praiseworthy aim.

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John Kirby (admiral)

John Francis Kirby is a retired Rear Admiral in the United States Navy who served as the Spokesperson for the United States Department of State from 2015 to 2017.

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Kashmir Valley

The Kashmir Valley, also known as the Vale of Kashmir, is a valley in the portion of the Kashmir region administered by India.

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Khawaja Muhammad Asif

Khawaja Muhammad Asif (born 9 August 1949) is a Pakistani politician who served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Abbasi cabinet from August 2017 to April 2018.

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Kulbhushan Jadhav

Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav (also spelled Kulbhushan Yadav, alleged alias Hussain Mubarak Patel) (born 16 April 1970) is an Indian national who was claimed by the Pakistani government that he was arrested in the Pakistani province of Balochistan on charges of terrorism and spying for India's intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing.

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Lashkar-e-Taiba

Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT, لشکر طیبہ; literally Army of the Good, translated as Army of the Righteous, or Army of the Pure and alternatively spelled as Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, Lashkar-e-Toiba; Lashkar-e-Taiba; Lashkar-i-Tayyeba) is one of the largest and most active Islamic terrorism militant organizations in South Asia, operating mainly from Pakistan.

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Lee Hsien Loong

Lee Hsien Loong (Tamil: லீ சியன் லூங்; born 10 February 1952) is a Singaporean politician serving as the third and current Prime Minister of Singapore since 2004.

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Line of Control

The term Line of Control (LoC) refers to the military control line between the Indian and Pakistani controlled parts of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir—a line which does not constitute a legally recognized international boundary, but is the de facto border.

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List of terrorist incidents in India

This is a list of terrorist incidents in India.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Maharashtra Navnirman Sena

The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (मराठी: महाराष्ट्र नवनिर्माण सेना, Mahārāṣṭra Navanirmāṇa Sēnā) is an Indian regional party based in Maharashtra and operates on the motto of "Sons of the Soil".

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Mainstream media

Mainstream media (MSM) is a term and abbreviation used to refer collectively to the various large mass news media that influence a large number of people, and both reflect and shape prevailing currents of thought.

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Maithripala Sirisena

Pallewatte Gamaralalage Maithripala Yapa Sirisena (මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන; மைத்திரிபால சிறிசேன; born 3 September 1951) is a Sri Lankan politician and the 7th and current President of Sri Lanka, in office since January 2015.

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Manohar Parrikar

Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar (born 13 December 1955) is an Indian politician and leader of Bharatiya Janata Party who has been Chief Minister of Goa since 14 March 2017.

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Media of India

Media of India consist of several different types of Indian communications media: television, radio, cinema, newspapers, magazines, and Internet-based Web sites.

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Ministry of External Affairs (India)

The Ministry of External Affairs of India (abbreviated as MEA), also known as the Foreign Ministry, is the government agency responsible for the conduct of foreign relations of India.

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Pakistan)

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (وزارت خارجہ, Wazarat-e-Kharja, abbreviated as MoFA) is a ministry of the Government of Pakistan tasked in managing Pakistan's diplomatic and consular relations as well as its foreign policy.

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China (MOFA or MFA) under the State Council of the Government of the People's Republic of China is an executive agency responsible for foreign relations between the People's Republic of China and other countries in the world.

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Narendra Modi

Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014.

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National Investigation Agency

National Investigation Agency (NIA) is a central agency established by the Indian Government to combat terror in India.

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Nawaz Sharif

Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (Urdu/میاں محمد نواز شریف, born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani business magnate and former politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms, all of the three terms were unsuccessful.

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New Delhi

New Delhi is an urban district of Delhi which serves as the capital of India and seat of all three branches of Government of India.

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Nicolás Maduro

Nicolás Maduro Moros (born 23 November 1962) is a Venezuelan politician who has served as the 63rd President of Venezuela since 2013 and previously served under President Hugo Chávez as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2013 and as Vice President of Venezuela from 2012 to 2013.

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Nisar Ali Khan

Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan (چوہدری نثار علی خان; born 31 July 1954) is a Pakistani politician who recently served as the Interior Minister from 2013 to 2017.

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Pakistan Armed Forces

The Pakistan Armed Forces (پاکستان مُسَلّح افواج, Pākistān Musallah Afwāj) are the military forces of Pakistan.

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Pakistan International Airlines

Pakistan International Airlines (پاکستان انٹرنیشنل ایئر لائنز) commonly referred to by the abbreviation PIA (پی‌آئی‌اے) is the national flag carrier of Pakistan.

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Paolo Gentiloni

Paolo Gentiloni Silveri (born 22 November 1954) is an Italian politician, who served as the 57th Prime Minister of Italy from 12 December 2016 to 1 June 2018.

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Para (Special Forces)

Para (Special Forces), commonly known as Para SF, is the special force unit of the Indian Army.

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Pashto

Pashto (پښتو Pax̌tō), sometimes spelled Pukhto, is the language of the Pashtuns.

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Pathankot Air Force Station

Pathankot Air Force Station is a military airport located 3 km from Pathankot, India, on the Pathankot – Majra Road.

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Pervez Musharraf

Pervez Musharraf (پرویز مشرف; born 11 August 1943) is a Pakistani politician and a retired four-star army general who was the tenth President of Pakistan from 2001 until tendering resignation, to avoid impeachment, in 2008.

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Police brutality

Police brutality is one of several forms of police misconduct which involves undue violence by police members.

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Poonch

Poonch (also referred to as Punch) is a town and a municipal council in Poonch District in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

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Potha Bainsi

Potha Bainsi is a village in Mirpur District of Azad Kashmir, Pakistan.

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President of Venezuela

The President of Venezuela (Presidente de Venezuela), officially known as the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Presidente de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela) is the head of state and head of government in Venezuela's presidential system.

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Pushpa Kamal Dahal

Pushpa Kamal Dahal (पुष्पकमल दाहाल; born 11 December 1954), also known as Prachanda, is a Nepalese politician and one of the two chairmen of the Nepal Communist Party, formed by the union of Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist) and Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre).

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Raheel Sharif

Raheel Sharif (Urdu:; born 16 June 1956),, is a retired four-star rank general in the Pakistan Army who served as the 9th Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army, from 29 November 2013 to 29 November 2016.

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Rajnath Singh

Rajnath Ram Badan Singh (born 10 July 1951) is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who currently serves as the Home Minister.

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Sartaj Aziz

Sartaj Aziz (سرتاج عزيز.; born 7 February 1929) is a Pakistani is the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission of Pakistan.

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Sayeed Salahudeen

Syed Mohammed Yusuf Shah, popularly known as Syed Salahudeen, is the head of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, group operating in Kashmir, and head of an alliance of anti-India militant groups, the United Jihad Council, that works to annex the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir to Pakistan.

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Secretary-General of the United Nations

The Secretary-General of the United Nations (UNSG or just SG) is the head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the six principal organs of the United Nations.

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Shaida Mohammad Abdali

Shaida Mohammad Abdali is the Afghan Ambassador to India.

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South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is the regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union of nations in South Asia.

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Subhash Chandra

Subhash Chandra (born Subhash Chandra Goenka on 30 November 1950) is an Indian Billionaire media baron with interests in packaging, media lottery and cinema.

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Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

Subramanya Jaishanker or S Jai Shankar (born 9 January 1955) is an Indian diplomat who was Foreign Secretary of India from January 2015 to January 2018.

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Sushma Swaraj

Sushma Swaraj (born 14 February 1952. India Today. Retrieved 28 May 2016.) is an Indian politician and a former Supreme Court lawyer.

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Taliban

The Taliban (طالبان "students"), alternatively spelled Taleban, which refers to itself as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), is a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Afghanistan currently waging war (an insurgency, or jihad) within that country.

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Ted Poe

Lloyd Theodore Poe (born September 10, 1948) is an American politician who has represented Texas's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives since 2005.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Diplomat

The Diplomat is an online international news magazine covering politics, society, and culture in the Asia-Pacific region.

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The Economist

The Economist is an English-language weekly magazine-format newspaper owned by the Economist Group and edited at offices in London.

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The Express Tribune

The Express Tribune is a major daily English-language newspaper based in Pakistan.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Telegraph (Calcutta)

The Telegraph is an Indian English daily newspaper founded and continuously published in Kolkata since 7 July 1982.

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The Times of India

The Times of India (TOI) is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Times Group.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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United Nations General Assembly

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; Assemblée Générale AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), the only one in which all member nations have equal representation, and the main deliberative, policy-making and representative organ of the UN.

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United Nations Human Rights Council

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is a United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world.

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United States House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade

The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade is a standing subcommittee within the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber.

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United States Secretary of State

The Secretary of State is a senior official of the federal government of the United States of America, and as head of the U.S. Department of State, is principally concerned with foreign policy and is considered to be the U.S. government's equivalent of a Minister for Foreign Affairs.

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Uri, Jammu and Kashmir

Uri is a town and a tehsil in the Baramulla district, in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

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Vijay Kumar Singh

General Vijay Kumar Singh, (born 10 May 1951) is an Indian politician and a retired four star general in the Indian Army.

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Yahoo! News

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Zee Entertainment Enterprises

Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited is an Indian mass media company owned by Essel Group.

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Zindagi (TV channel)

Zindagi (also known as Zindagi TV) is The first Indian general entertainment online channel, owned by the Zee Entertainment Enterprises (ZEEL).

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19th SAARC summit

The 19th SAARC summit was a scheduled diplomatic conference, which was originally planned to be held in Islamabad, Pakistan on 15–16 November 2016.

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2015 Gurdaspur attack

On 27 July 2015, three gunmen dressed in army uniforms opened fire on a bus and then attacked the Dina Nagar police station in Gurdaspur district of Punjab, India.

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2016 Pathankot attack

The 2016 Pathankot attack was a terrorist attack committed on 2 January 2016 by a heavily armed group which attacked the Pathankot Air Force Station, part of the Western Air Command of the Indian Air Force.

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2016–18 Kashmir unrest

The 2016–18 unrest in Kashmir, also known as the Burhan aftermath, refers to a series of violent protests in the Kashmir Valley of the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir.

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40 mm grenade

The 40 mm grenade is a military grenade caliber for grenade launchers in service with many armed forces.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Uri_attack

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