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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Militants armed with rockets, guns and grenades attacked a police station in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the country’s northwest before dawn on Monday, killing 10 officers before fleeing, authorities said.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s facilitator said Wednesday that the Thai government and Muslim separatist rebels in southern Thailand have agreed in principle on a roadmap to try to end a decades-long Muslim insurgency.
In recent years, there have been increasingly frequent and bitter rows over culture and heritage in Malaysia, in step with the poll gains of Islamist parties, who claim to protect the economic and political interests of the multi-ethnic country’s Malay-Muslim majority.
Thai authorities and Malay-Muslim insurgents have agreed to a ceasefire spanning Ramadan and the Buddhist Songkran festival, negotiators said, a small but significant step towards ending a conflict which has claimed several thousand lives over nearly two decades.
The victims included six security personnel who were guarding the premises.
Parts of Myanmar near the 270-kilometre (167-mile) border with Bangladesh have seen frequent clashes since November, when rebel Arakan Army fighters ended a ceasefire that had largely held since a 2021 coup.
“The mandate of the Department of National Defence is to secure the sovereignty of the state and integrity of the national territory as enshrined in the constitution,” Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro said in a statement.
The elections come after a brief campaign marred by the military’s efforts to prevent jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan from regaining power.