India extends Kashmir curfew, detains separatists

SRINAGAR: The Indian police beat Kashmiri protesters who defied a curfew on Tuesday and troops searched for separatist leaders as the biggest anti-India protests in two decades showed no sign of abating. Authorities said they had detained four separatist leaders since Monday. They raided the homes of dozens of leaders in a sweep. Asiya Andrabi, chief of Kashmir's women's separatist group Dukhtaran-e-Millat was detained late on Tuesday, police said.



Japanese freed in Afghanistan

JALALABAD: The Afghan police freed a kidnapped Japanese aid worker in a raid on Tuesday, hours after he was seized by a group of gunmen, an official said. "He is freed and is fine," Interior Ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary said in Kabul.



Rockets fired at police post

By our correspondent

NOWSHERA: Unknown miscreants fired rockets on Maraji police picket here on Tuesday. However, no causality was reported.