Muslim Separatist

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  "Secret Meeting" With Centre's Interlocutor Splits Kashmiri Separatist Group

  A prominent Kashmiri separatist group, Muslim Conference appears to have split right through the middle after its top leader Abdul Ghani Bhat was reported to have quietly met Dineshwar Sharma, the central government's interlocutor for Jammu and Kashmir. Hurriyat leaders had earlier decided not to engage with the interlocutor.

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  Thai Police Arrest First Suspect In Connection With Tourist-Town Bombs

  Thai police said on Monday they had arrested a suspect linked to Muslim separatists in connection with a wave of bombings in tourist towns last month that killed four people and wounded dozens, including foreigners.

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  Railway Worker Killed As Bomb Explodes On Train In South Thailand

  A railway worker was killed and three people were wounded when a bomb exploded on a train in Thailand's southern town of Pattani today, police said. The incident comes a day after peace talks between the Thai government and Muslim separatists ended in a stalemate.

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  Philippine President-Elect Rodrigo Duterte Looking To Destroy 'Imperial Manila'

  Philippine president-elect Rodrigo Duterte takes office this week looking to end the domination of "Imperial Manila" with a radical shift to federalism that he says is vital to fighting poverty and ending a deadly Muslim separatist insurgency.

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  China Executes 3 for Kunming Attack: Court

  China has executed three people for a mass stabbing that killed 31 people last year, the country's top court said today, with authorities blaming the attack on separatists from mainly Muslim Xinjiang.

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  In Quest to Fulfill 'Mission Kashmir', BJP Reaches Out to Former Separatists

  The BJP's "Mission Kashmir" - getting a majority in India's only Muslim majority state - appears to hinge on roping in Kashmiri separatists and fringe political groups.

• Gunmen Kill Four in Troubled Thailand South

  Gunmen stormed a government office in southern Thailand on Thursday, killing four people in an attack police blamed on Muslim separatists whose low-level insurgency has caused thousands of deaths in the past decade.

• PM Narendra Modi to Visit Kashmir Valley Amid Shutdown

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the Kashmir Valley today amid a shutdown called by separatists and warnings by Muslim groups not to create a separate enclave for Kashmiri Pandits.

• Insurgents Launch Multiple Attacks in Thai South, One Dead

  Suspected Muslim separatists in southern Thailand launched a wave of more than thirty attacks on Monday including shootings, bombings and arson, police said, killing one person and injuring more than ten.

• China's Xi says Xinjiang is front line on terrorism, hails police

  Police are the "fists and daggers" in the fight against terrorism, China's President Xi Jinping said on a trip to the western Xinjiang region where authorities say members of a Muslim minority are waging a violent separatist campaign.

• Gunmen kill 13 Pakistanis heading home for Eid

  Separatist insurgents in Pakistan executed 13 bus passengers heading home to celebrate a Muslim holiday, authorities said today, in what they described as ethnically motivated killings.

• Bomb kills two in south Thailand, others defused

  A bomb killed two people in southern Thailand on Sunday and police said they had defused other devices, apparently placed by Muslim separatists showing their capacity to strike despite a failed attack on a marine base last week.

• Insurgents launch rare multiple attacks in south Thailand

  Suspected Muslim separatists launched a wave of bomb attacks in Thailand's south on Friday in a rare show of coordination in a usually low-level insurgency in the predominantly Buddhist country.