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Quetta operation: 5 alleged terrorists killed
By: Alize Ahmed | 6th June 2013 Quetta operation: 5 alleged terrorists killed QUETTA: Deputy Inspector General Operations Fayyaz Sumbal said that five alleged terrorists were killed in exchange of fire that took place between them and law enforcement agencies in Khrotabad area, here on Thursday morning. Earlier, DIG Operations said...
Rangers’ targeted operations in Karachi, 16 arrested
By: Farah Jamil | 30th May 2013 Rangers’ targeted operations in Karachi, 16 arrested KARACHI: Rounded up 16 suspects in Sindh Rangers’ targeted operations in different parts of the city here on Thursday. According to the sources, Rangers conducted targeted operations in Mehran Town, Ghausia Colony, Naval Colony, Usmanabad and other areas,...
Police arrests chief of Ali Gilani’s kidnappers from Charsadda
By: Aqsa Ishtiaque | 17th May 2013 Police arrests chief of Ali Gilani’s kidnappers from Charsadda NOWSHERA: The chief of the kidnappers, who abducted the son of former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Ali Haider Gilani, has been arrested, on Friday. According to the local Police, it arrested the chief of kidnappers (Wazir) while...
Bomb kills Afghan intelligence officer
By: Farah Jamil | 11th May 2013 Bomb kills Afghan intelligence officer KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan official says a bomb has killed a senior provincial intelligence official at his home in a remote northeastern corner of the country. Mohammed Zahir, spokesman for Nuristan’s governor, said the province’s deputy...
Karzai Suggests Afghan Taliban Target Pakistan
By: Fawad Khan | 4th May 2013 Karzai Suggests Afghan Taliban Target Pakistan President Hamid Karzai Saturday suggested that the Taliban should turn their weapons against Pakistan, escalating tensions with Islamabad days after the two countries exchanged fire along a disputed border. Speaking to reporters in Kabul, Mr. Karzai praised an...
Karzai calls on Taliban to fight against enemies
By: AFP | 4th May 2013 Karzai calls on Taliban to fight against enemies KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on the Taliban on Saturday to fight Afghanistan’s enemies in what was widely seen as a swipe against Pakistan days after the neighbors’ security forces clashed on their border. Karzai’s remarks are...
Imran claims Benazir was not assassinated by Taliban
By: Aqsa Ishtiaque | 2nd May 2013 Imran claims Benazir was not assassinated by Taliban LONDON: Either it was an information from a confirmed source or just a speculation when Pakistan Tehrik e Insaf chairman Imran Khan claimed that former prime minister Benazir Bhutti was not assassinated by the Taliban. While speaking in...
CIA dollars for Karzai ended up with Taliban
By: Alize Ahmed | 29th April 2013 CIA dollars for Karzai ended up with Taliban KABUL: For more than a decade, wads of American dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and, on occasion, plastic shopping bags have been dropped off every month at the offices of Afghanistan’s president — courtesy of the Central Intelligence...
Afghanistan: Bus crash kills 30
By: AP | 26th April 2013 Afghanistan: Bus crash kills 30 KABUL: An official says a bus in southern Afghanistan has collided with the burning wreckage of a truck that was attacked by Taliban insurgents, killing 30 bus passengers. Omar Zawak, the governor’s spokesman in Helmand province, said the...
Pak-Afghan ties in hot water
By: AFP | 23rd April 2013 Pak-Afghan ties in hot water KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai left Tuesday for talks in Brussels with top US and Pakistani officials aimed at reviving faltering efforts to bring peace to his country. Karzai’s office says patience is running out with Pakistan, seen...
Kabul: Taliban planning massive suicide attack, arrested
By: AFP | 19th April 2013 Kabul: Taliban planning massive suicide attack, arrested KABUL: Afghan authorities said on Friday they have arrested five Taliban insurgents who were planning suicide attacks on civilians in the capital Kabul and another city later this month. Police arrested the four men and one woman in...
Revenge: Taliban threaten US troops in Afghanistan
By: AFP | 18th April 2013 Revenge: Taliban threaten US troops in Afghanistan KABUL: The Taliban on Thursday pledged to take revenge on US troops in Afghanistan after guards at Guantanamo prison fired non-lethal rounds at inmates to quell unrest. Guards at the US-run prison in Cuba fired the rounds last...
Fighting rages in Tirah Valley, 15 militants, one soldier martyr
By: Majid Siddique | 11th April 2013 Fighting rages in Tirah Valley, 15 militants, one soldier martyr PESHAWAR: Fifteen militants and one soldier was martyr on Thursday when the Pakistan military mounted another operation in a week of fighting designed to seize control of a remote but strategic valley in the northwest, the army said....
Afghani Taliban’s attack on Kurram Agency
By: Monitoring Desk | 4th April 2013 Afghani Taliban’s attack on Kurram Agency KURRAM AGENCY: Two security men were injured when Afghan Taliban attacked a check post in Kurram Agency Thursday. According to sources, Afghan Taliban attacked a security check post in Lower Kurram early Thursday morning and injured two security...
Mullah Omar worries over Taliban’s defame
By: Maliha | 3rd April 2013 Mullah Omar worries over Taliban’s defame Senior Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has admitted recently that some of Taliban’s area commanders were involved in the business of kidnapping for ransom, bringing bad name to the Taliban movement. Mullah Omar told his commanders through...
Girls’ school teacher shot dead in Khyber agency
By: AFP | 26th March 2013 Girls’ school teacher shot dead in Khyber agency PESHAWAR: A Pakistani girls’ school teacher was killed in a drive-by shooting on Tuesday in the country’s volatile tribal belt on the Afghan border, officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but militants...
Islamabad to negotiate with Taliban
By: Aqsa Ishtiaque | 22nd March 2013 Islamabad to negotiate with Taliban ISLAMABAD: Islamabad is ready to engage in negotiations with all militant groups that can help end the decade-long war in Afghanistan and restore peace in Pakistan, a senior official said on Thursday. “We will accommodate any entity that...
Taliban claims responsibility for Afghan ministry attack
By: Fawad Khan | 9th March 2013 Taliban claims responsibility for Afghan ministry attack Kabul – The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack at the Afghan Defence Ministry with an explosive vest. Spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said a militant named Mohammad targeted a queue of ministry personnel at the entrance. “It was a pre-planned attack...
Taliban threaten to bomb mobile phone shops
By: Sheraz Nasir | 2nd March 2013 Taliban threaten to bomb mobile phone shops PESHAWAR: Pakistani Taliban have threatened to bomb a mobile phone market in the northwestern city of Peshawar for the “shameless” selling of video clips, ring tones and accessories, officials said Saturday. Some 60 shopkeepers received letters in the post...
Two suicide attacks in Afghanistan kill three
By: Majid Siddique | 24th February 2013 Two suicide attacks in Afghanistan kill three KABUL: Two suicide car bombings in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday killed two intelligence agents and a police officer, officials said. In the first attack, a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a spy agency facility in the...
Taliban to announce ceasefire before talks: Rehman Malik
By: Afraz Ahmed | 13th February 2013 Taliban to announce ceasefire before talks: Rehman Malik ISLAMABAD: Pakistan government on Wednesday urged the Taliban to announce a 30-day ceasefire as a precursor to peace talks which the militants offered earlier this month, adding the nation had rejected their campaign of terror. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)  has stepped...
Nawaz Sharif demands Taliban peace talks
By: AFP | 8th February 2013 Nawaz Sharif demands Taliban peace talks ISLAMABAD: President of PML-N Nawaz Sharif has demanded immediate talks with the Taliban and called on the government to take seriously a conditional peace offer from the insurgents. In a video message handed out to journalists on Sunday,...
Taliban bombs kill Afghan family, police: officials
By: Fawad Khan | 3rd February 2013 Taliban bombs kill Afghan family, police: officials KANDAHAR Taliban roadside bombs killed five civilians, including a family of four, and two police officers in the country’s troubled south at the weekend, officials said Sunday. The family — mother, father and two daughters aged eight and...
Malala to undergo skull reconstruction, in Britain
By: Reuters | 30th January 2013 Malala to undergo skull reconstruction, in Britain Fifteen-year-old Malala Yousufzai, who was shot in October and brought to Britain for treatment, was discharged from the hospital earlier this month to spend time with her family after her initial treatment phase. Her doctors said on Wednesday...
Afghan bomb blast kills 8 police, 3 detainees
By: Majid Siddique | 27th January 2013 Afghan bomb blast kills 8 police, 3 detainees KANDAHAR: Eight police officers and three detainees were killed when their vehicle was blown up by a powerful homemade bomb in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, officials said on Sunday. The incident happened late Saturday – the...
Taliban attack on Kabul police HQ kills 3 officers
By: AP | 21st January 2013 Taliban attack on Kabul police HQ kills 3 officers Police say a Taliban raid of the Kabul traffic police headquarters is over and that three police officers and at least five insurgents have been killed in the hours-long fighting. Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi says the battle...
 
 
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