Washington, Jan 4 (IANS) Taliban groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan have both claimed credit for a suicide bombing that killed seven CIA officers in Afghanistan, but experts say evidence appears to point to Afghan Taliban.
The varying claims of responsibility from the two groups may be both complementary and competitive as militants seek to spread the [...]
Washington, Dec.31 (ANI): The tumultuous situation in Pakistan may prove catastrophic for the region in times to come, and finding a fitting policy to address the issues is as difficult as searching for a lost pin in a desert.
There are some options which can resolve issues, however [...]
Washington, Dec.31 (ANI): Pakistan has been supporting the on going ‘war on terror’ in Afghanistan from both sides as it has its own interests in the region, and it will also try to ensure that either the Afghan Taliban or some other [...]
Islamabad, Dec. 17 (ANI): Highlighting that Pakistan still needs to do a ‘great deal’ against the extremists, US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen has said that top commanders of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda have taken refuge [...]
Lahore, Dec. 13 (ANI): US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke has said that Washington is trying to press Pakistan to “do more” against the Afghani Taliban thriving on Pak-Afghani border.
Holbrooke said that while Pakistan’s military offensive against the Taliban in South Waziristan and Swat is going on for almost six months, the [...]
Washington, Dec.5 (ANI): US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has played down Pakistan’s apprehensions regarding President Obama’s revamped Afghan strategy,and said that Washington is committed to ending the trust deficit between countries.
Political quarters and the media in Pakistan are apprehensive about the new Afghan plan, as they believe the massive surge of troops in [...]
Kabul, Dec 4 (Prensa Latina) The Afghan Taliban have denied having bases in Pakistani territory and said the false campaigns are aimed at distracting the attention from their capability and strong resistance they pose.
The Taliban rebels said they have neither bases nor they need one in Pakistan or any other place out of Afghanistan due [...]
New York, Dec.3 (ANI): Intelligence officials have disputed suggestions that President Obama is sending 30,000 more troops to fight 100 Al Qaeda operatives in Afghanistan, arguing that their influence with the Taliban makes them far more harmful than their numbers would indicate.
Responding to an ABC News story that referred to the [...]
New Delhi, Nov.30 (ANI): Apparently taking a u-turn from what US President Barack Obama envisaged in a joint statement issued during his recent visit toBeijing, where he advocated for China’s increased footprint in South Asia and envisioned a role for that country in facilitating a resumption of the [...]
Washington, Nov.25 (ANI): The United States has confirmed that it would support any initiative for talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan, however any such plan for a dialogue with the insurgents is unlikely to yield the desired results.
According to sources, only middle rank Taliban leaders have agreed for the talks, and any decision [...]
Lahore, Nov.24 (ANI): The United States is in secret talks with the Afghan Taliban, with countries like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Britain playing the role of mediators, sources have revealed.
According to a private television channel, the Obama administration is trying hard to end the eight-year long Afghan ordeal, where the war against the Taliban has [...]
Washington, Nov 20 (ANI): Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) has helped Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar to flee from the border town of Quetta to the port city of Karachi, fearing that US drones might target him.
Recently, one-eyed leader of the Afghan Taliban found refuge from potential US attacks [...]
Washington, Nov 20 (IANS) Mullah Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed leader of the Taliban, is living in Karachi with the help of Pakistan’s intelligence service, The Washington Times said Friday.
Mullah Omar, who hosted Osama bin Laden and other Al Qaeda leaders when they plotted the 9/11 attacks, had been residing in Quetta, where the Afghan Taliban [...]
Islamabad, Nov 12 (IANS) The Al Qaeda ‘could be supporting’ the Pakistani Taliban that has left the country bloodied and bruised through a string of terror strikes, says a leading Pakistani daily.
‘It seems as if there is some other force helping the local Taliban and from the pattern of suicide bombings, it could well [...]
Peshawar, Nov.4 (ANI): A former Pakistan Member of the National Assembly (MNA), Javed Ibrahim Paracha, who is known for having a good contact with the Taliban leadership, has said that the US has approached him once again to initiate talks with the outlawed group.
Paracha said senior officials of the [...]
Islamabad, Nov. 2 (ANI): Pakistan reportedly told US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that members of any Afghan Taliban Shura were not hiding in Balochistan, against whom the US had demanded a crackdown.
According to The Nation, during her recent visit to Islamabad, Clinton pushed Pakistan for [...]
Lahore, Nov. 2 (ANI): President Barrack Obama has reportedly requested Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to help Washington initiate a dialogue process with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
According to the Daily Times, Obama’s request has come in the wake of the United State’s new strategy to deal with the [...]
Peshawar, Oct.25 (ANI): The Afghan Taliban has denied sending reinforcements to Pakistan where their counterparts are engaged in a massive war against the Pakistan Army in South Waziristan.
Afghan Taliban spokesman Qari Muhammad Yousaf Ahmadi called some mediapersons from an undisclosed location and rejected media reports that scores of militants have crossed over to Pakistan from [...]
Islamabad, Oct 19 (IANS) US-led NATO forces vacated more than half a dozen security check posts on the Afghan side of the border just ahead of the major ground offensive launched by the Pakistani military against the Taliban in the volatile South Waziristan region, a media report said Monday.
‘It is feared that the American decision [...]
London, Oct 18 (IANS) The Afghan Taliban will break away from its Al Qaeda ‘war allies’ if a deal is within reach, says the last foreign minister of the erstwhile Taliban government.
Mullah Wakil Ahmed Mutawakkil, who was held in detention by American forces from 2002 to 2005 and now lives in Kabul, told a British [...]
Islamabad, Oct 18 (IANS) The Pakistani Taliban based in South Waziristan committed a series of attacks in this country in the past few weeks with the help of its Afghan counterparts, a media report Sunday said.
‘Leaders of various militant groups active in Pakistan under the banner of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have succeeded in [...]
Washington, Oct 12 (IANS) Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency may ‘have lost enormous control over’ some terror outfits that it backed ‘to gain leverage in Pakistan’s efforts to wrest Kashmir away from India’, the Washington Times said Monday.
Although US drone attacks in the tribal belt in Pakistan’s northwest have been increasingly successful, militants once [...]
Washington, Oct.12 (ANI): Pakistan has long been demanding from the United States to share the real time intelligence inputs regarding the Al-Qaeda and the Taliban so that it could take action against them, however, US officials say they are reluctant to do that as [...]
New Delhi, Oct. 9 (ANI): Although the Taliban has claimed responsibility for Thursday’s suicide car blast outside the Indian Embassy in Kabul that killed 17 people, Pakistan intelligence agency ISI’s [...]
Islamabad, Oct.1 (ANI): The Obama Administration might be hoping to reduce the anti-US sentiments in Pakistan and help the troubled nation to come out of the crises it is facing currently through the tripled non-military aid of 7.5 billion dollars over the next five years, but a senior American lawmaker has said that the aid [...]
New York/New Delhi, Sep 23 (IANS) With the results of the Afghan elections still uncertain, India has pitched in for a ‘political settlement’ by the Afghan people in the war-ravaged nation and warned about the continuing links between Pakistani spy agency ISI and the Afghan Taliban.
India’s growing influence in Afghanistan, however, came in for a [...]
Washington, Sep 23 (IANS) India has accused Pakistan’s spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of playing a disruptive role in the Taliban insurgency by continuing to provide aid to the Afghan Taliban to complicate the military situation there.
‘They are a tandem,’ External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal on [...]
Washington, Sep 23 (IANS) New Delhi has charged that Islamabad’s disruptive role in the Taliban insurgency alongwith aid for the Afghan Taliban provided by Pakistan’s spy agency has complicated the military situation in Afghanistan, with India’s foreign minister asserting ‘they are still together’.
‘They are a tandem,’ External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said in an interview [...]
London, Sep.14 (ANI): The primary focus of America’s war strategy in Afghanistan could shift towards the eastern provinces bordering Pakistan and away from the south of the country, senior military officials have said.
They believe the Afghan Taliban’s ability to find sanctuary and support across the porous border with Pakistan plus the suspected presence in the [...]
Islamabad, Sep. 14 (ANI): A banned terrorist outfit that was involved in the attack on the Indian parliament and the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl, is setting up a huge new base in Pakistan’s Punjab province.
Jaish-e-Mohammad, which counts Atlantic Airline bombing plotter and al-Qaeda suspect Rashid Rauf as a member, has occupied a 4.5 [...]
