Pakistan is entering a dangerous phase of militancy as the spate of terrorism and violence in the year gone by suggests, security experts said Monday.
A new terrorist nexus of local and international militants has evolved to hit the Pakistani state and society, the experts observed at the launch here of the Pakistan Annual Security Report [...]
Pakistan’s armed forces have succeeded in destroying the Taliban infrastructure in the country’s northwest, Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar said Monday.
Speaking to Elke Hoff, a member of the German Federal Parliament, who called on him here, Mukhtar said the security forces had successfully defeated the terrorists in Swat and South Waziristan Agency and they were now [...]
A group of 100 people have become the first tourists to visit Pakistan’s picturesque Swat Valley after the area, once referred to as Switzerland of the East, was cleared of the Taliban.
What attracted the visitors, largely from Lahore, Gujranwala and other areas of Punjab, was the 10-day free stay from Jan 1-10 offered by the [...]
Islamabad, Jan 4 (IANS) The blast in a Muharram procession in Karachi that claimed 25 lives was not a suicide attack, Pakistan’s interior minister said Monday, adding that investigations into the incident were 80-85 percent complete and would be made known soon.
Speaking to reporters here after a review meeting on the Karachi situation, Interior Minister [...]
Islamabad, Jan 3 (DPA) Two roadside bombings in Pakistan’s restive northwestern region Sunday killed at least six people, including a former lawmaker and an anti-Taliban tribal elder, officials said.
Ghani-ur-Rehman, a former minister in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), and three of his guards died when their vehicle was struck by a bomb near Hangu, [...]
Islamabad, Jan 3 (DPA) Two roadside bombings in Pakistan’s restive north-western region Sunday killed at least five people, including a former lawmaker and an anti-Taliban elder, police said.
Ghani-ur-Rehman, a former minister in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), and two of his associates died when their vehicle was struck by a bomb near Hangu, a [...]
Peshawar, Jan.3 (ANI): Awami National Party (ANP) chief Asfandyar Wali Khan has said the peace accord between the Taliban and the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Government was inked under pressure from the extremists.
“One militant wearing a suicide vest placed himself behind Afrasiab Khattak and one behind Mian Iftikhar (the party’s senior [...]
New York, Jan.2 (ANI): The Pakistan Army has rejected several appeals by the US to take on the North Waziristan based Taliban network run by Sirajuddin Haqqani, who uses the area to stage his insurgency against the American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, but now North West Frontier [...]
Peshawar, Jan.2 (ANI) : Prisons and detention centres across the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) have become a breeding ground for the terrorists as they utilise these to [...]
Washington, Jan 2 (DPA) US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has condemned the suicide bombing at a volleyball game in Pakistan that killed at least 95 people.
Clinton late Friday said the US would continue to provide support to Pakistan as it confronts terrorism within its borders.
‘The US strongly condemns (the) attack on civilians in Pakistan, [...]
Peshawar, Jan.2 (ANI): The death toll in Friday’s suicide attack in Shah Hassankhel town of Laki Marwat in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), which occurred during a volley ball match, has mounted to 90.
According to, District Police Officer (DPO) Ayub Khan, the attacker blew [...]
Islamabad, Jan 2 (DPA) At least 95 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP), with many children feared to be among the victims.
More than 100 people were injured in Friday’s attack, which took place at a volleyball match in Shah Hassan Khan village, some 30 km south [...]
Islamabad, Jan 2 (IANS) The toll in a suicide bomb attack in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP) has risen to 75, police said.
The attack took place Friday in Lakki Marwat district of NWFP, Xinhua reported.
The bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into the wall of a volleyball ground, killing 75 people and injuring 60 others. [...]
Islamabad, Jan 2 (DPA) At least 50 people were killed in a New Year’s Day suicide bomb attack in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP), with many children feared to be among the victims, police said.
Over 100 people were injured in the attack, which took place at a volleyball match in Shah Hassan Khan village, [...]
Islamabad, Jan 1 (DPA) At least five people were killed and 20 others injured in a suicide bombing in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province Friday, police said.
The bomber detonated his explosives-laden car near a sports ground in the Lakki Marwat district. Several children were among the victims, according to police.
No one has so far claimed [...]
New Delhi, Jan 01 (ANI): Sardar Sham Singh has been appointed as the new head of the Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (PSGPC) after his candidature was unanimously accepted on Friday by members of the Sikh body.
He has been named president of PSGPC after a gap of nearly one-and-half [...]
Islamabad, Dec 31 (IANS) Pakistan and the US Thursday inked a pact under which Washington will grant an initial tranche of $55 million (Rs.4.5 billion) for the reconstruction of the South Waziristan agency where the armed forces are currently engaged in a major anti-Taliban operation.
Habib Ullah Khan, additional chief secretary of the North West Frontier [...]
Rawalpindi, Dec 31 (IANS) The Pakistan Army said Thursday it had achieved major successes in the war against terrorism in 2009 by killing more than 2,600 terrorists including foreigners.
Speaking to reporters here, Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas, the director general of Inter-Services Public Relations, said that at least 223 officers and other ranks of the Pakistan [...]
New York, Dec. 31 (ANI): The success of the planned troop surge in Afghanistan is directly related to whether the Obama administration can persuade Pakistan to carry out a determining operation against Afghan insurgents present on its soil, the Wall Street Journal has said, citing senior US officials.
US officials have also been pressing Islamabad [...]
Islamabad, Dec 30 (IANS) Unending suicide attacks that have claimed close to 1,000 lives and anti-Taliban military operations dominated Pakistan in 2009, a year that raised question marks over the future of President Asif Ali Zardari.
In the last three months of the year alone, some 600 people, mostly civilians, died in a series of blasts [...]
London, Dec.27 (ANI): The ever-expanding terror threat in Pakistan has not only affected country’s civilian regime and its economy, but it has also ruined ancient Buddhist monasteries and other such historical relics in the war ravaged North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
Places such as Mingora, Peshawar and the Swat Valley were dotted with magnificent remains of [...]
Karachi, Dec.27 (ANI): At least 26 people, including four security personnel were injured in a bomb blast, which targeted a Muharram procession here.
The blast occurred soon after the procession passed the Khilafat Chowk in Karachi’s North Nazimabad Town.
Initial investigations suggested that the bomb, which [...]
Peshawar, Dec.24 (ANI) : Suicide attacks continue to rattle Pakistan, as another such strike in Peshawar killed four persons and injured several others on Thursday morning.
The blast took place near the State Life Building situated on Mall Road in the Saddar area of the provincial capital.
North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Minister Bashir Bilour said that [...]
Bangalore, Dec. 24 (ANI): Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill still owes the exclusive Bangalore Club 13 rupees in unpaid bills.
An entry in the ledger book of the club from June 1899 has “Lt WLS Churchill” named as one of 17 defaulters, reports the BBC.
Churchill arrived in Bangalore in 1896 as a young army officer [...]
Karachi, Dec. 24 (ANI) : Scores of militants belonging to the banned terror organisation, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) have entered Karachi to wreak havoc in the city during Muharram, police officials have said.
According to the officials, the militants who, until now, were [...]
Lahore, Dec. 22 (ANI): Illegal arms trade and the easy availability of such smuggled weapons has added to the deteriorating law and order condition of Pakistan.
The extent of this illegal business can be gauzed from the fact that the pistols can now even be acquired on rent, which helps criminals to evade law-enforcement agencies. [...]
Islamabad, Dec 18 (DPA) A suicide car bomber struck a police compound in Pakistan’s northwestern district of Lower Dir Friday, killing at least 12 people, including three policemen, officials said.
About 30 people were wounded in the blast, which took place near the main gate of the Police Lines Headquarters in the district’s main town of [...]
Islamabad, Dec 18 (IANS) At least seven people were killed and over 20 wounded Friday in a massive blast near the police headquarters in Lower Dir district of Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province, police said.
The explosion occurred near a mosque in Khurshid police lines in Timar Gira area in Lower Dir, Geo TV reported.
‘For now we [...]
New Delhi, Dec.17 (ANI): Pakistan organised the Taliban within the country with the active support of the United States and Saudi Arabia in 1996 when Benazir Bhutto was the Prime Minister and Nasir Ullah Babar was interior minister of Pakistan, Afzal Khan, a [...]
Islamabad, Dec.9 (ANI): Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has claimed that security forces have nabbed four trucks laden with Indian arms and ammunitions from Islamabad.
Interacting with media persons outside the Parliament house, Malik said Pakistan is not levelling charges against India about its involvement in terror activities in the country without any evidence, which has [...]
