Pakistan Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who was said to be killed in a US drone attack in South Waziristan, had fled the area before the missiles hit, a Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman has said.
Earlier, a Pakistani security official had claimed that the drone attack which killed at least ten people, had also left three [...]
Noting that the ‘border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan remains the epicentre of Al Qaeda,’ President Barack Obama says he has ‘no intention of sending US boots on the ground’ to Yemen and Somalia.
‘I do think it’s important to recognize that the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan remains the epicentre of Al Qaeda, their [...]
Six people, suspected to be militants, were killed Friday in a huge explosion that ripped through a house in this commercial capital of Pakistan, police said.
The deafening blast took place at a house located in Balida town area.
Deputy Inspector General of Police (West) Abdul Majeed Dasti told Geo TV that six people were killed [...]
Six people were killed Friday in a massive explosion at a house in this commercial capital of Pakistan, police said.
The deafening blast took place at a house located in Balida town area.
Deputy Inspector General of Police (West) Abdul Majeed Dasti told Geo TV that six people were killed and the bodies were trapped under the [...]
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Islamabad, Jan 6 (DPA) At least 15 people were killed and several more injured in two suspected attacks by US drones in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal district Wednesday, a security official said.
Separately, a bomb ripped through an army barracks in the Pakistan-controlled part of the disputed Kashmir region, killing at least three soldiers.
A US pilotless [...]
At least three people were killed and 11 injured Wednesday in a massive explosion that tore the barracks of a military hospital in Pakistan’s Rawla Kot region, media reports said.
The injured were taken to the military hospital. Four of the injured were in a critical condition, Geo TV reported.
It was not immediately clear whether the [...]
Islamabad, Jan 4 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has said the lack of implementation of the Charter of Democracy (CoD) immediately after it was signed was “the biggest mistake”.
Interacting with a group of journalists, Gilani [...]
Peshawar, Jan 4 (ANI): At least 12 militants were killed in Swat and Waziristan in the Pakistan Army operation and US drone strikes, while two soldiers were martyred in separate incidents in the last 24 hours.
Missiles fired by a suspected US drone killed five terrorists in Mosakki village, about 25 kilometres east of Miranshah. It [...]
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 [...]
Washington, Jan.3 (ANI): Friday’s deadly suicide attack at a volleyball match in Pakistan’s northwestern town of Lakki Marwat, in which over 90 people were killed, has raised questions about the Pakistan Army’s claims about its success in the South Waziristan offensive.
According to Abdul Basit, a security analyst at the Islamabad based Pakistani Institute for Peace [...]
Lahore, Jan.3 (ANI): After keeping them in custody for months, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has released the family members of its chief Baitullah Mehsud, who was killed in a US drone strike in August last year.
According to the BBC Urdu, Mehsud’s in-laws, who were abducted by the TTP for ’spying for the government’ were [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
New York, Jan 1 (ANI): The United Nations has decided to move a quarter of its international staff (60 employees) out of Pakistan over fears of security concerns for at least six months.
The decision, which does not apply to the organization’s 2,700 Pakistani employees, will be re-evaluated [...]
Washington, Jan.1 (ANI): Contrary to the Pakistani army’s claim of reportedly having killed four militants and arresting several others during a raid on a private hospital in South Waziristan, the Taliban’s stronghold, eyewitnesses said that those who have been taken into custody were not extremists but rather [...]
Islamabad, Dec 31 (DPA) The UN said Thursday it was planning to temporarily relocate some of its international staff out of Pakistan to ’safer places’ due to security reasons.
Ishrat Rizvi, the UN information officer here, said ’some percentage’ of the organization’s foreign workers will be relocated to other countries in accordance with the ‘re-alignment of [...]
Islamabad, Dec 31 (DPA) Pakistan said Thursday that the US-led international forces should not leave war-torn Afghanistan until the country was strong enough to take care of itself.
‘As a matter of fact what we say is that a hasty withdrawal would not be desirable,’ the country’s foreign ministry spokesman Abdul Basit told a press briefing [...]
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 [...]
Islamabad, Dec 28 (DPA) The Pakistani military said Monday that 15 militants were killed as troops repelled an attack at a checkpoint in the South Waziristan tribal district on the Afghan border.
Government forces have been battling Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters in the region since Oct 17, gaining control of key towns and securing main [...]
Islamabad, Dec 27 (DPA) An explosion tore through the house of a government employee in Pakistan’s troubled Kurram tribal district Sunday, killing him and five other family members, an official said.
The blast occurred at the hone of Sarfraz Khan, a draftsman, in Sadda town, 35 km southeast of the district’s main city of Parachinar.
Khan, his [...]
Islamabad, Dec 26 (IANS) The US embassy has formally requested the Pakistani government to provide bulletproof vehicles for its diplomats and other American staff posted in this country.
The concerned authorities are mulling over the request, Online news agency reported.
What is weighing with the authorities is the fact that should the US request be accepted, [...]
Islamabad, Dec. 21 (ANI): Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has claimed that only 10 of the 8,442 cases withdrawn under the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) are against Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leaders.
“A total of 8,442 cases were withdrawn under the National [...]
Washington, Dec. 19 (ANI): The Pakistan Army might have been claiming that it has forced the militants to flee their dens in the tribal regions along the Afghan border, but fears have arisen that the extremists have infiltrated into the heart of [...]
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 [...]
Lahore, Dec. 18 (ANI): US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen has said that the Pakistan Army would take on the Afghan Al-Qaeda commander Sirajuddin Haqqani’s network once it finishes its offensive in South Waziristan.
In an interview with a private television channel, Mullen said that Pakistan military’s offensive in South Waziristan, the [...]
Islamabad, Dec 15 (DPA) At least 27 people were killed and 90 injured Tuesday when a car bomb exploded near the residence of a minister in Pakistan’s eastern province of Punjab, officials said.
The blast in Dera Ghazi Khan town destroyed the house of Dost Mohammad Khosa, the provincial minister for local agencies and community development, [...]
New York, Dec. 13 (ANI): Pressing Pakistan to do ‘more’ against terror groups such as the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that Islamabad’s support in the Afghan war is ‘critical’ for the success of the international effort to destroy and dismantle [...]
Islamabad, Dec 13 (DPA) Pakistani security forces killed at least 22 militants in combat over the weekend in the restive Kurram tribal region bordering Afghanistan, media reports said Sunday.
It is believed that hundreds of Taliban fighters have fled to Kurram and other nearby districts to escape the army offensive in the South Waziristan tribal badlands, [...]
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 [...]
