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The extent to which Pakistan has borne the brunt of the US-led “War against Terror” can be gauged from the fact that during the last 102 months since the 9/11 episode, the country has averagely been rocked by terrorists every 10th day during this period, which has witnessed 332 terrorism-related incidents inflicting 5,704 deaths till [...]
PESHAWAR: Security forces on Saturday arrested five militants belonging to Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan during a search operation in Darra Adam Khel, officials told our correspondent. The five suspects, whose names are being kept secret, were picked up from the Tor Chappar area infested with militants and taken to unknown place for interrogation by the security forces. [...]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has told the United States it wants a central role in resolving the Afghan war and has offered to mediate with Taliban factions who use its territory and have long served as its allies, American and Pakistani officials said. The offer, aimed at preserving Pakistan’s influence in Afghanistan once the Americans leave, could [...]
PESHAWAR: Taliban militants blew up a girls’ school on Saturday in northwest Pakistan, the latest in a wave of attacks by extremists
PESHAWAR: NWFP Senior Minister Bashir Bilour admitted on Saturday that the US private security company Blackwater is present in Pakistan and is operating in the NWFP as well as other areas. Bilour said that Blackwater was engaged in guarding US consulate staff and foreign NGO workers. He said that Pakistan was in a state [...]
WASHINGTON: Al-Qaeda is poised to attempt an attack on the United States within three to six months, America’s top intelligence officials have warned Congress. The intelligence chiefs also warned that militant groups in Pakistan were coordinating their attacks with Al Qaeda, which had led to an increase in terrorist attacks inside Pakistan as well as [...]
TIMERGARAH: Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan have claimed responsibility for the bomb attack on Wednesday that killed three American soldiers, a spokesman for the network claimed in a telephone call to AFP. “We claim responsibility for the blast,” Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Azam Tariq said, calling from an undisclosed location. A bomb planted outside a girls’ school killed three [...]
BEIJING: China on Tuesday warned US President Barack Obama against meeting the Dalai Lama, saying it would “seriously undermine” Sino-US ties — the latest salvo in an escalating row between the two powers, reports AFP. Beijing also said no progress was made in the latest round of talks between Chinese officials and envoys of the [...]
WASHINGTON: Insurgents in North Waziristan threatened the government with a “big war” if it continued to violate a peace accord, US monitors of extremist websites said Monday. The North Waziristan faction of the Shura Ittihadul Mujahideen also called on residents to form a council of elders and seek haven from Afghan President Hamid Karzai should [...]
ISLAMABAD: The cabinet decided on Wednesday to make major budgetary adjustments, including diversion of more than 30 per cent (Rs170 billion) from development and income support programme for the poor towards security expenditure, changes in macroeconomic estimates and at-source deduction of provincial electricity bills. Presided over by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, the meeting also [...]
NEW YORK: The United States formally charged Dr Aafia Siddiqui on Tuesday with trying to kill a group of US soldiers and FBI agents at an Afghan police compound in July 2008 with a rifle she had snatched from a soldier. Dr Aafia’s lawyer, however, rejected the charge, saying that there’s no evidence to support [...]
PESHAWAR: Four important Taliban commanders were killed in a drone strike on January 17 in Shaktoi, official sources told our correspondent. They were identified as Shahid Ullah, Hafiz Nizamuddin Storikhel, Khawarey and Mohtaj, officials said. A key commander of the TTP Punjab Azmatullah Mawiya was also killed in a drone strike on January 15 in [...]
KHYBER AGENCY: Militants blew up a government primary school for boys in the Nadir Khan village of the Landi Kothal Tehsil of Khyber Agency. According to official sources, militants planted two powerful bombs which exploded simultaneously. The school has been completely destroyed but no casualties have been reported so far. After the explosion, security forces [...]
WASHINGTON: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates will arrive in Pakistan with a 125-members delegation after completing his visit to India later this week, US sources told The Statesmen. The two-day talks between Mr Gates’ delegation and the Pakistani officials are expected to focus on the new Afghan strategy, which revolves around Pakistan as the central [...]
ISLAMABAD: Defence of Human Rights Pakistan Chairperson Amna Masood Janjua has said that the success of a US NGO in getting the names of the Bagram Airbase detainees published has established that the Foreign Ministry is “completely inefficient and insincere” in sorting out the issue of missing persons. Talking to media on Sunday, she said [...]
MIRAMSHAH: A US drone attack Sunday killed at least 20 militants in a restive Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan, where Pakistani Taliban chief escaped an attack four days ago, officials said. Three foreigners were also among the dead. The attack took place in Shaktoi area, 40 kilometres (25 miles) southeast of Miramshah, the main town [...]
LAHORE: President Asif Ali Zardari said on Friday that the US-led war against terrorism in the region and the consequent violence in Pakistan had almost paralysed the country’ economy. The president was talking to a US delegation led by the Special Envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke. US Ambassador Anne W. Patterson was also [...]
CHICAGO: A leader of a Pakistani militant group was charged on Thursday with helping to plot a revenge attack on a Danish newspaper that published cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad which angered many Muslims. The US indictment of Ilyas Kashmiri, a leader of the group Harakatul Jihad Islami, accuses him of helping to plot an [...]
KARACHI: With violence rising in the city of Karachi, Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday issued an ultimatum against illegal immigrants in the city, saying that they must leave Karachi within 15 days. Malik also claimed that there are no similarities between the situation in Karachi and Swat. Speaking outside the NAB court in Karachi, [...]
RAWALPINDI: Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani said militancy could only be eliminated by greater intelligence sharing between Pakistani and Nato forces about the movements of Taliban militants. General Kayani made these remarks while talking to a four-member US congressional delegation led by Senator John McCain who called on him at GHQ [...]
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