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Below is a shocking recoded audio call apparently did in the last month between number two of Hakimullah Mehsud, the Pakistan and America’s most wanted man in Pakistan. Hamid Mir is seen talking to the guy and convincing him that Khalid Khawaja is a qadyani (Ahmadi) and is a CIA agent and is worst than [...]
KARACHI: Dr. Fauzia Siddiqi, the sister of Dr. Aafia Siddiqi, has announced that she was ready to adopt the 12-year-old mystery girl even if she was not her niece. The girl was left outside the residence of Dr. Fauzia on Sunday in suspicious circumstances. In a special chat with our correspondent today (Tuesday), Dr Siddiqi said she [...]
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened over the weekend to quit the political process and join the Taliban if he continued to come under outside pressure to reform, according to several members of parliament. They said that Karzai made the unusual statement at a closed-door meeting with selected lawmakers – just days after kicking up [...]
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon has said that Pakistan also needs to be enlisted in any effort to seek reconciliation with the Afghan militants, although the process has to be led and managed by Kabul. A senior US defence official, while briefing journalists in Washington, recalled that Pakistan had offered assistance to Afghanistan in the reconciliation process [...]
PESHAWAR: The security forces have nabbed 15 militants including two key commanders in Khyber Agency on Monday. Official sources said that the militants have been arrested from Qambar Khel and Sharubar areas of Bara and shifted to an undisclosed location. Two unidentified bodies have also been found during the search operation, while the forces have [...]
NEW DELHI: Claiming that they were not in direct conflict with India, Taliban have said there was a possibility of reconciliation even
In a new audio recording, Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has threatened to kill captured Americans if 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is executed. Al Jazeera broadcast the purported message from Bin Laden today. “The day America will take such decision [to execute Mohammed and any others] it would have taken a decision to execute [...]
KABUL: Arrests of Taliban leaders have had a “negative impact” on efforts by the Afghan government to broker a peace deal with the insurgents, a spokesman for President Hamid Karzai said Saturday. The arrests in Pakistan of the Taliban’s second-in-command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, and others in the Islamists’ hierarchy, had slowed down Afghan government [...]
LONDON: Former UN special representative to Afghanistan, Kai Eide has accused Pakistan of arresting key Taliban leaders in a deliberate move to stop secret peace talks
PESHAWAR: A lashkar commander from Mohmand Agency was gunned down along with two guards in Peshawar on Saturday. According to police officials, the lashkar commander, Haji Lal Badshah was on his way to his residence in Peshawar when unidentified gunmen riding on a motorcycle opened fire at him at new Garhi Bukhshu Pul Area. The [...]
PESHAWAR: At least 10 people were killed in a suicide attack in Pakistan’s Swat valley on Saturday, a day after a series of bombings brought chaos and bloodshed to the city of Lahore, police said. The bomber blew himself up in Saidu Sharif, on the southern outskirts of Mingora, the main town of Swat, where [...]
LAHORE: Panic and fear gripped Lahore on Friday after it was rocked by a twin-suicide attack that killed at least 50 people, followed by a series of low-intensity explosions that made a mockery of the security apparatus. Two suicide bombers struck in R.A. Bazaar area of the cantonment in the afternoon, killing 50 people, including [...]
WASHINGTON: The United States continues to worry that groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba, RSS, VHP & Bajrang Dal can cause a war between India and Pakistan, a senior US military commander told a congressional panel on Wednesday. Lt-Gen Francis Kearney, deputy commander, US Special Operations Command, told the Senate Committee on Armed Services that while the United States [...]
LONDON: Five Pakistani men linked to a terror plot in Britain similar to the attacks on the London transport system in 2005 were arrested days before they planned to strike, a hearing was told Tuesday. A British intelligence officer, identified only as ZR, told an immigration panel that the group had been planning to stage [...]
Militants affiliated to the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have been on the run for sometime now after losing their strongholds in Swat and the rest of Malakand region, South Waziristan, Frontier Region Bannu and parts of the tribal areas of Kurram, Khyber, Mohmand and Darra Adamkhel. Recently, they lost almost all of Bajaur due to [...]
KARACHI: An American captured in Pakistan this week and accused of being a key spokesman for al-Qaeda was wrongly identified as Adam Gadahn, the most wanted American in the terrorist organisation, Pakistani officials admitted today. The man arrested in the southern city of Karachi was first identified as Mr Gadahn, who was born in Oregon and [...]
WASHINGTON: The US general who oversees the Afghan war has acknowledged that Pakistan has a reason to be concerned about its lack of strategic depth. In two television interviews this weekend, Gen. David Petraeus also said that the Pakistani “security forces, have put a lot of short sticks into a lot of hornets’ nests over [...]
LAHORE: A car bomb explosion killed at least 14 people and injured 61 others near the FIA and the Special Interrogation Unit buildings in Model Town, Lahore on Monday. “Eleven people have been killed and several others injured in a suicide car bombing, which took place near the FIA and the Special Interrogation Unit buildings [...]
PESHAWAR: Taliban militants blew up a boys’ school and assailants threw grenades into a music event, killing a student, in separate incidents in north and southwest Pakistan, officials said Wednesday. The boys’ school attack took place overnight in the Spin Qabar area of Khyber, a lawless district that straddles the main supply line for Nato [...]
PESHAWAR: The military said Wednesday that a supplier of suicide jackets and explosives who operated a key inter-city network had
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