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Posts tagged with the keyword: ‘Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)’

Hamid Mir: Taliban’s informer or a journalist (secret audio tape)

Hamid Mir: Taliban’s informer or a journalist (secret audio tape)

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 [...]

Two key commanders among 15 nabbed in Khyber Agency

Two key commanders among 15 nabbed in Khyber Agency

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 [...]

Lashkar commander Haji Lal Badshah shot dead in Peshawar

Lashkar commander Haji Lal Badshah shot dead in Peshawar

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 [...]

10 Killed, 37 wounded in suicide blast at Swat checkpost

10 Killed, 37 wounded in suicide blast at Swat checkpost

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 [...]

50 Dead, 120 injured as multiple terror blasts shake Lahore

50 Dead, 120 injured as multiple terror blasts shake Lahore

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 [...]

Preventing the militants’ comeback as they are losing their strongholds in Pakistan

Preventing the militants’ comeback as they are losing their strongholds in Pakistan

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 [...]

Tacit US endorsement to Pak strategic depth concerns

Tacit US endorsement to Pak strategic depth concerns

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 [...]

Blast hits FIA building in Lahore; 14 dead, 61 others injured

Blast hits FIA building in Lahore; 14 dead, 61 others injured

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 [...]

TTP leadership’s names missing from FIA ‘red book’

TTP leadership’s names missing from FIA ‘red book’

ISLAMABAD: A list of wanted persons prepared by Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) names 119 individuals including those involved in attacks on former premier Benazir Bhutto, Pervez Musharraf and on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad. However, the list does not include names of prominent Taliban leaders, a BBCUrdu report said. Although the list formulated with [...]

Taliban attack school in Khyber and a cultural show in Khuzdar

Taliban attack school in Khyber and a cultural show in Khuzdar

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 [...]

Pak troops kill suicide jacket supplier near Peshawar

Pak troops kill suicide jacket supplier near Peshawar

PESHAWAR: The military said Wednesday that a supplier of suicide jackets and explosives who operated a key inter-city network had

‘Mullah Radio’ with head-money of Rs20 million among 5 Taliban commanders killed in Swat

‘Mullah Radio’ with head-money of Rs20 million among 5 Taliban commanders killed in Swat

SWAT: Five important militant commanders including Maulvi Alim Binori and Maulana Shamsul Haq were killed in Madain area

Militants put yet another NATO oil tanker on fire

Militants put yet another NATO oil tanker on fire

PESHAWAR: Suspected militants armed with guns and rockets on Monday blew up a tanker carrying fuel through Pakistan for NATO troops based in neighbouring Afghanistan, police said. Several armed men lobbed a rocket and then opened fire on the supply convoy on the outskirts of Pakistan’s northwestern city Peshawar, senior police officer Imtiaz Ahmed said. [...]

Punjabi Taliban leader Qari Zafar killed in US drone attack

Punjabi Taliban leader Qari Zafar killed in US drone attack

MIRAMSHAH: Qari Zafar, an important leader of so-called Punjabi Taliban, was reported to be among the people killed in a US drone attack in the Dandi Darpakhel area of North Waziristan. Officials said that six militants critically wounded in the missile strike died on Thursday, taking the death toll to 14. He added that all of them were [...]

PTI & religious parties have links with militants: Bashir Bilour

PTI & religious parties have links with militants: Bashir Bilour

PESHAWAR: NWFP senior minister Bashir Ahmed Bilour on Wednesday said the death of former Jamat-i-Islami MNA Inayat Begum’s son while handling explosives in Gur Mandi was evidence that religious parties had links with militants. Speaking to the media at Bana Mari, Bashir Bilour said Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and the rligious parties must stop [...]

CIA wants Pakistan-held Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar transferred to Afghanistan

CIA wants Pakistan-held Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar transferred to Afghanistan

WASHINGTON: The CIA wants Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar transferred to an American prison near Kabul for interrogation, US officials said. The Taliban military chief, who was captured in Karachi earlier this month, is in Pakistan’s custody and is being interrogated mainly by ISI officials, but CIA representatives also have participated in some of these sessions. [...]

Al-Qaeda leader Sheikh Mansoor killed in US drone strike

Al-Qaeda leader Sheikh Mansoor killed in US drone strike

KARACHI: A top al-Qaeda leader of Egyptian origin Sheikh Mansoor had been killed in suspected US drone strike in Toll Khel area of the North Waziristan Agency. Official sources said the strike which was carried out on Febraury 17 also left number of other important militants killed. They said Mansoor was leading the militants who [...]

Military air strike kills at least 30 ‘militants’ in South Waziristan

Military air strike kills at least 30 ‘militants’ in South Waziristan

PESHAWAR: At least 30 militants were killed in an air strike by the Pakistani military on their hideout in a restive tribal area bordering Afghanistan on Saturday, the military said. The Saturday air raid was in Shawal, a militant sanctuary near the border of the South and North Waziristan regions, where many militants are believed [...]

CIA post in Karachi helped catch top guns of Taliban

CIA post in Karachi helped catch top guns of Taliban

WASHINGTON: Pakistan allowed the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to set up a post in Karachi and the data collected by this post led to the arrest of a key Taliban commander and two ‘governors’, officials said. Describing this as “a high-level of cooperation between the United States and Pakistan,” The Washington Post reported on [...]

US drone attack in Miramshah kills four militants: officials

US drone attack in Miramshah kills four militants: officials

MIRANSHAH: Missiles fired from a US drone aircraft slammed into a militant compound in the northwest tribal belt on Thursday, killing at least four militants, officials said. The attack was the fourth US bombing raid since Sunday in North Waziristan district, and hit a stronghold of the Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network, known for staging attacks on [...]

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