–Wells says LeT chief Hafiz Saeed must face prosecution for ‘vicious attacks’ WASHINGTON: The United States has appreciated Pakistan’s efforts to curb militancy but reminded Islamabad that it must do more to…
MANILA: Philippine troops on Saturday clashed with Abu Sayyaf gunmen in fierce jungle fighting that left five soldiers and three militants dead, as the military pushed forward with a fresh offensive sparked…
QUETTA: At least 70 militants and a commander of a banned outfit surrendered their weapons to the government on Tuesday. The militants and the commander from the proscribed Balochistan Republican Army surrendered…
–Curtis says int’l community is concerned about deficiencies in Pakistan’s implementation of anti-money laundering/counter-terrorism finance regime –Key Trump aide calls for more action against Haqqani Network, other terror outfits –Pakistanis would always…
KANDAHAR: Up to three dozen armed militants have been killed and dozens others injured as government forces stormed Taliban hideouts in Miwand district of Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province over the past 24…
ISLAMABAD: In an effort to control militancy and the alleged abuse of madrassas (religious seminaries) by some militant groups operating in the country, Pakistan’s government recently announced plans to bring all madrassas…
ISLAMABAD: Death awaits you in Afghanistan, says refugee Mohammad Wali, insisting he prefers to endure a grim existence in a Pakistani camp than return home and be killed. Islamabad has increasingly put…
Report says Interior Minister Wais Barmak, NDS chief Masoom Stanekzai in Pakistan to handover evidence related to recent attacks in Afghan capital Afghan envoy ‘surprised’ over FO’s announcement that Pakistan had handed over Taliban, Haqqani…
Afghan envoy to UN says ‘plot too complex for Taliban to have developed on their own Afghan officials claim wave of Kabul terror attacks ‘linked to Trump’s withdrawal of aid to Pakistan’…
PIPS study on madrassah students finds indigenous scholarship in madrassah sector missing ISLAMABAD: Experts at a report launch on Wednesday noted that madrassah students are tied to sectarian thinking as the parties…
ISLAMABAD: The Taliban insurgency has quietly sent political negotiators to Pakistan from its Qatar-based office amid a new diplomatic push for encouraging peace talks between parties to the Afghanistan war. A three-member…
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Banned militant outfit Jamaatul Ahrar (JuA) spokesman Asad Mansoor along with two members of the terror group have handed themselves over to the Dera Ismail Khan authorities. According to media reports, Mansoor and…
KABUL: Kabul has claimed that big attacks in Afghanistan were being conducted by Haqqani network under the name of Daesh, according to Tolo News. “For the purpose of provoking Iran and Russia…
KABUL: Iran’s Commander of the IRGC Ground Force’s Quds Base General Mohammad Marani said on Sunday that the mission to free an Iranian national on Afghan soil had been successful, Iranian News…
‘Afghanistan, RAW responsible for violence in the province’ ‘IS through its sympathisers and supporters managing to make roots in Balochistan’ QUETTA: Quetta, the provincial capital of Pakistan’s restive province Balochistan, was once…
KABUL: An assault on an Afghan intelligence facility claimed by Daesh ended Monday afternoon after police killed the attackers, an official said. “The attack has ended. Two attackers were killed… only two…
KABUL: At least four Taliban militants were killed and a key commander of the group was arrested in a night raid carried out by security forces in the eastern Nangarhar province on…
