Tag: Militancy

In a bid to find a consensus way out of the ongoing violence, terrorism and militancy on their soil, a representative two-day national jirga...

Dashing Congressman Dana Rohrabacher’s drastic designs, the US Congress on Thursday turned down the bill proposing curbs on American aid to Pakistan. Congressman Dana...

Hazrat Gul spent two years in detention for allegedly aiding the Pakistani Taliban when they publicly flogged and beheaded people during a reign of...

At least three persons were killed while 15 others were injured during the security forces’ crackdown in North Waziristan Agency (NWA) capital Miranshah. According to...

Projecting positives “Our press tells us Pakistan is a dangerous place. I feel safe here in Pakistan, that’s why I’m here. Let me say on...

Let us talk again. Talking can not only break the status quo but also ensure a change, mostly good and positive. However, declining such...

Not quite there yet There have been considerable gains in democracy and civil and political freedoms in Pakistan over the last four years. Pakistan can...

Taseer is dead, in a physical sense. But in his death he survives because of the principle he stood for I asked a Barelvi friend...

We’ll muddle through… Will 2012 be the year of hope or despair? It is difficult to give a categorical response to this question. However, the...

It’s in our own backyard "We are going to cut these soldiers into pieces one by one, and we will send these pieces to their...

Who’s the basket case now? The debacle of Dhaka is regarded as a national tragedy in the history of Pakistan whereas the people of Bangladesh...

President Asif Ali Zardari and British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to work together to fight militancy and promote peace in the region at...

U.S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton began an awkward, unsmiling meeting with Pakistan's leaders on Friday as Washington pressed its ally to...

ISLAMABAD - PPP-S chief Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, who is part of Track-II peace initiative in Afghanistan, on Thursday asked the federal and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governments to revisit the policy vis-a-vis terrorism and launch a dialogue process with militants as military operation alone would not yield the desired results.
In an exclusive interview with Pakistan Today, Sherpao said that the security forces conducted three successive military operations in the past few years in

PESHAWAR - The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) police have lost 500 men from constable to top level officers as the frontline force was confronting the highly trained and equipped militants in the ongoing fighting against terrorism since 2007, the official statistics stated.
The sufferings of policemen's lives in KP were higher than that of any other province in the country as the police officials were killed in bomb blasts, suicide attacks, remote controlled explosions and target

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and Afghanistan on Thursday agreed to set up a joint commission of diplomats and military officials to tackle militancy and support the ongoing peace and reconciliation process in the war-torn state.
"We have agreed that we will set up a two-tier joint commission at the foreign ministers and senior officials' level," Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi told a joint press conference with his Afghan counterpart Zalmai Rasoul. He said that the commission

LAHORE: Increase in militancy and intolerance has threatened human rights in Pakistan, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) said on Thursday. The HRCP, on the occasion of the World Human Rights Day on December 10, said that it was a time to reflect on the challenges and opportunities for realisation of human rights in the country. This year growing militancy, extremism and intolerance posed the main threat to people's rights.
Many of the old challenges to human rights