Tag: Militant

At least 15 militants from rival groups were killed after they clashed over control of a hide-out in Orakzai Agency on Saturday. The gunfight between...

At least four people were killed in a clash between Zakhakhel tribe and members of defunct Lashkar-e-Islam in Teerah Valley on Thursday, sources said. According...

Four people, including two children, were killed and 28 wounded on Saturday in a bomb blast and a militant attack on troops, security officials...

At least 5 people were killed and dozen others including women and children sustained serious injuries when over 300 militants, who crossed into Pakistan...

Scores of armed militants crossed the border from Afghanistan on Thursday and stormed a village in Pakistan's tribal belt, killing five civilians, Pakistani officials...

Laskar-e-Taiba, an "extremely capable" terror group with a sophisticated regional network, continues to plan its operations from within Pakistan, a US government report has...

NATO said Tuesday that a Moroccan alleged Al-Qaeda operative based in Germany had been captured in Afghanistan. The man, whose name has not been...

Funds from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates financed a network in Pakistan that recruited children as young as eight to wage terrorism,...

LAHORE - The chief of Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI) - Nasrullah Mansoor Langrial - tied knot on Sunday at Jalalpur Jattan, District Gujrat. The 47-year old-guerilla commander was released on February 8 from an Indian jail after 18 years of imprisonment.
He was arrested in 1993 following a tip-off by the Indian Army in the Held Kashmir. He spent time in different prisons including Tihar Jail, Delhi. He was also kept at Balwal Jail in Jammu. While in jail along with Maulana

ISLAMABAD - Interpol said on Thursday it had foiled a militant plot to carry out an attack during the cricket World Cup now being played across South Asia.
"Last week, through cooperation from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, we were able to identify, locate and arrest a terrorist," head of the Paris-based international police agency, Ronald K. Noble, told reporters in Islamabad along with Pakistani interior minister Rehman Malik.
He said the man with "criminal

MINGAWARA - Notorious militant, Noorani Gul, was awarded 120 years of rigorous life imprisonment and a fine of Rs 1 million by an Anti Terrorism Court on Wednesday. Gul, son of Ameer Abbass from Matta, was charged for slaughtering of an employee of education department namely Mohammad Iqbal son of Abdul Sadiq in 2009. He was apprehended during military action. staff report

SRINAGAR - Police in Indian Kashmir said Thursday they had shot dead the top commander of a Pakistan-based militant group blamed for a series of local attacks, including an assault on the state assembly in 2001. The chief of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JEM), Sajjad Afghani, and his bodyguard were killed in a gunfight along the banks of Dal Lake in Srinagar, the biggest city in Kashmir, senior police chief S.M. Sahai told reporters. Afghani, who was also known among the militant ranks as "Qari

GAZA CITY - Israeli warplanes bombed militant training camps in the Gaza Strip for a second time on Saturday, wounding one person, Palestinian officials said. The jets hit two training camps of the Ezzedine al-Qassem Brigades, the armed wing of Gaza's ruling Hamas movement, in the southern city of Rafah, Hamas security officials said, adding that one bystander was lightly wounded. The raids came after pre-dawn strikes against two training camps of the hardline Islamic Jihad group.