Tag: Militants

PESHAWAR - At least nine militants were killed as security forces targeted their hideouts in central Kurram Agency on Thursday.
According to a private TV, forces have been conducting operations in Kurram Agency for the past ten years and have been able to re-establish their presence in major areas. However, security forces are facing tough resistance in some areas of lower and central Kurram.

NEW YORK - Pakistan is so busy fighting its own Islamist militants that it can do little more to help NATO forces battling in neighbouring Afghanistan, NATO's top civilian there said on Monday.
Mark Sedwill, senior civilian representative for the Western military alliance in Afghanistan, said Pakistani attitudes were hardening toward guerrilla groups that had previously been supported by the state. "In the past, they had relations with various groups," he told the Asia Society

MINGAWARA - Three militants were killed in clashes with the security forces at Gawaleri area of Matta Tehsil in early hours of Tuesday. The officials informed that three militants, who were earlier arrested, were taken to determine the dumping site of arms and weapons in an unpopulated area near to village Gawaleri when they made an attempt to escape.
However, the officials foiled their attempt to do so. All three militants, identified as as Sajid Ali son of Mohammad Zada and Ata

NEW YORK - Pakistan is so busy fighting its own extremist militants that it can do little more to help NATO forces battling in neighboring Afghanistan, NATO's top civilian there said Monday.
Mark Sedwill, senior civilian representative for the Western military alliance in Afghanistan, said Pakistani attitudes were hardening toward guerrilla groups that had previously been supported by the state.
"In the past, they had relations with various groups," he told the Asia Society

PESHAWAR - A militant ambush on a convoy of security forces in Shindhand area of Khyber Agency left 14 personnel dead on Monday, officials said. "The personnel were returning to their base after carrying out a search operation in the nearby Sipah area when ambushed by militants," a senior security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
He said most of the casualties were caused when one of the mortars targeting the militants exploded in the barrel of the gun. "Those

ASADABAD - Taliban insurgents abducted around 50 off-duty Afghan policemen in an ambush in a volatile province in northeastern Afghanistan, the militant group and provincial officials said on Sunday.
The policemen were abducted by militants in the Chapa Dara district of remote northeastern Kunar province after returning from neighbouring Nuristan province where they had travelled to collect their salaries, Nuristan governor Jamaluddin Badr said.
"The policemen were in

ASADABAD - Taliban insurgents abducted around 50 off-duty Afghan policemen in an ambush in a volatile province in northeastern Afghanistan, the militant group and provincial officials said on Sunday.
Taliban-led militants have stepped up their fight this year against the Afghan government and its Western backers at a time when Kabul has announced security responsibilities for seven areas will be handed to Afghan forces in July.
The policemen were abducted by militants in the

PESHAWAR - At least eight people were killed and another eight injured on Friday when armed assailants ambushed a convoy of vehicles carrying passengers to Parachinar, officials said. The militants also took 45 people hostage and took along three vehicles after the attack.
The caravan of vehicles was on way to Parachinar from Lower Kurram agency when it was attacked near Bagan, considered a stronghold of militants in Kurram agency. The attackers torched two of the five buses in

PESHAWAR - Political administration FR Kohat have
arrested two militants and recovered 175 kg explosives from their
possession, Assistant Political Agent said.
APA Gul Jamal on a tip-off conducted search operation in Akhorwal,
area of Darra Adam Khel, and recovered 175 kg explosive material from
a flying coach and arrested two handlers.
Those arrested were identified as Gulzar and Gul Islam residents of
North Waziristan Agency.

MINGAWARA - Foiling an attempt by the militant to enter Swat from Lower Dir, the security forces shot dead six of them and recovered a huge quantity in early hours on Tuesday.
The security forces were on routine patrolling on the borders with Lower Dir at Matta when they noticed a group of militants and asked them to surrender but they refused. It triggered an encounter during which all the six militants were shot dead.
The officials confirmed the identity of three them from

MARDAN - As many as four militants and two police officers were killed and 10 policemen and civilians injured in a shootout on Fatima Road at Shahdhand Tuesday morning. Reportedly, on a tip off about the presence of some militants at Shahdhand graveyard, a party, headed by Hoti SHO Mian Mazhar Shah Khan, reached the spot and blocked the road.
As the police party saw four suspects, they ordered them to stop for checking. Instead of stopping, all the four militants resorted to

BISHKEK - Russia and the United States will build separate training centres in southern Kyrgyzstan to counter the threat to regional security from Islamist militants, Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva said on Tuesday.
Kyrgyzstan, the only country where both Russia and the United States have military airbases, borders China and lies on a drug trafficking route out of Afghanistan. The predominantly Muslim nation of 5.4 million is split culturally and ethnically.
It remains

MIRANSHAH - At least three militants died Monday in a US missile strike on a vehicle in the tribal area near the Afghan border, security officials said. The drone fired two missiles on a vehicle and initial reports suggest that three militants were killed, according to a security official, who requested anonymity. Another official confirmed the attack and said it took place about 10 kilometres east of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, a region infested by Taliban and al

MINGAWARA - Four militants were killed during bloody encounter with security forces in the border area of Dir and Swat districts, official sources informed on Sunday.
The clash occurred when militants, who were entering from Dir district to Swat, refused to stop for search and started firing at security forces at the border area. As result of shootout, four militants were killed. The security forces claimed recovering automatic weapons and rounds from the possession of

PESHAWAR - Forces Saturday gunned down six militants and destroyed their two dens during a retaliatory action in Karanjoki area of Upper Orakzai Agency after an attack on a security check post here, officials said.

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan People's Party-Sherpao (PPP-S) President Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao on Friday demanded the PPP led government to constitute a national peace commission for holding dialogue with militants, as negotiation was the only way to restore peace in the country. "Military operations are not the only way to wipe out terrorism, the government should take political initiatives," Sherpao said in a press conference at the National Press Club (NPC).
"American forces are now

PESHAWAR - At least four militants were killed and several others injured when a US drone targeted a house in Mandi Doog near Wana in South Waziristan Agency on Tuesday afternoon. As per details, a US drone fired several missiles at a compound. The house was allegedly being used by militants since long. The hit left the house flattened.
Soon after US attack, the militants cordoned off the site and did not let local tribesmen to help in rescue activities.
The officials in