Tag: Pak-Afghan border

Ghulam Khan crossing point of Pak-Afghan border reopens on tribal basis

  MIRANSHAH: The Pak-Afghan border was reopened on Friday for trade activities at Ghulam Khan, North Waziristan Agency (NWA) on trial basis. Ghulam Khan border was...

Daesh social media network being operated from area near Pak-Afghan border:...

KARACHI: The sources inside Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) on Wednesday stated that social media network of the global terrorist organisation Daesh was being operated from the...

Pakistan demands US pay for Afghan border fencing

Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif has said that Washington must pay for the fencing of the Pak-Afghan border. In an interview with Bloomberg published, Asif said...

Pakistan starts fencing Pak-Afghan border

LAHORE: A security official said on Wednesday that Pakistan has started the process of fencing the Pakistan-Afghanistan border at Chaman to stop illegal entry...

Army destroys radio tower near Pak-Afghan border

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Army on Friday destroyed a radio tower near the Pak-Afghan border that was being used to transmit anti-state propaganda. "The Umar FM Radio Tower...

Pakistan fences 150 km of sensitive Pak-Afghan border areas in six...

Ongoing pace of work will enable Pakistan to fence 2,400 km of border in six to seven years ISLAMABAD: Work on fencing all sensitive areas along...

Three FC personnel martyred in North Waziristan IED explosion

ISLAMABAD: Three Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel were martyred in an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion in North Waziristan's Ghulam Khan area on Sunday. According to Inter-Services...

Pakistan desires cooperation with Afghanistan on border security

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's ambassador to the US Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry said that the Pakistan-Afghanistan border must be secured enough to keep terrorists from crossing "at...

US drone strike kills four suspected militants near Pak-Afghan border

PESHAWAR: Four persons have been killed in a drone attack in Kurram Agency near the Pak-Afghan border. A suspected US drone strike on Thursday targeted...

15 IS fighters killed in US drone strikes near Pak-Afghan border

  PESHAWAR: At least 15 Daesh fighters were killed in three US drone strikes near the Pak-Afghan border in Afghanistan on Sunday, a private media outlet...

Security forces recover missing journalist Zeenat Shahzadi after two years

Retired Justice Javed Iqbal, who is the head of the missing persons commission, confirmed on Friday that Zeenat Shahzadi, a journalist who earlier in...

Afghan, Pakistani militant groups in disarray after recent US drone strikes

PESHAWAR: Afghan and Pakistani militants have been thrown into disarray after the United States (US) recently conducted three drone strikes targeting specific areas near the...

US drone strike kills five near Pak-Afghan border in Kurram

  PESHAWAR: At least five people were reported killed in a US-led drone strike near Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Kurram Agency, sources told Pakistan Today. The strike...

US ambassador expresses grief over martyrdom of four FC personnel

ISLAMABAD: US Ambassador to Pakistan David Hale on Monday expressed grief over martyrdom of four Frontier Corps (FC) personnel in a roadside blast in...

At least one dead, 22 injured in Chaman blast

CHAMAN: At least one person was killed while 22 others, including security personnel, were injured in a blast near the Pak-Afghan border in Chaman...

Pak-Afghan border reopens following hand-grenade attack

PESHAWAR: Pakistani authorities announced on Saturday that the Pak-Afghan Torkham border crossing would be re-opened this afternoon, following a successful meeting between the high-ranking...

Pak-Afghan border crossing remains closed after Friday’s blasts

JAMRUD: The Pakistan-Afghanistan border crossing at Torkham is to remain closed for the second day today, after the two consecutive blasts at the Pak-Afghan...