Tag: Taliban
India waging war against Pakistan through RAW, says top general
ISLAMABAD: Joint Chief of Staff Committee (JCSC) Chairman General Zubair Mehmood Hayat on Tuesday said India was perpetrating terrorism in Pakistan through Taliban, Baloch separatists and...
Martyred army captain laid to rest
ISLAMABAD: Funeral prayers of Captain Junaid Hafeez, who was martyred in an attack on a border post of the Pakistan Army by terrorists from...
At least 22 Afghan policemen killed as Taliban attack checkpoints
KANDAHAR: A series of Taliban attacks over six hours on more than a dozen Afghan checkpoints killed 22 police and wounded 15 in the southern...
150,000 Americans couldn’t beat us, says Taliban commander
‘Many Taliban want to leave Pakistan for Iran; they don’t trust Pakistan anymore’
The Afghan Taliban now control a large part of the war-torn...
Solution to Afghan conflict is cooperation, not coercion, Pakistan tells US
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has conveyed to the US administration that cooperation, not 'coercion', is the way forward when it comes to bringing a peaceful end...
FC trooper killed in South Waziristan IED attack
PESHAWAR: A Frontier Corps (FC) personnel was martyred while another was injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in the Sarokai district of South Waziristan...
Taliban kill 22 Afghan police in multiple attacks
KABUL: Taliban insurgents, some wearing night-vision goggles, killed 22 Afghan policemen in separate attacks on checkpoints over the weekend in the latest blow to the...
11 Afghan troops killed in Taliban attacks
The Taliban targeted two military posts in western Afghanistan, killing 11 soldiers and setting off gun battles with the military, Afghan officials said on...
‘No terrorist safe havens exist in Pakistan’
Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif on Tuesday said that Pakistan, in the meeting with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, made it clear that no terrorist...
‘Taliban shift focus to Afghan bases from cities following Trump’s new...
KABUL: A spate of deadly Taliban attacks targeting Afghan forces this week was a show of strength against Donald Trump’s new strategy, and signalled a...
Soldier facing desertion trial says Taliban more ‘honest’ than US Army
Bowe Bergdahl, the US Army sergeant who pleaded guilty Monday to deserting his post in Afghanistan in 2009, says his Taliban captors were more...
Jamaat-ul-Ahraar confirms killing of chief Umar Khorasani in drone attack
PESHAWAR: The Jamaat-ul-Ahraar (JuA), a breakaway faction of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), on Thursday confirmed the death of its chief Umar Khalid Khorasani in...
PM condemns Taliban attacks on Afghan security installations
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has strongly condemned the terrorist attack on Afghan security personnel in Kandahar.
In a condemnation message on Thursday, Shahid...
Taliban fresh assaults on Afghan bases kill dozens
KANDAHAR: Militants launched two separate attacks on Afghan security installations killing dozens of soldiers Thursday, the latest in a series of devastating assaults this...
US should try to limit drone strikes during Afghan-Taliban peace talks:...
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif has said that the United States should try and limit drone strikes when efforts to revive Afghan-Taliban peace dialogue...
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...
TTP abducted Pakistani diplomats, Afghanistan tells Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan government has officially shared with Pakistan that two Pakistani diplomatic officials who were abducted from near Jalalabad, Afghanistan, around three months back,...
