Tag: Taliban

Taliban threaten second Afghan provincial capital as insurgency spreads

Fighting intensified around the Afghan city of Ghazni on Monday, as Taliban militants threatened to seize a second provincial capital after briefly occupying Kunduz...

Military denies Taliban hanged military officer in ‘revenge killing’

In the two videos, the Pakistani Taliban claimed to have hanged a military intelligence officer in retaliation for recent executions of militants by authorities

Afghan forces regain most of Kunduz, some shops reopen

Residents say Monday was the first time in eight days that they had not heard gun battles and were able to leave their homes to buy food and take stock of the damage done

Medical aid group denies Taliban were firing from Afghan hospital hit...

Medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres denied that Taliban fighters were firing from its hospital at Afghan and Nato forces before a suspected US...

Afghan forces retake control of Kunduz from Taliban

Afghan troops manage to reach centre of Kunduz where eye-witnesses said streets were littered with Taliban bodies Afghan forces retook control of the strategic northern...

Shuja Khanzada attack suspect sent on 14-day remand

A man suspected of involvement in the attack on slain Punjab home minister Colonel (r) Shuja Khanzada was sent on 14-day remand in the...

Ghani says Taliban using civilians as human shield

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday accused Taliban militants of using civilians as human shield in the northern Kunduz province. “The cruel enemies are using...

Taliban chief asks Kabul to accept defeat in Kunduz as US...

Mullah Mansour says Taliban victory in northern city should not be attributed to ‘foreign intelligence’

Afghan Taliban seize Kunduz city in major attack

Militants raise white Taliban banner over central city square and free hundreds of fellow militants from local jail in major embarrassment for Afghan forces

Army chief approves death sentences of nine hardened terrorists

ISPR DG says convicted terrorists were involved in attacks on military personnel, including Maj Gen Sanaullah Niazi and Lt Col Tauseef

Desperate Afghans pin asylum hopes on Taliban threat letters

Stamped with the Taliban's crossed sabres emblem, the threat letter in Ahmadzia Abbasi's hand reads like a death warrant — but like many Afghans...

29 killed in Taliban attack on PAF camp in Peshawar

DG ISPR says attack on PAF facility in Badaber was planned and controlled from Afghanistan; all 13 terrorists killed by army’s special units Martyred people...

Pakistan wants peaceful Afghanistan, says FO

Foreign Office spokesperson Qazi M. Khalilullah said on Thursday that while there had been media reports on attacks from Afghanistan into Pakistan, Islamabad still...

Taliban commander Habib and 3 militants killed in drone strike near...

At least four Taliban workers including commander Habib were killed in a drone strike in Lalpura area of Khyber Agency near Pak-Afghan border her...

US drone strike kills 15 Pakistani Taliban in Afghanistan

Suspected terrorists belonged to Gandapur faction of TTP which allegedly carried out Peshawar school attack last year A US drone strike killed at least 15...

India should be party to talks with Taliban: MoU between NDS...

The memorandum of understanding between the Afghan intelligence service (NDS) and Pakistan's ISI no longer stands. Speaking to a small group of journalists during...

At least 3 killed, 50 injured in Khyber Agency suicide attack

At least three people were killed and over 50 injured in a suicide attack in Khyber Agency's Jamrud Bazaar on Tuesday. The suicide bomber struck...