Tag: Taliban

The immigration courts in United Kingdom allowed a Taliban henchman to stay in Britain on human rights grounds. The 32-year-old man was reportedly serving as...

Taliban suicide attackers wearing military uniforms stormed a court complex in Afghanistan’s relatively tranquil north Thursday, killing five people and wounding dozens of others...

Rangers raided a house on information that militants were planning to target the city’s Expo Centre with a bomb.

Security forces seized 10 bodies of militants, along with arms and ammunition

Afghan president says some Taliban members were tortured and ill treated during detention Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on Wednesday that some members of the...

During a meeting with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) MNAs from Gujranwala, Sialkot, Narowal, Hafizabad and Gujrat at the Prime Minister’s House on Tuesday, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif expressed his government’s resolve to counter terrorism through the 20-point National Action Plan (NAP) which has been agreed upon by the country’s political leadership.

Addressing a conference on Afghanistan in the federal capital on Thursday, Advisor to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz said that Pakistan desired early talks between the Afghan government and different Afghan groups for peace and stability.

Enraged over the government’s failure to ensure protection of non-Muslim Pakistanis, members of the Christian community Monday took to the streets in Lahore, Faisalabad and Gujranwala to register their protest over a Taliban attack on two churches in Lahore which left at least 17 people dead and more than 70 injured.

Suicide bombers of TTP’s Jamaatul Ahrar target two churches in Youhanabad area of Lahore, killing at least 16 people and injuring over 70 others

Mangal Bagh’s Lashkar-e-Islam also announces merger with TTP A militant splinter group that broke from the Pakistani Taliban last year and declared allegiance to Islamic...

Masked gunmen had stopped two buses on the road to Kabul from the western city of Herat on February 24 and took 30 male passengers hostage, all of them members of the Hazara minority ethnic group.

Afghanistan’s top security adviser is holding talks with senior leaders in Qatar in a bid to launch peace talks in the oil-rich Gulf state...

ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani called Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday to discuss an imminent start of a reconciliation dialogue with the Afghan-Taliban, as...

KABUL: The head of Afghanistan's power-sharing government lent his support on Monday to a tentative push to begin peace talks with Taliban insurgents, an effort...

Afghanistan CEO lauds Gen Sharif’s statement that Afghanistan’s enemy is Pakistan’s enemy

ISLAMABAD: A senior Afghan Taliban negotiator, who led the group's delegation to Beijing, is touring Pakistan for consultations; reports claim that the militia is willing...

KABUL: After more than a decade of warfare, negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban are set to begin, officials, diplomats and experts said...