Tag: Taliban

An important development has been made in the on-going parleys between the government and Taliban as the latter has agreed to expel foreign militants...

MONITORING DESK Jamiat Ulema Islam-Sami chief Samiul Haq said on Monday that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) wanted a “free peace zone” for the purpose of...

NEW DELHI/PESHAWAR Aviation officials in Pakistan, India and Central Asia as well as Taliban militants said they knew nothing about the whereabouts of a missing...

Samiul Haq says Taliban Shura to consider request for extending ceasefire period Says bombings in Quetta and Peshawar aimed at derailing peace process Taliban negotiators on...

Yousaf Shah and Irfan Siddiqui optimistic about peace talks progress Members of the Taliban peace committee reached North Waziristan Agency (NWA) on Thursday to hold...

The Senate was informed Tuesday that there was no proposal under consideration about setting up of offices of the banned organisations in the country. "The...

Member of the Taliban's mediating committee, Maulana Yousuf Shah said on Tuesday that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan had decided to maintain its existing team for...

RAWALPINDI Former president Pervez Musharraf is not likely to appear in the special court on Tuesday in high treason case against him, a...

PESHAWAR Reaffirming his party’s stance on meaningful negotiations between the government and militants, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health minister on Sunday offered office facilities to the...

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif decides to form new, much more empowered committee for talks with banned terrorist outfit Corps commanders to discuss who will represent...

Five years after it collapsed under Taliban rule, the once-thriving silk industry in the Swat valley of northwest Pakistan is still in shreds, leaving...

KANDAHAR A dozen high-profile Taliban inmates have mistakenly been freed from the central jail in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan with falsified documents, officials...

APML warns against dragging Musharraf into Parliamentary lodges butterflies’ scandal Terms Mama Qadeer terrorist, says agencies have proof of meetings between him and anti-state actors A...

TTP spokesman says militants will cease fire for a month to ‘break deadlock in peace talks’ Says all factions of terror outfit have agreed to...

Former information minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad has said the army and Taliban were the “real parties” and neither talks nor operation will be conducted...

Afghanistan on Tuesday sacked nine army officers for negligence after Taliban militants killed 21 soldiers and kidnapped several others in a raid on a...

At least 20 Afghan soldiers were killed on Sunday in an attack by Taliban on a checkpoint in Kunar province, close to Afghanistan's border...