Tag: Taliban

‘Bomb Taliban, PPP is with you’

Leader of the opposition in Senate, Senator Aitzaz Ahsan has said that Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) will stand by the government if it takes...

If they kill us, we’ll have to kill them too: Rashid

  “If they (Taliban) strike once, we’ll strike twice,” said Federal Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage Senator Pervaiz Rashid in a statement on...

Taliban serious in peace talks: TTP spokesman

Says Mohmand Agency Taliaban will have to explain their deeds Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said the Taliban were serious about peace talks. The spokesman...

US offers Taliban prisoner in exchange for US Army Sergeant

WASHINGTON- The United States has decided to revive talks with the Afghan Taliban in an effort to secure freedom of captive American Army sergeant Bowe...

Imran gives more importance to Taliban than state: Ahsan

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Senator Aitzaz Ahsan on Monday said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan was giving more importance to the Taliban than...

No point of conducting peace talks with Taliban, says Khursheed Shah

Opposition Leader in National Assembly and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) senior member Syed Khursheed Shah has questioned the rationale of talks with Taliban. Khursheed Shah...

Taliban, govt committees to meet today

Rustam Shah says Taliban opponents want to sabotage peace process Meeting between Taliban and the government negotiating committees which was scheduled for Wednesday was postponed...

‘Govt-TTP talks within ambits of constitution’

Leader of the House in the Senate Raja Zafarul Haq on Monday said the government would hold dialogue with the banned outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan...

Nation taken into confidence for talks with Taliban: Nawaz

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday said the nation has been taken into confidence for holding talks with the Taliban. Talking to media...

Taliban talk team leaves for Waziristan

Taliban committee member Professor Ibrahim and coordinator Yousuf Shah have left for North Waziristan to convey the government committee’s demands to the Taliban leadership. According...

TTP should be removed from list of banned groups: Malik

Former interior minister Rehman Malik on Friday said the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) should be removed from the list of outlawed groups in order to...

It’s finally a dialogue and not monologues

The peace committees constituted by the government and Taliban finally met at the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa House here on Thursday and charted the roadmap for...

Indian FM to visit Afghanistan to discuss Karzai-Taliban talks

Perturbed over reports about Afghan President Hamid Karzai's clandestine engagement with Taliban, Indian foreign minister Salman Khurshid will visit the country next week for...

Govt and TTP committees to meet on 6th

First meeting between the government and Taliban committees will be held on Thursday. According to a private TV channel, the government peace committee would also...

Peace talks falter

The Taliban negotiators condemned the failure of government representatives to meet them, as preliminary peace efforts got off to a chaotic start on Tuesday. The government side said before talks began they wanted clarification from the team named by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The two sides had been due to start charting a "roadmap" for talks.

Govt, Taliban committees to meet on Tuesday

The committees formed by the government and banned terrorist outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) will meet on Tuesday at 2pm. The decision came following a...

Taliban want media gag on govt negotiators

• Militants think statements by negotiators are hindering dialogue initiative • Two close aides of prime minister trying to ‘hijack the show’ for self-projection Though...