Tag: Taliban

PM directs body to start dialogue with Taliban immediately

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday instructed the four-member committee formed to hold talks with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants to start the peace talks...

Bilawal for decisive military action against militant groups

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, patron-in-chief of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), has urged all political forces of Pakistan to deal with militant groups, including Taliban,...

Nisar does not trust Taliban anymore

Interior Minister Chuadhry Nisar Ali Khan says he does not trust the Taliban anymore as they are asking for talks and killing innocent people...

TTP expresses desire to hold talks

Banned terrorist outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has once again offered to hold peace talks with the government on Sunday. TTP spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said that...

Restoration of peace govt’s priority: Ameer Maqam

Advisor to the prime minister and senior leader of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Ameer Maqam has said the government is keen to restore...

PM House denied JUI-S chief was assigned a role for peace...

The claims of Jamiat Ulma-e-Islam-Samiulhaq (JUI-S) Chief Maulana Sami-ul-Haq regarding his role as a mediator for peace talks with Taliban were deferred on Thursday...

New attacks in Pakistan, Afghanistan deepen concerns of many: CBS

Two separate weekend Taliban attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan have deepened concerns over the terrorists making deeper inroads in the region, as the US-led...

Govt not serious regarding talks with Taliban: Samiul Haq

Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-S) chief Maulana Samiul Haq has alleged the government is not providing help in regard to holding talks with the Taliban. While talking...

Extremists not our enemies, they have just lost direction!

• PM approves brigade-level cantonment in Swat, says de-radicalisation centres could be replicated in other parts of the country • Says youth loans to be granted on...

Taliban deny using 10-year-old for suicide bombing attack

The Taliban on Tuesday denied involvement in dispatching a 10-year-old girl to carry out a suicide attack against Afghan police after the girl said...

15 Taliban killed in Afghanistan

A gun battle between the security forces and Taliban in Afghanistan's Ghazni province left 15 militants including a key commander dead on Sunday. "A group...

I am just a go-between: Samiul Haq

Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Sami (JUI-S) chief Maulana Samiul Haq has said he is merely a postman saying he will deliver the message to the Taliban...

Army kills 33 suspected militants in NWA gunbattles

At least 23 suspected militants were killed late on Wednesday during a clash with security forces in the country's troubled North Waziristan Agency, while...

Taliban hit NATO fuel trucks, kill one Afghan policeman

An Afghan official says Taliban suicide bombers have attacked NATO fuel trucks near the Pakistani border. A gunbattle that followed killed one Afghan policeman...

Don’t accept ‘Western-imposed’ borders: TTP

Terming the Pakistani government as not “independent” and the international borders as “Western-imposed” borders, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesperson has said that his organisation...

Taliban are not present in Kashmir: Salahuddin

Syed Salahuddin, chairman of the United Jehad Council (UJC), on Monday said they had no links with the Taliban and ruled out their presence...

LG polls: Taliban factor divides political parties in Sindh

    The death of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) former chief Hakeemullah Mehsud and policies framed by political leaders after his death have divided the political parties...