Tag: Taliban
Taliban release 3 abducted doctors
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Saturday released three doctors who had been kidnapped from Balochistan in June.
Three doctors were among five people kidnapped from...
Pakistan releases Mullah Baradar
Afghan Taliban second-in-command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was released by Pakistan on Saturday.
The Afghan government had long demanded that Islamabad free Baradar, whose arrest...
‘Authorise targeting of Taliban, Haqqani leaders in Pakistan’
Top retired general says priority to given to Haqqani sanctuary ‘because security situation in the East is not as stable as the South’
As the...
JI Chief urges Govt to immediately initiate dialogue process with Taliban
Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Chief Syed Munawar Hasan has urged the government to immediately initiate dialogue process with Taliban to bring peace to the country.
In an...
Nawaz’s effort to seek peace with Taliban off to rocky start:...
Efforts by Pakistan’s new government to reach a peace deal with the country’s Taliban insurgents have quickly run into trouble, a sign of how...
Former MNA offers to mediate between govt and Taliban
Former Member of the National Assembly from Kohat, Javed Ibrahim Paracha, has claimed that he visited Adiyala Jail in Rawalpindi to retrieve information of...
Incidents such as Upper Dir attack should not affect dialogue process:...
Some elements want to sabotage the dialogue process between the government and the Taliban and incidents such as the attack on security forces in...
Senators reject Taliban conditions for talks
Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Relations Chairman Haji Mohammad Adeel on Tuesday said the preconditions set by the Taliban for dialogue process did not...
Taliban say still at war with government troops
The Pakistani Taliban on Tuesday insisted they were still at war with the government troops because peace talks had yet to start and the...
Army, Taliban fighting fruitless, negotiations necessary: Javed Hashmi
Member National Assembly (MNA) and senior member of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Javed Hashmi has said that the war between Taliban and Pakistan army has...
No conditions, no dictation
COAS Kayani vows not to bow to terms of terrorists
Reiterates army’s resolve to fighting menace of terror at any cost
Supports political dialogue, but won’t...
Preconditions unacceptable, govt tells Taliban
The government has rejected the Taliban demands of troop’s withdrawal and release of prisoners before any peace talks with the state.
The Taliban had put...
Major general among four killed in Upper Dir
Three army officials were killed in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in Upper Dir on Sunday.
An army official said Major General Sanaullah,...
Respect national consensus on Taliban talks: Fazl
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl chief Maulana Fazl Rahman has called for respecting the APC's national consensus on talks with the Taliban, saying undermining the talks...
Negotiations with Taliban should be initiated for lasting peace: Imran Khan
Chairman Pakistan Tehrik e Insaf, Imran Khan has said that the All Parties Conference proved successful‚ as all participants agreed to overcome the issue...
Mullah Baradar to fly away soon
Pakistan is set to release senior Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in a bid to help the Afghan peace process, reports say.
The...
Talks with Taliban indigenous idea: Nisar
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Tuesday said the decision to initiate process of dialogue with the Taliban was homemade and not taken...