Tag: Taliban
PML-N plans to do all to cajole Taliban into talks
One of foremost challenges that the Nawaz government would have to face is to make peace with the Pakistani Taliban, who after the killing...
Samiul Haq says drone attack scuttled talks process
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Sami (JUI-S) chief Maulana Samiul Haq has said that the drone attack on Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan deputy chief Waliur Rehman had sabotaged the peace...
Taking stock of Pakistani Taliban: JUI-S ready to mediate, but with...
Mulana Samiul Haq, the chief of Jamiat-ul-Ulema-Islam –Samiul Haq (JUI-S) has expressed his zeal to negotiate with the Taliban in Pakistan. The religious scholar...
SC moved against proposed peace talks with Taliban
A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court against peace talks with the Taliban, asking why the armed forces were being forced to...
Seven Afghan police killed by their dinner guests
Suspected Taliban militants killed seven police in southern Afghanistan after persuading the officers to invite them into their checkpoint for dinner, officials said on...
Taliban condemns Afghanistan balloon project
The official Taliban website has published an article criticising an art project in which 10,000 pink balloons were given away for free in Kabul,...
Musharraf will not leave country: APML
Amid drawing room gossips and media claims that former president Pervez Musharraf will leave the country before Nawaz Sharif takes oath, his aides rubbished...
6 policemen killed in Peshawar militant attack
As many as six policemen were killed in an attack on the convoy of DPO Kohat in Mattani late on Friday.
Two policemen were also...
Dialogue with Taliban prerogative of Pakistan: Olson
US Ambassador to Pakistan Richard Olson has said holding dialogue with the Taliban was the prerogative of Pakistani government.
Talking to reporters in Islamabad on...
Taliban’s serious offer for dialogue must be considered: Nawaz
Future PM says peace essential for taking country forward, economic prosperity
To support, help coalition government in Sindh
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Center to decide on peace in KP; Dir women disenfranchised for...
In an interview with local media, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) finance minister-designate Sirajul Haq said that the restoring peace in KP was a major...
PTI plans talks with Taliban in KP
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf led by Imran Khan is reportedly planning to hold immediate talks with the Taliban if, as expected, it takes control of...
Nawaz greeted by Singh on victory, invited to negotiate by Karzai
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif received a call from Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Afghan President Hamid Karzai congratulating him on his early victory in the...
Taliban target MQM office in Azizabad, kill 3, injure over 35
At least three people were killed and dozens of others were injured in two back-to-back blasts near a unit office of the Muttahida Qaumi...
PML-N hand in glove with Taliban: Wattoo
Punjab PPP President Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo has said the silence of Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif over the terrorist attacks on the PPP, ANP,...
Anti-state elements trying to disrupt polls under ‘organised campaign’: Nizami
Information Minister Arif Nizami on Monday accused the Taliban and other armed groups of sabotaging the upcoming landmark parliamentary elections under a "very organised...
Taliban kill three cops in Afghanistan
A remote-controlled roadside bomb killed three cops in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, an attack the Taliban claimed as the opening round of their spring...
