Tag: Taliban

Taliban video shows Karachi CID attack preparations

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has accepted responsibility for the suicide attack on the Crime Investigation Department (CID) office in Karachi on November 11, 2010....

US helicopter shot down in Taliban trap: Afghan official

A helicopter which crashed killing 30 US troops in Afghanistan was shot down after the Taliban laid a trap to lure US forces...

31 US special forces die as Taliban down helicopter

Thirty-one US special forces, most of them from the elite Navy SEALs unit that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and seven Afghan...

Mullah Omar willing to hold peace talks: Peace Council

The Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar is willing to join the Afghan peace process, the Afghan High Peace Council said on Friday. According to an...

Six dead as local, Afghan Taliban clash in Tirah

Situation is tense in inaccessible Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency where six people were killed and four injured late on Wednesday night after Taliban...

Taliban kill two soldiers in SWA

A group of Taliban fighters on Tuesday gunned down two soldiers in South Waziristan Agency, security officials said. The militants used machine guns to...

Ruling elite – a threat bigger than Taliban

As many as 85 percent of Pakistanis polled by the Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) believed that the biggest threat to Pakistan...

UN slaps sanctions on TTP

The UN Security Council has slapped sanctions, including an assets freeze and travel ban, on the al Qaeda linked Taliban in Pakistan, which is...

‘Taliban ready to cut ties with al Qaeda’

The Taliban leadership is ready to negotiate peace with the United States right now if Washington indicates its willingness to provide a timetable for...

US money ended up in Taliban hands: report

US government funds earmarked ostensibly to promote business in Afghanistan have landed in Taliban hands under a $2.16 billion transportation contract, The Washington Post...

ANP reiterates surrender offer to the Taliban

Standing firm on its stance on the war on terror, the Awami National Party leadership has urged the militants to get benefits of their...

20 militants killed in Central Kurram Agency

At least 20 militants were killed while several others were injured during a clash between militants and local Anti- Taliban militia of Central Kurram...

Tech-savvy Taliban fights war in cyberspace

The war in Afghanistan entered cyberspace on Wednesday when the tech-savvy Taliban said their phones, email and website had been hacked to spread a...

Taliban rejects Mullah Omar death

Taliban spokesmen strongly rejected the rumors about the death of Mullah Omar, the leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Earlier on Wednesday, some media...

IDPs refuse to move because of Taliban threat in South Waziristan

Even though every effort has been made by the authorities to initiate the third phase of repatriation of Internally Displaced People (IDPs) to Mehsud...

Taliban video shows mass execution

Police on Monday said Taliban had released a video showing policemen being executed by firing squad after being captured in the northwest. A senior police...

No Haqqanis or Taliban in North Waziristan: jirga

The members of traditional tribal jirga Sunday told Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Barrister Masud Kausar that the militants associated with Haqqani network and Tehrik Taliban...