Tag: Taliban
Taliban attacks kill four Afghans, target Italians
Taliban attacks killed four Afghans and wounded 33 other people including Italian soldiers at a reconstruction headquarters and a crowded roundabout on Monday, officials...
Pakistan should hold talks with Taliban: PML-Q
PML-Q Women Wing President Farukh Khan has said that Pakistan should follow US in holding talks with Pakistani Taliban as they were already doing...
5 Taliban leaders arrested by NATO forces in Pakistan
Unconfirmed news from intelligence sources said on Monday that five Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leaders were arrested Monday morning in the Gorvait area of North...
Taliban say no plans to attack nuclear arsenal
The Taliban have no plans to attack Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, their spokesman told the Wall Street Journal.
A larger assault earlier this week by the...
Pakistan’s nukes not our aim: Taliban
The Taliban have no plans to attack the country’s nuclear arsenal, its spokesman declared on Thursday, according to a report carried by the Wall...
Taliban kill 7, injure 39 in Peshawar truck bombing
At least seven people were killed and 39 injured in a suicide attack on a police station on Peshawar’s University Road on Wednesday. Police...
Afghan Taliban say Mullah Omar ‘safe and sound’
The Afghan Taliban on Monday rejected as "propaganda" unsourced media reports that their reclusive leader, Mullah Omar, had been killed in Pakistan, saying he...
Afghan Taliban deny Mullah Omar is dead
Afghanistan's Taliban Monday dismissed as "pure propaganda" claims that their leader Mullah Omar was dead after an Afghan intelligence source said he had been...
Taliban warns Muslim Kazakhstan on entering Afghan war
The Taliban has warned majority Muslim Kazakhstan that its decision to send troops to the NATO-led war in Afghanistan would have severe consequences and...
Taliban target US convoy in Peshawar
Two US nationals were among 11 injured in an attack on a US consulate convoy in Peshawar’s University Town area on Friday. Police said...
Pakistani among 36 killed in Taliban attack in Paktia
The Taliban attacked an Afghan road construction company on Thursday, triggering an hours-long firefight that killed 36 people, including a Pakistani, and injured another...
36 dead as Taliban attack Afghan road company
Taliban fighters attacked an Afghan road construction company before dawn Thursday, triggering gunbattles that killed 36 people and wounded another 20 in the worst...
No change in Red Line for talks with Taliban: Clinton
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asserted that there has been no dilution in the Red Line for peace talks with the Taliban, but...
Taliban claim killing of Saudi diplomat
Pakistan's al Qaeda-linked Taliban said on Monday they killed a Saudi Arabian diplomat in the Pakistani city of Karachi.
"We take responsibility," a Taliban...
Osama received Taliban, fundraisers in Abbottabad
The Sunday Telegraph, an influential British newspaper, has claimed that Osama bin Laden received visits from Taliban leaders and wealthy Arab supporters while he...
Taliban shoot tribal elder, son dead
A leading tribal elder from Mohmand Agency and the chief of a Peace Lashkar was shot dead along with his son and host by...
Florida imams arrested for aiding Pakistani Taliban
The imam of a Florida mosque and his two sons, one also a Muslim spiritual leader, were arrested on Saturday on charges of financing...
