Tag: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan

Two TTP militants killed in Karachi shootout

KARACHI:- At least two militants from banned outfit  Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were killed overnight in the metropolis area of Surjani Town, private media reported on...

43 terrorists including two TTP commanders killed in Khyber, Ziarat, Karachi

KHYBER AGENCY- 32 militants were killed in clashes in the troubled Khyber Agency near the Afghan border, days after a Taliban massacre killed 148 people...

Drone strike in Afghanistan kills 4 Pakistani Taliban – official

JALALABAD - A U.S. drone strike in eastern Afghanistan killed four Pakistani Taliban members and seven other insurgents, a district government official said Wednesday. The...

They killed our children…

Perturbed by our elders, the Taliban came for our children. They had no demands and wanted no hostage. In the name of the Most Merciful, they mercilessly killed 133 students and nine staffers at Army Public School, Warsak Road, Peshawar, also injuring several others, in one of Pakistan’s most deadly and tragic terrorist attacks in the country’s history.

US hands Mehsud’s right-hand man to Pakistan

  The US military in Afghanistan said on Sunday that a top militant commander and No 2 to former Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud, has...

Pakistani Taliban squeezed by Afghan revolt, US drone strikes

PESHAWAR- Pakistani Taliban militants holed up in Afghanistan are being squeezed by a series of U.S. drone strikes and a revolt against them, a...

TTP’s Fazlullah narrowly escapes drone attack

PESHAWAR- Chief of banned militant outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) narrowly escaped a US drone strike in Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, near the Pakistani border. According to...

India next on list post Wagah Border attack in Pakistan: Jamatul...

ISLAMABAD- The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Jamatul Ahrar which claimed responsibility for this week's devastating suicide bombing on the Wagah border has said the attack was...

Six Taliban commanders swear allegiance to IS

Shahidullah Shahid says he and five other district chiefs of banned TTP would now abide by all decisions of Abu Bakar Al-Baghdadi Six top commanders...

Senior TTP commander killed in clash with Pak Army: TTP spokesperson

PESHAWAR- A senior militant commander belonging to  Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was killed on Thursday in a clash with Pakistani security forces in North Waziristan,  according to...

Sheheryar Mehsud group parts ways with TTP

PESHAWAR- Loyalists of killed Bailtullah Mehsud, now headed by Sheheryar Masud, on Monday disassociated themselves from Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its Chief Mullah Fazlullah. The new...

New Taliban group vows attacks in Pakistan

Islamabad- A new bloc of the Pakistani Taliban has vowed to carry on the movement's campaign of bombings and shootings, in the militants' first...

Punjab police arrest TTP suspects

LAHORE- Punjab Police on Thursday said they had arrested six suspected terrorists from various parts of the province, adding that they were believed to be...

PM blames Taliban for failure of peace talks

ISLAMABAD- Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday blamed the banned terrorist outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) for the failure of peace talks.  Talking to a delegation of...

TTP’s vice-ameer of Karachi killed in Rangers operation: reports

KARACHI- A key commander of banned militant outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was killed by Rangers in Karachi's Manghopir area, a private news channel reported...

TTP threatens to ‘burn palaces in Islamabad and Lahore’ in response...

PESHAWAR-  The Pakistani Taliban on Monday warned foreign firms to leave the country after thousands of troops launched a long-awaited offensive in a troubled tribal...

Military operation against militants driving families over border into Afghanistan: Afghan...

KABUL- Hundreds of Pakistani families have fled from a surge of fighting between Pakistani government forces and militants into neighbouring Afghanistan, an Afghan government official...