Tag: Ttp

TTP releases video of DHA Karachi bomb attack

A new video released on Tuesday by Tehrek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claims that the attack on Sep 19, 2011, in which the house of CID...

The fear factor

Will we ever be rid of our demons? I never remember a time in our 64 years of independence when we have had complete faith...

Seven Pakistani soldiers, 18 militants killed in lower Kurram

Seven Pakistani soldiers were killed and three others wounded in a Taliban attack on their check post in the country's northwestern tribal belt, according...

Aiding the Taliban

That accusation again Old wine in an even older bottle. That was the foreign minister’s assessment of the new reports in the western media about...

On the Afghan endgame

Strategic depth vs strategic stability Tentative signals on the opening of serious negotiations for a peaceful settlement in Afghanistan now seem to be acquiring concrete...

Easing tensions?

Cooperation is the only way forward With the memo commission rejecting the plea to record the statement of Mansoor Ijaz outside Pakistan and Ijaz refusing...

TTP magazine circulating in Gujrat

A Jihadi magazine making the rounds in Gujrat has caught the eye of an intelligence agency, which has expressed serious concern over the subversive...

No grandstanding, please

Time for pragmatism Pak-US relations are too important an issue to be exploited for playing to the gallery. There is no doubt that the Nato...

Terms of engagement

Priority to Pakistan’s interests In an article, that appeared last Wednesday in this very space, it was observed that with the opening of the Taliban...

TTP commander confesses to killing KP information minister’s son

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)’s key commander in Karachi, Abdul Qayyum Mehsud, who had been arrested by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) confessed during interrogation...

Killer of KP minister’s son arrested

Police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested an alleged terrorist accused of killing the son of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain. Senior police...

Peace talks versus violence

The killing of 15 kidnapped Frontier Constabulary soldiers in the frontier region Tank last week by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan is a great tragedy for those...

CID kills TTP Balochistan leader in Karachi

Crime Investigation Department (CID) police claimed on Saturday to have killed alleged Taliban's Balochistan leader Yasin in an encounter on Shahra-e-Faisal. A CID official said...

TTP releases 17 hostages

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Thursday released 17 people after over three months of captivity, who mistakenly crossed the border into Afghanistan, officials said....

TTP kills 15 soldiers, vows further “revenge”

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have killed 15 kidnapped troops in revenge for military operations against them near the Afghan border, a Taliban spokesman said...

5 TTP men, 2 FC troops killed in Zhob

Five militants of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and two personnel of paramilitary forces were killed in an armed encounter in Zhob, 320kms northeast of Quetta on...

Pak-US relations

Ending the impasse benefits the both It is in the best interest of both the US and Pakistan to restore their relations which hit the...