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In a chilling reminder to the threat posed by home-grown militants of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the media wing of the terrorist outfit has...

The Crime Investigation Department (CID) of the Karachi police said on Sunday that it has arrested seven men suspected of involvement in targeted killings...

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

The UN Security Council on Friday put the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan on its international anti-terrorism sanctions list in a move highlighting the growing threat from...

The UN Security Council on Friday put the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on its international anti-terrorism sanctions list, in a move highlighting the growing threat...

Canada on Tuesday blacklisted the dysfunctional Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, describing it as a terrorist organisation. The US had called the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) as a...

Fazal Saeed, a militant commander from Kurram Agency on Monday said he had broken with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and would form his own anti-American...

Pakistani Taliban, close allies of al Qaeda, planned to attack American targets abroad to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden, one of its...

Crime Investigation Department of the Sindh police said it arrested six men suspected to be associated with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Saturday. According...

Some factions of the defunct Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are regrouping to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden that may end in attacks on...

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan have given a 10-day deadline to the government to clear the country of foreigners and called upon locals to stay away...

ISLAMABAD - Investigators believe that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), led by Hakimullah Mehsud, is behind the recent suicide attacks against Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl chief Fazlur Rehman, as the militants suspect his party's involvement in the recent arrests of some top Taliban commanders.
The successive suicide bombings targeting the JUI-F chief, who has been considered close to the Taliban, recently in Swabi and Charsadda districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has

GUJRANWALA - Police have recovered 160 kilograms of explosives, suicide jackets, 4 hand-grenades, 3 Kalashnikovs maps, jihadi literature and pictures of TTP commanders from four bungalows in Gujranwala. CPO Ghulam Mahmood Dogar told the media on Monday while addressing a news conference. He said no arrest could be made as the terrorists had escaped soon after a blast early Monday morning. He, however, said police apprehended 3 people who helped terrorists renting the buildings. He

LAHORE - The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has condemned the release of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor Raymond Davis under a "blood money" deal with relatives of the two men he killed, and threatened to target all those who aided the United States in securing his acquittal in court, Indian newspaper Hindustan Times reported on Sunday.
Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan had said the militant group's central leadership had taken exception to the release of the

PESHAWAR - The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan on Saturday claimed killing Col (r) Sultan Amir Tarar, also known as Col Imam. A spokesman for TTP Ahsanullah Ahsan told reporters over phone from an undisclosed location that they had killed Col Imam after the government's failure to meet their demands, including the release of their colleagues.
Col Imam was a former officer of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and well connected in the former jihadi circles and claimed to have close

MIRANSHAH - The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Sunday demanded the government execute Raymond Davis, a US citizen who shot dead two men in broad daylight, or hand him over to the militant group. "We demand that the Pakistani government hang Raymond Davis or otherwise hand him over to us. We will decide his fate," TTP spokesman Azam Tariq told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location.
Tariq claimed that Davis, whose exact role in Pakistan has been unclear, was a spy. "He

LAHORE - Last Sunday, while Tehrik-i-Namoos-i-Risalat was holding its rally on the Mall Road, Lahore, apparently some zealots of the banned outfit Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) sneaked into the demonstration and started a free distribution of CDs among the participants.
Enclosed in a light pink CD cover and bearing the title "Namoos-i-Risalat", hundreds of these CDs changed hands silently. The recipients of these CDs later discovered that CD started with a eulogy of Jihad in