Tag: War

US watchdog says Pentagon bars data on Taliban in Afghan war

WASHINGTON: A US government watchdog said Tuesday the Pentagon has barred it from disclosing how much of Afghanistan is under Taliban control – a...

Behind enemy lines: Vietnam female spies who helped change war

HANOI: By day Nguyen Thi Hoa sold conical hats on the streets of Hue in southern Vietnam, at night she funnelled secrets to Communist...

Terrorists re-entering Pakistan from western borders: interior minister

QUETTA: Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal said on Friday that terrorists who had run away from the country are now re-entering from its Western border...

You cannot lure us into unprofessional undertakings: DG ISPR to India

RAWALPINDI: Inter-Services Public Relations Director General Major General Asif Ghafoor has said that India wants to shift focus away from an "effective political struggle for freedom" in Indian-occupied Kashmir...

Risk of war with North Korea grows every day: Trump’s security...

WASHINGTON: The potential of a US war with North Korea is growing each day, Donald Trump’s national security adviser said on Saturday. Speaking at the...

Can’t slack on preparedness against threats, COAS tells troops

RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Friday visited Rawalpindi Corps Headquarters and said that there cannot be any slack in the...

Missile launch by Iran ‘act of war’, Saudi Arabia vows retaliation

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Monday called the attempted missile attack on Riyadh’s main airport this weekend an "act of war" by Iran and vowed...

Saudi Arabia accuses Lebanon of declaring war against it

BEIRUT: Saudi Arabia accused Lebanon on Monday of declaring war against it because of aggression by the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah, a dramatic escalation...

Baghdad accuses Kurds of ‘declaration of war’

BAGHDAD: Baghdad said on Sunday that foreign Kurdish forces were present in the province of Kirkuk in what amounted to a “declaration of war”, dramatically...

US labels N Korea ‘war’ claim absurd

NEW YORK: The United States dismissed as "absurd" North Korea's accusation that President Donald Trump has declared war against the regime, after Pyongyang said...

Pakistan bore the brunt of others’ wars: Ahsan Iqbal

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Interior Ahsan Iqbal said on Thursday that Pakistan has always remained at the forefront of others’ wars and bore losses, whereas others...

Pakistan doesn’t want war with anyone: DG ISPR

RAWALPINDI: Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor Tuesday (today) said that the country doesn’t want to engage in war with...

India was minutes away from bombing Pakistan during Kargil war: report

Indian Air Force pilots were very close to bombing targets deep inside Pakistan at the peak of the Kargil War on June 13, 1999,...

Malala shocked as crying Burundian girls recall rape fleeing war

More than a dozen schoolgirls broke down in tears as one told Malala Yousafzai about the rapes they experienced and witnessed while fleeing to...

New NATO-led coalition commander inherits raging war in Afghanistan

US Army General John Campbell stepped down as commander of the NATO-led coalition in Afghanistan on Wednesday, capping an 18-month tenure that saw the...

Hollande warns of risk of Turkey-Russia war over Syria

French President Francois Hollande said on Friday that there was a risk of war between Turkey and Russia over Syria, adding that Moscow should...

The struggles of Pakistan as part of the Muslim world

We have to have neutrality The Muslim world has been struggling; from terrorism, sectarian violence to civil wars; and this part of the world hasn’t...