Tag: Zarb-e-Azb

Five suspects amongst 10 killed in Khyber, Orakzai agencies

Three of a family killed as mortar shell hits house in Akakhel, one security personnel injured in militant-security forces clash Two officials killed in rocket...

Together we will defeat terrorists, COAS tells tribesmen

The COAS reached NWA on the occasion of Pakistan’s Defence Day and celebrated the event with the army men busy in the ongoing military operation Zarb-e-Azb. He also met the tribal elders at Bakka Khail camp of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Bannu.

TTP says just 25-30 militants killed in Zarb-e-Azb

Commenting on a statement released by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on the number of casualties suffered by terrorists, a spokesman of the proscribed...

Pentagon lauds Pak Army’s anti-terrorism efforts

    Lauding the efforts of the Pakistan Army to eliminate extremism, the Pentagon, United States Department of Defense headquarters, Wednesday said that Pakistan continues to...

12 Uzbek terrorists killed in attacks on two air bases

Two different factions of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attacks, and said they were a response to the military’s ongoing assault on militant hideouts in North Waziristan tribal area.

Zarb-e-Azb: Mirali almost cleared off terrorists

Army recovers 30 barrels of explosives, chemicals used to make IEDs, from underground tunnels Mirali, the second largest stronghold of terrorists in North Waziristan Agency,...

NWA tribal jirga supports Zarb-e-Azb

NWA tribal elders’ jirga requests government to clear NWA from ‘miscreants’ and put an end to their re-emergence as US, UK, EU reassure assistance...

Zarb-e-Azb: 28 terrorists killed in fresh airstrikes

Security beefed up in Peshawar after one security official martyred in Banda, two in Peshawar Security forces have cleared two militant strongholds in Boya and...

Zarb-e-Azb continues to leave its mark

More militants killed in fresh NWA bombing as security officials also blow away five militants hideouts Military jets and artillery pounded alleged militant hideouts in...

Clerics pay tribute to Pak Army for Zarb-e-Azb

ISLAMABAD APP   Mutahidda Ulema-o-Mushaikh Council of Pakistan (MUMCP) Chairman Mufti Muhammad Zahoor Ullah Hashmi Wednesday said that the nation stood behind armed forces in the Zarb-e-Azb...

There’s no such thing as a good Taliban!

With Washington and Kabul repeatedly accusing Pakistan of supporting Haqqani Network, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif insists Pakistan has changed its policy and government will...

Two security men killed in NWA militant ambush

MIRALI INP   Two security personnel were killed while another was injured in a militant attack on a security forces’ vehicle in Mir Ali, North Waziristan Agency...

The battle for the soul of Pakistan

I think the Pakistani military does realize that the Taliban has become a problem for Pakistan, but it is just too late. The Taliban has sunken deep roots in Pakistan, and now it’s very difficult to beat the enemy when it was previously your friend and your creation

Nation fully supports armed forces, Zarb-e-Azb: president

Two mobile health units for internally displaced persons provided by ShaheedZulfikarAliBhuttoMedicalUniversity and PIMS despatched to Bannu President Mamnoon Hussain said on Friday that country's armed...

UN fears spread of polio as 500,000 flee NWA

About 50,000 Pakistanis have crossed into eastern Afghanistan to escape airstrikes over the past 10 days and 435,000 have fled within Pakistan, which could fuel the spread of polio as many are not vaccinated, United Nations (UN) agencies said on Tuesday.Pakistan’s military gave residents of North Waziristan until the end of Monday to leave the remote mountainous region ahead of a widely anticipated major ground offensive by the army against Islamist militants.

First suicide attack in NWA as forces slay 47 terrorists

Three people were killed on Tuesday in a suicide bombing in the North Waziristan tribal area, the first such attack there since the military launched a major operation against the Taliban and other terrorists, as at least 47 suspected terrorists were slain and 23 hideouts destroyed in airstrikes carried out in North Waziristan and Khyber Agency.

Thousand flee North Waziristan on last day of evacuation

Residents of North Waziristan had until the end of Monday to leave the remote mountainous North Waziristan tribal region ahead of a widely anticipated major ground offensive by the army against Islamist terrorists.