KHAR, Pakistan — Fighter jets pounded suspected militant hide-outs Tuesday and killed five insurgents in a tribal region where the Pakistani military declared victory over insurgents six months ago following an offensive, an official said.
The …

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani security forces intensified a hunt on Monday for the Pakistani Taliban leader in the Swat valley, military officials said, and a U.S. drone killed four militants in a missile strike near …

ISLAMABAD: The government informed a Senate committee on Saturday it had credible evidence that there were more than 5,000 Uzbek militants hiding in North and South Waziristan.
Briefing the Senate Standing Committee on States and Frontier …

If the bucolic Swat valley, tucked into the Himalayas less than 100 miles from the capital city of Islamabad, is a bellwether for Pakistan’s war against the Pakistani Taliban,1 the war is going badly. The Swat District — an integrated part of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP) as opposed to the autonomous Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) — has been beyond government control since 2007. In this period the Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (Movement for the Enforcement of Mohammaden Islamic Law), a militant Pakistani Taliban group,2 thoroughly destroyed the threadbare state institutions that existed in the area. Most notably they targeted schools and the police force. Rebuilding these will take years.

The story tells how the government is recklessly abusing with the taxpayer’s money on a great-grand child of the elected members of the assembly. The so called democratic governments have yet again proved that they are the best guardians of the public money which is leeched by imposing direct taxes on the cow-innocent citizens of Pakistan by introducing taxes on tea, cold drinks, sugar and fuel.