Articles tagged with: Taliban
Hundreds of innocent people including children and women are killed in Lahore in barbaric attacks by militants and PMLN seems to be un-serious and lazy in addressing the issue which is a big question mark that PMLN is sincere with its people or sincere with their longtime ally Al-Quaida
Hamid Mir shocking views from a taped telephone call on Javed Ibrahim Paracha, a notorious terrorist of Sipah-e-Sahaba in Kohat. Hamid Mir is seen talking to the Number-2 of Hakimullah Mehsud and convincing him that Khalid Khawaja must be killed.
They did it before (2007) and they did it again (2009) — to the city of Karachi, the heart of Pakistani.
While Jamat-e-Islami’s secretary general Liaqat Baloch is holding press conference with the toes on MQM, …
The News reports on Friday that one of the top security agencies on Wednesday picked up Raja Ehsan Aziz, a member of Tehrik-e-Islami (TI), for his alleged connections with terrorists who had attacked the Parade Lane Mosque in Rawalpindi and Moon Market in Lahore. Tehrik-e-Islami is a splinter group of the Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistani.
With the sad news of terrorism in the month of October this year, comes the even sad news of terrorists changing their attacking strategies in such a random manner which our intelligence agencies are so …
A recent incident which took place in Swat, Pakistan where a girl was flogged just for going some where with her Father in law ohh! what a pity!,what is happening in our dear home land the …
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 …
MIRANSHAH: U.S. drone attack killed eight in North Waziristan, sources said here today.
Sources said that a U.S. drone fired missile on the hideout of defunct Tahrik-e-Taliban at Turikhel area in village Mirali of North Waziristan.
Sources …
HYDERABAD: Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) Secretary General Mushahid Hussain Syyed Sunday said former President Gen (rtd) Pervez Musharraf left the country as a result of a deal, so he would not return in the near …
MULTAN: Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi expressed desire that his forthcoming meeting with his Indian counterpart in USA on the sidelines of UN General Assembly session should yield positive results pleading that it will …
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 …
WASHINGTON: Pakistan has rendered countless sacrifices in fighting the scourge of terrorism and made the world a safer place with it relentless anti-terror endeavor, Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani told a gathering …
ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik said that India should refrain from leveling allegations against Pakistan, Geo News reported Friday.
Talking to media at PMS Hospital after visiting ailing father of Federal Minister for environment Hameedullah …
Taliban have now increased their influence to such an extent as now they are targeting high profile state organs – which no doubt is a loose slap on the face of this democratic government. When on 2nd July 2009, a bus containing ‘federal government employees’ was hit by a suicide bomber, the government’s information ministry took a bold step to quickly announce that the attack was by pro-Taliban forces – not telling the citizens of the country who actually was targeted?
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.
There is a long synopsis of the interview of Mr. Altaf Hussain, leader of the Muttahida Quami Movement who was interviewed by a renowned journalist named Najam Sethi while in London, United Kingdom. Altaf started answering questions by offering Najam Sethi with a self-hand-made Haleem party then moving on to clarifying the allegations on his party came during Military operation against his party in 1992.

