-
News Source: Press TV
| 7 months ago
The local spokesman for the Taliban, Muslim Khan, who spent four years in the US before returning to Swat in 2002, said in an interview that the Taliban would welcome "insurgents of Arab origin bent on battling US-led troops" stationed in neighboring...
-
News Source: Hindustan times
| 7 months ago
Authorities in Pakistan’s violence-plagued North West Frontier Province boosted police salaries by about 30 per cent on Tuesday in recognition of the danger they face from an intensifying Taliban insurgency. Violence has surged across Pakistan...
-
News Source: Hindustan times
| 7 months ago
The strategy cleared a path to power for the Taliban in the Swat Valley, where the government allowed Islamic law to be imposed this week, and it carries broad dangers for the rest of Pakistan, particularly the militants’ main goal, the populous...
-
News Source: Pak Tribune
| 7 months ago
There have already been threats from the Tehreek-e Taliban that they want to cause havoc in Karachi and Punjab. This has been evidenced not only by the terror attacks at Liberty and Manawan in Lahore, but also the arrests of several top terror...
-
News Source: Press TV
| 7 months ago
Sufi Mohammad, a pro-Taliban cleric, mediating talks between the Pakistani government and Taliban insurgents, said on Sunday that Pakistan's rulers were imposing the system of 'kafirs' or infidels on the people of the country. Sufi told a gathering...
-
News Source: The Boston Globe
| 7 months ago
Pakistan must do more to "erase" Taliban bases inside its territory which are destabilizing the entire region, the U.S. commander of Western troops in neighboring Afghanistan said on Sunday. U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has pledged...
-
News Source: Hindustan times
| 7 months ago
A pro-Taliban hardline cleric in the restive Swat valley has stirred a controversy by saying that the newly imposed Islamic law in the region will protect militants from prosecution, confirming the worst fears of the West about the spread of...
-
News Source: Hindustan times
| 7 months ago
The US has let known Pakistan that its latest move to go ahead to enforce Shariah law in the Swat Valley as part of a peace agreement with the Taliban is not seen by the country as a step in the right direction. Both before and after the peace deal...
-
News Source: Jang.com.pk
| 7 months ago
Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has declared that Pakistan has its own policy against terrorism and the impression that the country was following the American policy in the war on terror was wrong. He was talking to newsmen on Saturday at the...
-
News Source: Financial Times
| 7 months ago
A suicide car-bomber rammed a Pakistani military convoy on Saturday, killing 25 soldiers and police, and two passers-by, police said...Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack near Kohat, 190 km west of Islamabad. ”The bomber was...