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News Source: The News
| 5 months ago
The Army spokesman has confirmed that the ex-commissioner Malakand is in the custody of intelligence agencies for interrogation. Syed Muhammad Javed, who played a crucial role in striking a peace deal in Swat, is said to have links to the Taliban and...
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News Source: Jang.com.pk
| 5 months ago
A prominent supporter of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Maulana Waliullah Kabalgrami surrendered to security forces in Thakot area of Kohistan district on Tuesday...He had gone underground after security forces entered Shangla to purge...
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News Source: Hindustan times
| 5 months ago
At least 24 people are killed in a suspected suicide bombing near Shi'ite mosque in Dera Ghazi Khan, central Pakistan. Suicide bomber kills 27 people and wounds 65 in an attack on a funeral procession for a Shi'ite Muslim killed a day earlier in Dera...
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News Source: Los Angeles Times
| 5 months ago
Television images showed sections of the left side of the hotel reduced to rubble. A security guard at the hotel, Salim Khan, said a white pickup truck pulled up to the hotel's main entrance, where heavy metal barriers block the way while guards...
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News Source: The Daily Star (Bangladesh)
| 5 months ago
Police official Atlas Khan confirmed yesterday that helicopter gunships struck two villages where the militants have strongholds late Monday and Tuesday morning. He says the aircraft are monitoring to see if any militants try to escape the villages.
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News Source: CNN
| 5 months ago
A bomb exploded at a major hotel Tuesday in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least five people, the city's district coordination officer said. At least 25 others were wounded in the suspected attack on the Pearl Continental Hotel,...
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News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| 5 months ago
on Tue., Jun. 9, 2009 re: "Taliban cornered in NW Pakistan by angry locals" Muhammad Khan said: Before 2004 no one in Pakistan knows about "Pakistani Taliban"...Islam is a peace loving religion and these people are not Islamic Extremist.
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News Source: The Goshen News
| 5 months ago
Pakistan (AP) — A local government official says Pakistan's military has started shelling Taliban hide-outs in Bannu district in the country's northwest. Bannu's district coordination officer, Kamran Zeb Khan, told the Associated Press the military...
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News Source: Time of India
| 5 months ago
Pakistan on Tuesday renewed the announcement of a bounty of Rs 50 million on the head of Maulana Fazlullah, Taliban commander in the restive Swat valley as troops were reported to be closing in on his hideouts. The government issued an advertisement...
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News Source: NewKerala
| 5 months ago
On Thursday, an army officer in Sufi Muhammad's home district of Lower Dir was quoted as saying that the cleric and five of his aides had been arrested. On Saturday, however, after Sufi Muhammad's deputy and his spokesman were killed in a militant...