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News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| 5 months ago
Major Western countries, after applauding Pakistan's military crackdown on Islamic extremists in the Swat valley in the country's northwest, haven't pledged the money needed to resettle the population now that the fighting is mostly over, and...
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News Source: The Frontier Post
| 5 months ago
Provincial Minister for Information and Public Relations Mian Iftikhar Hussain has said the network of the militants has been dismantled. Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, Mian Iftikhar Hussain said the success of the ongoing military...
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News Source: BBC South Asia
| 5 months ago
They say that Malik Gali Khan was travelling in the Jamrud area when he was attacked by gunmen. The tribal leader was seriously wounded and died on his way to the hospital. As news of his death spread, incensed local tribesmen closed down the markets...
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News Source: India Abroad
| 5 months ago
Widespread Pashtun anger against the US and the Pakistani military continues to be the main motivating force of the TTP. There are no signs -- at least not yet -- that feelings of Pashtun nationalism influence the TTP's operations. The TTP sees...
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News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| 5 months ago
Tribesmen attacked Taliban hideouts in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing 28 militants and suffering seven fatalities themselves, and the intensifying battles prompted them to ask for army troops to help, a local lawmaker said. The clash in the...
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News Source: Pak Tribune
| 5 months ago
During last few days numbers of foreign sponsored terrorists have been apprehended by intelligence agencies and police in the campaign against militancy. On 26th June, 2009 two terrorists including a female have fled away once Faisalabad police...
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News Source: NewKerala
| 5 months ago
It said that parents of youths, who had been forcibly taken away by the terrorist group led by Baitullah Mehsud for suicide training in South Waziristan, had demanded release of their sons...South Waziristan is the headquarters of Baitullah Mehsud,...
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News Source: The Frontier Post
| 5 months ago
Chief Minister said while addressing compensation cheques among lawyers of Swat here at Frontier House. He said that militants will now try to escape towards Upper Swat, Dir and downward districts but they would not be allowed. Hoti said that great...
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News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| 5 months ago
A militant commander in northwest Pakistan tore up a peace deal with the Pakistani government Tuesday, dealing a major blow to the government's campaign against Islamist insurgents in the extremist-controlled Waziristan region. The commander, Gul...
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News Source: Asian Age
| 5 months ago
The Pakistan Army has killed 18 militants and lost three soldiers during the last 24 hours of operation against the terrorists in the north-western parts of the country, a military statement said on Tuesday. Separately, on Tuesday in Kalat, four...