News Source: AKI
| about 1 month ago
At least nine suspected militants were killed and several others injured in the Pakistani military's latest offensive in South Waziristan on the border of Afghanistan. Some key militant strongholds were also destroyed in the military operation and a...
News Source: Voice of America
| about 1 month ago
Pakistan's army says its forces have reached a key Taliban stronghold in South Waziristan and are locked in violent street battles for the town. A military statement released Wednesday on the army's latest efforts in the three-week-old anti-Taliban...
News Source: CNN
| about 1 month ago
The Taliban in the militants' stronghold of South Waziristan are making a "tactical retreat" in response to a Pakistani military offensive, a spokesman said Wednesday. The Taliban have been engaged in a guerilla war against the military since January...
News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| about 1 month ago
A Taliban spokesman told The Associated Press earlier this week that it had lost fewer than a dozen fighters and that its withdrawals had been made strategically to pull government fighters deeper into militant territory...The government has closed...
News Source: BBC South Asia
| about 1 month ago
Here he describes the hardships of the area and his hope that an army success will put an end to the suffering. Life became very tough in the last few months in my home town of Jandola. The army sealed off the entire tribal agency [district] for...
News Source: dailymail
| about 1 month ago
As civilians take refugees with relatives and host communities in Dera Ismail Khan and Tank in north western Pakistan, says a press release here...Assistant Representative in Islamabad. �Registration is an important first step to establish the fact...