News tagged with 'taleban'. Found 6 tagged news.

Pakistan militants hijack trucks

Peshawar :: Pakistan | 21 days ago

He said that the trucks were stopped as they travelled through the Khyber Pass. Correspondents say that the road is a major supply route for US and other Western forces battling against the Taleban in neighbouring Afghanistan. Hauliers say that over 350...

Tags: khyber, pass, Pakistan, western forces, Karzai, Afghanistan, militants hijacked, pakistan, afghanistan, Pakistan-Afghanistan, taleban, news, Peshawar-Torkham, Taliban, taliban militants, militants hijackers, forces battling

US air strikes in Pakistan's troubled tribal belt are

Peshawar :: Pakistan | 4 months ago

Posted by starsandstripes

North West Frontier Province governor Owais Ghani said US air strikes in Pakistan's troubled tribal belt are "seriously undermining" public support for the new government and such actions could make it impossible for the government to keep struggling...

Tags: KARZAI, Taleban, Narcotics

Taliban defy Govt to set up Shariat court

Hangu :: Pakistan | 4 months ago

IST(14/7/2008) Openly defying the writ of the Pakistan government, the local Taliban on Monday announced that they will set up Shariat or Islamic courts in the restive Mohmand tribal region bordering Afghanistan. Doctor Asad, a spokesman for the Tehrik-e-Taliban...

Tags: pakistan, taliban, taleban, tribal areas, tribal, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan

Pakistan Attempts to Allay Afghan Fears

Islamabad :: Pakistan | 5 months ago

Pakistan and Afghanistan on Friday agreed on the need for broad-based and coordinated efforts to curb the twin menace of militancy and extremism that pose a grave challenge to the security of both countries. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmud Qureshi sought...

Tags: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Islam, Taleban, Mujahedeen, Pakistanï, Pakistani, Dera Ismail Khan, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, terror plot, suicide bombers, Hamid Karzai

Taleban killed in Afghan incursion

Kabul :: Afghanistan | 6 months ago

Taleban dead returned to Pakistan Pro-Taleban fighters in Pakistan have brought back the bodies of at least nine comrades killed in Afghanistan, officials and witnesses say. Officials in South Waziristan tribal district quote militants as saying that...

Tags: afghan, taleban, killed, officials, militants, tribal, waziristan, Pakistan, Afghanistan

Presumed Missing

Kabul :: Afghanistan | 9 months ago

Posted by riotgoy

<p>In what may be the most audacious attack on a diplomatic mission to the region yet, Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan was declared missing today. Visiting Pakistan's Khyber tribal disrict at the time of his disappearance, according to Lebanon's...

Tags: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Islam, Taleban, Mujahedeen