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Security put on high alert
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 17 days ago
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In view of the fragile law and order situation in the Provincial capital following suicide blasts on two consecutive days in the suburban areas, police and security agencies have been put on high alert. Police sources said like other parts of country,...
Tags: Pakistan, helicopter gunships, Mohmand Agency, Eleven Stars, taliban militants, tribal region, gunships killing
Government asked to split NA 47 F.P. Report
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 2 months ago
Credibility Zar Noor Afridi has suggested the government for split of NA 47 into three separate constituencies. In a press release, he said six FRs were included in the constituency and thus created the biggest one in the country, adding that due to its vastness...
Tags: security forces, Khyber Agency, banned lashkar, helicopter gunships
Pakistan says six militants killed in Swat
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 3 months ago
Credibility Pakistani troops killed six militants and took 11 prisoner during operations Saturday in the Swat Valley, officials said. Five of the deaths occurred during a firefight between the government forces and insurgents, Press Trust of India reported.
Tags: suicide bombers, Pakistan, security forces, Charbagh, helicopter gunships
Taliban won't get Pakistani nuclear weapons
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 6 months ago
Credibility KABUL: Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday the Taliban went too far when fighters advanced on a district of Pakistan just outside the capital city, and said he is satisfied that the Pakistani Army is fighting back hard. Gates, visiting next-door...
Tags: Pakistani Army, Taliban, Pakistan Launches Air Strikes, swat valley, taliban militant, nuclear weapons, Robert Gates, Afghanistan, Defense, helicopter gunships
Residents confused as Dir operation ends
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 7 months ago
Credibility By Tariq Waheed and Zahid Jan PESHAWAR: The military offensive in Buner and Dir has come to an end, the army said Wednesday morning, but fleeing residents are confused as the fighting continued till late Tuesday. Extremist hideouts were bombed in the...
Tags: Pakistani, Taliban, Abid Bunery & Riaz, security forces, military offensive, Lower Dir, helicopter gunships, taliban militants
Pakistan army raid 'kills rebels'
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 8 months ago
Credibility A statement said the operation focused in the Sapri area of Mohmand, a North-West Frontier region. It said the offensive had been successful and did not mention any casualties among the troops. Security forces have been battling the Taleban for months...
Tags: Mohmand Agency, security forces, Sapri, Pakistani, sapri area, militants kills, helicopter gunships
14 militants killed in southern Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 9 months ago
Credibility Officials in Afghanistan say a battle outside of the southern city of Kandahar has killed at least six Taliban fighters, while an airstrike against militants elsewhere in the south killed eight. Kandahar deputy provincial police chief Abdullah Khan says...
Tags: security forces, Kandahar, international troops, Afghanistan, helicopter gunships
NA assails militants? ?ban? on girls? education
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 10 months ago
Credibility The National Assembly on Tuesday unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the ban' imposed by militants on girls' education and destruction of schools in Swat. The resolution, moved by Information and Broadcasting Minister Sherry Rehman, called for...
Tags: Pakistani, Mohmand, taliban militants, mohmand district, war planes, major offensive, Peshawar, helicopter gunships, insurgent near
Pakistan kills 40 Taliban militants
Peshawar :: Pakistan | about 1 year ago
Credibility Troops and helicopter gunships killed about 40 Taliban militants while four people, including a politician, were injured in a roadside bomb in northwest Pakistan, officials said Monday More than 24 extremists with links to Al-Qaeda were killed on Sunday...
Tags: pakistan, Pakistan Rangersâ, Bajaur Agency, helicopter gunships
Militant clashes kill nine civilians in Pakistan
Karāchi :: Pakistan | about 1 year ago
Credibility The civilians died when mortar shells hit their houses in several areas of Matta sub-district. The Dawn News television channel said five members of a family were killed when a stray shell struck their house in Darmai village, while another four people...
Tags: Pakistan, heavy casualties, inflicting heavy, helicopter gunships
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