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19 killed as rebels? ambush peace jirga F.P. Report
Wazīrābād :: Pakistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility
At least eight members of the peace Jirga were shot dead while several were injured when armed insurgents ambushed a convoy of tribal elders here at Khasor area of Janikhel on Thursday. The tribal elders were on their way to participate in the jirga which...
Tags: Pakistani Taliban, Pakistan Taliban, northwest Pakistan, Zazi-Pakistan, Afghan-Pakistan, security forces, Afghanistan, U.S, North Waziristan, North West Frontier Province
Car bomb blast in Pakistan kills six
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 3 months ago
Credibility Six people were killed and 10 wounded in a car bomb blast in Pakistan's troubled northwest Monday, officials said. The attack took place at a gas station about 14 miles (23 km) northeast of Peshawar, the capital of the North West Frontier Province.
Tags: pakistan, taliban, Pakistan Taliban, NW Pakistan, car bomb, Peshawar, Charsadda district, petrol pump, Charsadda Riaz Khan, North West Frontier Province
Suffering refugees in northwest Pakistan
Since returning from Pakistan in mid-April, I've been trying to keep up with, and spread the news about, the appalling situation of the nearly three million people who have been displaced from their homes in northwest Pakistan by fighting between the...
Tags: Pakistan, Taliban, Pakistan army, drone attacks, refugees, IDPs, internally displaced persons, NWFP, North West Frontier Province, Swat, Mardan, Buner
'Taliban die' in Pakistan clashes
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 4 months ago
Credibility The clashes took place in Ambar village in the lawless Mohmand tribal region, bordering Afghanistan's Kunar province. Mohmand in North-West Frontier Province is said to be a hub for Taliban. In the neighbouring Khyber tribal area, militants attacked a...
Tags: Pakistan, Taliban, Mohmand Agency, Afghanistan, North West Frontier Province, tribal militia, militants dead, North-West Frontier Province, lashkar men, main town
Villagers battle Taliban in northwest Pakistan
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 5 months ago
Credibility Pakistani villagers seeking revenge for a deadly mosque bombing killed three more suspected Taliban insurgents on Monday in a third day of vigilante violence, police and officials said. The spontaneous militia took up arms on Saturday and killed six suspected...
Tags: Pakistan, Taliban, North West Frontier Province, security forces, mosque bomb, South Waziristan
Pakistan launch offensive against Taliban rebels
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 7 months ago
Credibility PESHAWAR: Pakistan on Sunday launched a new offensive to halt the advance of Taliban militants in the country's northwest, the military said, after the extremists ambushed troops, killing one soldier. The expanding encroachment of hundreds of armed Pakistanis...
Tags: Pakistani, Taliban, North West Frontier Province, security forces, North-West Frontier Province, United States, Lower Dir, Swat Valley, pakistan launches
Taliban attack NATO supply terminal in Pakistan
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 7 months ago
Credibility The attack took place at the Farhad terminal on the outskirts of Peshawar, the capital of North-West Frontier Province. "The containers caught fire after the attackers fired several rocket-propelled grenades at the terminal," said local police official...
Tags: nato supply, North-West Frontier Province, North West Frontier Province, militants attack, Farhad Terminal, Peshawar, NATO
Cleric seeks prisoners' release in Swat
Mingora :: Pakistan | 8 months ago
Credibility Taliban militants announced a ceasefire and Pakistani forces halted military operations in Swat last month after the cleric, Maulana Sufi Mohammad, struck a pact with the government of North West Frontier Province to enforce Islamic law in the valley.
Tags: Pakistan, Suspected Taliban, Swat Valley, taliban militancy, Maulana Sufi Mohammad, Afghanistan, North West Frontier Province, Sharia, foreign minister
Suicide car-bomber kills two Pakistani soldiers
Peshawar :: Pakistan | about 1 year ago
Credibility We have reports of two soldiers dead and four wounded," said the military official who declined to be identified. Shabqadar borders the ethnic Pashtun tribal region of Mohmand, a sanctuary for Al Qaida and Taliban militants. Security forces are expected...
Tags: pakistan, kill, Pakistan People's Party, aid worker, terror, Peshawar, U.S, North-West Frontier Province, North West Frontier Province, northwestern pakistan
FATA military action halted for Ramazan
Islamabad :: Pakistan | about 1 year ago
Credibility the military operation in tribal areas during the month of Ramadan. Adviser to Prime Minister on Interior Affairs Rehman Malik announced...
Tags: Pakistani, North West Frontier Province, Ramadan, northwestern pakistan, missile strike, engineers missing, tribal clash, muslim fasting, northwest pakistan, Muslim
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