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Militants kill anti-Taliban militiamen in Pakistan
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 2 months ago
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Six more people, mostly pedestrians, were wounded in the assault, according to Marwat. A second round of violence came when surviving militiamen came under attack as they tried to recover the bodies and the injured. Tribesmen returned fire with the help...
Tags: Pakistani Taliban, Pakistan Kills, tribal elders, Bannu District Hospital, Taliban Ambush, security officials, meeting security, militants ambush, Pakistan, Peshawar
Taliban confirms release of Pakistan staff, students
Wazīrābād :: Pakistan | 5 months ago
Credibility A Pakistani Taliban commander confirmed that on Thursday the hardline group unconditionally released all remaining students and staff from an army-run boarding school in Pakistan. "We have released them in the interest of peace in the region. We accepted...
Tags: Pakistani Taliban, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, North Waziristan Agency, Razmak Cadet College, Razmak College, tribal area, tribal jirga, taliban released, North-West Frontier Province, tribal elders
Tribesmen to retaliate if India imposes war
Wāna :: Pakistan | 10 months ago
Credibility Tribal elders have threatened to strike back if a war was imposed on Pakistan by the neighboring country (India) in the wake of the Mumbai attacks, saying that six million tribesmen would not bear the Indian threats any more. These views were expressed...
Tags: tribesmen, waziristan, threaten, tribal areas, attacks, attack, India, tribal elders
Schoolchildren killed in Afghan bombing
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 11 months ago
Credibility A suicide bomber blew himself up near a school in Afghanistan's southeastern province of Khost on Sunday, killing 16 people — all but two of them young students — the U.S. military said. School textbooks and shoes are seen on the ground after a suicide...
Tags: Khost, Afghanistan, Kabul, suicide bomber, khost provinces, blast killing, U.S, tribal elders
Three tribal elders escape from militants captivity
Karāchi :: Pakistan | about 1 year ago
Credibility Three out of the seven elders of Mamond lashkar, who had been kidnapped by militants on Monday, escaped from the captivity and reached Khar, the headquarters of Bajaur Agency, on Tuesday. Talking to media, the escaped lashkar head Malik Bakht Munir vowed...
Tags: tribal elders
NWFP Govt orders postings
Peshawar :: Pakistan | about 1 year ago
Credibility Government has ordered the postings of the following officers against the re-designated posts of Divisional Commissioners in the various Divisions of the province. According to details; Shah Rukh Arbab (DMG BS-20), has been posted as Divisional Commissioner...
Tags: kohat, explosives, divisional commissioners, dmg bs, tribal elders
Gilani seeks elders? help to curb militancy
Peshawar :: Pakistan | about 1 year ago
Credibility Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani called upon tribal elders on Monday to cooperate with the government in the war against militancy and extremism for the sake of peace in the region. �Militancy and terrorism have plunged the entire region into...
Tags: Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, prime minister, minister syed, Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, Mr Gilani, Pakistan, seeks tribesmen, curbing extremism, tribal elders, tribal belt
Emboldened militants set sights on Peshawar
Peshawar :: Pakistan | about 1 year ago
Credibility Officials in the home department, who evaluate the situation on an almost daily basis, believe declaring a state of red alert is now only a matter of time...It is home to the headquarters of the 11th Corps, the paramilitary Frontier Corps, the Frontier...
Tags: taliban, Taliban Pakistani Taliban, war, military, taliban militants, Baitullah Mehsud, tribal elders, Jandola, South Waziristan, Peshawar
Tribal elders slate Mohmand NATO attack F.P. Report
Peshawar :: Pakistan | about 1 year ago
Credibility The tribal elders also called for compensation for the victims of the area immediately, adding that the people killed in Sheikh Baba area were innocent. The tribesmen’s struggle in the independence of Pakistan, the tribesmen fought for the best cause...
Tags: mohmand, tribesmen, killed, tribal elders
Tribal elders demand separate status for Fata
Peshawar :: Pakistan | about 1 year ago
Credibility The pro-government tribal elders on Friday demanded of the government to solve the militancy issue through dialogue and focus on the development of the neglected belt. Addressing a joint news conference here, tribal elders from Bajaur, Mohmand, Khyber,...
Tags: tribal elders
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