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Security put on high alert
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 12 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
Pakistan shuts schools and colleges after attack
Islamabad :: Pakistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Pakistan shut all educational institutions yesterday after two suicide bombings at a university, showing the power of militants to disrupt everyday life as they fight back against a major army offensive in the north-west. On Tuesday bombers struck at...
Tags: pakistan, Pakistani Taliban Hakimullah Mehsud, Pakistan Continues Waziristan, International Islamic University, Islamabad, South Waziristan, black hole, suicide attack, tribal region
Bomb targets police truck, 12 injured
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 2 months ago
Credibility Twelve persons including nine policemen and three passers-by sustained injuries in a remote-controlled bomb explosion near the Government Technical College here on Monday. Sources said a police truck (AD-123), carrying prisoners from the district jail...
Tags: Continued Below Pakistan, tribal region, jets pounded, controlled bomb, security guard, Pakistan, Karāchi
Pakistani forces intensify hunt for Taliban leader
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 2 months ago
Credibility Pakistani security forces intensified a hunt on Monday for the Pakistani Taliban leader in the Swat valley, military officials said, and a United States drone killed four militants in a missile strike near the Afghan border. Pakistani forces have made...
Tags: Pakistani Taliban, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, North Waziristan Agency, Baitullah Mehsud, drone attack, drone fired, U.S, Swat Taliban, tribal region, Pakistan, Islamabad
Army: 5 militants killed in northwest Pakistan
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 2 months ago
Credibility Taliban militants frequently attack supply trucks using the famed Khyber Pass. Authorities say the latest operation has killed scores of militants...Please try again, or click here to retrieve your password. Existing users
Tags: Pakistani, Khyber Pass, Khyber Agency, militants kill, security forces, tribal region
Troops take on militants in Bara
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 2 months ago
Credibility At least nine suspected militants were confirmed dead as security forces launched a massive operation in the Bara sub-division of Khyber Agency on Tuesday. The security forces and political administration, however, claimed killing 40 militants during...
Tags: Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, security forces, Hakimullah Mehsud, Afghanistan, Bara, locals militancy, militancy kill, South Waziristan, forces kill, tribal region
Zawahiri calls for support in FATA
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility WASHINGTON: Al-Qaeda's number two Ayman Zawahiri called Thursday on Pakistanis to support jihadists in the country's tribal areas, saying it was "the" battle against the American "crusaders," said the US-based SITE Intelligence group. Zawahiri's comments...
Tags: Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan Ameer, Pakistan Army, suicide bomber, Afghanistan, suicide attack, tribal region, Baitullah Mehsud, Torkham, AFP, locally administration
Nuclear experts visit Iran site
Tehrān :: Iran | 3 months ago
Credibility They say Iran also agreed on ways to improve monitoring at the Natanz nuclear enrichment plant. Enriched uranium can be used for civilian nuclear power or to make atomic bombs. The west fears Iran wants to develop nuclear weapons but Tehran insists its...
Tags: Pakistani, northwest Pakistan, Iran, North Waziristan, security forces, Russian, missiles strike, tribal region
Seven killed in North Waziristan strikes
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 4 months ago
Credibility Jetfighters continued to run bombing missions over parts of North Waziristan tribal region, killing seven people on Tuesday, sources and residents said. They said that warplanes bombed the Wacha Bibi area, west of Miramshah, hitting suspected hideouts...
Tags: Pakistani, Taliban, North Waziristan, South Waziristan, Baitullah Mehsud, suspected militancy, training centre, waziristan tribal, tribal region
Warlord fighting Baitullah killed
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 5 months ago
Credibility Staff Report PESHAWAR: A Mehsud tribesman who declared war against Pakistan’s most wanted criminal Baitullah Mehsud has been killed in Dera Ismail Khan. The SP of the Dera Ismail Khan police confirmed this to SAMAA Tuesday. Qari Zainuddin Mehsud belonged...
Tags: Pakistani Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, Qari Zainuddin, South Waziristan, Gulbadeen Mehsud, shot dead, waziristan tribal, security forces, tribal region
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