KANO, Nigeria : The purported head of Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has claimed two recent deadly attacks in the northeast in a video obtained by AFP Monday, which also depicts women and children apparently being held hostage. The video features Abubakar Shekau, declared a global terrorist by ...

Karachi/Quetta/Peshawar/Lahore - Violence continued unabated on the eve of landmark general elections, with 17 people killed on Friday in bombings and militant attacks on political workers, election offices and polling stations in Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta and other areas the country.A senior ...

The prevailing trend of intolerance and impatience has engulfed another innocent life, paradoxically in the city of lights. The heart-touching lamentable story of the murder of 19 year old Shahzeb was not yet forgotten, when the city of Karachi rocked with another similar incident. Hamza Ahmed, ...

LAHORE - Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo, in a statement issued here on Friday said that PML-N has been behaving itself as the political wing of TTP due to Nawaz Sharif’s lack of condemnation of the cold-blooded murders of 70 election related killings of PPP, ANP and MQM workers and leaders by TTP. ...

karachi/lahore - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif said that Pakistan People’s Party had failed to deliver during the last five years for which they should apologise to the nation. Talking to journalists at Jinnah International Airport, Karachi on Thursday, he said that the PPP ...

ANP Chief Asfandyar Wali Khan has strongly condemned yesterday’s bomb blast on ANP’s corner meeting in Karachi and termed it a battle between two mindset.Speaking to a TV channel on Saturday, Wali said that liberal democratic parties were being barred from taking part in the coming ...

Fighter jets bombarded three suspected militant hideouts in Khyber tribal region’s Tirah valley on Wednesday. Tirah valley is known to be the strong hold of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan.At least six suspected militants were killed in the airstrikes, tribal sources said.The targeted hideouts were ...

PESHAWAR - Fighting between two militant groups has left at least 61 people dead and scores wounded in Khyber tribal area along the Afghan border in three days, officials said on Sunday.Sources said the fighting between the two militant groups began Friday, when the militants from TTP captured the ...

Chief of his own faction Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has said that political parties having militant wings should be banned and they should not be allowed to contest election. While talking to traders in Karachi, Nawaz said that main problem in the city was militant wings ...

Militants blew up a tower of a 66 KV transmission line here in Mohmand Agency on Saturday. According to political administration sources militants had planted explosives device with the transmission tower near Yakka Ghund area which went off with huge explosion early on Saturday morning. As a ...

More than 6000 people are being strictly monitored on charge of having links with the militants network and have been included in 4th schedule, this was revealed in the session of National Assembly (NA) Standing committee for Human Rights. The meeting under NA Standing committee for Human Rights, ...

Abd-al-Rahman Awad was convicted for a number of bomb attacks in recent years Lebanese security officials say they have shot and killed the suspected leader of the militant Sunni Islamist movement Fatah al-Islam.Abd-al-Rahman Awad and an associate were intercepted on a main road in eastern Lebanon ...

The U.S. included the notorious leader of Chechen militants, Doku Umarov, on its list of terrorists, the U.S. Department of State said on Thursday. Umarov, who styles himself as "the Emir of the Caucasus," has claimed responsibility for the two recent major terrorist attacks on the Russian ...

The Pakistani military, long reluctant to heed American urging that it attack Pakistani militant groups in their main base in North Waziristan, is coming around to the idea that it must do so, in its own interests. Western officials have long believed that North Waziristan is the single most ...

The battle raged for two days, rocket and mortar duels hopscotching across the flat farmlands, gunfire rattling through market villages. At first the combatants seemed equally matched, but when one side rushed in reinforcements, the other's lines broke and its fighters scattered. When the smoke and ...

Up to 60 militants and 19 civilians may have been killed in bloody clashes between rival Islamist militant groups in northern Afghanistan, a police official said Sunday. The fighting between Taliban rebels and militants loyal to the Hezb-i-Islami insurgent group erupted early Saturday in Baghlan ...

A suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) operative arrested in Dhaka has told Bangladeshi investigators that he arranged safe passage to India from Bangladesh for several militants who were involved in the 1999 hijack of an Indian Airlines plane. "Nannu Mia alias Belal Mandal alias Billal told us during ...

A militant leader blew himself up during a search operation being carried out by the police in Matni, a neighbouring area of Peshawar. Seven policemen were also injured due to the explosion; whereas police also managed to arrest 7 militants. According to the police, security forces were informed ...

In a clash in Mingora, security forces killed a militant commander Gul Mola with four accomplices, sources said. The forces on a tip off conducted raid at a hideout of militants in Sangram area of Mingora. The forces search operation has been continued in upper areas of Matta and Kabal in Swat ...

An al Qaeda-linked Uzbek militant leader was killed in Pakistan in a U.S. drone missile strike in August, Pakistani intelligence agency officials said on Friday. Tahir Yuldashev, leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, was killed in a missile strike in the South Waziristan region on the ...

As many as 70 militants were reported killed as clashes erupted between rival militant groups in northwestern Pakistan, a foreign news agency reported on Wednesday. Pakistani security officials told the news agency that the clashes broke out in Jandola between fighters loyal to Pakistan's Taliban ...

Indonesian police have shot dead a man suspected to be leading Islamic militant Noordin Mohammad Top during raids in Central Java and were trying to identify his body, police sources said on Saturday. Malaysian-born Top is a prime suspect in last month's near simultaneous suicide attacks on ...

U.S. military officials in Afghanistan have halted the practice of releasing the number of militants killed in fighting with American-led forces as part of an overall strategy shift that emphasizes concern for the local civilian population's well-being rather than hunting insurgent groups. The ...

Pakistani aircraft bombed Taliban on Sunday in their bastion of South Waziristan on the Afghan border after the militants attacked two military camps, killing two soldiers, officials and residents said. The military, near the end of an offensive in the northwestern Swat Valley after two months of ...

The associate of Shah-e-Dauran, Khurshid, who is an important commander, has been arrested along with two fellow militants, a private TV reported Thursday. Another militant commander fled after a clash with the security forces in Buner.

Twenty-six militant commanders have been killed in Malakand division, interior secretary informed National Assemblys standing committee on defence, sources said. He said 92 militants including some foreigners have been arrested so far during operation ' Rah-e-Rast.

Federal Interior Minister, Rahman Malik has said that the operation will continue until the last militant was wiped out and added that writ of the government would be restored by all means. After visiting of the camps of the affectees here in Mardan, talking to media, he said that Taliban mistook ...

A key Al Badr militant and a jawan were killed in an encounter between security forces and ultras in Baramulla district on Wednesday. The encounter broke out last evening when militants hiding in a house opened fire on the security forces during search and cordon operation in Amargarh village, ...

A local leader of an Islamic militant group in Tajikistan had been arrested in neighbouring Afghanistan and will be handed over to the Tajik authorities, security sources said on Saturday. Anvarzhon Kaumov led a local branch of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) militant group in the north of ...

Stating that Pakistan has reneged on its promise not to allow its territory to be used for hostile activities against India, an Indian overseas group has asked Islamabad to explain why leaders of banned outfits have been receiving official protection there. "The Pakistani government had promised ...