NORTH WAZIRISTAN :- At least 16 people were killed on Sunday in a blast which ripped through a passenger coach in a remote area of North Waziristan bordering Afghanistan. Nature of the blast could not be ascertained immediately. However, reports said the explosion took place near a passenger coach ...

ISLAMABAD -Prime Minister Justice (Retd) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso has strongly condemned blasts in North Waziristan Agency (NWA) and Balochistan, while he has also condemned an attack on the convoy of PTI leader Ayla Malik near Mianwali, besides expressing shock over the death of an independent ...

MIRANSHAH - A bomb planted by unknown miscreants destroyed an election office of an independent candidate from NA-40, North Waziristan Agency late Friday night.Unknown miscreants dynamited the election office of Aqal Zaman near Miranshah, headquarters of North Waziristan Agency, However, no human ...

Islamabad - Pakistan has strongly condemned the US-led drone strike in North Waziristan tribal region which killed at least four people on Sunday, reported a private TV channel. A statement issued by Foreign Office on Monday said such unilateral attacks were in contravention of international ...

A US drone attack killed four people, including a senior al Qaeda commander, in North Waziristan Agency on Sunday, official and local sources said. The attack killed Mohammad Ahmed Almansoor and three others in tabbi area of Ghulam Khan road in Miranshah, the headquarters of North Waziristan.The ...

ISLAMABAD - A visiting American envoy held a crucial meeting with Pakistan’s military chief in a low-key interaction that is said to have largely focussed on the long contemplated full-scale military action in North Waziristan Agency (NWA.)The meeting between Chief of Army Staff General ...

KARACHI  - Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday said that the government is seriously considering launching a military operation in the tribal badlands of North Waziristan.Speaking to reporters upon his arrival at the Karachi Airport, the interior minister said that the tribal region of ...

MIRANSHAH  - A roadside bomb targeting a military convoy Wednesday killed two soldiers and wounded 14 others in North Waziristan Agency.The bomb was planted along the route of a convoy of the paramilitary Frontier Corps in Spinwam area about 40 kilometres north of Miranshah, the main town in ...

MIR ALI — Pakistan’s effort to cut off the flow of fertilizer to militants using it to make bombs in North Waziristan tribal region along the Afghan border has outraged local farmers, who complain the policy has cut their crop yields in half, reported a private TV channel, quoting an ...

MIRANSHAH  – Despite increasing risk of polio disease in tribal region bordering Afghanistan, tribesmen of some areas in North Waziristan Agency (NWA) have refused to allow medical teams administer polio drops to their children.Secretary Administration and Coordination Fata, Abid Majeed ...

PESHAWAR - An Assistant Political Agent was among three people killed when unidentified gunmen stormed his office at Mir Ali in North Waziristan Agency on Tuesday.The armed men threw a grenade and then opened fire at a meeting of tribal elders and local officials in Mir Ali, killing at least three ...

DATTA KHEL  - Six mortar shells landed in the Dattakhel area of the North Waziristan tribal region, near the Afghanistan border, wounding six people, four of them children, security officials said.According to official sources, the Nato forces had allegedly fired the mortars from the ...

Our Staff Reporter SAHIWAL - Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Ameer Syed Munawar Hassan has claimed that Pakistani rulers have taken dictation from America on the eve of Hillary Clintons recent visit. He said that America is hell-bent on making India super power of the region. America wants excess to ...

ISLAMABAD - The top political and military leadership of the country has expressed commitment to the countrys role in the war against terror but at the same time reiterated its stance to keep the national interests supreme while dealing with any issue. Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani and ...

ISLAMABAD (INP) - Pakistan has hardened its position on the issue of full-fledged military operation in North Waziristan Agency ever since US Navy SEALs attacked and killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad last month. The countrys civil and military leaders reacted angrily to the attack, arguing that ...

MIRANSHAH (Agencies) - Nato forces violated Pakistani airspace on Monday as two of its helicopters intruded into the Pakistani territory. Sources said that two Nato choppers entered the Pakistani airspace to hunt insurgents in the border area of North Waziristan Agency (NWA). The Nato helicopters ...

MIRANSHAH (INP) - Taliban have killed four persons on charges of spying for the US. Their bullet-riddled bodies were recovered from Dattakheil and Mirali areas of North Waziristan Agency (NWA) on Monday. Among the killed three were local tribesmen and one was Afghan national, official sources said. ...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN (Agencies) - Mortars allegedly fired from Afghanistan hit a house in a militant-infested area of Pakistan on Thursday, killing eight people, officials said. The mortar attack occurred in Tity Mada Khel village in North Waziristan, according to intelligence officials. The dead ...

ISLAMABAD - WikiLeaks disclosures exposing the nerve-wrecking accounts of tyrant practices inflicted on Kashm-iris by Indian forces aptly throw light on the endlessly compromising position of Uncle Sam towards its blue-eyed Indians. On one hand, the US wants Pakistan launch North Waziristan ...

PESHAWAR - In the wake of ongoing military action against them, the leading figures of Tehrik-e-Taliban from both South Waziristan Agency and Swat region have shifted to Mirali region of North Waziristan Agency. Through some highly placed reliable sources, this scribe came to know that since long ...