There was a clear suggestion in Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali’s reaction, the other day, to the terrorist attacks in Quetta that the PML-N government’s patience had worn too thin to tolerate such criminal acts any longer. However, he left room open for talks with those elements ...

QUETTA - The government will not hold talks with those militants in Balochistan who are bent upon carrying out terrorism, rather they will be responded in the same coin, Interior Minister Ch Nisar Ali declared. Nisar was in Balochistan to review the security situation after Saturday’s ...

LAHORE- The Quetta and Ziarat incidents are a challenge the anti-state elements have thrown to the new PML-N government which is putting things right to run the state business.The Quetta Women University bus blast, another at Bolan Medical Complex and targeted firing by the terrorists after they ...

Security forces have killed 35 and injured 15 terrorists during operations in Khyber Agency's Tirah Valley and Kurram Agency.According to a statement issued by ISPR Sunday‚ one soldier embraced martyrdom and five others sustained injuries during encounters.After the clearance of Muhammadi Top ...

ISTANBUL - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan headed home from an overseas trip Thursday, defiantly vowing to press ahead with plans to redevelop a park that have prompted a week of violent protests he said were stoked by “terrorists”.The nationwide clashes sparked by protests ...

KARACHI - Jamaat-e-Islami Karachi chief Hussain Mehanti has reiterated his party demand to deploy army personnel at all polling stations of Karachi on May 11.Mehanti made this demand while addressing a press conference after the meeting of 10-party alliance on Monday at Idara-e-Noor Haq.He said ...

KARACHI  -  Awami National Party Sindh chief and Senator, Shahi Syed has said that handful of terrorists were ruining the peace of the country.He said that the Taliban had targeted secular and liberal political parties by attacking their elections offices, killing a number of political ...

Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain said the terrorists have come down on brazen aggression against liberal and moderate parties; but the party will not surrender to them.Addressing the members of Defence-Clifton Residents Committee here via telephone, he said his party will continue ...

Foreign Office spokesman Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry has made it clear that there are no terrorist camps in Pakistan.The Foreign Office spokesman Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry said this while responding to a question at the weekly news briefing here on Friday.Concurrence of seven host governments has been received ...

RIYADH - MO - Terrorists - some of whom fought and killed British soldiers in Afghanistan - caught in Saudi Arabia are to receive 'luxury rehabilitation'.The oil rich state is hoping to steer jailed al-Qaeda militants away from religious extremism with counselling, spa treatments and exercise at a ...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq has executed seven people convicted of terror-related offences, an official said on Monday, despite widespread calls for the country to declare a moratorium on its use of the death penalty. All of those executed were Iraqi men, and brought to 29 the number of times Iraq has ...

Miranshah   - Two terrorists were killed and six others injured in an overnight operation by the security forces in North Waziristan Agency's capital Miranshah, officials said Wednesday. According to an official, curfew has been imposed in Miranshah from January 1that will remain in place for ...

Chief of Awami National Party (ANP) Asfandyar Wali Khan has said his party is not scared of terrorists and it will fully take part in the next general elections.Addressing a news conference here on Tuesday‚ he said the ANP will not withdraw from the political process or the elections at any ...

PESHAWAR - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Information and Public Relations, Mian Iftikhar Hussain has said that education is the only way of national development and nothing is possible without acquiring quality education in this modern era; and as such we want pen and books in the hands of our ...

MULTAN - Jamaat-e-Islami Punjab Ameer Dr Syed Waseem Akhtar has said that the government has given free hand to terrorists groups like MQM in Karachi in the name of politics of reconciliation.Talking to the journalists here on Thursday, he claimed that fake national identity cards were being made ...

ISLAMABAD  - Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira on Wednesday condemned the attacks on polio teams in Karachi and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and said that terrorists wanted to damage the country’s image.Talking to media outside the Parliament House, he said that ...

LAHORE – Lawmen nailed two alleged terrorists during a successful raid carried out in the Badami Bagh area, sources said on Thursday. It was learnt that they intelligence agencies launched an operation in the locality as the terror suspects arrived in the City from northwest Pakistan to ...

WAZIRABAD - Police foiled a major terrorism plot and arrested four terrorists in Wazirabad. According to sources, the terrorists were members of Al-Qaeda. 15 suicide jackets, mines, hand grenades and a large cache of ammunition were recovered from their possession. Intelligence sources added the ...

KARACHI – Excise Police constable among six people were gunned down in separate acts of violence in different parts of the City on Tuesday.A constable of Excise Police was gunned down in Mujahid Colony within the jurisdiction of Mominabad police station.Police said the victim namely Jamal ...

PESHAWAR  - Two terrorists have been killed and a police cop martyred during a bloody encounter in Bannu district on Sunday evening, police said.The shootout started when militants attacked a police party at Abshar Chowk in the limits of Patakhel police station, killing a Frontier Reserve ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Raja Parvez Ashraf has said that a handful of terrorists will not be allowed to dictate their agenda and hijack the country.Addressing the National Conference on Child Rights here on Friday, he strongly condemned the attack on Malala Yousufzai and her two fellow ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Raja Parvez Ashraf has said that a handful of terrorists will not be allowed to dictate their agenda and hijack the country.Addressing the National Conference on Child Rights here on Friday, he strongly condemned the attack on Malala Yousufzai and her two fellow ...

ISLAMABAD - Following the acts of terrorism in provincial capitals of Lahore and Peshawar during the current week, an intelligence agency forecast on Friday that Islamabad may be the next target of terrorists in the days to come.“Terrorists may cause carnage in the federal capital in the days ...

The Australian Ambassador for Counter Terrorism, Bill Paterson, has claimed that terror outfits that have embraced the rise of technology, the internet in particular, to spread their messages and attract followers, are using Facebook to recruit loners from western nations like Australia to their ...

PESHAWAR - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Minister for Information and Public Relations, Mian Iftikhar Hussain has said that his government has the wherewithal to lead the province towards sustainable development and economic growth despite all hardships.He said they would stand against the heavy odds this ...

PESHAWAR (APP) - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Information, Mian Iftikhar Hussain said on Sunday that terrorists while taking the lives of innocent people in bomb blasts and suicide attacks are in fact fulfilling the evil designs of enemy and the government was ready to foil their evil agenda ...

PESHAWAR - Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court (PHC) Dost Muhammad Khan has directed the security agencies to divide the arrested terrorists in three categories on the basis of crimes committed by them.  During the hearing of the missing persons case here on Thursday, the Chief Justice while ...

PESHAWAR - Khyber Pakhtu-nkhwa, Minister for Information, Mian Iftikhar Hussain said on Monday that KP police arrested 6,236 terrorists and some 24,122 proclaimed offenders (POs) during last year - 2011.He said Kohat Central Jail and Lakki Marwat sub-jail have been handed over to army in order to ...

HEAD MARALA (Sialkot) - A PML-N central leader on Tuesday flayed the PPP government on prolonged energy crisis in the country, elaborating that all the rental power plants were producing 115 mega watts power against the governments promised capacity of 1,400 mega watts electricity. Addressing the ...

LAHORE In a major development, the Federal government has formally included the names of top militants including Mangal Baagh, Maulvi Fazlullah, and Brahamdagh Bugti in the list of most wanted terrorists, it was reliably learnt here on Wednesday. Well-informed sources confided to The Nation that ...