HANGU : Security forces killed 20 terrorists who attacked them in Kurram Agency in which four security personnel were killed and 12 got injured. Terrorists attacked security forces with heavy weapons in the area of Bara Chamni and martyred 4 soldiers, besides injuring 12. The security forces ...

ISLAMABAD - Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday promised to enhance the defence cooperation between China and Pakistan, besides reiterating the Chinese commitment to strengthen bilateral economic and trade relation and help in major energy and infrastructure projects.The incoming ...

LAKKI MARWAT - Unidentified armed militants kidnapped four doctors in the Ghazni Khel police station jurisdiction here on Wednesday. According to police sources, the doctors were going to Dera Ismail Khan for duty when they were intercepted by the militants. Police said that it has laid a siege on ...

KANO Nigerian soldiers on Sunday sealed roads heading out of a key northeastern city, blocking supply routes to remote towns where Boko Haram militants have taken power as a massive offensive against the insurgents spreads across the region.The campaign against Boko Haram, which has said it wants ...

Thirty-five Taliban militants have been killed and 30 others wounded during operation across Afghanistan within the last 24 hours, the country's Interior Ministry said Wednesday."Afghan police supported by the army and NATO-led coalition forces launched several cleanup operations in Kunduz, ...

At least nine extremists were killed and their three hideouts destroyed in security forces operation against militants here in Orakzai on Wednesday.According to details, security forces engaged the suspected militants in Mamozai and surrounding areas of Orakzai Agency with heavy artillery fire.In ...

Orakzai agency/ hangu/ landi kotal -  OUR STAFF REPORTER/ agencies  - At least 35 militants were killed and two of their hideouts destroyed during army's ongoing operation in Orakzai and Khyber tribal regions on Sunday. Military officials said two soldiers were also martyred and three ...

Pakistani troops overran two militant hideouts and killed 16 insurgents after heavy overnight fighting at a flashpoint near the Afghan border in which two soldiers also died, the military said Sunday.The fighting took place in the wake of a fresh military push in the Tirah valley in the tribal ...

peshawar - One security personnel and four militants were killed in a clash when militants ambushed a security check post in Ladha area of South Waziristan tribal region on Friday.According to security sources, one security personnel was killed during the attack whereas retaliatory action by ...

Security forces killed at least eight militants during an operation in Upper Orakzai on Saturday.As per details, the operation was carried out in Shin Qamar and Sanga areas.During the aerial attacks Pakistani military aircraft also destroyed three militant hideouts.Orakzai is one of Pakistan's ...

Militants ambushed a security checkpost in Ladha area of South Waziristan tribal region on Friday.One security personnel was killed during the attack whereas retaliatory action by security forces killed four militants.

SWABI   - Brother of the Awami National Party candidate of a provincial constituency, who was attacked Saturday night by unknown suspected militants, succumbed to his injuries at the Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, said party leaders here on Sunday.Akhtar Muneer, the brother of Muhammad ...

islamabad - Utterly alarmed by the threats his family is receiving from banned militants groups, Mohammad Ashraf, resident of Mandi Bahauddin, has appealed to the federal and Punjab governments to provide him and his family security.While narrating his ordeal, Ashraf told TheNation on Sunday that ...

Peshawar -  Two explosions took place in Hangu and Kohat whereas two other bombs were defused in Bannu and Charsadda districts on Friday. In Hangu’s Muhammad Khawaja area, militants blew up a government high school, partially damaging the structure, local political administration sources ...

PESHAWAR  - A shootout between militants and police on Thursday left two policemen and four militants dead while three policemen sustained injuries in Karak district, police said.Acting on a snitch, the police was carrying out a search operation in Teri area of Banda Daudshah tehsil to arrest ...

Four persons including two militants and two policemen were killed in exchange of fire when miscreants attacked police here on Thursday. The three remaining attackers were arrested.According to details, militants stormed police party that was on routine patrol in Barbara's Banda Daud Shah area when ...

SANAA : An apparent US drone strike and ensuing ground clashes in Yemen killed three suspected Al-Qaeda militants and two soldiers on Sunday, a security official and witnesses said.The strike targeted a house in Wadi Abida, in the eastern province of Marib, and killed two suspected militants, the ...

Eight militants were killed and one soldier was injured after an exchange of fire in Orakzai Agency on Wednesday.According to sources, Taliban militants ambushed a security check-post in Dabori area of Orakzai Agency early in the morning.The security forces retaliated strongly, thwarting the ...

KHYBER AGENCY - Another government primary school for boys was razed to the ground in a bomb blast in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency on Saturday, official and local sources said. Luckily no casualty was reported as no one present at the school at the time of the blast, sources said, adding the ...

STAFF REPORTER/AGENCIESMIRANSHAH/QUETTA/SWABI – With nearly a month to go for the historic national and regional polls, militants are looking to stoke violence through targeting election candidates, convoys of their supporters and their election offices and houses.Saturday witnessed a ...

PESHAWAR  - Fifteen militants and one soldier were killed on Thursday when the Pakistani military mounted another operation in a week of fighting designed to seize control of the Tirah Valley, the army said.The military has faced fierce resistance from the Taliban and its allies in the Khyber ...

KALAYA - Security forces on Wednesday killed at least eight suspected militants in exchange of firing in Orakzai Agency.According to security forces, some unidentified armed militants attacked security forces check post in Dabori area of Orakzai Agency and injured two personnel. In retaliatory fire ...

Fifteen militants and one soldier were killed on Thursday when the  military mounted another operation in a week of fighting designed to seize control of a remote but strategic valley in the northwest, the army said.The military has faced fierce resistance from the Taliban and its allies in ...

PESHAWAR  - Heavy fighting between Pakistani troops and militants has killed 23 soldiers and more than 110 enemy fighters at a flashpoint near the Afghan border, military officials said on Tuesday.The clashes signalled a fresh military push in the Tirah Valley of Khyber district, where the ...

PESHAWAR - A person was killed and three others injured when militants fired three rockets on the FC Headquarters in Hayatabad area of Peshawar on Friday. Police said that the rockets were fired from the Shalobar area of Khyber Agency and its target was FC Headquarters. All the three rockets ...

KHYBER AGENCY – At least fourteen militants were killed and five troopers martyred in airstrikes and skirmishes between security forces and militants in different areas of Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency on Friday.In the first operation held in Dwa Toai, Sarai Morcha, Narai Baba, Takhtakai and ...

Five militants were killed and two others injured when the security forces targeted their hideout through gunship helicopters here on Tuesday. According to official sources, the gunship helicopters targeted Barond area, 37 kilometres from Wana, the headquarters of South Waziristan Agency, and ...

KARACHI – Eight people, including two MQM workers and a policeman, were killed in targeted attacks and a militant gun attack at a police station in the metropolis on Tuesday, officials said. Taliban gunmen on four motorbikes opened fire on a police station in suburban area of Gohrab Goth, ...

ISLAMABAD - Lawmakers in the National Assembly on Saturday underlined that the problems of Muslims could be resolved by following the teaching of Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).The house suspended the agenda items on the order of the day emphasising to follow the life of Muhammad (PBUH) who had given ...

SWABI Militants targeted school busses in ChotaLohar tehsil of Swabi district on Monday and exploded two of the busses when they were parked on Swabi-JahangiraRoad. No causality was reported as bombing took place during school time, police official said. The school owner and principal,Mazhar Khan, ...