QUETTA - At least twelve personnel of Balochistan Constabulary (BC) and a civilian were killed while 18 others sustained injuries in a deadly remote controlled bomb attack in Quetta, on Thursday morning.Police officials said, a coaster-van carrying around 25 personnel of Balochistan ...

ISLAMABAD - US Ambassador to Pakistan Richard Olson said holding of dialogue with Taliban is prerogative of the Pakistani government.Talking to media in Islamabad on Wednesday, Olson said any reservations regarding these proposed talks will depend on terms and conditions of the dialogue with ...

The US has said it is too early to comment on Pakistani Taliban’s peace talks offer to Prime Minister-designate Nawaz Sharif.“It would be premature for us to comment on any potential negotiations,” a State Department spokesperson told PTI when asked about peace talks offered by ...

US ambassador to Pakistan Richard Olson said holding dialogue with Taliban is prerogative of Pakistani government.Talking to media here on Wednesday, Olson said holding dialogue with Taliban is prerogative of Pakistani government. However‚ he said‚ any reservations regarding these ...

  lahore Incoming prime minister Nawaz Sharif has said that his government is inheriting massive problems from the last government yet it is determined to complete in months the tasks that otherwise would require years. Without giving any specific deadline to overcome the energy crisis, the ...

LAHORE - The secret agencies have flaws in their frame of work and the ongoing terrorism could not be curbed due to the government’s fragility. These views were expressed by ex-DG FIA and interim Punjab Home Minister Tariq Pervaiz in an interview published in the latest edition of Family ...

One of the daunting challenges that Mian Nawaz Sharif would be confronted with, soon after taking the reins of government as Prime Minister, would be how to deal with the Pakistani Taliban and their counterparts in Afghanistan. During his election campaign, he did offer peace to the TTP who had ...

KABUL  - The Taliban Sunday freed four of eight Turkish engineers taken hostage last month after their helicopter crashed in Afghanistan, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Afghan officials announced.The engineers were in good health and the other captives would also be ...

ISLAMABAD - The Taliban have sent suicide bombers to mount election-day attacks on Pakistan's historic polls, a militant commander said on Thursday, following a bloody campaign which has claimed more than 100 lives.Saturday's vote will be a democratic milestone in a country but the Pakistani ...

The Taliban have sent suicide bombers to mount election-day attacks on Pakistan's historic polls, a militant commander said Thursday, following a bloody campaign which has claimed more than 100 lives.Saturday's vote will be a democratic milestone in a country ruled for half its history by the ...

islamabad - A child has contracted polio for the first time in Pakistan's militant-infested tribal belt since the Taliban banned vaccinations a year ago, a UN official said on Monday."The new case has been detected in North Waziristan where we had been denied access in June last year," the World ...

The stereotypical Afghan woman is still very much alive and struggling to survive, every single, often painful, step of the way towards what increasingly looks like a return to a hefty measure of Talibanisation. That, frankly speaking, will make very little difference for rural women at all, ...

Karachi - Awami National Party (ANP) candidate Sadiq Zaman Khattak, contesting for NA-254 Karachi, was gunned down along with his four-year-old son by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan in Bilal Colony on Friday.Following the killing, the Election Commission postponed polls in the constituency while ...

lahore/karachi - PPP leader Senator Rehman Malik has said that pro-Taliban forces want to keep PPP and other liberal forces away from the elections. He called upon the Election Commission of Pakistan to take action against the parties who were violating the election code of conduct. Addressing ...

KARACHI  -  Allama Hassan Zafar Naqvi, central spokesman for Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen, has said that his party wants to make Pakistan a strong, viable and prosperous welfare state. He said that the survival of the country was linked to freedom from the US and Taliban. He was addressing ...

ISLAMABAD -  Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman on Tuesday appealed to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to stop attacks on major political parties including PPP, ANP and MQM currently facing repeated security threats and attacks on their offices and candidates.“I ...

The Taliban spokesperson, Ehsanullah Ehsan, on Sunday distributed pamphlets announcing that the outfit would spare PTI, JUI-F and PML-N and instead would attack those parties belonging to the previous government that have been condoning military operations. This decision was taken by a Taliban ...

GHAZNI -  Insurgents killed three police officers in Afghanistan on Sunday, officials said, in an attack that the Taliban claimed marked the start of their annual ‘spring offensive’.A roadside bomb blast in the restive central province of Ghazni targeted a police convoy that was ...

KABUL (AFP/Reuters ) - The Taliban in Afghanistan vowed on Saturday to start a new campaign of mass suicide attacks on foreign military bases and diplomatic areas, as well as damaging “insider attacks”, as part of a new spring offensive this year.The offensive was announced via emails ...

Intelligence agencies have warned that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has made a comprehensive plan to kidnap former President Pervez Musharraf. Sources said that intelligence agencies have issued an advisory in this regard, which says that TTP has hatched a plot to kidnap Pervez Musharraf with ...

KABUL - Nato insisted Thursday that the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan is being won, despite reports by other organisations of a sharp upsurge in insurgent attacks this year.US General Joseph Dunford, head of the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), said there was ...

CHAGMALAI  - At a Pakistan Army base high in the mountains on the Afghan frontier, a general explains a strategy for fighting the Taliban he calls simply ‘WHAM’.The name has a distinctly bellicose ring. But the soldiers are learning to fight a new kind of war in a region US ...

A Taliban ban on polio vaccinations will put 240,000 children at risk in troubled northwest Pakistan if an inoculation campaign cannot start next week, officials warned Friday.Local Taliban and warlord Hafiz Gul Bahadur, whose followers are fighting Western troops in Afghanistan, have banned polio ...

Taliban militants armed with guns and rockets attacked a lakeside hotel near Kabul overnight, seizing dozens of hostages including women and children and killing at least 18 people. It took the government 12 hours to declare the brazen assault on the Spozhmai Hotel over with all four militants ...

India has done well to resist U.S. calls for greater involvement in Afghanistan, the Taliban said in a rare direct comment about one of the strongest opponents of the hardline Islamist group that was ousted from power in 2001.The Taliban also said they won't let Afghanistan be used as a base ...

Chief Minister of Sindh, Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Thursday announced to involve Rangers in the ongoing operation against the criminals in Lyari along with police personnel who were conducting operations against the criminals.The Chief Minister also announced Rs2 million as compensation for the ...

 Pakistan, Afghanistan and US have agreed to form a group at UN to work for the removal of Taliban leaders names from a UN black list, Xinhuanet reported on Sunday.The UN Security Council still has nearly 140 names of top Taliban leaders on its sanctions list. The Taliban negotiators in Qatar ...

Taliban multi-pronged attacks in Afghan capital Kabul which began on Sunday and over on Monday had claimed the lives of eight people and injured 46 others, head of Crime Investigation department of Kabul police said."In the counter offensive against terrorists in Kabul, eight security personnel ...

A Taliban expert bomb maker was killed and another insurgent was injured on Friday in an air strike conducted by NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in northern Afghan province of Baghlan, the ISAF forces said. "Coalition forces killed a Taliban expert bomb maker and wounded ...

Prospects for an orderly withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan suffered two blows on Thursday as President Hamid Karzai demanded that the United States confine troops to major bases by next year, and the Taliban announced that they were suspending peace talks with the Americans. Getting talks ...