ISLAMABADPresident of the Awami National Party (ANP) Asfandyar Wali Thursday said that despite serious reservations his party has accepted the election results and decided to sit on opposition benches in Centre as well as KP Assembly.Talking to media after party's CEC meeting here, the ANP chief ...

ISLAMABAD -Ali Haider Gilani, son of former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, who was kidnapped during a pre-election meeting from the suburbs of Multan in a commando-style action on May 8, is suspected to be in the captivity of a new TTP group Tora Shpa (Dark Night), reliable source in law ...

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. ...

PESHAWAR - Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesperson Ehsanullah Ehsan said on Sunday that selective targeting of the political parties and candidates was the decision of the Taliban Shura.Replying to a query about sparing PTI, JUI-F, JI and PML-N, he told a private TV channel: “Taliban ...

mardan - The banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Mardan has issued a letter in which it warned the religious parties not to use the name of Islam in their election campaign. Source said that the Mardan Press Club had received a letter Saturday written on the TTP’s letter pad. They said ...

Karachi - Relentless bombings continue to hit Karachi as political parties are busy in canvassing in the run-up to elections. On Friday, at least 11 people were killed and over 40 others injured in a bomb blast near an office of the Awami National Party (ANP).The blast targeted a corner meeting of ...

Islamabad/Karachi/Quetta - The election commission Thursday vowed not to delay the elections even by a ‘single day’ as polls related attacks killed at least six more people while Taliban distributed pamphlets in some cities warning citizens against participating in the elections.A bike ...

Karachi - After the incident of Abbas Town bomb blast in the constituency of NA -253, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other banned Jehadi outfits have become a nightmare for the candidates belonging to liberal parities, including Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM),PPP, ANP, Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf ...

KARACHITerrorist activities against Awami National Party (ANP) have contained the provincial leadership to passive election campaigns even in their own dominated areas, The Nation has learned. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) threats are still alive against ANP, MQM and PPP as the militants have ...

As if the brazen and pitiless carnage of the Shias in Quetta and Karachi in the beginning of this year was not an apt enough reminder of the diabolic shadow of Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP) looming large over Pakistan’s polity, the ongoing operation by Pakistan Army in Tirah Valley serves to ...

PESHAWAR - Five persons were killed and seven other were injured when US predator targeted a house on border region between South Waziristan and North Waziristan on Wednesday. Local sources said that US drone fired 12 missile on a house situated in Obara village of South Waziristan Agency. The ...

Miranshah - The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, which claimed the 2010 Times Square bomb plot, on Tuesday denied anything to do with explosions that killed three people and wounded more than 100 in Boston."We believe in attacking US and its allies but we are not involved in this attack," TTP spokesman ...

ISLAMABAD - Unveiling the party’s manifesto with special focus on law and order, economy, education, health, JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Monday appealed to the Tehreek Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to refrain from attacking political parties’ leaders currently engaged in election ...

SWAT/CHARSADDA – HAROON SIRAJ and WAJID ALI AFRIDI - Roadside bombs planted by Taliban killed Awami National Party  election candidate Mukarram Shah and injured another aspirant Syed Masoom Shah in Swat and Charsadda Sunday. Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for both the ...

KARACHI - Cops having association with defunct Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan were arrested by Anti Violent and Crime Cell here on Friday.According to details, Assistant Sub Inspector Rana Ishrat deployed in AVCC found involved in the murder of ASI Ashraf and was also providing assistance to the TTP in ...

KARACHI - Anti-Extremist Cell of the Crime Investigation Department claimed to have arrested three alleged members of outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan from Shireen Jinnah Colony, Clifton. The arrested alleged TTP men were identified as Abdul Majeed aka Talib aka Jan, Hafiz Mairajuddin, Bakhtiar ...

PESHAWAR - Banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has nominated its spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan for negotiating peace with PML-N President Nawaz Sharif, JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman and Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Syed Munawar Hasan.Speaking to media outlets from an undisclosed location, TTP spokesman said ...

Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Monday welcomed the offer of negotiation by banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).The TTP on Sunday expressed its willingness to hold talks with the government but on two conditions – release of its seven leaders and guarantees by leaders of PML-N, ...

LAHORE - The politicians whom the Taliban consider trustworthy have deferred their response on their latest overture of seeking guarantees from them as a pre-condition to hold talks with the government. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Sunday set two pre-conditions for talks with the Federal ...

KARACHI - Police and law enforcement agencies have claimed to arrest a key member of Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP) during raid in Karachi’s Sohrab Goath area on Saturday morning. The local police said that Alam Sher Mehsood, the accused, was arrested during a raid on a hotel in the Sohrab Goath. ...

PESHAWAR - Pakistani Taliban have said the UN bodies and the United States should stop the “BJP-sponsored state terrorism in Kashmir,” otherwise they have the ability to strike inside Indian-administered Kashmir.Speaking to a private TV channel on Wednesday, TTP spokesman Ehsanullah ...

KARACHI - An activist of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) allegedly involved in target killing escaped from Pirabad police station.According to details, the activist Abid Mehsud, used police uniform to deceive the administration and managed to break out from Police Station Pirabad.The accused was ...

KARACHI - An activist of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) allegedly involved in target killing escaped from Pirabad police station.According to details, the activist Abid Mehsud, used police uniform to deceive the administration and managed to break out from Police Station Pirabad.The accused was ...

PESHAWAR – ANP central leader Bashir Ahmad Bilour was killed in a suicide attack Saturday evening along with eight others, including his secretary and two police officials.At least 18 other people were injured when a Taliban bomber blew himself up to hit the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Senior Minister ...

KARACHI/PESHAWAR - Gunmen have killed six health workers of a nationwide polio vaccination drive, highlighting resistance to a campaign opposed by the Taliban.Four women were killed and two male workers injured in less than an hour in seemingly coordinated attacks in Karachi on Tuesday, the second ...

PESHAWAR/CHARSADDA – The TTP threatened to stage more attacks against secular parties after targeting an ANP rally in Charsadda on Monday in which seven people got injured. Following the attack on the rally, TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said that they would keep targeting the ANP and ...

karachi - Police claimed to have detained son of second-in-command of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Karachi outfit and recovered arms from his custody. According to media reports, police conducted a raid in North Karachi and apprehended accused Azmatullah on the complaints of extortion by traders and ...

Peshawar  - Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan on Monday rejected peace talks with the government. While reacting to a statement issued by Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Sunday, Ehsan talking to a private TV channel rejected any prospects of peace talks while ...

ISLAMABAD  – Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) said on Tuesday that Malala Yousafzai deserved to die because she had spoken out against the group and praised US President Barack Obama.Malala Yousafzai, 14, was flown to Britain on Monday, where doctors said she has every chance of making a ...

ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik condemning the murder attempt on peace activist Malala Yusufzai said that it looks like the Tehrik-Taliban Pakistan was not involved in this attack but is the work of a splinter group of TTP. Talking to media Tuesday, Malik said that a report has been ...