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 in Miranshah town, ...

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 ...

Peshawar - A roadside bomb targeting an army convoy killed four soldiers and wounded another four in North Waziristan Agency on Sunday.The blast occurred when a vehicle of the military convoy of security personnel rolled over an improvised explosive device near Khawaja Khar checkpost. The convoy ...

A convoy of security forces was ambushed with an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Miraali area of North Waziristan Sunday, killing four security personnel and injuring four others.Military officials said the roadside bomb exploded on Bannu-Miranshah road in North Waziristan tribal agency, ...

Miranshah - A bomb attack killed seven soldiers and wounded 12 others Tuesday in North Waziristan Agency.The bomb struck on a road under construction, five kilometres north of Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan, known as a strong bastion of Taliban and Al-Qaeda linked militants.“An ...

At least five persons were killed and seven others injured when a US drone struck a compound in South Waziristan Agency (SWA) here in Wana on Wednesday.According to details, an unmanned US spy plane fired two missiles at a residential compound located in village Sararogha of Babar Kot in SWA.As a ...

MIRANSHAH  - At least five militants have been killed by a US drone strike on Sunday in North Waziristan.The attack took place in Datta Khel town, 35 kilometres west of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan which borders Afghanistan.Six US drones flew over the area when one of them ...

Pakistan has strongly condemned the US drone strike in North Waziristan tribal region which killed at least four people on Sunday.According to a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday such unilateral attacks are in contravention of international law and counter-productive to ...

Poverty and unemployment are two of the some basic reasons that have contributed towards the unrest in South Waziristan. Moreover, the scarcity of basic infrastructure and lack of health and education facilities created an ideal environment for nurturing extremism in the area. Acknowledging this ...

It appears, in a triumph of pure country’s unique brand of political leadership and courage, yet again, no one seems willing to accept responsibility for deciding on an operation in North Waziristan. The formation commanders of the Pakistan Army were supposed to have taken this decision, but ...

KOT RADHA KISHAN - PTI Kissan Wing Kasur President and candidate for the slot of PP-176 Ch Shehbaz Ali Virk has said that by holding Waziristan peace march, the party had set new trends in national politics and the international media and lobbies are focusing on drone and terrorism issues. He ...

As I drove at nerve-wracking speed towards Dera Ismail Khan in the milieu of an unending line of vehicles, bumper to bumper, side to side, I kept contemplating on the vigour of emotions that gripped the participants on all roads leading to Waziristan. They came from all over and all walks of life; ...

MIRANSHAH  - The only source of imparting quality education to the tribal youth in North Waziristan Agency, Razmak Cadet College, is likely to be shifted from Razmak to Charsadda district, sources said on condition of anonymity. It was revealed that Razmak Cadet College in North Waziristan ...

PESHAWAR US missiles strikes on South and North Waziristan Agencies killed at least 23 suspected militants including seven foreigners on Monday, destroying compound and two vehicles in the deadliest drone strikes for months. In the first attack, a US unmanned aircraft at about 2:15 am midnight ...

Pakistan appears to be making preparatory moves for an attack on North Waziristan, a tribal region that has become a base for Afghan Taliban militants, amid pressure from the U.S. Such an invasion, one of the U.S.'s core demands on Pakistan to help stamp out the Taliban insurgency in neighboring ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The top US general in Afghanistan said Friday it was 'hugely important that Pakistani forces take action against militants in North Waziristan. General David Petraeus, commander of the NATO-led force in the Afghanistan war, credited Islamabad with battling insurgents elsewhere ...

PESHAWAR - Former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) officer Colonel Imam has been killed by the abductors in North Waziristan Agency, TheNation learnt reliably on Sunday. Sultan Aamir Tarar, commonly known as Colonel Imam, along with two other colleagues including Khalid Khawaja, a former ...

Pakistan will mount military assaults against terrorists in North Waziristan, the Pakistani ambassador to the United States vowed. Its only a matter of how, when and in what manner do we conduct operations there against the extremists and terrorists, Ambassador Husain Haqqani told Bloombergs ...

A cricket tournament was held last week in this South Waziristan town for the first time in eight years - testament, the Pakistan army says, to its victory over Taliban militants who long used the area to stage spectacular attacks across the nation. But a few miles northeast, Pakistani soldiers ...

Central commander of banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Tariq Afridi reportedly said on Tuesday that his outfit is not involved in the kidnapping of Vice Chancellor of Islamia College University Peshawar Ajmal Khan. According to reports, talking to a TV channel, the TTP commander said that his ...

Officials say the bullet-riddled bodies of three men have been found at the side of a road in North Waziristan, killed by suspected Taliban militants in apparent retaliation for recent U.S. drone strikes in the area. Two intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were ...

Intelligence Agencies have arrested from here two suspects belonging to Waziristan and shifted them to an undisclosed destination. According to intelligence sources, intelligence agencies have arrested two suspects who were belong to Waziristan while arrest was made after monitoring their ...

The Taliban belonging to Wazir tribes announces expulsion orders of the Taliban and their commanders belonging to the Bait Ullah group and Zain Uddin group as they have taken refuge in South Wazirastan. According to pamphlets distributed by Wazir tribes in South Waziristan in wake of ongoing ...

At least five people were reportedly killed and several others injured in an alleged US missile attack in Datta Khel area of North Waziristan on Friday. According to a private TV channel, five missiles were fired at a house in Datta Khel area in which five people were killed in the assault. ...

The United States on Thursday praised Pakistan's "huge"effort against militancy, with a top Pentagon leader saying that it is up to the South Asian country's to decide the timing for military offensive against militant hideouts in North Waziristan. The Pentagon chiefs - Defense Secretary Robert ...

A few miles from Razmak, a shallow, east-west gorge marks the administrative border between South and North Waziristan. In U.S. eyes, it is also the dividing line between the good Pakistan that cooperates with American counterterrorism goals and the intransigent one that charts its own course. To ...

Pentagon officials say The Pakistani army chief has informed the Obama administration that Pakistan will not launch a 'steamroller' operation in North Waziristan, although it already has 40,000 troops in the area combating militants. Briefing journalists on meetings between US and Pakistani ...

So far 589 terrorists have been killed while 79 security forces personnel martyred while huge quantity of arms have been recovered in operation Rah-e-Rast in South Waziristan, said an ISPR update here on Wednesday. In Jandola Sector, sanitization of Aka Khel Pungai near Ahmedwam and Abdullah Noor ...

As Pakistan made fresh gains in its anti militant drive in South Waziristan, the United States said it is pleased with success of the operation, taking place along Pak Afghan border region considered critical to security efforts in both countries. State Department Spokesman Ian Kelly also ...

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani said on Sunday that no time frame can be given for conclusion of operation in South Waziristan, however, added that it will conclude successfully well before expectations of the nation. Talking to newsmen at Multan airport before his departure for the federal ...