Islamabad: Intercepted militant radio communications indicate the leader of the Pakistani Taliban may have been killed in a recent US drone strike, Pakistani intelligence officials said on Sunday. A Taliban official denied that. The report coincided with sectarian violence - a bomb blast in eastern Pakistan that killed 14 people in a Shiite religious procession. The claim that the Pakistani Taliban chief was killed came from officials who said they...
10:57 PM, Jan 15, 2012
Washington: Militant organisations are 'real cancer' within Pakistan and the nation has a challenge to eradicate terror forces within its borders, a top White House official said. "My view is that there is a real cancer within Pakistan, from the standpoint of militant organisations," John Brennan, Assistant to the US President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, said in his speech at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. "Whether...
09:22 AM, Jun 30, 2011
Peshawar: A car bomb in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday targeted a US consulate convoy but caused no American deaths or serious injuries, said US embassy spokesman Alberto Rodriguez. One passerby was killed and 10 Pakistanis were wounded, said a hospital official. One American was slightly wounded in the attack in the northwestern city. The two consulate vehicles were heading to the consulate when one of the vehicles...
12:01 PM, May 20, 2011
Mingora: Pakistani authorities interrogated a teenager on Monday wanted in the United States on charges of financing and supporting the al Qaeda-linked Pakistani Taliban, local intelligence officials said. Alam Zeb, 19, was charged in Florida along with his mother and a family friend. He is the grandson of the imam of a Florida mosque who was arrested in the United States along with his two sons on Saturday on the...
09:01 AM, May 17, 2011
Miami: The imam of a Florida mosque and his two sons, one also a Muslim spiritual leader, were arrested on Saturday on charges of financing and supporting the Pakistani Taliban, US officials said. The three Pakistan-born US citizens were among six charged in a US indictment that accused them of "supporting acts of murder, kidnapping and maiming in Pakistan and elsewhere" carried out by the Pakistani Taliban, which Washington calls...
08:36 AM, May 15, 2011
Govt's latest move comes after six people, were killed in suicide bombing at university. ...
02:41 PM, Oct 21, 2009
About 28,000 soldiers are battling an estimated 10,000 Talibanmen in South Waziristan. ...
12:54 PM, Oct 20, 2009
About 28,000 troops have been put in place to take on hard-core Taliban, says Army officials. ...
12:23 PM, Oct 12, 2009
The bombing was carried out by a suicide attacker, says Taliban spokesman. ...
03:23 PM, Oct 06, 2009
Pakistani, US officials claim Mehsud was killed in US drone missile strike. ...
11:06 PM, Aug 25, 2009
Pakistani Taliban are committed to helping the fight in Afghanistan. ...
09:36 PM, Aug 25, 2009
Faqir claims Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud is not dead. ...
09:32 AM, Aug 20, 2009
Taliban fighters and Pak officials have agreed to a ceasefire in Swat. ...
08:36 PM, Feb 21, 2009
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