Miranshah (Pakistan): The death toll from a suicide bombing on a military check post in Pakistan's North Waziristan region has reached 17, the military said on Sunday.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack on Saturday, which prompted the regional government to impose a curfew in the tribal region near the Afghan border.
The military responded with mortar and artillery fire directed at positions held by the Taliban. In a statement, the military said 17 security forces personnel "embraced martyrdom".
North Waziristan is home to some of the world's most dangerous militant groups, including the Taliban and al Qaeda, who are fighting to topple the US-backed government in Islamabad....
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05:00 PM, Mar 24, 2013
At least 16 militants were killed and seven others injured in a coordinated attack by US drones which fired a volley of missiles at three Taliban hideouts in the restive South Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan on January 6. Four CIA-operated spy planes carried out the attack in Babargarh area of South Waziristan, security officials said. ...
05:00 PM, Jan 06, 2013
A US drone strike killed a key Taliban commander, his deputy and eight others in northwest Pakistan, intelligence sources and tribal leaders said on January 3, deaths that could substantially alter the power balance in the Taliban heartland of Waziristan. Maulvi Nazir Wazir, also known as Mullah Nazir, was killed on January 2 night when missiles struck a mud house in South Waziristan, near the Afghan border, intelligence sources and...
05:39 PM, Jan 03, 2013
Pakistani intelligence officials say they have found the bodies of nine militants dumped in the North Waziristan tribal region. Three intelligence officials say the nine people were shot several times in the head and chest. ...
08:06 PM, Dec 31, 2012
This Christmas, pastor Nazir Alam will stoke up a fire, lay a fresh cloth on the altar and welcome parishioners as they arrive at his church in Waziristan, a Pakistani tribal area known as an al-Qaeda haven. ...
12:24 AM, Dec 25, 2012
Pakistan's powerful army chief has made reconciling warring factions in Afghanistan a top priority, military officials and Western diplomats say, the newest and clearest sign yet that Islamabad means business in promoting peace with the Taliban. General Ashfaq Kayani is backing dialogue partly due to fears that the end of the US combat mission in Afghanistan in 2014 could energise a resilient insurgency straddling the shared frontier, according to commanders...
01:35 PM, Dec 23, 2012
Islamabad: A top Taliban commander was among five people killed today in a powerful blast in a market in Pakistan's restive South Waziristan tribal region. The bomb attack, which also left six people injured, targeted terrorist commander Maulvi Abbas Wazir who had close links with foreign fighters and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, officials were quoted as saying by local media. There was confusion about the nature of the explosion....
04:29 PM, Dec 21, 2012
Islamabad: US drones targeted three militant compounds in the lawless North Waziristan tribal region on Friday killing at least 18 insurgents, just a day after Pakistan summoned a top American diplomat to lodge protest over such attacks calling them a violation of its sovereignty. The CIA-operated spy planes targeted the militant compounds in Shawal region of North Waziristan tribal agency, which has witnessed a series of drone attacks in the...
05:36 PM, Aug 24, 2012
Washington: US military and intelligence officials are so frustrated with Pakistan's failure to stop local militant groups from attacking Americans in neighbouring Afghanistan that they have considered launching secret joint US-Afghan commando raids into Pakistan to hunt them down, officials told The Associated Press. But the idea, which US officials say comes up every couple of months, has been consistently rejected because the White House believes the chance of successfully...
05:43 PM, Jun 22, 2012
Islamabad: A powerful Pakistani Taliban faction has said it will not allow an anti-polio campaign to be conducted in its stronghold of North Waziristan tribal region as long as US drone strikes continue in the area. The group led by commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur distributed a pamphlet on Saturday that announced the ban on the government's polio vaccination campaign. The ban has raised concerns about the spread of polio in...
01:32 AM, Jun 18, 2012
Islamabad: At least 10 militants and a security personnel were killed on Sunday in a fierce clash in the restive South Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan. The clash erupted after heavily armed militants attacked a security check post in Wana, the main town of South Waziristan tribal agency, early this morning. One security personnel was killed and another injured in the attack, TV news channels reported. Ten militants were killed...
04:40 PM, Jun 10, 2012
Islamabad: Taliban beheads 13 Pakistani soldiers Taliban fighters have killed 14 Pakistani soldiers in a key militant sanctuary along the Afghan border, beheading all but one of them and hanging two of the heads from wooden poles in the centre of town, officials say. The killings in Miran Shah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal area, highlight the dilemma facing the military in dealing with an area used...
10:12 AM, May 08, 2012
Islamabad: The Taliban killed 14 security personnel and beheaded all but one of them before displaying the heads of two soldiers on wooden poles in the lawless North Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan, security officials said on Monday. Nine soldiers were beheaded on Sunday when militants overran a security picket in Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan Agency. The Taliban had been firing at the picket for the past...
03:24 AM, May 08, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani authorities foiled a plot to attack Parliament during President Asif Ali Zardari's address to a joint sitting of the two houses and arrested several terrorists and an employee of the Foreign Ministry, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday. The terrorists had planned to attack Parliament when Zardari was addressing a joint session of the National Assembly and Senate on March 17, Malik said. Several terrorists arrested in...
06:56 PM, Mar 31, 2012
New Delhi: Nearly 85 French Muslims are being trained by the Taliban in northwest Pakistan, claim intelligence officials. Officials say that the Frenchmen are being trained under the name Jihad-e-Islami - they are likely to avenge the killing of a 23-year-old al Qaeda suspect in southern France earlier this week. Authorities suspect he may have trained at the camp too. Authorities are investigating whether Mohamed Merah, the Frenchman of Algerian...
06:33 AM, Mar 25, 2012
Islamabad: US drones hit Pakistan's tribal region for a second time in as many days, killing six suspected militants in a targetted missile attack. The drones fired two missiles at two vehicles in North Waziristan, a day after the attacks resumed following a lull of two months in the aftermath of the deadly NATO strike that had killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and made ties with the country take a huge...
09:51 PM, Jan 12, 2012
Islamabad: The outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan has ruled out any negotiations with the government and claimed that it has taken control of most areas of the South Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan. Shamim Mehsud, a key operational commander and chief of the Taliban in Laddah sub-division, rejected the possibility of any contacts with the government under the present circumstances. He told a delegation of tribal journalists at a Taliban command and...
02:55 PM, Dec 15, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan's Taliban movement, a major security threat to the country, is holding exploratory peace talks with the US-backed government, a senior Taliban commander and tribal mediators told Reuters on Monday. The talks are focused on the South Waziristan region and could be expanded to try to reach a comprehensive deal. The Taliban, which is close to al Qaeda, is making several demands, including the release of prisoners, said the...
01:20 PM, Nov 21, 2011
Islamabad: US drones on Wednesday fired a salvo of missiles at a compound in the restive South Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan, killing at 13 suspected Taliban militants, officials said. The drones targeted a compound in Sararogha sub-division of South Waziristan Agency, officials of the local political administration told the media. The drones fired at least six missiles in the attack. The officials said most of the dead were Pakistani...
11:45 AM, Nov 16, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan's army chief told parliament's defense committee the United States should focus on stabilising Afghanistan instead of pushing Pakistan to attack militant groups in a crucial border region, a committee member told Reuters on Wednesday. Army chief General Ashfaq Kayani also said Pakistan alone will decide if and when to launch a full-scale offensive in the North Waziristan region to attack Islamist militants. He also said the United States...
01:05 PM, Oct 19, 2011
