A 14-year-old girl who risked her life so she and her peers could attend school in Pakistan's Swat Valley is recovering from a gunshot wound has been moved to a military hospital in Rawalpindi. Doctors say Malala Yousufzai's condition is now stable. While doctors have removed the bullet from her head and say she is stable for now and they also shifted her to a Rawalpindi hospital for better care. ...
08:47 AM, Oct 12, 2012
Islamabad: Teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai, still critical after being shot in the head by the Taliban, was on Thursday airlifted to Pakistan's top army hospital in Rawalpindi for better post-surgery care as special prayers were offered across the nation for her quick recovery. Fourteen-year-old Malala, who was shot in the head by a Taliban fighter in Swat on Tuesday, was flown in a helicopter from a military hospital in...
08:52 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Shawal: The Taliban have threatened to kill Pakistani cricket star turned politician Imran Khan if he holds a planned march to their tribal stronghold along the Afghan border to protest US drone attacks. Although the Pakistani Taliban also oppose the strikes, which have killed many of their fighters, spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan said they would target Imran Khan because he calls himself a "liberal" " a term they associate with lack...
11:24 PM, Aug 08, 2012
Dera Ismail Khan: The Pakistan Taliban will attack government, police and military officials if three of the late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's widows are not released from Pakistani custody, a spokesman for the militant group said on Friday. Pakistan's government has charged bin Laden's three widows with illegally entering and staying in the country, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Thursday. "If the family of Osama bin Laden...
09:38 AM, Mar 11, 2012
Dera Ismail Khan: Fifteen Pakistani soldiers stood blindfolded, handcuffed to each other on a barren hilltop as one of their bearded Taliban captors held an AK-47 rifle and spoke with fury about revenge. He left no doubt what would come at any second. Pakistan's Taliban abducted the paramilitary troops on December 23 from near the country's lawless tribal areas to avenge military operations. Now they have released a video as...
09:53 AM, Jan 22, 2012
Islamabad: A day after reports that Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud was killed in a US drone attack in North Waziristan, the militant group has said he is alive and the speculation about his death was a ruse to locate his whereabouts. Unnamed Pakistani security and intelligence officials were quoted by a section of the media on Sunday as saying that Mehsud had died in a drone attack in Dattakhel...
02:30 PM, Jan 16, 2012
Peshawar: The Pakistani Taliban is in peace talks with the Pakistani government, a senior commander in the militant group said on Saturday, adding the negotiations were "progressing well." The statement by Maulvi Faqir Mohammad is the first time a named Taliban commander has confirmed that the group is negotiating with the Pakistani government. Mohammad, said to be the deputy chief of the group, said his men had held "peace talks...
02:21 PM, Dec 10, 2011
Islamabad: A suicide bomber targeted a police van in northwest Pakistan, killing two policemen, including an officer, and injuring several others. The attacker struck the vehicle of Station House Officer Syed Ajmer Shah at Nowshera in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. Shah and his driver were killed in the attack, police officials told the media. According to officials, Shah had received threats from the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan. The blast occurred at a traffic...
01:37 PM, Oct 28, 2011
Islamabad: The Pakistani Taliban have threatened to attack installations of Shell Pakistan and the state-run Pakistan State Oil if the two firms do not pay a total of Rs 400 million within 20 days as extortion money, a media report said on Sunday. "I had personally spoken to the managing directors of the Pakistan State Oil and Shell Pakistan and demanded that they arrange to pay us Rs 200 million...
03:26 PM, Oct 23, 2011
Islamabad: A Taliban commander in Pakistan's volatile tribal belt has broken away from the militant outfit to form his own group as he is opposed to suicide attacks on mosques and civilians. Fazal Saeed Haqqani, a commander in the Kurram tribal region, separated from the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan and formed the Tehrik-e-Taliban Islami, Geo News channel reported. Haqqani told the media that he had taken this step to protest suicide attacks...
01:55 PM, Jun 27, 2011
Peshawar: Pakistan's Taliban, a close ally of al Qaeda, plans to attack American targets abroad to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden, said one of it's senior leaders. The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), or Taliban Movement of Pakistan, has delivered on threats to avenge the killing of bin Laden by US special forces in a Pakistani town on May 2. It bombed an American consulate convoy, laid siege to a...
08:47 AM, Jun 07, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistani Taliban militants claimed responsibility on Monday for an attack on the headquarters of the naval air force, storming the base in the city of Karachi in their most brazen action since the killing of Osama bin Laden in a US raid. The Pakistan Taliban, which is allied with al Qaeda, said the attack was to avenge the al Qaeda leader's killing on May 2. Bin Laden was shot...
01:20 PM, May 23, 2011
Islamabad: The Pakistani Taliban shot dead the head of a pro-government tribal militia, his son and a passer-by in the country's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, police said. The attackers, who were riding a motorcycle, fled after the incident in Swabi district, officials said. Two armed militants fired at Etbar Khan, the head of an anti-Taliban militia of Mohmand tribal region, when he was waiting for some persons along a road. Khan...
10:37 PM, May 15, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistani Taliban on Sunday claimed responsibility for an attack by a woman suicide bomber on the World Food Programme centre in the volatile tribal belt that killed 46 people, even as the food distribution center temporarily stopped its operations in the region. Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan spokesman Azam Tariq claimed responsibility for yesterday's attack on the WFP food distribution centre at Khar, the headquarters of Bajaur tribal region. The bombing killed...
11:44 PM, Dec 26, 2010
Islamabad: The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan on late Wednesday claimed responsibility for three blasts, including two carried out by suicide attackers, on a Shia procession in Lahore that killed 29 people and injured over 200. The claim of responsibility was made by top Taliban leader Qari Hussain, who said militants had carried out three suicide blasts in Lahore. Police officials, however, said the first blast was caused by a timed explosive...
08:31 AM, Sep 02, 2010
Peshawar: The Pakistani Taliban on Sunday offered Rs 2 million in aid for victims of the devastating floods, and have said that the world community is not coming ahead with assistance as it does not trust the government. A statement issued by the Omar Khalid, chief of the Tehrik-e-Taliban chapter in the Mohmand tribal region said the militant 'shura' or council had endorsed the decision to provide Rs 2 million...
10:31 PM, Aug 29, 2010
![Taliban leader Fazlullah killed: report]( "Taliban leader Fazlullah killed: report")
Fazlullah, who headed the Taliban in Pakistan's Swat Valley, reportedly died fighting Afghan forces. ...
04:01 PM, May 27, 2010
For the first time, the group has claimed responsibility for the failed New York bomb plot. ...
12:18 PM, May 15, 2010
It comes at a time when evidence about Pak Taliban's involvement in New York bomb plot has emerged. ...
03:14 PM, May 10, 2010
The twin suicide bomb blasts took place in Kuccha Pakka area in the North West Frontier Province. ...
08:26 PM, Apr 17, 2010
