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
Islamabad: The US has moved hundreds of new troops to the Afghan area bordering Pakistan's insurgent-infested North Waziristan tribal region along with heavy artillery, helicopter gunships and sealed movement on the border. According to local media reports, US forces deployed to new positions in the border areas facing Ghulam Khan in Pakistan between Saturday and Sunday night. The troops occupied nearby vantage heights on hilltops, setting up observation posts, The...
12:48 PM, Oct 17, 2011
Islamabad: About 775 civilians, including 173 children were killed in 300 strikes carried out by US spy planes in Pakistan tribal regions since they were started in June 2004, a report has said. The report says between 1,141 and 1,225 persons were also injured by the drone strikes, mostly in Waziristan tribal areas near the Afghan border, Dawn newspaper quoted a report released by the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism....
10:59 PM, Oct 16, 2011
New Delhi: Al Qaeda's top leadership continues to crumble with US officials saying that the organisations chief of operations in Pakistan Abu Hafs al-Shahri was killed in the country's north-west on Thursday. Al-Shahri was killed in the Waziristan region. The militant collaborated closely with Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, a report said quoting an unnamed official. Reports claim that another senior leader of the al Qaeda, Younis al Mauretani, has been captured. US...
08:32 AM, Sep 16, 2011
Islamabad: A US drone aircraft targeted a house and a vehicle in Pakistan's restive North Waziristan tribal region on Sunday, killing four Taliban militants. The unmanned spy plane fired two missiles at the house and the vehicle near Mirali, a key town 30 km from Miranshah, the centre of North Waziristan Agency. Correspondents in the region said those killed were local Taliban militants though there was no official word on...
09:25 PM, Sep 11, 2011
Dera Ismail Khan: Pakistan still had no confirmation on Monday that al Qaeda's deputy chief had been killed in a recent US drone strike near the Afghan border, two days after American officials said his death was a major victory in the war against the group. Atiyah abd al-Rahman, a Libyan national, rose to the number two spot when Ayman al-Zawahri took the reins of al Qaeda after Osama bin...
10:17 PM, Aug 29, 2011
Peshawar: Undeterred by growing strains in its ties with its key ally Pakistan, US drones have stepped up strikes on the country's lawless tribal belt pounding the region with missiles targeting a rebel compound killing eight militants early Tuesday. The drones unleashed their lethal Hellfire missiles on a vehicle in South Waziristan tribal region killing the millitants, some of whom were believed to be foreign terrorists. The strike came less...
12:55 PM, Jul 12, 2011
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