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Islamabad, Mar.6 (ANI): At least 30 extremists, including top Taliban commanders Maulana Faqir Mohammad, Qari Ziarur Rehman and Fateh Mohammad were reportedly killed as helicopter gunships pounded a suspected militant hideout in Mohmand Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
“The Taliban surround attacked sites when they lose important leaders or commanders and that is [...]

Islamabad, July 10 (ANI): Increased pressure from the US and the Pakistani Army on the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and al Qaeda may force them to join hands with the militant Sunni radical group Jundallah, a group that staged attacks on Iran and strained Iranian-Pakistani relations.

Ashraf Ali, a [...]

Washington, July 5 (ANI): The United States is hoping to get support from the Pakistan Army in its offensive in Afghanistan, but the hostility between Pakistan and Afghanistan is not allowing the US-led allied forces to carry out an all out offensive in the region and is impeding their success, The Washington Post reports.

The U.S. [...]

Washington, June 11 (IANS) Pakistan has moved more troops to its border with Afghanistan than it has to its border with India since the Nov 26 Mumbai terror attacks, according to a top US official.
But the US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, declined to say how many troops Pakistan has moved from [...]

Islamabad – A New-York based rights watchdog on Tuesday warned that severe shortages of food and medicine are creating “a humanitarian catastrophe” for thousands still trapped in fighting between Taliban and Pakistani troops in north-western Swat district.
Human Rights Watch demanded the Pakistani government immediately lift a week-long curfew that was preventing “hundreds of thousands” civilians [...]

Islamabad – Pakistan’s military on Monday said security forces had pushed Taliban militants out of a former ski resort in the north-west where intense fighting had forced over 2 million people to leave their homes.
Troops secured the Taliban militant stronghold of Malam Jabba in Swat valley’s northern part “after stiff resistance,” the army said [...]

Islamabad  – Pakistani troops gained ground in the Swat valley’s main town on Sunday as they fought house to house in what the military called “the most important phase” of the anti-Taliban operation, media reports said.
Infantry soldiers took control of several key intersections in Mingora, the capital of Swat, after overnight gunfights with insurgents holed [...]

Islamabad – Pakistani troops have begun street battles with entrenched Taliban forces in Mingora, the main town in north-western Swat district, an army spokesman said on Saturday.
Major General Athar Abbas also said 17 militants, including an important commander named Usman, alias Butcher, have been killed over the last 24 hours in Swat and its [...]

Islamabad, May 15 (ANI): Pakistani troops have killed 55 militants in various parts of Swat valley during the last 24 hours.

“Fifty-five miscreants have been killed in various areas of Swat during the last 24 hours while three security forces personnel embraced martyrdom and 11 others were injured,” Pakistani military said in a statement.

The statement further [...]

Peshawar, Apr. 30 (ANI): At least one person was killed and seven were wounded in a roadside blast near the garrison town of Kohat on Thursday.

The blast took place as Shiite Muslims were passing by in a mini-bus.

Police said the incident could be sectarian related, as Shiites account for around 20 per cent of Pakistan’s [...]

KABUL: Pakistan must do more to “erase” Taliban bases inside its territory which are destabilising the entire region, the US commander of Western
troops in neighbouring Afghanistan said on Sunday.
US President Barack Obama’s administration has pledged 21,000 more troops to join 39,000 American soldiers fighting Taliban guerrillas in Afghanistan.
It has also stepped up attacks by drones [...]

Islamabad, Apr.17 (ANI): The head of the radical Lal Masjid (Red Mosque), which was stormed by Pakistani troops in 2007, led thousands of his followers in a Friday prayer meeting and called for the enforcement of Islamic laws across the militancy-plagued country.

Thousands of people crammed into the [...]

Islamabad – Pakistani security forces repelled overnight militant attacks on their positions in the troubled north-west, killing at least three insurgents, an official said Monday. The clashes occurred Sunday when rebels targeted checkpoints in Wana, the main town of South Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan.
The area is the stronghold of top Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah [...]

Lahore, Apr 6 (ANI): Tehreek-I-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud has been able to escape several attempts to kill and capture him because he has friends in the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.

An “increasingly-emboldened” Mehsud has claimed credit for the several attacks in Pakistan and also for threatening to attack the US.

“Soon we will launch [...]

New Delhi, Mar 26 (ANI): The security forces are engaged in a fierce encounter with militants in Hajibal area of Gurez sector in Jammu and Kashmir, just a day after one of the longest and bloodiest encounters in recent times ended in Kupwara.

The encounter [...]

Dhaka – Accused war criminals from Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence from Pakistan are to be prosecuted under existing domestic law, a senior minister said Wednesday.
Those accused of collaborating with Pakistani troops in the atrocities of 38 years ago would be tried under the International Crimes Tribunals Act, passed two years after the liberation [...]

New Delhi, March 25 (ANI): Army chief General Deepal Kapoor on Wednesday said that the Pakistan based militant group, Lashkar-e-Toiba, is attempting the biggest ever push of around 300 terrorists across the Line of Control into India.

The warning from the [...]

New Delhi – India Saturday alleged that Pakistani troops violated a ceasefire agreement and fired at frontline Indian positions in the northern Jammu and Kashmir state leaving a soldier wounded.
Pakistani forces fired at Indian troops in the Uri sector 70 kilometres west of state capital Srinagar overnight, the PTI news agency reported.
It was the [...]

Dhaka, Mar.23 (ANI): The Bangladesh Government has banned people suspected of war crimes during the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan from travelling abroad.

It says these people, who are accused of collaborating with Pakistani troops, will face war crime trials.

Among them are leaders of the [...]

New Delhi, Mar 21 (ANI): The Indian Army has asked for a flag meeting after Pakistani troops reportedly fired throughout the night at Indian posts in the Uri sector of Jammu and Kashmir.

Pakistan authorities are yet to respond.

The Pakistan army indulged in a major breach of ceasefire, [...]