PESHAWAR: Security forces on Sunday claimed to have arrested two local militant commanders and a suicide bomber trainer in the Swat Valley. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) media update said security forces cleared the area around Kokarai and established a link up to Jambil. It was reported that the police had started patrolling in Mingora […]
CHAKDARRA: Security forces demolished 12 houses of militants and arrested eight suspects in Dir Lower on Sunday. Colonel Arshad, area in-charge of the operation in Dir Lower, said that security forces cleared the area from Gulabad to Anbar of the militants and demolished their 12 houses. He said security forces also arrested eight suspects and […]
By Habib Khan Ghori KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Saturday unanimously passed the Sindh Finance Bill 2009, thus adopting the Rs327 billion provincial budget, with a deficit of Rs16.8 billion, for the financial year 2009-10. Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, who also holds the finance portfolio, laid the schedule of authorised expenditure for the […]
ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Saturday said the family of Mullah Fazlullah had been nabbed and they were being treated in a respectable manner and not being manhandled. Talking to a private news channel, the interior minister said the extremists were not Taliban; instead they are Zaliman (oppressors) and an absolute crackdown will […]
By Irfan Mughal and Iftikhar A. Khan DERA ISMAIL KHAN: At least 16 militants, four of them foreigners, were killed and 10 others wounded when fighter jets bombed their positions in South Waziristan on Saturday. Officials said that the fighter planes flew sorties over Makeen, Kot Langarkhel, Dwatoi, Sararogha and other areas of Ladha sub-division. […]
By Habib Khan Ghori KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Thursday voted and passed all 49 demands for grants on supplementary expenditure of over Rs55.85 billion for the year 2008-09 after all 360 cut motions moved by six members from the opposition were rejected by voice votes. Before the cut motions were put to a vote […]
By Irfan Aligi KARACHI: The non-stop news and debates about the war on terror has sickened the nation while the citizens of the city have been equally affected mentally. The people of the city have always had a liberal attitude despite the threats of untoward incidences erupting anywhere, at any time and the presence of […]
PESHAWAR: Taliban militants in North Waziristan have finally released a person they had kidnapped more than seven months ago along with a Canadian woman, Khadija Abdul Qahaar, and another Pakistani man identified as Salman. Zar Muhammad, belonging to Nowshera district, was freed on Sunday and has now reached his home. He told The News that […]
TANK/WANA: At least 50 people, including an important militant commander, were killed in a series of suspected US missile strikes in South Waziristan on Tuesday. (According to Reuters, 45 militants were killed in two air strikes.) Security officials said the drones fired missiles when Sangeen, an Afghan commander of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, was holding a meeting […]
By M. Irfan Mughul DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Qari Zainuddin Mehsud, a militant ‘commander’ who had parted ways with Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud, was shot dead by one of his bodyguards here on Tuesday. His faction immediately accused the TTP chief of masterminding the killing and named a brother of the slain militant as its […]
PESHAWAR: The federal government has approved a Rs 24 billion internal security package for the NWFP, which the province will get in four instalments, NWFP Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti said on Tuesday. Addressing the provincial assembly at the end of the budget session, Hoti said the province would get Rs 6 billion every three […]
By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Monday that Tehrik-i-Taliban Swat chief Maulana Fazlullah had been trapped by security forces. The minister told reporters that the militant leader had been spotted and there was no question of his escape. “By and large we know the location where he is hiding.” However, […]
PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD: At least 46 Taliban were killed in various strikes during the military operation against the Taliban in the Tribal Areas and Swat on Sunday. Military jets and artillery pounded suspected Taliban hideouts in Bajaur Agency, killing 27 Taliban, officials said. Elsewhere in the region, a local militia killed seven suspected Taliban. Two local government […]
KANDAHAR: Afghani Taliban on Sunday denied any involvement in the kidnapping of a New York Times reporter who escaped on Friday after seven months in captivity. David Rohde and a local reporter, who were abducted outside of Kabul along with their driver, “just walked over the wall of the compound” where they were being held […]
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