Tag: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan

Pakistan’s military said on Tuesday that a suicide bomb attack that killed five Chinese engineers in March was planned in neighbouring Afghanistan, and that the bomber was also an Afghan national.The suicide bomber rammed a vehicle into a convoy of Chinese engineers working on a dam project in northwest ...

ISLAMABAD —  A roadside bomb explosion in Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province Saturday killed at least one person and injured 14 others. Officials said the attack targeted surveyors from a major, private gas-producing company and Pakistani security forces escorting them in the Harnai district, 170 kilometers (106 miles) northeast of ...

The airstrikes against TTP militants holed up deep inside Afghanistan reflect Pakistan’s duplicity on terrorism Updated On - 25 March 2024, 03:03 PM For a country that has made terrorism an instrument of state policy to push its strategic goals, Pakistan is now forced to ...

As for Imran, he did reasonably well as the Prime Minister. He dealt with a balance of payments and debt crisis with the help of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and curbed defence spending, promoted policies to increase tax collection and investment which resulted in some economic growth.But COVID ...

ISLAMABAD —  Bodies of six men shot to death were found in fields Tuesday in North Waziristan, a tribal district in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan. The deceased were identified as barbers from Pakistan’s eastern province of Punjab. Speaking to VOA’s Urdu service, District Police Officer Roohan ...

NEW DELHI: Twenty-five Pakistani army soldiers were killed in three separate incidents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday, marking the military’s highest single-day death toll from terrorist attacks reported so far this year.Tehreek-i-Jihad Pakistan (TJP), a new group affiliated with the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), has claimed responsibility for the attacks.Only ...

ANKARA Afghanistan's interim Taliban government has rejected a UN Security Council report claiming that several terrorist groups, including Daesh/ISIS, are present in the country and have access to weapons left by US-led foreign forces. "The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan once again rejects these baseless accusations and, while calling for transparent involvement ...

#Pakistan News At least 40 people were killed and over 130 injured when an explosion tore through a political rally in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Sunday, police said. The police said there was no confirmation yet about the cause of the blast that took place at a gathering ...

ISTANBULUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to his Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto Zardari over phone late Monday, and affirmed Washington's commitment to Islamabad on counterterrorism.Blinken said "Pakistani people have suffered tremendously from terrorist attacks and affirmed the United States’ commitment to continued partnership with Pakistan on counterterrorism," according ...

NEW DELHI: Once Taliban's clandestine mentor, Pakistan is now growing increasingly incensed with its former ally for providing refuge to terrorists who are targeting its forces with a series of deadly attacks.On Saturday, Pakistan defence minister Khwaja Asif, in perhaps one of the boldest rebukes yet, accused the Taliban-led ...