Tag: Tehrik e Taliban Pakistan

ISLAMABAD —  Pakistani authorities said Saturday a suicide truck bomb and gun attack on a regional army base near the Afghan border killed at least seven soldiers, including two officers, and wounded many more. The early morning raid occurred in the volatile North Waziristan border district, where militants linked ...

ISLAMABAD —  Gunmen in northwestern Pakistan Friday ambushed and killed a senior health official who was coordinating anti-polio efforts in a turbulent region bordering Afghanistan. Authorities said the shooting in the militancy-hit Bajaur district also injured a police guard for the slain polio program coordinator, medical doctor Abdul Rehman. ...

ISLAMABAD —  Officials in Pakistan have cautioned that relentless cross-border militancy is testing bilateral relations with Afghanistan's Taliban and could eventually push Islamabad to scale back support for the de facto Kabul rulers. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan provinces, both lining Pakistan's 2,600-kilometer (1,600-mile) border with Afghanistan, have experienced almost ...

islamabad —  Militant attacks have surged in Pakistan, killing more than 700 security forces and civilians in the first nine months of the year, according to a report released Saturday.The Islamabad-based independent Center for Research and Security Studies, or CRSS, published the report a day after suicide bombings and ...

ISLAMABADPakistani Taliban’s decision to break a cease-fire with the government and resume attacks in the country should be a matter of concern for the Afghan Taliban, the interior minister said on Thursday."TTP is enjoying all sorts of facilities in Afghanistan," Rana Sanaullah said, referring to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, a conglomerate ...

New York: A United Nations report has come pout with some startling revelations. It claimed that terrorist groups including Al-Qaeda enjoy greater freedom in Afghanistan now than at any time in recent history as the past ties with the Taliban have the potential of making Kabul a safe haven ...

Gunmen on a motorcycle killed a Christian priest and wounded another as the victims drove home from church in Peshawar in Pakistan's northwest, police said on Sunday. William Siraj, 75, was killed instantly in the attack on the city's ring road, according to police, while his colleague reportedly received hospital treatment ...

The militant group Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Saturday claimed responsibility for an attack on a team offering polio vaccinations to children. Gunmen riding a motorcycle shot at two police officers who were guarding the medical team, killing one and wounding the other, officials said. The assault took place in the district of ...

The Pakistani Taliban said Thursday they will not extend a cease-fire agreed to last month, accusing the government in Islamabad of not honoring the truce and failing to release 102 of their fighters. The militant group, also known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, has been behind numerous attacks on Pakistani security ...

ISLAMABAD —  A bomb explosion in northwest Pakistan along the Afghanistan border has killed five security personnel, the Pakistani military said Thursday. The three paramilitary soldiers and two police officers were conducting a “cordon and search operation” in Bajaur district late Wednesday when an improvised explosive device hit them, ...