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President Asif Ali Zardari has expressed grave concern and condemned the kidnapping of the son of former Prime Minister after attack on a political gathering, presidential spokesman said Thursday. Ali Haider Gillani the son of Yusuf Raza Gilani and candidate from a provincial assembly’s seat in Multan, was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen after they […]
The military army said Sunday that three soldiers and 22 militants were killed in clashes in a Khyber agency and Balochistan province. The military said the security forces captured two string hideouts of the militants in the mountainous Tirah Valley in Khyber tribal region late Saturday. “In a successful operation security forces last night […]
Two blasts near the office of MQM in Karachi killed at least two persons and injured 30 others, police and hospital sources said. The blasts occurred in Aziz Abad area of Karachi and near the office of Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), the MQM spokesman, Wasi Jalil said. Rickshaw was used for the first […]
Information Minister, Arif Nizami Monday accused the Taliban and other armed groups of sabotaging the upcoming landmark parliamentary elections under a “very organised campaign.” “This is an existential threat and it’s not new. There is a very organised campaign to sabotage the election,” Nizami told the Islamabad-based foreign media at a briefing. Elections […]
Pakistani Taliban and other armed groups have carried out more than 20 pre-elections attacks on political parties, killing 46 people and wounding over 190 since April 21, a rights group said Monday. Earlier in April, another 24 people were killed and over 100 injured in election-related attacks, Human Rights Watch said. Nationwide parliamentary elections […]
Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Sunday defended attacks on three parties for their support to military operations against the militants in tribal regions and Swat. Taliban say they will target Pakistan Peoples Party, the Awami National Party and the Mutahida Qaumi Movement. Three bomb attacks killed nearly 10 people in Kohat, Peshawar […]
A bomb blast near the office of the Awami National Party in Karachi killed at least 11 people late Friday, police said. A senior leader of the party Bashir Jan escaped unhurt in the blast. His vehicle was hit and damaged by the device. Police and hospital sources said that five people died […]
Pakistani Taliban said on Tuesday denied any involvement in two bomb attacks in Massachusetts during the Boston Marathon, which killed three persons and injured up to 100 others. Taliban spokesman, Ehsanullah Ehsan, said Taliban do not have any role in the attacks. He said Taliban may issue a detailed statement when someone claims […]
A bomb attack on security forces in Karachi killed at least four paramilitary soldiers late Wednesday, officials said. Miscreants lobbed a bomb at the truck of the paramilitary Rangers in the Korangi area of Karachi. Two soldiers died at the scene and two died of wounds in the city’s major hospital, doctors said. […]
Pakistan Thursday expressed concern over what it called ‘continued presence of safe havens’ of Pakistani Taliban militants Afghanistan’s Kunar and Nooristan provinces and urged Afghan government to eliminate their safe heavens. The military says that the members of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan have fled to Afghanistan and are now operating from their and routinely launch attacks […]
The Taliban and other banned militant groups have planned attacks during campaign for the May 11 elections and during polling, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday. The ministry in a report presented in a high level meeting in Islamabad that Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, two other extremist groups – Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Jundullah could carry out attacks in different […]
A car bomb blast killed at least 12 people near a camp for displaced persons in district Nowshehra on Thursday, police and witnesses said. District Police Officer (DPO) Nowshera Hussain Khan confirmed that 12 people lost lives and 30 others injured when a bomb planted in car blasted at Jalozai camp’s administration block. […]
