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The US Ambassador to Pakistan Richard Olson has said the principles the Afghan government had set up for the reconciliation policy can be applied to all militant groups including the Haqqani network. In an interview to BBC Urdu, the US envoy said talks could be held with any individual acting against the state willing […]
A Pentagon report has said Pakistan was persistently undermining security in Afghanistan with the existence of militant sanctuaries in the border area. The Pentagon report delivered to Congress said that the 68,000 US troops in Afghanistan and their allies had succeeded in preventing militant advancement while limiting civilian death ratio. However, it said […]
Pakistani and Afghan members of parliament Tuesday opened two days of dialogue in Islamabad on ‘issues that impact the relationship between the two countries’, organizers said . The talks are taking place at the initiative of a think tank a time when tension has again heightened between the uneasy neighbours following the last week attack […]
Announcing the formation of the Malala fund for girl’s education throughout the world and Pakistan, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said Malala Yousafzai was the symbol of a progressive Pakistan. He noted, “We are facing two forces in the country, Malala represents the forces of peace and we are fighting with the forces […]
Rejecting any rift among its ranks, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has said they are not mulling to replace Hakimullah Mehsud with Waliur Rehman as new chief of the banned organization. Spokesman TTP Ehsanullah Ehsan while speaking to media said that the reports have no truth and they held the main shura meeting two weeks […]
Ziauddin Youasfzai, father of young education activist Malala Yousafzai, was named the United Nation’s Special Adviser on Global Education by former British prime minister and UN Special Envoy Gordon Brown. He will assist the UN in getting every child to school by the end of 2015. A statement issued by the UN said, “Worldwide, […]
Pakistan Saturday rejected claims by Afghan President Hamid Karzai that attack on Afghan spy chief was planned in Quetta. Head of Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS), a close confidant of President Hamid Karzai, was injured in the attack in one of the guest houses of the spy agency in Kabul on Thursday. Taliban had […]
Afghan President Hamed Karzai Saturday claimed that the suicide attack on his country’s intelligence chief, Asadullah Khalid, was planned in the Pakistani city of Quetta and blamed Pakistan-based militants for the attack in Kabul. Afghanistan’s spy chief was wounded in the attack at the guest of the intelligence agency on Thursday. Taliban and a […]
A splinter hardliner Taliban group Friday claimed responsibility for the assassination attempt on Afghan intelligence chief, Assadullah Khalid. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) chief, a close confidant of President Hamid Karzai, was injured in the attack in a Kabul guest house. Taliban had also claimed responsibility for the attack, which they said was a […]
There is no let up in U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal regions and in a latest attack early Thursday, an American spy aircraft fired missiles into North Waziristan and killed at least four people, a tribal elder in the region said. Malik Mumtaz told The News Pakistan from Miranshah, headquarters of North Waziristan, […]
A suicide bomber attacked a police station in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhawa, leaving at least five people including three cops injured in the wee hours of Tuesday. According to the police, the incident took place when a bomber driving an explosive-laden vehicle ripped through the Habib police station; resultantly, five people including three policemen received […]
In what appeared to be an amusement for the entire nation, the chief of Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam-Fazal (JUI-F), Maulana Fazl-ur-Rahman has said there was no such movement as Taliban anywhere in the country. While addressing a press conference in Islamabad, he noted, “We do not recognize the movement, which the forces have officially acknowledged as Taliban’s. […]
