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At least six security men were killed and ten others injured when heavily armed militants stormed a check post in near Peshawar early Wednesday, police said. The militants also kidnapped three soldiers after the attack, they said. The attack prompted clashes between the two sides and the police said that 10 militants were […]
Two bomb blasts near an Imambargah killed at least 24 people in Quetta late Sunday, police and rescue teams said. The blasts near Abu Talib Imambargah at Hazara town area also injured over 50 persons, they said. Firing was also reported after the blasts. Some security sources said the first blast was […]
U.S. President Barack Obama and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai have stressed the importance of Afghan-led reconciliation efforts, as a row over the Taliban office has derailed peace efforts in the country. In their talks via video teleconference, the two leaders reaffirmed that an Afghan-led peace and reconciliation process is “the surest way” to […]
The chief of a local peace committee was killed in a bomb blast along with his son and nephew in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Wednesday, police said. The vehicle carrying peace committee chief Malik Hashim Khan was targeted in the Zindi Falak Sher area of Bannu and was completely destroyed in the attack. The […]
A bomb attack, targeting a senior judge, killed six police guards and a paramilitary soldier in Karachi on Wednesday, a minister said. Senior Judge of Sindh High Court Justice Maqbool Baqar was also injured in the blast, a police officer said. He was shifted to a private hospital. Doctors avoided sharing information with […]
The Islamabad Police has arrested two youths accused of involving in the murder of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf MPA, Farid Khan, a police officer said on Tuesday. Farid was killed in Hangu on June 3. He had won the PK-42 (Hangu-I) seat as an independent candidate and had then joined PTI. Police said the two persons […]
Unidentified gunmen killed a senior police officer and his driver in Peshawar on Monday, police said. Amanaullah Khan, deputy superintendent police traffic, came under attack near his house. Gunmen riding a motorcycle fired at Khan’s car who was heading to his office. He and his driver received bullet injuries and were shifted to hospital. They […]
Pakistan Thursday confirmed that it has facilitated opening of Taliban Office in Doha as it is part of the larger process of reconciliation in Afghanistan. Foreign Office Spokesman Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhary said at the weekly news briefing in Islamabad that Pakistan has been supportive of an all inclusive intra-Afghan dialogue and it is […]
Some members of Afghan High Peace Council will travel to Qatar to hold formal peace talks with the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Tuesday. “Members of peace council will go to Qatar to initiate peace talks with the Taliban,” Karzai told a joint press conference with the visiting NATO Secretary General Anders […]
Afghan Taliban say that they have shot down a helicopter of ISAF forces in western Afghanistan, but officials say that the helicopter made an emergency landing, reports said Tuesday. The Taliban spokesman, Qari Mohammad Yousaf Ahmadi, said that the Taliban shot down the foreign forces’ helicopter during a clash in the Garani area in Balabolok […]
Three people were killed and five others injured in a suicide attack in the Afghan capital Tuesday, police said. “Eyewitnesses say that the explosion took place in front of the building of the Human Rights Commission in Kabul city and the target of the attack was Haji Mohammad Mohaqeq, a member of Afghan parliament. It […]
Pakistan on Saturday summoned a top US diplomat and lodged a formal protest over a recent drone strikes which killed nearly seven people. A US spy aircraft fired missiles on a house in North Waziristan tribal region, which was the second US attack in ten says. Last week a US attack killed six people including […]
