Pakistani Taliban, blamed for most of the attacks in the country, face rift days after the leadership dismissed Ehsanullah Ehsan as the central spokesman over his alleged threats to the Afghan Taliban. Ehsan refused to accept the central council’s decision and has approached the Taliban court against the decision announced this week. A Taliban pamphlet […]
Religious scholars Thursday issued a ‘fatwa’ or decree, declaring casting vote compulsory for the people, two senior leaders said. Chairman of Pakistani ‘ulema’ Council, Allama Tahir Ashrafi said that the decree was issued after consultations among the religious leaders and at a seminar in Islamabad. He said scholars from all school of thoughts […]
A senior Pakistani Taliban leader, Mulla Nazir, was killed in a U.S. drone strike in South Waziristan tribal region on Thursday, tribesmen and officials in the region said. A US spy aircraft fired missiles into South Waziristan’s Angor Adda area and killed Mulla Nazir and his five other fighters, they said. Angor Ada is very close […]
Pakistan has freed eight more Afghan Taliban leaders, taking the number of freed Taliban leaders to 26 in less than two months, the Foreign Ministry says. Former Taliban Justice Minister, Mulla Noor-ud-Din Turabi is among the fresh group of freed militants. “In order to further facilitate the Afghan reconciliation process, Pakistan has released […]
One of the most powerful militant leaders in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region, Hafiz Gul Bahadur, has given threats to the government of Pakistan that he is going to tear apart the peace pact and turn his fighters against Islamabad government. Three years back, Bahadur had signed an unofficial non-aggression accord with the Pakistan army, which […]
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