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Four soldiers, two schoolchildren killed in attacks in northwest Pakistan
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Four soldiers, two schoolchildren killed in attacks in northwest Pakistan

Al Jazeera  

Roadside bomb kills four officers and wounds five others while two schoolchildren are killed in a mortar explosion. A roadside bomb exploded near a vehicle carrying security forces in northwestern Pakistan, killing four officers and wounding five others, officials said. Pakistan’s military in a statement on Thursday confirmed the “martyrdom” of four officers, but said security forces also responded to …

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4 people including an army officer were kidnapped in northwest Pakistan
3 months, 3 weeks ago

4 people including an army officer were kidnapped in northwest Pakistan

Associated Press  

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Suspected militants kidnapped four people, including an army officer who was sitting in a mosque in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban to receive mourners after attending his father’s funeral, officials said Thursday. No one claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s kidnapping of Lt. Col. Khalid Khan and three others in Dera Ismail Khan, a district …

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Attack on Pakistan army post near Afghan border kills seven, military says
9 months, 1 week ago

Attack on Pakistan army post near Afghan border kills seven, military says

Al Jazeera  

Assailants used vehicle packed with explosives as well as suicide vests in attack that also involved a shootout. An armed group attacked a military post in northwestern Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan using a vehicle laden with explosives as well as suicide bombs, killing seven security force members, Pakistan’s military said. Troops responding to the attack on Saturday in …

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What to read about Pakistan
10 months, 2 weeks ago

What to read about Pakistan

The Economist  

A S PAKISTAN HEADS for a parliamentary election on February 8th the country has rarely been in such a mess. In January Pakistan exchanged missile fire with Iran; both sides say they were aiming at militants based in the other’s territory. Hopes that the toppling of Pakistan’s last military dictator—Pervez Musharraf—in 2008 would lead to a steady strengthening of democracy …

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Hindu Kush: The epicentre of terror, drugs and weapons demands India’s vigilant gaze
11 months ago

Hindu Kush: The epicentre of terror, drugs and weapons demands India’s vigilant gaze

Firstpost  

The withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan in 2021 was the end of yet another conflict in this historically war-torn nation. The Hindu Kush buttresses the Pamir Mountains near the point where the borders of China, Pakistan, and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Afghanistan meet. Only in the late 1980s did they change ‘loyalty’ to the Taliban and Al Qaeda combine that …

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What explains the dramatic rise in armed attacks in Pakistan?
1 year ago

What explains the dramatic rise in armed attacks in Pakistan?

Al Jazeera  

Pakistan’s two border provinces have seen 93 percent rise in attacks since the TTP ended ceasefire last year. The attacks by the TJP have brought back memories of the series of deadly attacks carried out by armed groups led by the Pakistan Taliban, known by the acronym TTP, in late 2000. Elaborating on this, Basit said the Pakistani army’s strategy …

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Pakistan Taliban running ‘shadow rule’ in North Waziristan, warns govt contractors of armed action for disobeying orders
1 year ago

Pakistan Taliban running ‘shadow rule’ in North Waziristan, warns govt contractors of armed action for disobeying orders

Firstpost  

The Pakistan Taliban has successfully established a shadow rule in various parts of the volatile northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and is now directing local officials and contractors to “consult and cooperate” with its clandestine administrative apparatus, according to a report In a concerning development, the Pakistan Taliban, operating under the formal appellation of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, has successfully established a shadow rule …

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Nine attackers killed in raid on Pakistan air base
1 year, 1 month ago

Nine attackers killed in raid on Pakistan air base

The Hindu  

Pakistan's military said its forces killed nine armed men who attacked an air force training base on Saturday, with a group affiliated with the Pakistan Taliban claiming responsibility. Three men were killed before they entered the base, and three other attackers had been "cornered/isolated", the military said earlier. Armed men stormed the base in the early hours of Saturday morning …

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Pakistan’s plan to evict thousands of Afghans ‘unacceptable’, says Taliban
1 year, 2 months ago

Pakistan’s plan to evict thousands of Afghans ‘unacceptable’, says Taliban

Al Jazeera  

The Taliban says Afghan citizens were not to blame for Pakistan’s security problems. Pakistan’s plan to evict hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees and migrants is “unacceptable”, says the Taliban, denying Islamabad’s allegations that Afghanistan’s citizens were responsible for Pakistan’s security problems. “The behaviour of Pakistan towards Afghan refugees is unacceptable,” Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Taliban administration in Kabul, …

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Dozens dead after Pakistan rocked by bombings in two provinces
1 year, 2 months ago

Dozens dead after Pakistan rocked by bombings in two provinces

Al Jazeera  

Suicide bombers attacked mosques in the provinces of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Islamabad, Pakistan – More than 50 people were killed and many others injured in bomb attacks in two different Pakistan provinces, officials have said. Mastung police official Javed Lehri told Al Jazeera that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, an outlawed group also known as Pakistan Taliban, claimed it had “nothing …

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Pakistan’s internal challenges, shifting dynamics
1 year, 2 months ago

Pakistan’s internal challenges, shifting dynamics

The Hindu  

Former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani’s persistent efforts to engage Pakistan to rectify its strategic errors in Afghan policy, faced unmet expectations. The TTP’s emboldenment fuelled this transformation through the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan, while Pakistan grappled with an intensifying phase of radicalisation. The TTP, formerly aligned with the Afghan Taliban, is now engaged in ‘jihad’ inside Pakistan, signifying a multifaceted …

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India Should Resume Infra Projects In Afghanistan Before Pakistan And China Take The Cake Away
1 year, 7 months ago

India Should Resume Infra Projects In Afghanistan Before Pakistan And China Take The Cake Away

ABP News  

New Delhi should immediately resume its infrastructure projects in Afghanistan that were going on in full swing before the Taliban’s comeback, in order to not only increase its strategic heft but to also gain the goodwill of Afghan people Last week’s decision to include Afghanistan under China’s Belt and Road Initiative should serve as a wake-up call for India that …

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What is behind the rising violent attacks in Pakistan?
1 year, 10 months ago

What is behind the rising violent attacks in Pakistan?

Al Jazeera  

Pakistan Taliban has denied involvement in the Peshawar mosque blast, but officials say it has intensified attacks since November. The Pakistan Taliban has been blamed for more than 100 attacks since walking out of a ceasefire with the Pakistani government last November. Angered by Pakistan’s cooperation with the United States in its “war on terror”, TTP was officially formed in …

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Pakistani FM Zardari slams previous government’s TTP policy
1 year, 11 months ago

Pakistani FM Zardari slams previous government’s TTP policy

Al Jazeera  

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari says his government has reversed the previous government’s ‘wrong approach’ towards the Pakistan Taliban. Pakistani foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has accused the previous government of Prime Minister Imran Khan of following a “wrong approach” towards the armed group Pakistan Taliban. Pakistan Taliban threat Earlier in January, Pakistan Taliban warned the country’s main ruling parties of “concrete …

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Pakistan Taliban claims responsibility for Islamabad suicide blast
2 years ago

Pakistan Taliban claims responsibility for Islamabad suicide blast

Firstpost  

Tehreek–e-Taliban Pakistan claimed the suicide attack that killed at least one police officer on Friday saying the attack ‘on the enemies of Islam’ was in retaliation for the recent killing of a senior member Islamabad: The Pakistan Taliban claimed a suicide attack that killed at least one police officer Friday in the country’s capital, the first such attack in the …

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Bannu hostage crisis ends after military kills 33 Pakistani Taliban militants | 5 Points
2 years ago

Bannu hostage crisis ends after military kills 33 Pakistani Taliban militants | 5 Points

India Today  

After an over 40-hour-long standoff, Pakistan Army's special forces on Tuesday killed all 33 hostage takers, news agency AFP reported. The local Taliban militants had captured a highly fortified counter-terrorism centre in Bannu in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. A spokesperson for the Pakistani Taliban said some of the hostage-takers were TTP members who had been detained for years in Bannu, …

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Pakistan FM travels to Kabul, meets Taliban amid border tensions
2 years ago

Pakistan FM travels to Kabul, meets Taliban amid border tensions

Al Jazeera  

Hina Rabbani Khar holds talks with her Afghan counterpart Amir Khan Muttaqi a day after Pakistan Taliban ended its truce with Islamabad. Hina Rabbani Khar, Pakistan’s minister of state for foreign affairs, has met Afghanistan’s acting foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in the capital Kabul amid tension over cross-border violence. Kabul and Islamabad were engaged in a war of words …

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‘Look to Both as Partners’: US’ Scrambled Reaction to Jaishankar’s Remarks on F-16 Deal with Pak
2 years, 2 months ago

‘Look to Both as Partners’: US’ Scrambled Reaction to Jaishankar’s Remarks on F-16 Deal with Pak

News 18  

India and Pakistan are both partners of the US with different points of emphasis, the Biden administration said Monday, a day after visiting External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar questioned the rationale behind the latest American F-16 security assistance to Islamabad. Early this month, the Biden administration approved a USD 450 million F-16 fighter jet fleet sustainment programme to Pakistan, reversing …

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JeM chief Masood Azhar not in Afghanistan, such terrorist outfits can only operate on Pak soil, says Taliban
2 years, 3 months ago

JeM chief Masood Azhar not in Afghanistan, such terrorist outfits can only operate on Pak soil, says Taliban

India TV News  

Masood Azhar news: Afghanistan's Taliban government on Wednesday firmly rejected media reports about the presence of Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar in the war-torn country, saying such terrorist organisations can operate on Pakistan's soil - and even under official patronage. The Taliban's interim Afghan government spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid made the strongly-worded remarks after a section of Pakistani media reported about Azhar's …

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Pakistani soldiers killed in gun battle with Taliban
2 years, 3 months ago

Pakistani soldiers killed in gun battle with Taliban

Al Jazeera  

TTP accuses military of breaking fragile ceasefire after at least four fighters died in a gun battle in northwest. Pakistan’s Taliban has accused the military of breaking a fragile ceasefire after the army said five soldiers and at least four fighters died in a gun battle in the country’s northwest. North Waziristan and other former tribal regions in northwestern Pakistan …

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Taliban, Al Qaeda, IS-K, TTP Want To Make Pakistan A Sharia State; Pak Army Fails To See Design
2 years, 5 months ago

Taliban, Al Qaeda, IS-K, TTP Want To Make Pakistan A Sharia State; Pak Army Fails To See Design

News 18  

The Taliban, Tehrik-e-Taliban, Islamic State – Khorasan and Al Qaeda want to see Pakistan become a Sharia state but view the Pakistan Army as a major obstacle in their quest. Pakistan army is also playing into its hands by using the Tehrik-e-Taliban to suppress the secular and nationalist struggles spearheaded by the National Democratic Movement and Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement, the …

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Pakistan Taliban extends ceasefire in talks brokered by Kabul
2 years, 7 months ago

Pakistan Taliban extends ceasefire in talks brokered by Kabul

Al Jazeera  

The Pakistani group – known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan – is separate but allied with Afghanistan’s Taliban, which seized power in the country last August. “Talks were held in Kabul between the government of Pakistan and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan in the mediation of the Islamic Emirate,” Afghan government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said, using the self-styled name of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. The Pakistani …

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Deadly border attacks test Pakistani gov’t relations with Taliban
2 years, 7 months ago

Deadly border attacks test Pakistani gov’t relations with Taliban

Al Jazeera  

Pakistan’s alleged air raids inside Afghanistan in response to the killing of its soldiers have raised tensions between the South Asian neighbours. ‘Terrorists using Afghan soil’ Pakistani officials allege TTP fighters harboured on Afghan soil are taking advantage of the Taliban’s governance issues and conducting attacks in Pakistan. “There was a lot of expectation when the Taliban came to power …

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Four killed in explosion in southern Pakistan
2 years, 7 months ago

Four killed in explosion in southern Pakistan

The Hindu  

An explosion ripped through a van inside a university campus in southern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing three Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver, officials said. Last July, the group — also known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan — claimed responsibility for an attack on a bus that killed nine Chinese nationals in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province. Thousands of Chinese workers …

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