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Pakistani Taliban claims responsibility for a deadly military checkpoint attack in the northwest
1 day, 23 hours ago

Pakistani Taliban claims responsibility for a deadly military checkpoint attack in the northwest

Associated Press  

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The Pakistani Taliban on Saturday claimed responsibility for a deadly military checkpoint attack in the country’s northwest. The Pakistani Taliban have stepped up their offensive against the military and police since November 2022, when they unilaterally ended a ceasefire with the government after the failure of months of talks, hosted by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers in Kabul. Also …

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Baloch separatists becoming as big a national security threat as Pakistani Taliban, says think tank
2 weeks, 2 days ago

Baloch separatists becoming as big a national security threat as Pakistani Taliban, says think tank

The Independent  

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7 killed after militant's car bomb accidentally explodes in Pakistan
1 month, 1 week ago

7 killed after militant's car bomb accidentally explodes in Pakistan

India Today  

A powerful car bomb accidentally detonated at the house of a Pakistani Taliban militant in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least two children and five suspected militants, police said. The explosion took place before dawn in the city of Mir Ali in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province when a man identified as a local commander of the militants, Rasool Jan, was …

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Two killed in ‘terror attack’ on Chinese convoy at Pakistan’s largest airport
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Two killed in ‘terror attack’ on Chinese convoy at Pakistan’s largest airport

The Independent  

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Pakistani Taliban deny attacking a convoy of foreign ambassadors
3 months ago

Pakistani Taliban deny attacking a convoy of foreign ambassadors

Associated Press  

ISLAMABAD — The Pakistani Taliban on Monday denied involvement in a bombing attack on a police convoy that was escorting foreign ambassadors in the restive northwest, as authorities said they were still trying to determine who was behind it. Most of the ambassadors and senior envoys were traveling with their family members on Sunday to the Swat Valley, a former …

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Shootout between Pakistani Taliban and police during raid kills 4 security officials, 3 insurgents
5 months, 1 week ago

Shootout between Pakistani Taliban and police during raid kills 4 security officials, 3 insurgents

Hindustan Times  

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Security forces raided a hideout of the Pakistani Taliban on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Peshawar on Wednesday, triggering a shootout that killed four officers and three insurgents, police said. Shootout between Pakistani Taliban and police during raid kills 4 security officials, 3 insurgents {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} A militant commander, Abdul Rahim, was among …

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Shootout between Pakistani Taliban and police during raid kills 4 security officials, 3 insurgents
5 months, 1 week ago

Shootout between Pakistani Taliban and police during raid kills 4 security officials, 3 insurgents

Hindustan Times  

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Security forces raided a hideout of the Pakistani Taliban on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Peshawar on Wednesday, triggering a shootout that killed four officers and three insurgents, police said. Shootout between Pakistani Taliban and police during raid kills 4 security officials, 3 insurgents A militant commander, Abdul Rahim, was among the insurgents killed in …

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What lies ahead for Pakistan-Taliban relations | In Focus podcast
9 months ago

What lies ahead for Pakistan-Taliban relations | In Focus podcast

The Hindu  

Pre-dawn air strikes by Pakistan on Afghan territory targeting Tehreek-e-Taliban, or TTP, militants on the 19th of March mark a new low in relations between Kabul and Islamabad. Pakistan claims that it retaliated against TTP strongholds in Afghanistan following a terror strike in North Waziristan on the 16th of March in which 7 Pakistani security personnel were killed. A spokesman …

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Fighting halted on Afghanistan-Pakistan border after skirmishes: Taliban
9 months ago

Fighting halted on Afghanistan-Pakistan border after skirmishes: Taliban

The Hindu  

Fighting has stopped on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border after Pakistani air strikes sparked skirmishes, a Taliban government spokesman said on March 19. Afghanistan's Defence Ministry said its border forces retaliated by targeting Pakistani military posts along the border with "heavy weapons", with cross-border skirmishes reported by both sides. A senior police officer in the Pakistani border district of Kurram told AFP …

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Tensions high after Pakistan launches cross-border attacks into Afghanistan
9 months ago

Tensions high after Pakistan launches cross-border attacks into Afghanistan

Al Jazeera  

Taliban claims to have fired across border following air raids targeting Pakistani Taliban. Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan has launched overnight air attacks inside Afghanistan, while the Taliban claimed hours later to have fired across the border. However, on Saturday, a group of suicide bombers targeted a military check post in Pakistan’s North Waziristan district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which …

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Pakistani Taliban claims responsibility for bomb that killed 6 police guarding anti-polio campaign
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Pakistani Taliban claims responsibility for bomb that killed 6 police guarding anti-polio campaign

Associated Press  

KHAR, Pakistan — A roadside bomb exploded Monday near a van carrying police assigned to protect workers in an anti-polio immunization campaign in restive northwestern Pakistan, killing at least six officers and wounding 10 others, officials said. The bombing happened in the former Pakistani Taliban stronghold of Mamund in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, police official Kashif Zulfiquar said. In …

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Pakistan says nearly 25,000 Afghans waiting for visas to the U.S. won’t be deported
1 year, 1 month ago

Pakistan says nearly 25,000 Afghans waiting for visas to the U.S. won’t be deported

LA Times  

Afghan refugees settle in a camp Saturday near the Torkham Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Torkham, Afghanistan. At least 25,000 Afghans — who had worked for the American military or government, international organizations and aid agencies, as well as media and human rights groups — escaped the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 to Pakistan and are waiting to be processed to …

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Pakistan wants global "ummah" to support Hamas but is evicting nearly 2 million Afghan refugees
1 year, 1 month ago

Pakistan wants global "ummah" to support Hamas but is evicting nearly 2 million Afghan refugees

Op India  

Not that the world can expect Pakistan, of all countries, to be humanitarian in its treatment of humans. A mass exodus of Afghan refugees from Pakistan was reported on 1st November after Pakistan gave the refugees a deadline on 26th October ordering them to leave the country or face detention. Pakistan is expelling 1.7 million Afghan refugees who have been …

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Pakistani Taliban run riot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, seize Chitral army headquarters
1 year, 3 months ago

Pakistani Taliban run riot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, seize Chitral army headquarters

India Today  

The Tehreek-e-Taliban-Pakistan or Pakistani Taliban, which overran some villages in Chitral last week, is running riot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It killed a soldier after a bomb attack on a paramilitary forces convoy and stormed the Pakistan army headquarters in Chitral, according to videos on social media sites. After remaining silent over the Taliban attack in Chitral, a city in Khyber …

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Taliban got Pak Army chief’s nod on allowing return of Indian diplomats: New book
1 year, 7 months ago

Taliban got Pak Army chief’s nod on allowing return of Indian diplomats: New book

Hindustan Times  

The Taliban setup in Afghanistan consulted the Pakistan Army before allowing the Indian government to send a team to re-establish a diplomatic presence in Kabul in June 2022, according to a new book by a former Pakistani federal police officer and academic. “The Return of the Taliban” by Hassan Abbas, currently senior advisor at Asia Society and distinguished professor at …

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Pakistan defense minister in Kabul over shut border crossing
1 year, 10 months ago

Pakistan defense minister in Kabul over shut border crossing

Associated Press  

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s defense minister was in Afghanistan on Wednesday, meeting with officials there in an effort to resolve this week’s closure by the Taliban administration of a key border crossing between the two neighboring countries, officials said. Taliban security forces on Sunday closed the Torkham border crossing with Pakistan and on Monday traded fire with Pakistani border guards. The …

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Won't be surprised if Taliban takes control of Pakistan: Taslima Nasreen after Karachi attack
1 year, 10 months ago

Won't be surprised if Taliban takes control of Pakistan: Taslima Nasreen after Karachi attack

India Today  

Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen said she won't be surprised if someday the Taliban takes control of Pakistan after a Pakistan Taliban suicide squad barged into a police compound on Friday in the port city of Karachi. I won't be surprised If someday Taliban takes control of Pakistan. — taslima nasreen February 18, 2023 Responding to the Karachi attack, Taslima Nasreen …

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Peshawar, the city of flowers, becomes epicenter of violence
1 year, 10 months ago

Peshawar, the city of flowers, becomes epicenter of violence

India Today  

Pakistan’s Peshawar was once known as “the city of flowers,” surrounded by orchards of pear, quince and pomegranate trees. Meanwhile, in Peshawar and another Pakistani city, Quetta, the Afghan Taliban began to organize, with backing from the Pakistani government. Eventually, the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in the late 1990s, ruling until they were ousted by the 2001 American-led invasion …

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Peshawar mosque bombing death toll rises to 93; Pakistani Taliban claims responsibility
1 year, 10 months ago

Peshawar mosque bombing death toll rises to 93; Pakistani Taliban claims responsibility

The Hindu  

The death toll from a powerful suicide bombing at a crowded Peshawar mosque in northwestern Pakistan rose to 93 on Tuesday after rescue teams retrieved more bodies from the debris, police said. “The death toll of Peshawar blast has risen to 93 as rescue operation is still underway and debris of mosque is being removed,” the state-run Radio Pakistan reported. …

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‘Assassination attempt’ on Pakistan envoy in Afghan capital
2 years ago

‘Assassination attempt’ on Pakistan envoy in Afghan capital

Al Jazeera  

Attacker failed to harm the Pakistani diplomat, but shot and wounded his security guard outside its mission in Kabul. An “assassination attempt” targeted Pakistan’s top diplomat in Afghanistan, Pakistan’s prime minister has said, as tensions between the neighbouring countries simmer. “I strongly condemn the dastardly assassination attempt on Pakistan Head of Mission, Kabul,” Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on …

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Not Clashes along Durand Line, It is the TTP Factor That Can Poison Taliban-Pakistan Ties
2 years, 11 months ago

Not Clashes along Durand Line, It is the TTP Factor That Can Poison Taliban-Pakistan Ties

News 18  

For some weeks now, there has been a spate of incidents along the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier involving the Afghan Taliban and their principal backers — the Pakistan Army. Further, warnings have been issued to Pakistani soldiers to back down or else face the Taliban onslaught; Pakistan Army soldiers have been mocked, lampooned and threatened and told that soon the Taliban will …

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TTP | The Taliban that’s fighting Pakistan
3 years ago

TTP | The Taliban that’s fighting Pakistan

The Hindu  

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s recent decision to end a ceasefire with the Imran Khan Government has turned the tables on Pakistan, which was at a relatively advantageous position with the arrival of the Afghan Taliban in Kabul. Pakistan’s immediate concern is that after securing the release of its militants, the TTP, already emboldened by the return of the Taliban to power …

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US Secy Of State Antony Blinken Sees 'Global Unity' On Taliban After Talks With Pak, China
3 years, 2 months ago

US Secy Of State Antony Blinken Sees 'Global Unity' On Taliban After Talks With Pak, China

ABP News  

New York: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who met with his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi and held talks with ministers’ of the four other veto-wielding Security Council members, has said he believed the world was united on pressing the Taliban, adding “there is very strong unity of approach and unity of purpose”. READ: Hard Punishments Including Executions, Cutting …

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Pakistani Air Force warns Afghan forces against taking action on Taliban
3 years, 5 months ago

Pakistani Air Force warns Afghan forces against taking action on Taliban

Op India  

The Vice President of Afghanistan Amrullah Saleh has said that Pakistan has warned the Afghan forces against taking any action against the Taliban, which is rapidly capturing the country. Pak air force is now providing close air support to Taliban in certain areas — Amrullah Saleh July 15, 2021 The First Vice President of Afghanistan said that the Pakistani Air …

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