SWAT 30 Nov – CNG stations in Malakand division got opened Thursday after a threat letter issued by Taliban, asking the gas station owners to start selling the gas or face dire consequences. The owners not only opened their stations but selling gas on the price fixed by Ogra after the Supreme Court order.   Taliban terrorised the station owners by a letter in which they said if CNG stations were not opened, ...

ISLAMABAD 29 Nov: After delivering its verdict in the Asghar Khan case, the Supreme Court has sought a reply from the Intelligence Bureau (IB) director general (DG) about a news report regarding withdrawal of secret funds of the bureau by the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) governments between 1988 to 1990 and 2008 to 2009 for political purposes. A three-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad ...

PESHAWAR, Nov 28: Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility on Tuesday for planting a bomb under the car of Hamid Mir, a television anchor, and warned him of a second assassination bid. Mr Mir was criticised by the Taliban last month in the wake of the shooting of teenage activist Malala Yousufzai. “Life and death is in the hands of Allah. Allah saved his life but we will make a similar attempt again,” Tehri ...

PESHAWAR: Three policemen sustained injuries when a roadside improvised explosive device went off at Achini Cross in the provincial capital on Monday. Officials said that target of the blast was a police patrol van. “The bomb exploded at 12:40pm seconds after the van passed through the area on Achini Road,” they said. Munsif Khan, a police official, told Dawn that three constables received injuries in the b ...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Eight persons including four children were killed and 20 others injured when an explosive materials planted in a garbage went off targeting a Moharram Procession near Masjid Karim Khan in the Bannu Chungi Toya Fazil area in D.I. Khan city, here on Saturday morning. NNI Adds: According to police sources, a 8-10 kg bomb was set off by a remote control device as cellphones were operational in ...

KHYBER AGENCY - A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban has claimed that suspending mobile phone services in the country will not hold back the militant group from carrying out its activities, reported a private TV channel on Friday. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan, speaking on the telephone from an undisclosed location, claimed the banned group did not carry out bombings using cell ...

The Taliban vowed on Thursday to avenge the execution of Mohammed Kasab, the sole surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Kasab, a 25-year-old Pakistani, was hanged in western India on Wednesday after being convicted of "waging war on India" for his role in the three-day assault on India's commercial capital. The Taliban said it wanted Kasab's body returned to Pakistan otherwise it would unleash repr ...

The Tripartite Commission on Tuesday signed the Tripartite Border Coordination Mechanism to improve near border coordination. According to the ISPR, the 36th meeting of the Tripartite Commission was held at the Afghan Ministry of Defence where the agreement was signed. The meeting was part of the Tripartite Coordination Mechanism and attended by Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, a ...

Pakistan’s helicopter gunships pounded militant hideouts in North Waziristan tribal region, killing at least four and injuring many others, a private TV channel reported on Monday. According to reports, the helicopters gunships attacked militant hideouts in Mir Ali area of the North Waziristan Agency. The 2-day curfew has been lifted in the area. An IED blast on Sunday killed two officials of the security f ...

Two soldiers were killed and seven others injured when a tank was hit by an improvised explosive device near Mirali in North Waziristan Agency on Sunday. According to sources, troops were being deployed along the Mirali bypass road ahead of the movement of a military convoy when the IED exploded near the tank which was badly damaged and caught fire. The tank driver suffered severe burn injuries and died on ...