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Security forces kill 15 militants in North Waziristan

At least fifteen militants were killed and many others injured in air strikes in North Waziristan Agency on Monday night. According to military sources‚ militants' hideouts were targeted on confirmed intelligence reports. Militants killed had links with Peshawar Church‚ Qissa Khawani Bazar and Bannu attacks.  

Kurram Agency

Three killed, one injured in Kurram Agency blasts

PARACHINAR : Three people were killed including two children while another injured in two separate blast incidents in Shablan and Dal areas of Kurram Agency on Sunday, sources said. According to details, a car collided with a mine planted in Zangi village of Shablan, some twelve kilometres from Agency Headquarters, Parachinar. The blast left three...

TTP New Boss Mullah Radio Mullah Fazlullah took the charge.

A Taliban shura, or council, nominated Mullah Fazlullah as successor to Hakimullah Mehsud, who was killed in a US drone strike on Friday. Mullah Fazlullah  - commander whose fighters tried to assassinate teenage education campaigner Malala Yousafzai last year has been named as the new chief of the Pakistani Taliban. NO...

Hakimullah Mehsud

The $120k farmhouse where Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud died

Miranshah:  With marble floors, lush green lawns and a towering minaret, the $120,000 farm where feared Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud died in a US drone strike was no grubby mountain cave. Hakimullah Mehsud spent his days skipping around Pakistan's rugged tribal areas to avoid the attentions of US drones. But...

TTP rejects Peace Talks

Mohmand Agency: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Mohmand Agency has rejected the peace talks with Pakistani government today Ameer Tehreek e Taliban Mohmand Agency stated that the peace talks with the government will never be successful. He stated that the group talks on Shariah basis whereas the government talks on constitutionary basis....

FATA : 15 people killed in two explosions in Parachinar

Kurram Agency‚ 15 people were killed and 200 injured in two bomb blasts in Parachinar this evening (Friday)Two explosions targeting Shi'ite mosques in Pakistan's tribal area on the Afghan border killed at least 15 people on Friday, a doctor and witnesses said. The first explosion took place just meters away...

15 militants and 4 soldiers killed in Khyber operation

KHYBER: Fifteen militants were killed and scores of others were injured in Operation Khyber – II which commenced on July 19 and completed on the 20th as security forces cleared key militant transit points. Four soldiers also died during the gunbattles, officials said. According to sources that the operation launched...

Taliban Renounces War on Anti-Polio Workers

The announcement comes just weeks after the Afghan government launched a new campaign to immunise more than eight million children between six months and five years old throughout the country. It said it had trained 46,000 volunteers to conduct the campaign which is funded by the American aid agency USAID,...

Gomal Zam Dam Set To Generate Power

ISLAMABAD :  Installation of electro-mechanical equipments in Gomal Zam Power House for generating 17.4MW has been completed and power generating units will be put on mechanical run shortly, leading to the electricity generation. Official sources told APP here Monday that construction work on the project was continuing despite financial constraints...

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