By Dipankar De Sarkar London, Jan 28 (IANS) An international conference on Afghanistan ended here Thursday by agreeing to begin pulling out Western troops in late 2010 while setting up a multi-million ...

By Dipankar De Sarkar London, Jan 28 (IANS) An international conference on Afghanistan opened here Thursday with the establishment of a multi-million dollar trust fund to wean away Taliban militants who renounce ...

Washington, Dec 14 (IANS) Senior US officials are pushing to expand CIA drone strikes beyond Pakistan's tribal region and into Quetta to pressurise Islamabad to pursue Taliban leaders based there, the ...

Washington, Nov 20 (IANS) Mullah Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed leader of the Taliban, is living in Karachi with the help of Pakistan's intelligence service, The Washington Times said Friday. Mullah Omar, who ...

New York, Oct 28 (ANI): Afghan President Hamid Karzai's brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, who is alleged to be an important player in the country's booming illegal opium trade, receives regular payments ...

New York, Oct 28(IANS) Afghan President Hamid Karzai's brother Ahmed Wali Karzai, a suspected player in the country's booming illegal opium trade, has been getting regular payments from the Central Intelligence ...

London, July 26 (ANI): Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that his country is not providing any terror safe havens to terror groups. Qureshi said Islamabad does not want the ...

Kabul, July 17 (ANI): Taliban commanders delivered an ultimatum to the U.S. military on Thursday to withdraw from south eastern Afghanistan or an American soldier they had captured last week would ...

Washington, July 11 (IANS) Pakistan's military has offered to play a broker between the US and the Taliban, but in return it wants concessions from Washington over Islamabad's concerns with India, ...

By Arun Kumar Washington, June 3 (IANS) Al Qaeda has threatened to smuggle a biological weapon into the United States via tunnels under the Mexico border to stage another mass-casualty terrorist attack ...

By Arun Kumar Washington, June 3 (IANS) Al Qaeda has threatened to smuggle a biological weapon into the United States via tunnels under the Mexico border to stage another mass-casualty terrorist attack ...

Lahore, Mar.1 (ANI): A spate of ceasefires between the Pakistani army and government, on one hand and the Pakistani Taliban across northern Pakistan, on the other, are a strategic ploy that ...

Ontario, Feb 28 (ANI): If Pakistan attempts to secure the Durand Line by withdrawing its security forces from the Indian border, it would be seen as a failure of the Pakistan Governments ...

Lahore, Jan 26 (ANI): Taliban supreme commander Mullah Mohammed Omar has sacked Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud for fighting against the Pakistan Army instead of with the NATO forces. Mullah Omar has ...