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Rifts surface in Pak Taliban

Rifts surface in Pak Taliban

November 28th, 2008 - 5:26 pm ICT by ANI -
Peshawar, Nov 28 (ANI): Rifts seem to be appearing in the ranks of the Pakistan unit of the Taliban, the Tehrek-e-Taliban (TTP), as one of the rival factions that the group ...

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Local gangs assisting Pak Taiban in NWFP

Local gangs assisting Pak Taiban in NWFP

November 26th, 2008 - 2:21 pm ICT by ANI -
Peshawar, Nov 26 (ANI): NWFP police chief has reportedly said that a group of Afghan and local criminal gangs were helping the Pakistans unit of the Taliban, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), ...

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Pak security forces push Taliban out of Peshawar after two-week long operation

Pak security forces push Taliban out of Peshawar after two-week long operation

November 25th, 2008 - 3:08 pm ICT by ANI -
Peshawar, Nov 25 (ANI): Security forces in NWFP claimed to have pushed the Taliban operatives out of Peshawar after two-week long operation in the area killing at least 25 suspected Taliban. NWFP ...

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Aid workers pull out of Peshawar as Islamists hold city to ransom

November 22nd, 2008 - 5:58 pm ICT by ANI -
Peshawar, Nov.22 (ANI): Aid workers have started withdrawing from the city of Peshawar, as armed men, especially Islamist militants and criminal gangs continue to hold the northwestern city to ransom through ...

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UN dubs US air strikes on Pak tribal areas a bilateral issue

UN dubs US air strikes on Pak tribal areas a bilateral issue

November 21st, 2008 - 2:30 pm ICT by ANI -
Lahore, Nov 21 (ANI): The United Nations has reportedly said that the US drone strikes inside the Pakistani territory were a bilateral issue between the two countries, and that they must ...

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NWFP govt sets precondition of laying down arms before peace talks with Taliban

NWFP govt sets precondition of laying down arms before peace talks with Taliban

November 19th, 2008 - 2:56 pm ICT by ANI -
Peshawar, Nov 19 (ANI): The NWFP government has reportedly set laying down of arms as the foremost condition for peace talks with the Swat-based Taliban. According to official sources, the condition was ...

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Pak suspends NATO supplies due to security reasons on Pak-Afghan highway

Pak suspends NATO supplies due to security reasons on Pak-Afghan highway

November 16th, 2008 - 4:23 pm ICT by ANI -
Lahore, Nov 16 (ANI): Political authorities reportedly suspended supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan via Torkham Border on Saturday, due to security concerns on the Pak-Afghan Highway. According to a private TV ...

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US drone attack kills 12 in North Waziristan

US drone attack kills 12 in North Waziristan

November 15th, 2008 - 1:42 pm ICT by ANI -
Peshawar, Nov 15 (ANI): US drones have fired at least three missiles into a Pakistani tribal region, killing 12 people, including five foreigners, in an area known as a stronghold of ...

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Abducted Afghan diplomat’s family urges speedy rescue efforts

November 10th, 2008 - 12:37 pm ICT by IANS -
Islamabad, Nov 10 (IANS) The relatives of Afghan diplomat Abdul Khaliq Farahi, who was abducted from Peshawar in September, have urged the governments in Pakistan and Afghanistan to speed up efforts for ...

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Seven Qaeda men, one Taliban among the dead in US air attacks in N. Waziristan

Seven Qaeda men, one Taliban among the dead in US air attacks in N. Waziristan

November 8th, 2008 - 1:39 pm ICT by ANI -
Peshawar, Nov 8 (ANI): At least 13 persons were killed as suspected US drones fired two missiles at a house in North Waziristan Agency on Friday. Though it was immediately not ascertained ...

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Pak quake survivors beg for shelter as winter sets in

November 3rd, 2008 - 2:19 pm ICT by ANI -
Peshawar , Nov 3 (ANI): The quake-hit people in Balochistan are begging for shelter from the Pakistani authorities ahead of the winter season. A strong earthquake of 6.5 magnitude on the Richter ...

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Investigation establish foreigners were the real target of Marriott hotel attack

Investigation establish foreigners were the real target of Marriott hotel attack

October 30th, 2008 - 1:28 pm ICT by ANI -
Islamabad , Oct 30 (ANI): Pakistan s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has reportedly established that foreign nationals were the real target of the Marriott Hotel suicide attack on September 20, and ...

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Fewer fighters slipping into Afghanistan after Pak stepped up operations in tribal areas

October 24th, 2008 - 11:43 am ICT by ANI -
Washington , Oct 24 (ANI): The US has reportedly welcomed the offensive launched by Pakistani security forces in the tribal areas in the recent weeks, saying that as a result of ...

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Pak security forces kill 35 Taliban in Bajaur air-strikes

Pak security forces kill 35 Taliban in Bajaur air-strikes

October 24th, 2008 - 11:28 am ICT by ANI -
Peshawar , Oct 24 (ANI): At least 35 Taliban were killed in the Bajaur Agency when Pakistan security forces carried out ground and air strikes there last evening, Frontier Constabulary (FC) ...

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13 militants killed in Bajaur air strikes

13 militants killed in Bajaur air strikes

October 19th, 2008 - 12:35 pm ICT by ANI -
Peshawar, Oct 19 (ANI): Around 13 suspected militants were reportedly killed and dozens of houses destroyed in the ongoing bombing by jetfighters and military gunship helicopters in the Bajaur Agency. The military ...

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Pakistan army arrests 168 foreign militants

October 18th, 2008 - 3:26 pm ICT by IANS -
Islamabad, Oct 18 (Xinhua) Pakistan's security forces have arrested some 168 foreign militants from the tribal belt in the northwest over the past two days, a military statement said Saturday. The militants ...

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20 killed, 53 injured in suicide blast in Pakistan

October 6th, 2008 - 8:10 pm ICT by ANI -
Peshawar, Oct 6 (ANI): Twenty people were killed and 53 others were injured in a suicide blast that ripped through the dera of MNA Rasheed Akbar Khan Nawani in Bhakkar District ...

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Innocent Pakistanis bearing the brunt of Govts war-on-Taliban

Innocent Pakistanis bearing the brunt of Govts war-on-Taliban

October 3rd, 2008 - 2:35 pm ICT by ANI -
Peshawar , Oct 3 (ANI): As the Pakistan governments battle against the Taliban goes on, common innocent Pakistanis are by and large finding themselves being sandwiched between the two sides, and ...

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Kidnapped Afghan envoy recovered in Pakistan

September 30th, 2008 - 12:50 pm ICT by IANS -
Islamabad, Sep 30 (Xinhua) Afghanistan's consul general to Pakistan Abdul Khaliq Farahi, who was kidnapped last Monday by some unidentified gunmen in northwestern Pakistan, has been released, media reports said Tuesday."Farahi had ...

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Pak plans a major crackdown on Taliban in FATA

Pak plans a major crackdown on Taliban in FATA

September 29th, 2008 - 11:04 am ICT by ANI -
Peshawar , Sept 29 (ANI): The Pakistan Government is learnt to have chalked out a decisive plan to launch a major crackdown on Taliban in the Tribal Areas. But, the actual ...

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US receiving actionable intelligence on al Qaeda in Pakistan

US receiving actionable intelligence on al Qaeda in Pakistan

September 28th, 2008 - 1:11 pm ICT by ANI -
Peshawar, Sep 28 (ANI): The United States is getting good actionable intelligence on al Qaeda in Pakistans Tribal Areas but not the Taliban, said a senior official co-ordinating with Washington in ...

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Pak Taliban chief Mehsud seriously ill, slips into coma

Pak Taliban chief Mehsud seriously ill, slips into coma

September 28th, 2008 - 12:16 pm ICT by ANI -
Peshawar, Sep 28 (ANI): Baitullah Mehsud, the head of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), has once again fallen seriously ill, leading to convergence of the top leadership of the TTP at Makeen ...

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15 militants killed in Pakistan

September 28th, 2008 - 11:11 am ICT by ANI -
Peshawar, Sep 28 (ANI): At least 15 militants were killed and 22 others were injured in ongoing Pakistani security forces operation in Bajaur tribal agency. Official sources said on Saturday that ...

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Pak govt to reorient its media to not glorify terrorists or their terror acts

Pak govt to reorient its media to not glorify terrorists or their terror acts

September 26th, 2008 - 1:06 pm ICT by ANI -
Islamabad , Sept 26 (ANI): The Pakistan Government is said to be planning a reorientation programme for the print as well as electronic media to encourage them to avoid publishing, airing ...

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US suspends Pakistan consular services after Marriott blast

September 26th, 2008 - 8:07 am ICT by IANS -
Washington, Sep 26 (Xinhua) The US has suspended visa services at its consular offices in Pakistan following a massive suicide bomb attack on the Marriott Hotel in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, the ...

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Zardari wants to win countrymens hearts and minds over US-led war-on-terror

Zardari wants to win countrymens hearts and minds over US-led war-on-terror

September 25th, 2008 - 4:43 pm ICT by ANI -
Islamabad, Sept 25 (ANI): Amid threat of more Marriott-like terror strikes in the near future in Pakistan from the militant outfit Fedayeen al-Islam (which claimed responsibility for Saturdays blast), the countrys ...

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Foreign terrorists infiltrating into Bajaur from Afghanistan to beat back Pak offensive

Foreign terrorists infiltrating into Bajaur from Afghanistan to beat back Pak offensive

September 24th, 2008 - 3:21 pm ICT by ANI -
Peshawar, Sept 24 (ANI): Highly placed sources in Pakistan have said that foreign Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters were infiltrating into Bajaur from Afghanistan to join their colleagues in the crucial ...

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Pak assures safety of abducted Afghan envoy

September 23rd, 2008 - 2:49 pm ICT by ANI -
Islamabad , Sept 23 (ANI): Pakistan has reportedly assured Afghanistan of taking all necessary measures to ensure the safety of its abducted ambassador Abdul Khaliq Farahi in Pakistan . Pakistan Foreign Minister ...

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Afghan envoy kidnapped in Pakistan

September 22nd, 2008 - 10:26 pm ICT by IANS -
Islamabad, Sep 22 (IANS) Afghanistan's Consulate General to Pakistan, Abdul Khaliq Farahi, was kidnapped Monday evening by gunmen disguised as begggars who seized him in the country's volatile tribal region after killing ...

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Afghan ambassador-designate kidnapped in Pakistan (Lead)

September 22nd, 2008 - 7:45 pm ICT by IANS -
Islamabad, Sep 22 (Xinhua) Afghan ambassador-designate to Pakistan Abdul Khaliq Farahi was kidnapped in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar Monday.The vehicle carrying Farahi was attacked by unidentified gunmen in the Hayatabad ...

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