ISLAMABAD – Federal Minister for Interior Sheikh Rashid on Monday said that the gallant soldiers of security forces have given their lives for the country to counter terrorism. During a media address today, he stated that police and security personnel have risked their lives ensuring the safety of this country. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is organizing […]
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Taliban attack third Afghan provincial capital in a week
KABUL: The Taliban have attacked a third provincial capital in Afghanistan in less than a week, with an overnight assault on the western city of Farah, a provincial governor said Friday as a US envoy was back in Qatar for further talks on a US-Taliban deal to end America’s longest war. Mohammad Shoaib Sabet said […]
India declares Masood Azhar, Hafiz Saeed as terrorists under new law
India has declared Masood Azhar, leader of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), and Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, chief of the banned Jamaatud Dawa (JuD), as terrorists under a new law. The Indian home ministry named the two as terrorists under the amended Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Act. The new law empowers the government to designate an individual as a terrorist if […]
Funeral prayers held for Gwadar PC’s martyred security guards
Funeral prayers were offered on Monday for two security guards of Gwadar’s Pearl Continental (PC) hotel, martyred in a terrorist attack. The last rites of martyrs, Bilal Lashari and Zahoor Lashari, were attended by Senior Superintendents Police (SSP) of Badin and Tando Muhammad Khan as well as thousands of people in their hometowns. The two […]
Terrorists attacking Pakistan are our enemies: US
Declaring terrorists attacking Pakistan as its enemies, the United States on Tuesday said it does not have the ‘evidence’ suggesting that India is using the Afghan soil to perpetrate terrorism in Pakistan, and that it had no information regarding the Pakistan Army’s latest allegations that Afghan and Indian secret agencies were funding the Pashtun Tahafuz […]
Sri Lanka may seek Pakistan’s help to trace terrorists
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that his government will, if necessary, seek Pakistan’s help to trace the terrorists involved in the recent Easter Sunday bombings. In an exclusive interview with an international newspaper published on Friday, Wickremesinghe pointed out that Pakistan had in the past ‘fully supported Sri Lanka’s war on terror’. […]
Mansehra: CTD apprehends TTP terrorists
The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) arrested two terrorists of banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) here on Friday. The CTD sources said that on intelligence tips-off, operations were conducted in different areas of Mansehra and Abbottabad. During operations, TTP commander Azeem Jan and another extremists Muhammad Anwar was apprehended. The nabbed TTP terrorists were shifted to undisclosed […]
El Salvador gang members in rehab have message for Trump
Some 1,700 imprisoned gang members in El Salvador claiming to be turning around their lives in a rehabilitation program have a message for US President Donald Trump: they’re neither “terrorists” nor “animals.” At the high-security Chalatenango prison in the north of the country — where an AFP team passed through full body scans to gain […]
Iran FM accuses ‘foreign-backed terrorists’ of Chabahar attack
TEHRAN: Iran´s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused “foreign-backed terrorists” for attacks Thursday in the port city of Chabahar that killed two people and wounded around 40 others. “Foreign-backed terrorists kill & wound innocents in Chabahar. As we´ve made it clear in the past, such crimes won´t go unpunished,” Zarif tweeted. Chabahar lies in Sistan-Balochistan […]
COAS confirms death sentences of 11 hardcore terrorists: ISPR
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (CPAS) General Qamar Bajwa on Friday has confirmed death sentences awarded to 11 hardcore terrorists. According to an Inter-Services Public Relations statement COAS confirmed death sentences to 11 hardcore terrorists, who were involved in heinous offences related to terrorism, said an. The ISPR said that the terrorists were involved in […]