Ayaz Gul VOA News September 10, 2019 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – The United States has designated a top Pakistani militant commander as a global terrorist for directing deadly attacks against Pakistan. The U.S. State Department announced the decision Tuesday, identifying the man as Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud, the head of the outlawed extremist Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)
Noor Zahid VOA News April 13, 2017 Afghan religious leaders on Thursday strongly refuted pro-Taliban remarks by a top Pakistani religious and political leader, classifying them as an “intelligence spin.” In response to recent remarks by Maulana Fazl-ur-Rahman, leader of Pakistani’s Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F), a conservative religious party accused of maintaining links with various militant
VOA News Ayaz Gul July 9, 2016 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN—Pakistan on Saturday reacted sharply to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s latest aspersions on Islamabad’s counterterrorism efforts. The Afghan leader told the NATO summit in Warsaw earlier in the day that Kabul was receiving cooperation from regional countries — except for Pakistan — to promote peace and stability
VOA News Ayaz Gul February 3, 2016 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN—Authorities in Pakistan have arrested the suspected main facilitator of last month’s attack on a university that killed at least 21 people, mostly students. Intelligence sources confirmed to VOA on Wednesday that security operatives detained the suspect from an area not far from the northwestern town of
Khaama Press: The dead bodies of 18 fighters of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) who were killed in drone strikes in Afghanistan have been returned and buried inside Pakistan. Reports suggest that the dead bodies were buried in villages located near the Afghan border. 14 of them reportedly belonged to Mehsud tribe and four others to Ahmadzai Wazir tribe. Click