By RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal January 23, 2023 At least 44 people have been killed and 157 wounded in an attack witnesses said was a suicide bombing inside a mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. Most of the dead were police officers, according to a spokesman for a Peshawar hospital where victims of the attack
Khaama: Local authorities have reported that militants attacked a police outpost using in northeastern Pakistan, killing three security personnel on Thursday evening. The terror attack took place in the Khyber district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan late yesterday evening. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), also known as the Pakistani Taliban, claimed the responsibility for the deadly
Ariana: Pakistan has expressed concern over what it says is an increase in militancy along the border with Afghanistan. Speaking to Newsweek, Pakistan’s permanent representative to the United Nations Munir Akram warned that unless the economic situation in Afghanistan improves, the Islamic Emirate could begin to lose members to more militant groups including IS-K (Daesh).
Khaama: According to sources, the National Security Council-Pakistan informed the Afghan government that to fulfil its obligations under the Doha Agreement, including bilateral meetings, Kabul would have to neutralize the TTP threat. Click here to read more (external link).
Abubakar Siddique Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 14, 2023 Sahib Khan, a political activist, is one of the organizers of a recent sit-in protest in Wana, a remote town near Pakistan’s western border with Afghanistan. Khan describes the weeklong demonstration that ended on January 12 as a “people’s uprising” to show authorities that they will
Khaama: With the unprecedented rise of terror attacks across Pakistan in the recent past, targeting army personnel, ISI officers, police officials, and ordinary citizens, the men in charge of security establishments in Pakistan are still blustering with no pragmatic approaches ahead. Being a nuclear power in the world, and equipped with sophisticated American and Chinese
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 10, 2023 ISLAMABAD — Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan advocated Tuesday for a cooperative bilateral relationship with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers, warning mutual tensions could turn his country’s counterterrorism efforts into a “disastrous forever war.” Khan spoke at a seminar in the capital, Islamabad, as a new wave of terrorism grips
Khaama: While security forces in Pakistan decided to deal with the TTP and other terrorist groups with iron hands, the Afghan Taliban would be questioned to cooperate in this endeavor, according to reports, adding the Afghan Taliban would be given one choice: “either you are with Pakistan or with the TTP”. Click here to read
ANI: Amid the spurt in attacks by banned outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Pakistan’s quest to secure “strategic depth” in Afghanistan by installing a ‘friendly’ government in Kabul has resulted in what security analysts have begun to call “strategic death,” writes James Crickton in policy research group, Poreg. Click here to read more (external link). Related
Khaama: On Wednesday, the Tehrik –e- Taliban Pakistan (TTP) issued a warning explicitly to the leaders of the two major political parties in the ruling coalition, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan people party (PPT). The two leaders of the leading parties, Prime Minister Sharif and Bilawal Bhutto the Foreign Minister of Pakistan,