Ayaz Gul VOA News December 29, 2022 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan said Thursday that at least three of its soldiers were killed in clashes with “terrorists” near the volatile border with Afghanistan. An army statement reported the “intense” shootout in Kurram border district in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province had also left two militants dead. The statement said
Ayaz Gul VOA News December 20, 2022 ISLAMABAD — The leader of an outlawed militant alliance waging terrorism in Pakistan praised his fighters Tuesday for taking several security officials hostage inside a provincial police counterterrorism interrogation center and urged them not to surrender, come what may. Noor Wali Mehsud, the chief of the Pakistani Taliban or
By Abubakar Siddique Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 8, 2022 Lawyer Fazal Khan says he feels furious following Pakistan’s ongoing peace negotiations with the hard-line militant group Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP). His eldest son, eighth-grader Sahibzada Omar Khan, was killed in the TTP’s most horrific attack. On December 16, 2014, a group of TTP militants stormed