Ayaz Gul VOA News December 30, 2023 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s military said Saturday its forces had raided a “terrorist” hideout in a volatile region bordering Afghanistan and killed five militants in the ensuing shootout. The “intelligence-based” overnight raid in the militancy-hit North Waziristan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province also killed a key militant commander involved in
8am: Yesterday, the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS) published a report, probing the security situation in Pakistan and specifically the number of suicide attacks in the country in 2023… This report and several other reports, including the report dated May 31, 2023, of the same organization, presented that after the Taliban took control of
Tolo News: ARY, a Pakistani media outlet, cited a report of the country’s Counter Terrorism Department that claimed 92 terrorists who were arrested for their alleged involvement in terror incidents in two years were Afghan nationals, and “terrorists of Afghan origin carried out 50 terror attacks in 2023 across Pakistan.” Click here to read more
Ariana: Minister for Information of Pakistan’s Balochistan province, Jan Achakzai, on Saturday warned Afghanistan that supporting and harbouring terrorists will sink the country. He added that Pakistan’s foreign ministry has shared evidence with Kabul that shows terrorists have sanctuaries in Afghanistan and they are provided with weapons, but Kabul still plays a double game, which
Michael Hughes: The rulers in Kabul from an “official” perspective have a level of plausible deniability with respect to the recent attack on a military barracks in northwest Pakistan. That is, as of now, there is no direct evidence the current de facto Afghan government was involved in the attack’s planning, resourcing, and/or execution. The
Ariana: There is a crisis in relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and to preclude further escalation including a direct conflict, Islamabad and Kabul should consider negotiating an agreement, Zalmay Khalilzad, former US special envoy for Afghanistan reconciliation, said on Friday. He added that the Doha agreement did not deal directly with the challenge of terror
Ayaz Gul VOA News December 14, 2023 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan urged Afghanistan’s Taliban government Thursday to take decisive action against “terrorist entities” on its soil and extradite fugitive militant leaders allegedly responsible for plotting this week’s deadly assault on a Pakistani military base. “We have noted the statement by the Afghan interim government that it will
VOA News Akmal Dawi December 13, 2023 Pakistan’s army chief is in Washington this week seeking U.S. assistance against what Islamabad alleges are terrorist havens in neighboring Afghanistan. General Asim Munir is trying to convince U.S. security and defense officials that militant groups such as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Islamic State’s Khorasan offshoot (IS-K) pose
Sarah Zaman VOA News December 12, 2023 ISLAMABAD — An early morning militant attack in Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province killed 23 troops Tuesday. The attack occurred in Daraban, a remote area in the militancy-hit district of Dera Ismail Khan near Pakistan’s tribal districts bordering Afghanistan. Inter Services Public Relations or ISPR, the Pakistani military’s media
Sarah Zaman VOA News December 5, 2023 ISLAMABAD — A roadside blast caused by a remote-controlled improvised explosive device, or IED, wounded seven people Tuesday, including four children in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s northern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to area police, a preliminary investigation of the site found that 4 kilograms of explosives were