Ariana: The Express Tribune newspaper in Pakistan reported on Friday that IEA [Taliban] proposed a plan to control TTP and it envisaged disarming TTP fighters and moving them away from the Afghanistan-Pakistan border areas. The report stated that IEA asked Pakistan to fund the proposal and bear the costs of rehabilitating the TTP. IEA’s spokesman,
By RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal February 22, 2023 A high-level delegation led by Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif is holding talks with Taliban rulers in Kabul amid tensions prompted by Islamabad’s accusations that Afghanistan is harboring Pakistani militants and the recent closing of a key border crossing between the two neighbors. Asif is being accompanied by
Khaama: The previous head of the ISI, Lt. Gen. Faiz Hameed, sought to bring the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants back to the country. However, his plan backfired, a Pakistani minister said on Sunday. Federal Human Rights Minister Riaz Pirzada claimed that Army generals proposed resetting TTP members in Pakistan, as the Dawn News program
Sarah Zaman VOA News February 16, 2023 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — A top State Department official said the United States was prepared to work with Pakistan as the country assessed the renewed threat of terrorism. However, the official would not say whether Washington would support any Pakistani action against terrorist hideouts in Afghanistan. Counselor Derek Chollet, one
Ayaz Gul VOA News February 8, 2023 ISLAMABAD — Authorities in Pakistan said Wednesday a pre-dawn counterterrorism military operation in a turbulent northwestern district had killed 12 insurgents linked to an extremist banned group, which allegedly operates out of Afghan sanctuaries. The military identified the slain men as “terrorists” from the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) or the
Khaama: The investigation has revealed that the plot to target a heavily protected mosque in the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was hatched in Afghanistan and supported by their intelligence agency, Pakistan’s law enforcement officials said on Tuesday. On January 30, a bomb blast occurred at a mosque in Peshawar during the afternoon players, killing
Ayaz Gul VOA News February 5, 2023 ISLAMABAD — A bomb blast in southwestern Pakistan Sunday reportedly killed at least one soldier and injured 12 people, including civilians. The attack targeted a military vehicle at the entrance to a security checkpoint in a highly guarded central part of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, residents and
Ariana: Islamabad will ask the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA)[Taliban] to rein in militants in Pakistan after a suicide bombing killed scores of police in a mosque, AFP reported on Saturday. Detectives have blamed an affiliate of the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) for Monday’s blast in Peshawar which killed more than
Ayaz Gul VOA News February 1, 2023 Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers Wednesday rejected allegations their territory was used in this week’s mosque bombing in Pakistan, urging the neighboring country to thoroughly investigate such terror acts before blaming others. Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi told a gathering in the capital, Kabul, that Pakistani officials should find
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