Islamabad, Oct 20, Thousands of troops are all set to launch a major military offensive against the increasingly aggressive Taliban in a do-or-die war that appears to have united Pakistan like never before against the Islamist outlaws.
Islamabad, Oct 20, Pakistan has unambiguously told the US that NATO forces in Afghanistan must check the infiltration of the Taliban into South Waziristan, where the security forces are currently engaged in a major offensive against the militants.
Islamabad, Oct 20,The Pakistani security forces have killed at least 78 militants as they continued their push into the Taliban heartland in South Waziristan Monday, the army said.
Lahore/Islamabad, Oct 15,Pakistan Thursday vowed revenge after the Taliban laid siege to Lahore city with audacious and simultaneous attacks on three police establishments that killed 25 people, including 10 of the attackers. Suicide bombers claimed 11 more lives elsewhere in the country.
Kabul, Oct 15, Twenty-two Taliban militants were killed in fighting with the security forces in southern Afghanistan, the police said Thursday.
Rome, Oct 15, The Italian government denied Thursday a British newspaper report alleging it authorised clandestine payments in 2008 to the Taliban and other insurgents in Afghanistan to maintain peace in areas of the country monitored by Italian troops.
Lahore, Oct 15, Taliban terrorists laid siege to Pakistan’s Lahore city Thursday morning with audacious and simultaneous attacks on three police establishments that killed 25 people including 10 of the attackers.
Islamabad, Oct 15, Gunbattles between Taliban militants and security forces that erupted Thursday morning in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore have ended, leaving 25 people dead, authorities said.
Lahore, Oct 15, The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the simultaneous terror attacks on three security establishments in this Pakistani city Thursday.
Washington, Oct 14, A resurgent Taliban is aiming to gain control over a nuclear-armed Pakistan, a development that would be a “catastrophe for the interests of the US and major allies such as India”, an influential US daily has warned.