Taliban Militants
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Pakistan: Detained Taliban militants hold hostage officials from CTD to flee Kabul I WATCH
World | Dec 19, 2022, 10:32 AM ISTPakistan CTD officials hostage: Amid the border tension between Pakistan and Afghanistan, detained militants inside the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) held interrogators hostage on Sunday.
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30 Taliban militants killed in blast: Afghan Army
World | Feb 14, 2021, 11:15 AM ISTAt least 30 Taliban militants were killed as their explosive device went off prematurely inside a mosque in Afghanistan's Balkh province, an Army official said.
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Taliban militants kill judge in Afghanistan's western Herat province
World | Feb 18, 2020, 11:36 AM ISTTaliban militants have killed a primary court judge in Afghanistan's western Herat province, a local official said Tuesday.
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Six Taliban militants killed in Afghanistan's Wardak
World | Dec 06, 2019, 06:07 PM ISTAt least six Taliban militants were killed after the Afghan armed forces' fighter planes targeted the terror group's hideouts in Sayedabad district of Afghanistan's eastern Wardak province, the Asian nation's army said on Friday.
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Afghanistan: 15 policemen killed in multiple clashes at Badghis and Farah province
World | Sep 17, 2018, 12:18 PM ISTThe Taliban seized weapons and ammunition after attacking security checkpoints in the area before destroying the posts and two police officers went missing after the fighting.
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Amjad Sabri murder: Pak investigators claims ‘important’ leads uncovered
World | Jun 25, 2016, 08:48 PM ISTKarachi: Pakistani investigators have uncovered “important leads” in the murder case of one of the country’s finest Sufi Qawwals Amjad Sabri, who was shot dead by Taliban militants this week, the government claimed on Saturday.
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Two killed in Afghanistan blast
World | Sep 09, 2015, 04:46 PM ISTKabul: At least two children were killed and three others were injured in a bomb blast in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province on Wednesday, a local official said."A mine planted by militants under a bridge in
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Terrified doctors in Pakistan carry AK-47s along with stethoscopes
World | Mar 25, 2015, 07:04 PM ISTHow would you react when you find your doctor carrying an AK 47 along with his stethoscope. Not a merry sight indeed, you would perhaps not make delay in paying his fee and recuse yourself
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ISI shifts Dawood Ibrahim to Karachi from Af-Pak border?
India | Jan 19, 2015, 01:48 PM ISTNew Delhi: Recent intelligence reports suggest that India's most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim is back to his safe haven in Karachi in Pakistan after country's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) decided to shift him from
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Pakistan to start repatriation of IDPs next month: Gen. Raheel Sharif
World | Jan 05, 2015, 06:24 AM ISTIslamabad: Pakistan Army Chief, Gen. Raheel Sharif, on Sunday said that repatriation of thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) as the result of a major military offensive in North Waziristan tribal area will begin next
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Nearly 140 Taliban militants killed in Afghanistan
World | Dec 24, 2014, 06:25 AM ISTKabul: At least 138 suspected insurgents have been killed in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, as Afghan troops battled the Taliban with NATO air support, according to official sources.Seven Afghan soldiers also died in the
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US drone kills six militants in northwest Pakistan
World | Dec 20, 2014, 01:41 PM ISTIslamabad: At least six Taliban militants were killed today when a US drone targeted their hideout in Pakistan's restive northwestern tribal region, officials said here.The pilot-less aircraft rained missiles on a hideout in Loara Mandai
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British PM condemns Taliban attack on Pak school
World | Dec 16, 2014, 05:00 PM ISTLondon: British Prime Minister David Cameron today condemned the gruesome attack on an army-run school in Pakistan in which more than 100 people, mostly students, were killed by Taliban militants."The news from Pakistan is deeply
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2 Taliban militants arrested with 120 kilograms of explosives tasked to kill Bilawal
World | Feb 21, 2014, 05:28 PM ISTKarachi:Federal Intelligence Agency (FIA) thwarted a major terror plot in Maripur area of Karachi, aimed at killing the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Thursday late hours.According to sources, two Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan
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Pakistani jets target militant bases, 40 killed
World | Jan 21, 2014, 07:13 PM ISTIslamabad/Peshawar: Pakistani fighter jets targeted militant bases in the lawless North Waziristan tribal region, including the home of Taliban commander Adnan Rashid, and killed 40 terrorists in retaliation for a string of deadly attacks on
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Afghan forces kill 18 Taliban militants
World | Sep 14, 2013, 10:16 AM ISTKabul: Operations against Taliban launched by Afghan forces have claimed lives of 18 Taliban militants and led to arrest of 35 others over the past five days, police said Friday.In the latest crackdown against the
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Taliban suicide car bomb blast near US consulate in Afghanistan, 6 killed
World | Sep 13, 2013, 09:32 AM ISTKabul: Taliban militants staged a suicide car bombing then engaged in a gunfight with security forces near the American consulate in the western Afghan city of Herat early Friday, officials said. An Afghan translator was
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24 Taliban militants killed in Afghanistan
World | Aug 18, 2013, 03:01 PM ISTKabul: Two dozen Taliban militants have been killed and 18 wounded in "clean-up" operations in Afghanistan, the interior ministry said Sunday.The Afghan National Police supported by the army, intelligence service and coalition forces carried out
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Factional fighting on the rise among Taliban militants in Pakistan
World | Dec 11, 2012, 10:11 PM ISTIslamabad, Dec 11: Faction and sub-factions within militant forces are battling each other and opening up “new threats and new risks of even greater violence”, said a Pakistani daily Monday.An editorial in the News International
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11 Taliban militants killed in Aghanistan
World | Nov 18, 2012, 12:03 AM ISTKabul, Nov 17: A total of 11 Taliban militants have been killed and 12 others arrested in Afghanistan during a series of security operations launched since Friday, Xinhua reported Saturday.According to the country's interior ministry,