Pakistan said Thursday that a military counterterrorism raid in a remote region near Afghanistan’s border had killed at least 11 militants linked to a banned militant organization. The “intelligence-based operation” in the South Waziristan district “successfully foiled a high-profile terrorist activity,” a military statement said.
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TTP-TTA Nexus: A Hard Nut To Crack For Pakistan – OpEd
Afghanistan under the rule of Tehreek Taliban Afghanistan (TTA) has ruled out all the hope and struggles that Pakistan had made to bring a friendly government in Kabul to ensure peace inside the country and in the region as a whole. Afghanistan served as a buffer state in the time of British and Soviet expansionism. After 1947, Pakistan wished to […]
Read more ›Pakistani militants claim killing of two intelligence officials
Islamist militant group Tehreek-e-Taliban on Wednesday claimed the killing of a senior official of Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency and another officer, the latest in a resurgence of jihadist violence shaking the country. The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) officers were shot dead outside a hotel in Punjab province on Tuesday, police said. The TTP, an umbrella group of militants that associates itself […]
Read more ›On Its Urdu-Language Website, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Claims It Executed 59 Attacks, Including A Drone Strike, In November 2022
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP, the Movement of Pakistani Taliban) has released numbers of its attacks against Pakistanis security forces in various regions of Pakistan, especially in the lawless tribal regions along the Pakistan-Afghan border, in November 2022, and of the resulting casualties among Pakistan’s security forces. According to an Urdu-language report posted on December 1, 2022, on the TTP’s official […]
Read more ›Gunman kills 2 Pakistani intelligence officers: security officials
A gunman shot and killed two intelligence officers in an attack outside a roadside restaurant in eastern Pakistan on Tuesday before fleeing, police and security officials said. Murtaza Bhatti, a senior police officer in the Punjab province district of Khanewal, said the attack happened when the two officers were parking their vehicle, local media reported. According to the reports no […]
Read more ›Karzai urges Pakistan to avoid threatening Afghanistan
Former Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai on Tuesday called on Islamabad to stop issuing threats and to carry out a “deep review” of its policies related to Afghanistan, saying that prevailing “insecurity” in Pakistan is the result of its own policies. Karzai had been responding to a statement issued after Pakistan’s National Security Committee (NSC) meeting early this week which stated […]
Read more ›Pakistan urges Afghanistan to take action against TTP
Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has called on the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to take action against Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militants. Calling Afghanistan a “brotherly and Islamic country,” Sanaullah urged the government to prevent TTP attacks which he claimed were being carried out from Afghanistan soil, and handover militants. The official, who was speaking in an interview with Pakistan’s Express […]
Read more ›IEA slams Pakistan for ‘provocative’ remarks on TTP sanctuaries
The Ministry of National Defense of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) on Sunday said Rana Sanaullah, the Minister of Interior Affairs of Pakistan’s comments about the presence of members of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Afghanistan and a possible attack on them inside Afghanistan was “provocative and baseless”. “Such claims by Pakistani authorities, even though there is evidence of […]
Read more ›IEA wants good relations with all countries, including Pakistan: Mujahid
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Tuesday that the IEA wants good relations with all neighboring countries, including Pakistan, and that the spate of “false” statements by Pakistani officials is regrettable. This was in response to recent remarks and a statement by Pakistani officials over the use of Afghan soil by militants against Pakistan. In a […]
Read more ›Pakistan’s foreign minister tells IEA banned TTP is Pakistan’s ‘red line’
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari says it has been communicated to Afghanistan that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is Pakistan’s red line, Pakistan’s media outlets reported. “The Afghan Taliban (Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) have been told that our (Pakistan and Afghanistan) ties will not remain fine if the TTP is not stopped,” Bilawal said while speaking to the media at the Pakistani […]
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