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Prayers for Bin Laden in National Assembly
May 11th
Lawmaker leads prayers for al Qaeda chief defying calls from deputy speaker that he needed permission to do so.
Taliban in Balochistan: Provincial police chief rejects reports of Quetta Shura
May 11th
Says religious seminaries cooperating with police to eradicate terrorism.
Musharraf attack case: TTP threatens CJP with ‘dire consequences’
May 11th
Taliban demand that appeals of their nine convicted activists be accepted.
Afghanistan still potential refuge for intl terror groups
May 10th
KABUL: The killing of Osama bin Laden may weaken al-Qaida”s influence on the Afghan Taliban, the U.S. military commander in Afghanistan said. Even so, Gen. David Petraeus warned that Afghanistan is still a potential refuge for international terror gro…
JUI-F supporting terrorism in Balochistan, says PPP minister
May 10th
The JUI is supporting the Taliban as well as madrassah culture in the province, says minister.
Taliban not present in Quetta: IG Balochistan
May 10th
IG says the existence of Taliban in Balochistan is being falsely claimed by media.
Seven suspected militants arrested in Paris: Police
May 10th
Indian national, who had recently arrived from Algeria, was “the main target”.
Talk or face bin Laden fate, Kabul warns Taliban
May 10th
Afghan vice president says the peace and reconciliation programme is good opportunity for Taliban to embrace peace.
Five civilians killed in Afghan suicide bomb
May 10th
KABUL: Five civilians including two children died in a suicide bombing near a government office in Afghanistan Monday as security forces elsewhere finally ended a 36-hour Taliban stand-off in a major city. The deaths came in Laghman province, east of t…
The World should not forget Pakistan’s sacrifices
May 9th
Hours after the 9/11 aerial strikes, he was asked to make a choice. "You are with us or against us," the then US secretary of state Colin Powel told him. Pervez Musharraf, then the president of Pakistan, didn’t have much of a choice. He joined forces with the US in the war on terror as [...]
