Islamabad, July 11 (ANI): The head of Pakistan’s radical Lal Masjid, Abdul Aziz, has threatened the Pakistan Government of launching a ‘bloody revolution’, if the Zardari-led coalition fails to enforce an Islamic system in the country through parliament. Addressing the ... Read More »
Top Taliban commanders wiped out in Swat: Malik
Islamabad, July, 7 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister’s advisor on Interior Affairs, Rehman Malik has said that the major Taliban leadership has been wiped out from Swat. Talking to media persons here, Malik claimed that the military offensive being carried out ... Read More »
Pak Police poorly trained, ill equipped to handle Taliban onslaught
Islamabad, July 6 (ANI): The Pakistani police force is underpaid, poorly trained and ill-equipped to handle the Taliban onslaught, as the army drives them from their strongholds in Swat and surrounding areas. Experts say the Taliban has now stepped up ... Read More »
“Banned” terror outfit JuD whipping up anti-US feelings in Swat refugee camps: NYT
New York, July 2 (ANI): The goodwill the United States was hoping to garner from the thousands of displaced people in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan, in return for aid being doled out by it, is being ... Read More »
Multi-billion rupee scam during Musharraf’s regime unearthed in Pakistan
Islamabad, June 8 (ANI): A multi-billion rupee scandal during General Pervez Musharraf’s regime has been unearthed in Pakistan. According to The News, a billion-rupee contract was given to an influential contactor on fake bank guarantees for setting up of water ... Read More »
Taliban hold government, army responsible for TNSM leaders’ assassination
Peshawar, June 8 (ANI): Furious over the death of TNSM leaders, Maulana Mohammad Alam and Amir Izzat Khan, the Taliban has blamed the NWFP government and the Pakistan Army for the killings. The Taliban rejected the government’s version that the ... Read More »
Differences crept between TNSM,TTP over Sharia implementation : NWFP minister
Peshawar, Jun.7 (ANI): TheTehrik-i-Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Muhammadi (TNSM) and the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had developed differences over the issue of implementing Sharia in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), provincial Information Minister Iftikhar Hussain has said. Hussain claimed the TNSM’s leadership was receiving ... Read More »
Pak Govt. concerned over reappearance of controversial ‘Greater Pakhtunistan’ signboards in NWFP
Peshawar, June 6 (ANI): The Pakistan government is concerned about the emergence of a number of signboards with maps of “Greater Pakhtunistan” have reappearing at various places of Bannu and Lakki Marwat districts of the North West Frontier Province. Pakistan’s ... Read More »
Swat Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah killed, claims NWFP minister
Lahore, May 28 (ANI): Pakistan has claimed that Swat Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah has been killed in a military operation being carried out in the SwatValley. Announcing a whopping four million rupees bounty on Fazlullah, the North West Frontier Province ... Read More »
Pak Government overwhelmed by NWFP refugee crisis
Mardan (Pakistan), May 25 (ANI): The Pakistan Government appears to be hard pressed in trying to contain the refugee crisis emanating from the military offensive against the Taliban and other extremist groups in the country’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP). ... Read More »
Pak fundamentalist outfit leader says India involved in Malakand unrest
Islamabad, may 25 (ANI): India has had a role to play in fermenting unrest in the Malakand agency of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP), claimed Markazi Jamiat Ehle Hadith leader Sajid Mir. He accused authorities in Islamabad of neither ... Read More »
Taliban agrees to pull out from some parts of Lower Dir in NWFP
Islamabad, May 22 (ANI): The Taliban has agreed to move out of the Asbanr and Gulabad areas of the Lower Dir region of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) within the next two days. Sources said the Taliban has assured ... Read More »
Pak Army still struggling to gain full control over Buner
Islamabad, May 21 (ANI): The Pakistan Army is still trying to assert its full control in the NWFP’s Buner District. The security forces have failed to completely flush out the Taliban from the region. According to a BBC report, fighting ... Read More »
Victory against Taliban only option available in Swat: Zardari
Islamabad, May 21 (ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has reiterated his pledge to defeat the Taliban, saying victory against the extremists is the only option available in the in Swat and Malakand regions of the North West Frontier Province ... Read More »
Buner, Dir mostly cleared of militants: Iftikhar
Nowshehra, May 18 (ANI): NWFP Information Minister Iftikhar Hussain has said that internally displaced persons will soon hear a good news, claiming that most of the areas in Buner and Dir have been cleared of militants. Speaking to the IDPs ... Read More »