RAWALPINDI: The Punjab home department has warned of a serious threat from the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), specifically six militants who were trained abroad and could act anytime before the end of 2016. The department instructed the province’s divisional police chiefs to heighten security at places of worship and hold regular search operation. The provincial authorities, citing intelligence, said police across the province were told in November than an attack by the TTP using six militants…
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Several key figures of the loyalists of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group involved in plotting and executing a number of deadly attacks in Kabul city, were arrested by the Afghan intelligence operatives. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said at a group of at least 10 people were arrested in connection to the previous attacks and a number of other attack plots in the capital. A statement by NDS said the…
At least 8 loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in separate airstrikes conducted by the US forces in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. The provincial police commandment said the militants were killed in Haska Mina and Achin districts. According to the local security officials, at least six of the militants were killed in Kharga area of Haska Mina district while two others were killed in Pekha area…
One of the most notorious commanders of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the leader of Hezb-e-Islami, is in the custody of the Afghan intelligence, the National Directorate of Security (NDS). A source in Afghan intelligence confirmed to RFE/RL that commander Zardad has been detained and is serving in the custody of the National Directorate of Security. Commander Zardad, accused of grave human rights violations, returned to Kabul on Wednesday as scores of his supporters gathered in the airport…
LANDIKOTAL: After the several rounds of talks with Pak-Afghan border officials, transporters in Pakistan and Afghanistan conditionally called off the wheel jam strike on the fourth day. Political tehsildar, Torkham, Shamsul Islam, said transporters in Pakistan and Afghanistan were on strike against the imposition of tax by the Afghan border authorities. He said hundreds of trucks were parked on both sides of the border to record their protest. The transporters have been demanding of the…
CHARSADDA: Awami National Party President Asfandyar Wali Khan on Thursday said that reason and logic were prerequisites for survival of the democratic system. Speaking at a party workers’ convention in Umarzai village, he urged the political leadership of Pakistan to approach the national and international issues with logical thinking. He said the region could face dangerous situation if Pakistan’s leadership failed to steer the country out of the current crisis-like situation. The ANP chief blamed…
ISLAMABAD – The National Telecommunication Corporation (NTC) has planned to establish submarine cable landing station at Gwadar to provide alternate route to the existing network. This was revealed on Thursday during a signing ceremony between the NTC and the Telecard Limited. Both the companies will cooperate on developing business and providing support solutions in the ICT for Government Sector under the Telecom Policy 2015. Supernet Ltd is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Telecard Limited providing services…
HYDERABAD: Over four dozen suspects, including members of the Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM) — a proscribed nationalist outfit — and Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) and some Bugti clansmen, were rounded up in a combing operation carried out by the police and Rangers in Sukkur district on Thursday. The operation was launched soon after a low-intensity blast that occurred on Wednesday about 1.5 kilometres away from a camp site of Chinese engineers and their…
PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government has proposed multiple alternative routes for the western alignment of the multibillion dollar CEPC which will pass through the northern areas of the province. The K-P government’s planning and development department communicated the proposals last week via a letter to the Federal Ministry of Planning, Development and Reforms, requesting it to include the proposals in the CPEC portfolios. A copy of the letter is available with The Express Tribune. The…
ET For a man who stood at the White House in September 2015 and promised not to militarize the South China Sea, Xi Jinping is sure doing a lot of militarizing. Satellite photos released Thursday indicate China has deployed powerful antiaircraft and antimissile systems to all seven of its new artificial islands in the Spratly archipelago, along shipping lanes that carry $5 trillion in trade a year. This is a “massive military complex,” as Donald…
A corrupt Chinese tycoon, who is trying to regain control of investments in British Columbia that triggered one of the mainland’s biggest economic scandals, lied to a Canadian court about his bribery conviction, mainland and Canadian legal documents reveal. The documents, obtained by the South China Morning Post, relate to paper magnate Ni Ritao, a key figure in the downfall of former energy minister and senior Chinese economic planner Liu Tienan, who was himself sentenced…