ISLAMABAD – A number of Pakistani Taliban have fled to Afghanistan from North Waziristan Agency during the past few weeks, it has been learnt reliably. Security sources said some of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants were reportedly moved into Afghanistan prior to the military’s final push in the Shawal valley and its adjoining areas while some others were on the run. “We have no estimates how many of them have moved so far,” a senior security…
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The safe return of Shahbaz Taseer, the kidnapped son of the slain Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, on Tuesday evening ended the four-and-a-half long years of wait between hope and despair for his family and wishers. It has given cause for optimism to former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani as well for the recovery of his son, Ali Haider, abducted about three years ago. The motive behind the kidnapping of the two young men, scions of…
PESHAWAR: Shahbaz Taseer was brought by the Afghan Taliban members on a motorbike through unfrequented routes from Afghanistan before being set free in the Kuchlak town near Quetta on March 8, sources said. They said the motorcyclists dropped him near the Al-Salim Hotel and Restaurant where he ate a late lunch and used a borrowed phone to call his family in Lahore. The first person he called was his father-in-law Suleman Ghani, a retired civil…