by Mateen Haider in The Nation, Sept 19, 2023ISLAMABAD – After Pakistan’s pressure to take action against TTP militants involved in the attack on Pakistani border posts in Chitral, Afghan Taliban authorities have ordered operation against TTP hideouts in Kunar. As many as 70 militants affiliated with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), among them 15 who sustained injuries in exchange of fire, have been arrested during the ongoing operation. Last week Pakistan’s charge d’affaires had met…
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by Umer Farooq in Dawn, Sept 11th, 2023PESHAWAR: Seven terrorists were killed and six others critically injured in an exchange of fire with security forces in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Chitral district, the military said on Sunday. The clash occurred in the Ursoon area on Saturday, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement. “Own troops effectively engaged terrorists’ location and after an intense exchange of fire, seven terrorists were killed, while another six were critically…
by Kamran Yousuf in The Express Tribune, Sept 10, 2023ISLAMABAD: Interim Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani on Saturday confirmed that Pakistan lodged a strong protest with the Afghan government over the recent cross-border attack in Chitral, urging Kabul not to allow its soil for such terrorist incidents. Jilani, who was addressing a news conference after the meeting of the apex committee or the Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC), told the media that the Afghan chargé…
Editorial in Dawn, Sept 8th, 2023TWO cross-border infiltration attempts by militants, as well as tensions at the Torkham frontier, point to the disturbing reality that both on the security front and where bilateral ties are concerned, Pak-Afghan relations are going through a highly dysfunctional phase. Though bilateral ties with Kabul have never been tension-free, some within our ruling structure had great expectations that an Afghan Taliban dispensation across the western border would benefit Pakistan. That…
report in The News, September 04, 2023CHITRAL: The police have started taking measures to beef up security in Chitral along the border with Afghanistan to stop the possible entry of militants in the valley. The sources said that the district police officer, Lower Chitral, had started visiting the areas to check the security arrangements in the places close to the Afghan border. The security was being beefed up in view of the threat of possible…