by Umer Farooq in Dawn, April 16th, 2023PESHAWAR: Security forces have killed at least eight suspected militants during an intelligence-based operation in South Waziristan wherein two soldiers of the Pakistan Army also embraced martyrdom, said the military’s media wing on Saturday. Officials stated that the security forces launched the operation after a tipoff about the presence of a group of militants in the Zarmilan area of the district. “The group, with some 10 to 15…
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By Farooq Aqdas in The News, April 16, 2023ISLAMABAD: Acting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Amir Khan Muttaqi is expected to visit Islamabad in the first week of next month, local media reported. Sources said that Islamabad and Kabul are currently in contact with each other to finalise the date for the visit of the Taliban chief diplomat. Muttaqi will lead an Afghan delegation and is also expected to meet Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. Border…
By Mariana Baabar in The News, April 14, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has warned growing voices, especially in the West who are advocating a complete break from Afghanistan, not to offload its problems to the neighbourhood and walk away. Mistakes of abandoning the people of Afghanistan is always a bad choice and should not be repeated; rather these misplaced approaches need to be re-assessed. “At a time when the Afghan people need the international community the most,…
Report in Khaama Press, April 8, 2023The outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and Baloch separatist groups are using the US weapons left in Afghanistan for militancy in Pakistan, a report said by an international media outlet. According to a report by Radio Free Europe, after the withdrawal of the US from Afghanistan, it left behind military equipment and weapons worth $7 billion, which later boosted the military power of Pakistan’s outlawed militant groups. The report also stated…
Report in Dawn, April 2nd, 2023HYDERABAD: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Hyderabad police arrested a suspected member of banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan who claimed to have links in past with Tehreek-i-Taliban Afghanistan as well, and found a hand-grenade in his possession. A CTD spokesman said in a press release issued here on Saturday that the suspect Ammar Khan alias Qalandar Umar, a resident of Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, was picked up after an intelligence-based operation near…
Report in Dawn, March 22nd, 2023KARACHI: Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday expressed concerns over the recent political violence taking place in Pakistan and asked the government to de-escalate the situation and minimise ‘overbroad anti-terrorism provisions’ against opposition protesters. In a statement, HRW termed the current political situation ‘very worrying’ and said that police in Pakistan have used abusive measures against supporters of PTI Chairman Imran Khan. “The use of Pakistan’s vague and overbroad anti-terrorism…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, Mar 17, 2023Sheikh Abdul Rahim Muslimdost, in a recent interview with al-Mersaad Media, claimed that Pakistan is financing the ISIS group in Afghanistan. Muslimdost was a former founding member of the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) who surrendered to the Taliban in March 2022, according to the media reports. In his interview, he claimed that Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba provided 50 Lakh Pakistani Rupee to the ISKP in 2015. He…
Report in Dawn, March 15th, 2023KARACHI: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Tuesday claimed to have arrested a man for his alleged links with the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan. “The CTD carried out an intelligence-based action and arrested Israr, a commander of TTP (Tariq Gedar group),” said a CTD spokesperson. A Kalashnikov was recovered from the suspect, who originally hailed from Darra Adam Khel and had arrived Karachi 20 days ago. “The suspect has come to Karachi…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press, March 12, 2023Taliban’s Acting Minister of Public Health Dr. Qalandar Ebad, in a recorded video, says the ruling regime wants to modify Afghanistan’s education system, particularly medical sciences, according to Pakistan’s curriculum. The recorded video has already gone viral on social media. Some social media experts have criticized Minister Ebad’s remarks about modifying Afghanistan’s education system to that of Pakistan. Taliban Minister’s comments about changing Afghanistan’s education system based…
Edit in The Nation, March 11, 2023According to a new statement by the Punjab Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD), 12 alleged terrorists belonging to the militant outfits of Al-Qaeda and Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were caught and are now awaiting further investigation. Given that these individuals were found supporting equipment needed for explosives and suicide jackets, the case seems pretty straightforward. This is the kind of policing that we need, especially at a time when the country has…
AFP report in Business Recorder, Mar 10,. 2023KABUL: A dusty logjam of trucks inches across a rut in the mountains splitting Pakistan and Afghanistan, teeming with a cargo of fruit and coal — and paying the Taliban authorities for the privilege of passage. In downtown Kabul, a patrol of accountants inspects a bazaar, billing shopkeepers for trading honey, hair conditioner and gas hobs under the snapping white flag of the country’s new rulers. Afghanistan is…