Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan News

By Essa Khankhel MINGORA: A member of the NWFP Assembly, Dr Shamsher Ali Khan, was killed and 11 others, including his two brothers, sustained injuries in a suicide attack in his village Kanju Dheray in Swat on Tuesday.

Tuesday, December 01, 2009 Our correspondent NOWSHERA: A passenger was killed and seven members of a family injured when a speeding mini coach rammed into a parked truck in Amangarh area here Monday.

Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has said that nation will emerge triumphant in the ongoing war against terror.

Pakistana s forces have killed 600 fighters, at least 7 percent of the nationa s main Taliban force, in a six-week-old offensive in South Waziristan, military spokesman Athar Abbas said.

Karachi News.Net Thursday 26th November, 2009 Two policemen were critically injured in a remote controlled explosion on the outskirts of this North West Frontier Province capital Thursday, the 10th such incident in two months.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 23:02 Mecca time, 20:02 GMT US firm 'runs covert Pakistan ops' Peshawar has borne the brunt of recent Taliban attacks in retaliation for a military offensive A new report has accused the US private security firm formerly known as Blackwater of operating a covert assassination and kidnapping programme against suspected ...

PESHAWAR, : In an ongoing operation security forces have killed four extremists in Khyber Agency.

The road to the legendary Swat Valley twists through the Malakand Pass and beneath the Malakand Fort, from which young Winston Churchill sent newspaper dispatches about a "mad mullah" trying to drive the British army out.

Karachi News.Net Sunday 22nd November, 2009 Islamabad, Nov.22 : Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has denied reports about corruption cases being filed against him, saying he is being targeted for not going against assassinated Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Peshawar: A key anti-Taliban leader was assassinated in a bomb attack in Pakistan's tribal belt, as troops backed by helicopters killed thirty militants in a new operation yesterday, officials said.

A ROADSIDE bomb packed with steel pellets exploded in Pakistan's violence-plagued northwestern city of Peshawar on Thursday, wounding two policemen and an 11-year-old girl, officials said.

London, Nov 28 : Britain's counter-terrorism police believe that dozens of extremists could have arrived in the country here by posing as students or legitimate visitors, after13, 000 visa applicants have entered the country from Pakistan in a seven month period since October last year without any checks on their supporting documentation.

Security official says 18 militants killed in offensive close to Pakistan's Peshawar city.

Hassan Abbas, The Hindu, November 25, 2009 http://beta.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article54324.ece The tragic Mumbai attacks in November 2008 unfortunately derailed the India-Pakistan peace process in its wake.

PESHAWAR: Pakistani troops yesterday repulsed an attack by militants on one of their posts in a lawless tribal region, killing 11 rebels, officials said.

Islamabad, Nov.25 : North West Frontier Province Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain has blamed 'foreign hands' for the recent wave of terror attacks in Peshawar.

Sky-rocketing prices and security concerns are keeping butchers' knives sheathed in Pakistan ahead of the Muslim feast of sacrifice this year, with people buying less livestock for ritual slaughter.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A roadside bomb targeting a police officer exploded in the main northwestern city of Peshawar on Thursday, injuring three people in the latest of a wave of attacks to strike the area since the army launched a major anti-Taliban offensive last month.The bomb was detonated by remote control as Riaz Ulislam, the head of a police ...

Joseph Cofer Black, Vice Chairman of Blackwater at one time, and now Chairman of a private intelligence gathering company, Total Intelligence Solutions, has been visiting Peshawar and Karachi to set up TIS offices in these cities.

The road to the legendary Swat Valley twists through the Malakand pass and beneath the Malakand Fort, from which young Winston Churchill sent newspaper dispatches about a "mad mullah" trying to drive the British army out.