Brussels, May 14 (DPA) The European Union (EU) Thursday gave Pakistan 5.5 million euros ($7.5 million) in aid to help civilians driven from their homes by the country’s assault on the Taliban.
The emergency donation is intended to provide refugees from the fighting in Pakistan’s restive Swat Valley and surrounding areas with shelter, food, basic utensils and medical supplies.
Islamabad, May 14 (IANS) Pakistani Army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Thursday paid a surprise visit to Swat in the country’s troubled northwest where the security forces are engaged in an offensive against the Taliban that has so far resulted in the deaths of more than 800 militants.
Quoting sources, Geo TV said Kayani met the military commanders leading the troops in the fighting. He was also briefed about the progress made in the operation.
Islamabad, May 14 (ANI): An army colonel along with a lawyer have been arrested on espionage charges, Pakistan’s Parliamentary Affairs Minister Babar Awan told the National Assembly.
Responding to parliament question, Awan informed the house that Colonel Shahid Bashir and his close friend Nadeem Shah, who is a Rawalpindi based lawyer, were currently being investigated by […]
Islamabad, May 14 (IANS) The Pakistani military has made “significant advances” against the Taliban in the troubled northwest, an editorial in a leading English daily said Thursday, as another noted that the operation had also served to unite the country across the spectrum.
“It is clear that significant advances have been made in recent days and the Taliban are now on the defensive,” Dawn said in an editorial headlined “As the battle heats up”.
Islamabad, May 14 (ANI): Afghan President Hamid Karzai has announced plans to launch a military offensive against the Taliban to flush out militants from its side of the border with Pakistan.
Karzai’s declaration comes after conducting bilateral talks with Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who had made a similar announcement on May 7.
Currently, the Pakistani […]
Islamabad, May 14 (IANS) Sixty more Taliban fighters have been killed overnight in Pakistan’s restive northwest, taking to 822 the number of militants killed in a security forces’ operation against the insurgents, a media report Thursday said.
Geo TV said 60 extremists were killed when the security forces stormed the house of the nazim (administrator) of the Lower Dir district which the Taliban had taken over.
Kabul, May 14 (DPA) A suicide bomber attacked a police station in the southern province of Kandahar Thursday, killing one policeman and wounding four, a police commander said.
The attack, the third in as many days in the war-torn country, took place Thursday morning in Spin Boldak district close to border with Pakistan as a bomber tried to enter the district’s border police headquarters with his explosive-packed vehicle, said General Saifullah Hakim, the border police commander in the region.
Lahore, May 14 (ANI): Only 38 percent of the NWFP and the FATA is under Pakistan Government’s control, a BBC map illustrates.
The 18-month-long research covered 24 districts of NWFP, seven tribal agencies and six frontier regions of the FATA.
In 24 percent of the region, BBC claims, the Pakistani Government did not exercise authority at […]
Islamabad, May 14 (ANI): The Taliban has given members of parliament representing Pakistan’s Malakand Division three days to resign, or else their families will be kidnapped.
“All national and provincial parliament members from the Malakand Division must resign within three days, otherwise, we will arrest all their families, and we will destroy all their buildings,†Taliban […]
Lahore, May 14 (ANI): While Pakistan has claimed to have sanitized hundreds of Taliban operatives during the ongoing military operation in the Swat Valley, a US expert has said the offensive has a ‘bleak’ chance of achieving success and yielding the desired result.