RAWALPINDI - Bodies of seven Pakistani soldiers who embraced martyrdom a day earlier in an anti-terror operation in North Waziristan, were sent to their respective native towns for burial with full military honours on Sunday. Earlier, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa along with ...

KABUL - A suicide bomber has struck in Afghanistan's eastern city of Jalalabad, killing at least 18 people in the second attack in as many days targeting Taliban fighters, security forces and civilians celebrating a holiday cease-fire. According to an eye witness, a suicide bomber detonated the ...

KABUL - A blast rocked a gathering of Afghan security forces, civilians and Taliban on Saturday evening killing at least 36 people in eastern Nangarhar province. Nangarhar spokesman Attaullah Khogyani said the explosion happened in Rodat district at an Eid gathering between Taliban and Afghan ...

ISLAMABAD - National coordinator of the National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta) Ihsan Ghani warned on Friday that the militant Islamic State (IS) group posed a real threat to Pakistan. "IS had a significant presence in Afghanistan, which threatened a spillover into Pakistan," said the officer ...

DOUMA - An elderly Pakistani man and his wife have been evacuated from the besieged rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area in Syria during one of the daily "humanitarian pauses". The Syrian Arab Red Crescent said on Twitter on Thursday that the Pakistani couple had been evacuated and "delivered to the ...

LONDON - The Taliban are openly active in 70% of Afghanistan’s districts, fully controlling 4% of the country and demonstrating an open physical presence in another 66%, according to a BBC study published on Tuesday. The BBC estimate, which it said was based on conversations with more than 1,200 ...

KABUL - Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said that the United States has links with terrorist ‘Islamic State’, also known as Daesh. Karzai, who ruled the war-torn country with the US help of US coalition for almost a decade, told Voice of America’s (VOA) Afghan service that he ...

MOSCOW - Russian military command has released photos that reveal the presence of special US command vehicles in areas controlled by the terrorist group, Islamic State (IS) or locally known as Daesh, in the Syrian city of Deir-Ezzor. The photos, published in the official website of the Ministry of ...

DAMASCUS/MOSCOW - Russian army's Lieutenant-General Valery Asapov has been killed after coming under shelling from so-called 'Islamic State' terrorists near Deir ez-Zor, the Russian Defense Ministry announced on Sunday. In a statement, the ministry said that Asapov was at a command outpost manned ...

KARACHI - A senior-ranking army officer Saturday reiterated none of Pakistan’s security institutions have demanded student records from Karachi University, while urging the parents and academia to check on their pupils to protect them from radical ideas. Major General Mohammad Saeed, Director ...

ISLAMABAD - Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif is expected to embark on a four-nation tour of China, Russia, Iran and Turkey as tensions rise between Islamabad and Washington over the latter’s new strategy in Afghanistan. The tour will begin on Friday, more than two weeks after US President ...

RAWALPINDI - Pakistan Army has announced the successful completion of Operation Khyber-4, which was launched on July 15. "We have achieved our ground objectives in Rajgal and Shawal valley," Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations, Maj Gen Ghafoor, said in a televised press conference ...

LAHORE - Punjab Rangers apprehended seven terrorists and 20 Afghan suspects in intelligence-based operations carried out in Attock, Dera Ghazi Khan and Lahore over the past three days, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Wednesday. A large quantity of explosives, automatic weapons and ...

RAWALPINDI - Pakistan Army on Sunday announced the launch of a major anti-terrorist operation in tribal areas of Rajgal and Shawwal to flush out Daesh militants attempting to take hold in the Khyber Agency. "Operation Khyber-IV to wipe out terrorists has been launched in Rajgal valley in Khyber ...

KURRAM AGENCY - Terror returned to Kurram Agency on Friday when two blasts in a busy Parachinar market claimed the lives of at least 72 people and left over 300 others injured. Most of the casualties were reported in Parachinar's twin blasts, where Shahid Khan, a government official confirmed there ...

BEIJING/ISLAMABAD - China’s official media has slammed South Korean Christian groups for converting young Chinese and sending them to proselytise in Muslim countries, a day after Pakistan confirmed the two Chinese nationals killed by IS terrorists were involved in “preaching” ...