Peshawar, Pakistan News

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.

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

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 ...

Abubaker Saddique 11/29/09 A EurasiaNet Partner Post from RFE/RL Riaz lives in a small village on the outskirts of Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar.

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.

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.

At least three people including two policemen injured in a blast on Charsadda Road in Peshawar.

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.

Festival marked partially in Fata Saturday, November 28, 2009 Bureau report PESHAWAR: Afghan refugees living in and around the provincial capital and some tribesmen of various agencies celebrated Eidul Azha on Friday while the festival would be celebrated today in rest of the province.

While Americans are focused on the U.S. fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan, an equally critical battle is being waged by the Pakistani army against Taliban groups next door.

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.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 Tauseef-ur-Rahman PESHAWAR: The civil society members and representatives of the political parties have expressed concern over rising terror acts in the Frontier province, saying there will be no peace in Pakistan, nay in the whole region, till the policy of establishing strategic depth in Afghanistan is not revisited.

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 ...

Most of the Taliban fighters and all of their leaders apparently have escaped Pakistan's widely publicized six-week-old offensive in South Waziristan, forcing the army to begin pounding other parts of the country's lawless tribal area.

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.

Map locates Maguindanao and Sultan Kudarat provinces in the Philippines, which President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo placed under a state of emergency Map locates Peshawar, Pakistan, where militants have been killed in an assault on insurgents blamed for a wave of bombings ** EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT ** Volunteers carry the body of one of the massacre ...

Suspected Taliban militants on Wednesday attacked and destroyed a tanker supplying fuel to Nato troops in neighbouring Afghanistan, police said.

Islamabad, Nov 25 : The US embassy here has rejected suggestions of secret operations by American security agency Blackwater in Pakistan, terming them false and baseless.

Chief of Army staff Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has arrived here at Peshawar on a day long visit on Wednesday.

Security forces backed by gunship helicopters killed 23 militants and captured 39 more during an operation against the banned Lashkar-e-Islam group in Bara sub-division of Khyber tribal region, said a spokesman of the Frontier Corps.