Pakistan

Two Indians among 6 killed in attack on Jalalabad Indian Consulate

Lahore, July 10: The Taliban reportedly carried out an attack on the Indian consulate in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, in the wee hours of morning, killing six persons, including two Indians, and injurin

US may conduct raids against terrorists operating from Pak tribal areas

Washington, July 9 : US can go after the terrorists operating from Pakistan’s tribal areas to check rising Taliban attacks against American troops in Afghanistan and to disrupt resurgent al-Qaida operatives’ efforts to map strikes against the US homeland.

The plan of American commandos carrying out “hot pursuit” raids inside Pakistan was revealed by three US lawmakers in separate interviews with the Houston Chronicle.

The lawmakers —Gene Green, Michael McCaul, and Henry Cuellar — told that the plans for stepped-up US military operations are in response to Pakistan’s failure to disrupt terrorist training camps and cross-border attacks from a region known as “the Federally Administered Tribal Areas,” a remote, mountainous border area.

NWFP Government, Taliban agree to amend Shariat Act

Baitullah MehsudPeshawar, July 9: The NWFP Government and the

Historian claims Pak history a creation of successive establishments

Islamabad, July 9: An eminent Pakistani historian has reportedly said that Pakistan history had been “dictated” by successive ruling establishments, and hence it represented their “willful perversi

“Pak Taliban ‘organizationally distinct’ from Afghan group”

Washington, July 9: A new US report prepared by the prestigious ‘US Council on Foreign Relations’ has claimed that that Taliban movement in Pakistan was “organizationally” distinct from the Afghan

Female students hold protest recalling Red Mosque crackdown

Islamabad - Hundreds of burqa-clad students gathered at the radical Red Mosque on Wednesday and held an all-women protest meeting to mark the first anniversary of the bloody commando raid on the mosque compound.

Pakistan's elite special forces stormed the mosque and its adjoining Jamia Hafsa girls' seminary on July 10 last year, following a one-week siege of the sprawling compound after violent clashes between Islamic militants and law enforcement officers.

Government officials said the all-out operation left around 100 people dead, but hard-line Islamists disputed the casualty figures, putting them at more than 3,000, largely women and children.

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