Peshawar, July 26 : Ruling coalition partners in Pakistan have agreed not to give any indemnity to the ‘November 3’ actions of President Pervez Musharraf, said Raza Rabbani, Leader of the House in the Senate.

Addressing a press conference here on Friday, Rabbani said, “Musharraf has no right to address joint session of the Parliament as he has no role in the country’s politics and affairs of the government.”

“Musharraf should have resigned after February 18 polls as the people had rejected his government’s policies,” he added.

Peshawar, July 24: Umar Khalid, a poet-and-journalist-turned-Taleban, has assumed the complete control over the Mohmand Agency after eliminating the chief and deputy chief of the Shah Sahib militant group in a bloody battle last Friday. Now he is considered as most powerful TTP (Tehrik-e-Taleban Pakistan) leader, only next to Baitullah Mehsud and Maulvi Faqir.

Umar Khalid, currently in his early 40s, was the Harkatul Mujahideen chief in the Mohmand Agency before becoming a Taliban commander. In his younger days he worked for two different publications.

“He (Umar Khalid) is the strongest and most influential Taliban leader after Baitullah Mehsud and Maulvi Faqir,” the Daily Times quoted the residents of Mohmand Agency as saying.

Peshawar, July 24 : The ruling party in the NWFP (North West Frontier Province), the ANP believes that peace could not return to the province unless militants-training sanctuaries remained there.

Party’s provincial president Afrasiab Khattak said that the militants training sanctuaries in the province was a big problem for them.

“For us, the serious issue is peace. For us, the serious issue is militants’ sanctuaries in tribal areas. As long as they (sanctuaries) remain peace will be difficult to return,” the Daily Times quoted Khattak as saying.

In the prevailing circumstances, the ruling party has pleaded for the old system where law and order in the Tribal Areas was co-ordinated by the home secretary.

Peshawar, July 16: Pakistan’s militant organisations have become so powerful that they can take over any part of the country any moment, posing a potential threat to its solidarity, Jamiat Ulema-i-

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Peshawar, July 12 : Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader Baitullah Mehsud has claimed to have captured 29 security personnel from Hangu and threatened to start killing them one by one from Saturday afternoon if the military operation was not stopped and the militants released.

“We will be left with no option but to start killing the captive soldiers if our people were not released by 2 pm Saturday,” threatened Maulvi Omar, a spokesman for Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

The News quoted Omar as saying that they had captured 29 security personnel including, 12 Pakistan Army soldiers, eight paramilitary FC personnel and seven policemen, from Doaba and Thall areas after the local police arrested their peaceful Taliban colleagues from Doaba Bazaar.