KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: The Taliban on Wednesday rejected reports of secret meetings with the Afghan government in a bid to resume long-stalled peace negotiations, insisting...
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said that the issuance of an identity card to former Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour had caused immense disrepute across the world and they were held answerable at the United Nations.
WASHINGTON: United States has been working closely with Pakistan and India in its fight against terrorism as the US government has sworn to do everything in its power to combat it, said the US State Department.
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, in an online audio message, pledged allegiance to the new head of the Afghan Taliban, who was appointed last month after his predecessor was killed in a US drone strike.
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, in an online audio message, pledged allegiance to the new head of the Afghan Taliban, who was appointed last month after his predecessor, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, as killed in a US drone strike.
ISLAMABAD: More than 3,500 people, which included children, lost their lives in the drone attacks in the country but the Pakistani governments in the past and present did not give any proper response to the attacks except for passing statements and condemning the acts half-heartedly.
QUETTA: The slain Afghan Taliban Chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour also had a local resident certificate in the name of Wali Mohammad, besides obtaining a Pakistani national identity card and passport.
RAWALPINDI: Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and Chief Minister of Punjab Shahbaz Sharif met with Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif, ARY News reported.
ISLAMABAD: The government on Wednesday ordered National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) to re-verify the identity cards of all citizens across the country, ARY News reported.
ISLAMABAD: Defense Minister Khawaja Asif on Wednesday strongly condemned the US drone strike in Noshki and termed it an 'attack' on Pakistan's sovereignty, ARY News reported.
WASHINGTON: Security experts and analysts, monitoring closely the Pak-US ties, are seeing the recent drone strike that reportedly killed the Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, as a silent message to Pakistan.
ISLAMABAD: Through war and peace, the Taliban's Rahbari Shura has been at the heart of its decision-making process since the movement's inception, and is now tasked with finding a new leader to succeed Mullah Akthar Mansour.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday summoned the Ambassador of United States (US) David Hale to the Foreign Office (FO) and lodged strong protest over Noshki drone strike, ARY News reported.
ISLAMABAD: The US President Barack Obama has confirmed that a US drone strike in southwest Pakistan had killed Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour on Saturday, heralding a new chapter in the Afghan insurgency which had grown fiercer under him.
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office of Pakistan on Sunday denounced the US drone strike, suspected to have killed the Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour, as a violation of its air space and said Pakistani leadership was informed this on late Saturday after the drone strike was carried out.
WASHINGTON: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday the leaders of both Pakistan and Afghanistan were notified of the air strike but he declined to elaborate on the timing of the notifications, which he said included a telephone call from him to Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
KABUL: Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour was targeted and "likely killed" Saturday in a US drone strike in a remote area of Pakistan along the Afghan border, a US official said.
KANDAHAR: At least 37 people were killed and 35 others wounded when Taliban militants stormed Kandahar airport in southern Afghanistan, with one gunman still resisting security forces, the defence ministry said Wednesday.