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Aljazeera.com
April 23, 2018
Manzoor Pashteen, the leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), addressed protesters on Sunday, calling for an end to enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings and other alleged rights ... Its decade-long war against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has centred mainly on ethnic Pashtun areas.
Gulf Times
April 21, 2018
The 29-year-old leader said that while it was true that dynastic politics had no place in modern democracies, it is a reality in Pakistan. Bhutto-Zardari ... He claimed that the PPP's opposition to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is the reason why the party did not do well in the 2013 elections. He pointedÃâà...
Geo News, Pakistan
April 16, 2018
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman's statement came in response to a question regarding how damaging and dangerous it would be for Pakistan to be placed on the grey-list of the ... Agreeing that Washington is looking to single out Pakistan to deter criticism, the PTI chief said, “Just look at the facts.
DAWN.com
April 14, 2018
The next army chief made his intentions known by extending the counterterrorism battlefield to other terrorist strongholds. Against the so-called peace talks initiated by the newly installed political government with Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, the armed forces hit at the epicentre of terrorism by launchingÃâà...
The Express Tribune
April 14, 2018
However, the Afghan Taliban lacked any coherent political thought and agenda, basically due to the lack of academic tradition among them. ... The writings of Taliban leaders and chief clerics are also few. ... In Pakistan there has been one single organ of Taliban that is the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.
The Express Tribune (blog)
April 13, 2018
Colonel Aamer Najam, the then Fort Commander at Malakand, had been fighting the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Swat since August 2008. Safeguarding the school, where children were deradicalised and then rehabilitated, depended entirely on his leadership. He captured the stark battle forÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
April 11, 2018
Over the years, Pashtuns have been branded as Islamists, or militants, due to the fact that the Taliban are also a Pashtun-dominated outfit, and because the ... Pakistan's democratic setup and committed many crimes, including the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti, Former Chief Minister of Baluchistan province.
Global Village space (blog)
April 6, 2018
It believes that the leadership of Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan, including its chief Mullah Fazlullah, is residing in Afghanistan without any serious repulsion ... between Afghan Taliban and the government back in 2015, which was eventually sabotaged by a USAF Predator drone strike on their leader MullahÃâà...
Times of India
April 4, 2018
Last year on December 27, exactly 10 years after the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, a letter written by the ISI to the interior ministry on December 19, 2007 surfaced in a media report in which it was claimed by the agency that al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden had planned herÃâà...
Firstpost
April 4, 2018
Islamabad: The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is biding its time to target former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his brother Shahbaz Sharif, cricketer-turned ... It said a separate intelligence report was also received stating that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf chief Imran Khan faced a serious threat to his life.
The Express Tribune
April 3, 2018
It has facilitated the rise and consolidation of the Taliban and Da'ish in Afghanistan, given rise to emergence of the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) Pakistan and ... Pakistan's military leadership is willing to cooperate with the US provided it gives sufficient weightage to its security concerns as related to India andÃâà...
DAWN.com
April 3, 2018
... leader of a gang of hitmen belonging to the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), who were involved in the killing of 16 police officers over the last three months in the city, and raids are being conducted to arrest other members of the gang. This was disclosed by Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Abdul QuddusÃâà...
The Diplomat
April 2, 2018
The United States, Russia, China, Pakistan, and Iran have expressed concern about ISKP. Afghanistan and India see it as a breakaway faction of the Tehreek-e-Taliban, Pakistan (TTP) which has been groomed by the ISI, Pakistan's intelligence services. The Afghan government estimates that there areÃâà...
The News Minute
March 29, 2018
Yousafzai will also participate in the "Meet the Malala" programme during her four-day stay in Pakistan. In October 2012, Yousafzai - then 15-years-old - was shot in the head at point-blank range by Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) gunmen as she was returning from her school in Swat valley. She sufferedÃâà...
Eurasia Review
March 27, 2018
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack and threatened more attacks on Police in retaliation for the killing of their ... Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, the Provincial Government asked the Federal Government to deploy Pakistan Rangers (Punjab) to combat terrorism.
Brighter Kashmir
March 27, 2018
To convince US and other stakeholders, they went on to prove that the Taliban La'iha or code of conduct, is strictly enforced and the leadership is in absolute ... Wali-ur-Rehman, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader in a video appearance has pledged to send fighters to Kashmir and wage a struggle forÃâà...
The Nation
March 25, 2018
The UNSC sanctions list includes al-Qaeda, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, JuD, FiF and other organizations. After JuD and FiF were placed on the UNSC list, the interior ministry had written to the provinces asking them to take action. Malik Nadeem Awan, a central leader of JuD said thatÃâà...
Arab News
March 24, 2018
This frame grab, taken on Nov. 11, 2013, from 2008 video footage shows Maulana Fazlullah, newly appointed chief of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), speaking with local journalists in Pakistan's northwestern Swat valley. (AFP). March 23: The Express Tribune states that Pakistan on Thursday expressedÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 24, 2018
Three weeks after Ghani unveiled his proposal, neither the Taliban leadership nor Pakistan has responded formally, Atmar noted. Last year's Afghan government reconciliation with longtime insurgent leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar “gives us hope” for the new effort to reconcile many, if not all, of the Taliban,Ãâà...
India Today
March 17, 2018
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has constituted a joint investigation team to probe the blast. The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for the blast. The suicide attack has taken place a week before the play-off (semi-finals) of the Pakistan Super League in Lahore. Punjab LawÃâà...
The Nation
March 17, 2018
The UNSC sanctions list includes al-Qaeda, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, JuD, FiF and other organizations. After JuD and FiF were placed on the UNSC list, the interior ministry had written to the provinces asking them to take action. Malik Nadeem Awan, a central leader of JuD said thatÃâà...
DAWN.com
March 16, 2018
In reply to a question, Dr Faisal said Pakistan welcomed the announcement by the United States of head money on Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan leader Mullah Fazlullah and other terrorists, but there was a need to do more in this regard. He said consultations were going on at every level with the US, but theyÃâà...
The Diplomat
March 15, 2018
Caught between the Taliban in Afghanistan and the religious right in Pakistan, this ancient culture is in dire straits. ... A spokesperson of the ruling party in KPK, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Fawad Hussain Chaudhry, informed The Diplomat that “the population of the Kalasha has increased from 400 toÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 14, 2018
The blast occurred on Wednesday in Raiwind, a town near the eastern Pakistani city, and was claimed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) armed group. More than a ... Chief Minister Punjab @CMShehbaz has strongly condemned the blast in Raiwind and has sought the report from Inspector General Police.
Arab News
March 9, 2018
This frame grab, taken on Nov. 11, 2013, from 2008 video footage shows Maulana Fazlullah, newly appointed chief of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), speaking with local journalists in Pakistan's northwestern Swat valley. (AFP)Ãâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 8, 2018
Islamabad, Pakistan - At least 20 members of the Pakistani Taliban, including the son of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Mullah Fazlullah, have been killed in a US drone strike in the northeastern Afghan province of Kunar, according to a Taliban statement. The fighters, including Abdullah, wereÃâà...
DAWN.com
March 1, 2018
“When I urged our government to hold talks with the local Taliban and offered them to set up an office in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, I was called Taliban Khan,” said the PTI chief while recalling his proposal to hold talks with the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Imran Khan had opposed the militaryÃâà...
The Jamestown Foundation
February 26, 2018
Prominent among these are Deobandi organizations like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Harkat ul Jihad-e-Islami, Harkat ul Mujahedeen, Jaish-e-Mohammad, Lashkar-e-Omar and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan. Meanwhile, al-Qaeda, Islamic State, Waliyat-e-Khurasan, Hizb-ut Tahrir and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) adhereÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
December 31, 1999
PTM leader Pashteen has acquired a "rock star activist" stature in the past few months. His rise to prominence has taken many by surprise. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which is governed by cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's conservative Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice, PTI) partyÃâà...
The Express Tribune
December 31, 1999
Wells went on to say that the US will oppose terrorist threats against all countries in the region. “We oppose groups that are targeting Pakistan,” she remarked, citing the recent rewards issued by the Trump administration on three Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leaders including its chief Mullah Fazlullah.
DAWN.com
December 31, 1999
“My grandfather was killed, which forced my mother to enter politics, and she was assassinated, which forced me in,” said the young leader in an interview with ... He claimed that the PPP's opposition to the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was the reason why the party did not do well in the 2013 elections.
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