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Newsline
April 26, 2018
Post the USSR withdrawal from Afghanistan, the area became a sanctuary for foreign militants. Norak village, located in the North Waziristan agency, lies along the principal road leading to Miranshah, the agency's headquarters, and stretches to the Ghulam Khan border with Afghanistan's Khost province.
The Wire
April 26, 2018
The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) or the Pashtun Protection Movement came about in 2014 as a movement as an initiative to remove land mines in the war torn area of South Waziristan where the militants had been driven out by army operations. But the movement has become a nationwideÃâà...
ABC News
April 23, 2018
Like their counterparts in Syria and Iraq, insurgents belonging to Afghanistan's Islamic State group are radical Sunni Muslims who revile Shiites as ... mostly from Central Asia's Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, many of whom were driven out of Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal region by a military offensive.
Daily Times
April 17, 2018
Groups such as ETIM, IMU, Daesh, Chechen Rebels – all of them currently hiding in Afghanistan or the Pak-Afghan border regions – are also not ... of the Al-Qaeda network in North Waziristan), Malik Bakhan, who entertained Arab Al-Qaeda militants in Wana as paying guests until the army launched itsÃâà...
Global Voices Online
April 17, 2018
Members of militant organizations including Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are active in Quetta, searching for Hazaras to kill. ... Credit for the attack was claimed by the Islamic State group, but security forces have denied the organized presence of ISIS in Baluchistan, indicatingÃâà...
NPR
April 7, 2018
But in recent weeks, Manzoor Pashteen has risen to lead a fast-growing movement of thousands from Pakistan's Pashtun minority, the country's second-biggest ethnic group, who form roughly 15 percent of the country's 207 million people. Where few dare to criticize the army, Pashteen brazenly speaks.
The News International (blog)
April 2, 2018
Pakistani spy agencies have mounted secret raids to hunt down Chinese militants after reports that members of Islamic State militia from Xingian's Uighur community might be returning from Syria. Hundreds of the members of the ETIM, militant group behind attacks in China Xinjian province, joined ultraÃâà...
Vox
March 27, 2018
Many parts of the country, including Waziristan, on its porous border with Afghanistan, have turned into safe havens for militants and terror groups. The Pakistani ... Waqass Goraya, one of the bloggers, said he was detained by a government organization with ties to the Pakistani military. “More and moreÃâà...
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