US blacklists Pakistan-based terrorist leader Bahawal Khan

The United States has slapped sanctions on Pakistan-based terrorist leader Bahawal Khan for being involved in terrorist attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Khan, designated by the US State......

Pakistani Taliban ban tight and thin clothes during Ramzan

A Pakistani Taliban group on Saturday banned the use of "tight or thin" clothes both for men and women in the holy month of Ramadan and warned of one month imprisonment for not fasting. The......

Top Qaeda operative killed in Pak drone strike: Report

A senior Al Qaeda operative is believed to be among 12 people killed in two United States drone strikes in Pakistan's lawless North Waziristan tribal region. Al Qaeda operative Sheikh Yasin......

'Good' Taliban orders 'bad' Taliban out of their area

Tension prevails in South Waziristan, after a jirga (assembly of elders) of the dominant Wazir tribe set December 5 as a deadline for Mehsud tribesmen, who live as refugees, to vacate the area. But......