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......

Pakistan Army admits it has contacts with Taliban

The Pakistan army has admitted that it is in contact with Afghan Taliban leaders, including Mullah Mohammad Omar, and can bring them to the negotiating table with the US if its concerns with India......

'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......