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Devotees pray during a Friday prayer at a mosque in Rawalpindi on 10 December 2021. Picture: AFP

Pakistan taliban

Pakistani Taliban kill police officer a day after calling off truce

By AFP

A Pakistani police officer was shot dead and another officer was hurt while guarding a polio vaccination team on Saturday, police said, in an attack claimed by...

  • Pakistani security personnel take position outside an Agriculture Training Institute after an attack by Taliban militants in Peshawar on 1 December 2017. Picture: AFP

    US races for Taliban deal but Afghan peace further away

    The Taliban have steadfastly refused to negotiate with the internationally recognised government in Kabul.

    1131 days ago
  • FILE: A representatives of the Taliban attends international talks on Afghanistan in Moscow on 9 November 2018. Picture: AFP

    Peace hopes suffer setback as Taliban-Afghan talks derailed

    The so-called intra-Afghan dialogue, which was due to take place in Doha this weekend, fell apart at the last minute in a row over a large number of delegates Kabul wanted to send.

    1208 days ago
  • FILE: A Taliban car bomber killed 14 people in Afghanistan's Khost city on 27 May in the first major attack at the start of the holy month of Ramadan that targeted a CIA-funded militia group. Picture: AFP.

    Afghan Taliban reject talks with US in Pakistan

    Talks between the two sides have stalled after the Taliban accused Khalilzad of straying from the agreed agenda and there is no clarity on when they may resume.

    1297 days ago
  • New Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan inspects a guard of honour on his arrival in the Prime Minister House during a ceremony in Islamabad. Khan was sworn in at a ceremony in Islamabad on 18 August. Picture: AFP

    New PM Khan to skip UN General Assembly to focus on Pakistan economy

    Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi will head the Pakistani delegation at 73rd UN General Assembly session set to open on 18 September.

    1440 days ago
  • Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan. Picture: AFP

    Pakistan PM Khan calls for austerity; wants bullet-proof cars sold

    Khan, 65, a former cricket legend, was sworn in as prime minister on Saturday after his party swept to power in last month’s election.

    1450 days ago
  • File: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan inspects guard of honour on his arrival in the Prime Minister House during a ceremony in Islamabad. Khan was sworn in at a ceremony in Islamabad on 18 August. Picture: AFP

    Promises, promises, Imran Khan raises Pakistani hopes sky high

    And in his victory speech, Khan offered an olive branch to India and called for mutually beneficial ties with the United States.

    1450 days ago
  • FILE: A Taliban car bomber killed 14 people in Afghanistan's Khost city on 27 May in the first major attack at the start of the holy month of Ramadan that targeted a CIA-funded militia group. Picture: AFP.

    'Very positive signals' after US, Taliban talks: sources

    The two sides had discussed proposals to allow the Taliban free movement in two provinces where they would not be attacked, an idea that President Ashraf Ghani has already rejected.

    1471 days ago
  • Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan. Picture: AFP

    Pakistan election results delayed as Khan leads, opponents cry foul

    The party of Khan’s jailed chief rival, ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, called the count an assault on democracy in the nuclear-armed, Muslim country which has a history of military rule.

    1475 days ago
  • Pakistani men transport injured blast victims at a hospital after a suicide attack near a polling station in Quetta on 25 July, 2018. Picture: AFP

    Pakistan High Commission to SA says deadly blast a setback to democracy

    At least 20 people have been killed on election day in the north-western city of Quetta.

    1475 days ago
  • Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan. Picture: AFP

    Pakistan votes in tight race between Imran Khan, jailed ex-PM's party

    Polling gets under way across the country at 8 am and closes at 6 pm. Results will start trickling in within hours of polls closing and the likely winner should be known by around 2 am on Thursday.

    1476 days ago
  • Pakistan flag. Picture: AFP.

    Pakistan to hold general election on 25 July – officials

    Pakistan’s government and parliament is due to be dissolved on 31 May, when a new interim prime minister and an interim administration is meant to take over.

    1535 days ago
  • Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (C) posing for a photograph with Pakistani activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai. Picture: AFP

    Nobel winner Malala in tears on emotional return to Pakistan

    Malala Yousafzai, traveling with her father and younger brother, met Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in the capital, Islamabad, before giving a brief speech on national television.

    1593 days ago
  • The joint 2014 Nobel Peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai. Picture: AFP

    Nobel laureate Malala returns to Pakistan 6 years after she was shot by Taliban

    Pakistani station Geo TV showed footage of Yousafzai at Islamabad’s international airport walking to a car escorted by a security convoy.

    1594 days ago
  • Afghan security personnel block a road near the site of a suicide attack in Kabul on 25 December, 2017. Picture: AFP

    Taliban active in 70 percent of Afghanistan, BBC study finds

    The coalition said on Tuesday that the Taliban contested or controlled only 44% of Afghan districts as of October 2017.

    1651 days ago
  • Pakistani security officials inspect the scene of a bomb attack in Lahore on 5 April 2017. At least five people were killed and up to 18 wounded in a suicide blast claimed by the Taliban which targeted a census team in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore. Picture: AFP

    US suspends security aid to Pakistan over militant groups

    A glance at US budget figures suggest the amounts frozen could exceed $1 billion.

    1677 days ago
  • Pakistani security personnel rescue an injured woman after suicide bombers attacked a Methodist church during a Sunday service in Quetta on 17 December, 2017. Picture: AFP

    US puts Pakistan on notice: Do more to stop terrorism

    Pakistan civilian and military chiefs on Tuesday rejected “incomprehensible” US comments and summoned American Ambassador David Hale to explain Trump’s tweet.

    1679 days ago
  • Pakistani security personnel rescue an injured woman after suicide bombers attacked a Methodist church during a Sunday service in Quetta on 17 December, 2017. Picture: AFP

    [UPDATE] Death in attack on church in Pakistan's Quetta rises to 8

    The gunmen wearing explosives-filled vests stormed the church in Quetta city when Sunday services had just opened.

    1695 days ago
  • A Pakistani security personnel and a policeman stand guard at the site of a suicide attack, outside a Sufi shrine in Jhal Magsi district in Balochistan province, on 5 October, 2017, where Muslims attended annual celebrations of a local saint. Picture: AFP.

    Suicide bombing at southwest Pakistan shrine kills 18

    Local government official Ahmed Aziz Tarrar said 16 people were killed and over 30 wounded in the blast.

    1768 days ago
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