Intense exchanges of fire between Pakistani and Indian border forces continued for a third day, officials said Friday, after three soldiers were killed on New Year’s Eve. Indian troops fired mortar shells and guns at Pakistani villages in Narowal district of central Punjab province, a military official said. Several hundred[…]
At least 55 radicals were killed in airstrikes and a gun battle with ground forces in Pakistan’s troubled northwest where the military launched a major offensive this year, officials said Saturday. The army intensified its offensive after the massacre of 150 people in a school in Peshawar this month, a[…]
Pakistani security forces have killed a Taliban commander who allegedly facilitated the Peshawar school massacre, which left 150 people dead in the country’s worst ever attack. Officials on Friday said the fighter, named only as Saddam, was killed on Thursday night in a gunfight with security forces in the restive[…]
Pakistan has announced plans to set up special military-run courts to prosecute terrorism suspects as part of a new anti-terrorism plan following the Taliban school massacre that killed 149 people, including 132 children. In a live televised address to the nation on Wednesday, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced 25[…]
Pakistan’s interior minister says authorities have made arrests in the case of the Taliban school attack that killed 148 in the northwestern city of Peshawar. Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan says Sunday the authorities have picked up several people suspected of involvement in the attack, although he did not disclose their[…]
The following is the Jumuah Khutbah of Imam Dr. Rashied Omar, as delivered at the Claremont Main Road Mosque on Friday the 19th December: OPINION- The Gregorian year 2014 has been a grim and distressing one for Muslims at the global level. During the past year extremist Muslim groups such[…]
A Pakistani government prosecutor said Friday he will challenge a court order granting bail to the alleged mastermind of the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, which sparked strong condemnation from India. Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi is accused of planning the 60-hour siege on India’s commercial capital that left 166 people dead and was[…]
Musallees at Claremont Main Road Mosque (CMRM) will offer special prayers for the victims and the families affected by the Pakistani school massacre, during the Jumu`ah service on Friday 19 December at 1pm. The CMRM strongly condemned the heinous attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar that killed at[…]
Pakistani forces have intensified their offensive against Taliban fighters, killing 57 rebels in fresh airstrikes and moving ground troops deep into their strongholds, the military said Thursday. Fighter jets bombed 20 hideouts in Khyber tribal district, which borders Peshawar city, where Taliban fighters on Tuesday massacred 148 people, including 135[…]
Pakistani nationals living in South Africa are devastated by the latest violence that has shaken their home country, watching the events unfolding with shock and horror. On Tuesday, 132 school children in Peshawar were killed in a brazen attack by the Pakistani Taliban (TTP). The Pakistan Association in South Africa[…]
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