Major assault on Kurram: Troops repulse Taliban attack on strategic post

CASUALTIES: 15 is the number of troops who were wounded while defending the Jogi check-post. PHOTO: AFP/FILE PESHAWAR:  Security forces repulsed a major Taliban attack on a strategic check-post in the Kurram tribal region, triggering bloody clashes that left 43 people, among them eight troops, dead and dozens others wounded, the military said on Tuesday. “Security forces foiled miscreants’ attempt to dislodge...

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FATA-Ahead In Progress

 (Balochistan Times): The Government has successfully rehabilitated three kilometres of road, including the construction of side wall, culverts for the full length and extra surface coating for 166 meters for the community of Bushahra in Upper Kurram. A press release issued by the Directorate of Information FATA secretariat stated that the Political Administration of Kurram agency had prioritized the rehabilitation of road and completed the project for the community of Bushahra in a short period of time. More than 4,000 inhabitants...

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Reactivation of abandoned and low performing schools, FATA

Funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), CAMP rehabilitated and reactivated 25 government primary schools for girls in Mohmand agency. CAMP coordinated the activity closely with the Agency Education Office in Mohmand, and the FATA Secretariat. The main objective of the project was to increase the enrollment of girls at primary level and increase the retention rate by improving the conditions of the schools. Besides...

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Rehabilitation of displaced Fata tribesmen: Donors meet next month to raise $200 million

PESHAWAR, Jan 22: A donors’ conference will be held next month to raise the required $200 million fund for quick rehabilitation of internally displaced persons of Federally Administered Tribal Areas. A handout issued here on Sunday said that during a presentation on Fata Disaster Management Authority, held at Islamabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Barrister Masood Kausar was told that so far 145,338 displaced families out of total 298,715 had been sent back to their permanent dwellings. The whole process cost Rs7391.260 million including...

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FACEBOOK AS AN AYE OF C.I.A

The FBI has got tired of monitoring social media sites manually and wants to reinvent the process. So, soon your posts may instantly light up on a map as a big red dot if considered suspicious, marking the location of the ‘bad actor.’ “Social media has become a primary source of intelligence because it has become the premier first response to key events and the primal alert to possible developing situations,” says the Request for Information...

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Pak Army Defied the illegitimate Allegations of Peace Talks with Taliban

Pakistan army is bearing a number of allegations over conducting peace talks with Taliban or its affiliated militant groups. Our private media, for the sake of publicity, is concocting stories to escalate the misunderstanding among masses.             The falsified concoction of peace talks between army and Taliban is thwarted by a top Taliban commander as well by telling the news agencies that...

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Subversive Material: TTP magazine circulating in Gujrat

LAHORE:  A Jihadi magazine making the rounds in Gujrat has caught the eye of an intelligence agency, which has expressed serious concern over the subversive material, declaring it anti- state in a secret report, The Express Tribune has learnt. The report adds that the nature of the material encourages a Jihadi mindset in society. The magazine in question, the Nawa-e-Jehad contains a message from Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) leader Hakeemullah Mehsood, and elaborates on details of ongoing TTP Jihadi activities. The message also includes the...

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Pak denies reopening NATO routes to Afghanistan

Islamabad: Pakistan's Foreign Office has denied reports of reopening the NATO supply routes to Afghanistan, and said there was no ultimate decision about it so far. Addressing a weekly press briefing in Islamabad on Thursday, Foreign Office spokesperson Abdul Basit said the conditions for reopening the supply routes have not been decided yet, Xinhua reported. The supply routes were closed in November last year following an...

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Terrorists launch new psychological drive against army

Terrorists of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have launched a new psychological campaign to hire recruits to fight against the Pakistan security forces, sources here revealed. The campaign by the Pakistani Taliban, which seeks to hire simpletons for their depraved cause, now shows forged and doctored photographs of an alleged Pakistan Army tank destroyed in Swat, bodies of troops being eaten by dogs, torturing of Taliban prisoners, etc....

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Perches of Taliban- Pak or Afghan!!

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Balochistan's Prodigy- The Bright Side

  Located on the outskirts of Quetta, is the barren valley of Mariabad where the Hazara lead slow-paced lives. These tribal people, living in narrow brick huts speckled along the rugged hillside, typically sell loose cloth, sweaters or tea for their livelihood. Like most poor people, their aspirations rarely go beyond sustaining themselves in this underdeveloped nook of Balochistan. Many of them live and die in Mariabad — unaware of the...

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Glorious Victory of Pak Army In SWAT Against Miscreants

SWAT: Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani on his recent vist to swat said Pakistan Army has set a unique precedent by defeating terrorists in a short span of time in Malakand and Swat valley and reiterated his strong resolve that the Army will stay here till complete peace is established. This unprecedented success achieved by the Army was possible due to cooperation of people of Swat, saying security forces will remain in Swat till extermination of the terrorists. The Chief of Army Staff was addressing a gathering of...

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Tehreek-e-Taliban(TTP) Factions Unnerving- The Blame Game

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Pakistani security forces kill dangerous Taliban commander

The Pakistani military killed a dangerous Taliban commander who was responsible for the murders of scores of Pakistani soldiers, policemen, and civilians. Qari Kamran, a senior Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan commander in the northwestern district of Nowshera, was killed along with 11 fighters yesterday during a military operation in the tribal agency of Khyber. The Taliban have been fighting the Pakistani military as well as the rival Islamist terror group Lashkar-e-Islam in Khyber. Kamran was involved in some of the most deadly suicide...

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Pak Army in Apex of Success in Operation Koh-e-Safaid

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