Topic: Tehrik-I-Taliban
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Taliban movement, the country's biggest security threat, has suggested it would consider peace talks with the U.S.-backed government, a local newspaper reported Monday.Pakistani leaders said after an all-party meeting attended by top military and intelligence officials last month ...
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - The death toll from a suicide bombing at a funeral in Pakistan's northwest climbed to 40 on Friday, police said.No one has claimed responsibility for Thursday's attack on the funeral of a pro-government tribesman in Lower ...
A suicide bomber targeting members of an anti-Taliban militia blew himself up during funeral prayers in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing 26 people and wounding 63 others, police said.The attacker struck as mourners were preparing for prayers being held in open ground ...
LOWER DIR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber attacked a funeral of a member of a pro-government Pashtun tribe in a village in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 20 people, police said.More than 35 people were wounded in the attack ...
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani Taliban militants plan to kidnap senior Pakistani officials to pressure authorities to release relatives of Osama bin Laden detained after the al Qaeda leader was killed, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Friday.Bin Laden's wives and several of ...
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for a rare female suicide attack and another bombing against police to "avenge" military operations in the lawless tribal belt.A woman in her late teens blew herself up near a police checkpost killing another woman just hours ...
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani security officials have detained a former navy commando and his brother in connection with the militant attack on a naval air base this month, intelligence officials and relatives said on Monday.Last week's attack on the PNS Mehran ...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A car bomb in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday targeted a U.S. consulate convoy but caused no American deaths or serious injuries, said U.S. embassy spokesman Alberto Rodriguez.One passerby was killed and 10 Pakistanis were wounded, ...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - An explosion in the Pakistani city of Peshawar Friday killed one person and wounded 10 people, including two foreigners, a hospital official and local media reported, the latest in an upsurge of violence since Osama bin Laden was ...
US officials arrested three Pakistani Americans including two imams Saturday, charging them and three others with providing or seeking to provide "material support" to the Pakistani Taliban, the Justice Department said.The defendants, five men and one woman, "are charged with conspiring to ...