Tahir Khan
Joined on: Dec 04, 2012
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Articles By Tahir Khan

Mystery still shrouds the much publicized ‘political drone strike’, that the MQM self-exile chief plans to carry out in two days as the MQM leaders Monday argued that ‘no one share information about drone strikes’. The MQM leaders, who appeared in the Supreme Court during hearing of the contempt proceedings against Altaf Hussain, evaded […]

Pakistan army says that its one soldier died and another injured in firing by the Indian forces in Kashmir on Sunday. The army said that Indian troops Sunday morning crossed Line of Control (LoC), which divides the two countries in the disputed Kashmir region, in Haji Pir Sector in Bagh district and raided a […]

Chief of Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Altaf Hussain, said Sunday that he would launch a “political drone attack” in three days and no one in Pakistan will be able to launch a counter attack. In a statement the self-exiled MQM leader said his drone will hit the country on Tuesday (January 8). However, he neither […]

Former chief of Jamaat-e-Islami, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, passed away in Islamabad early on Sunday morning of cardiac arrest, his son and party said. Qazi Hussain, 74, died in a hospital where he was admitted three days ago after he suffered heart problem, his son, Luqman Asif Qazi said. His funeral prayers will be […]

Thousands of tribesmen took to the streets in South Waziristan on Saturday to protest against U.S. drone strikes two days after a senior Taliban leader and eight more people were killed in two attacks in the region. A drone strike killed Mulla Nazir, chief of his own faction of the Pakistani Taliban in South […]

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf Friday urged the armed forces to redesign and redefine their doctrine to achieve the objective to comprehensively tackle terrorism. “Our national security institutions must improve intelligence gathering and establish effective coordination among civil and military institutions to attain optimum results,” he told a ceremony at the National Defence University […]

Pakistan on Friday condemned the American drone strikes in the country’s tribal regions a day after two attacks killed a Taliban commander and eight other people in Waziristan tribal areas. Foreign Ministry spokesman, Moazzam Khan said Pakistan wants to resolve the issue of the American drone attacks in the country’s through bilateral talks with the […]

A Commission, tasked to investigate the U.S. raid to kill Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in May, 2011 and his presence, was submitted to the Prime Minister on Thursday, the Prime Minister office said. The ‘Abbottabad Commission’, headed by a former Supreme Court judge, was formed two weeks after the U.S. Navy SEALS killed […]

Prime Minister, Raja Pervez Asharf Thursday declared that Pakistan will continue its fight against terrorism in new year with the public support. Speaking at the federal cabinet, the Prime minister said that extremism, militancy and intolerance are the challenges which are a matter of high concern for the government since long. “As a […]

A senior Pakistani Taliban leader, Mulla Nazir, was killed in a U.S. drone strike in South Waziristan tribal region on Thursday, tribesmen and officials in the region said. A US spy aircraft fired missiles into South Waziristan’s Angor Adda area and killed Mulla Nazir and his five other fighters, they said. Angor Ada is very close […]

The Pakistan army has, after its 11 years of war on terror, changed its operational priorities for the first time and has described internal threats as the biggest danger to the country’s security. In its new ‘army doctrine’ the military has termed as the biggest threat for the country’s security the on-going guerrilla war in the […]

The Mutahida Qaumi Movement and the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) have thrown weight behind the upcoming march by Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri, who returned last month after spending five year in Canada. He spoke to an impressive and a big public rally in Lahore and announced his future plans. The MQM, which enjoyed 10 years in government […]