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Taliban encounter: Pakistani forces clear compound as 5 militants killed

Pakistani security forces Sunday killed three militants while two blew themselves up in a compound in the outskirts of Peshawar where they had taken shelter after the overnight attack on the air force base.   The militants exchanged fire with the police and troops for nearly two hours at Pawaka, a small village near Peshawar. […]

Taliban attack: Pakistani forces clear airport, airbase after 3-hour operation

Pakistani security forces cleared Peshawar Airport and adjacent air force base after three hours operation against the armed Taliban militants, who launched an overnight attack on the facilities with rockets, officials said Sunday.   The Pakistan Air Force spokesman, Group Captain Tariq Mahmood said that five attackers were killed and the security forces are now […]

Fall of Dacca: What have we learnt from our past mistakes? (Part Three)

To a few others it was a case of misplaced egoistic velour – not to be dubbed as the ‘chickens’ in the army parlance. The true information was not only denied to the common man in West Pakistan but even to those at the helm also. Handling of the East Pakistan issue at the International […]

Fall of Dacca: What have we learnt from our past mistakes? (Part Two)

The proverbial last straw that broke the camel’s back was Bhutto’s rejection of the 1970 election results which had given Shaikh Mujib ur Rehman’s Awami League a clear cut majority to form the government at the centre.   ZAB’s one after the other statements like “we will break the legs of any one going to […]

Fall of Dacca: What have we learnt from our past mistakes? (Part One)

December 16 comes every year to haunt the nation, particularly those few remaining who were witness to the debacle. I had the misfortune to be one.   On this day the Quaid’s Pakistan, which was considered an epitome of ‘Divided we Stand’, got actually divided by breaking lose all bonds of unity between the two […]

Militants attack: Three die as Peshawar airport came under attack

Suspected militants fired rockets on Peshawar’s international airport late Saturday and killed at least three people and injured over 30 others, officials and doctors said. Security officials said that three rockets landed inside the building of Bacha Khan International Airport while two others hit nearby residential areas. Doctors confirmed that three people were killed and […]

Rocket attack at Peshawar airport claims five lives

At least three people were killed and more than two dozen injured after Bacha Khan International Airport came under attack here on Saturday   The airport was sealed after rockets and bullets rained on it form all sides as it was hard to nail the location of the attackers, however according to unofficial reports the […]

KESC win vital PAF encounter

The Karachi-based side came out on top against the title hopefuls after a goal from Muhammad Riaz sealed the three points. While the encounter ended amidst ugly scenes, the game of football proved to be the highlight, as Riaz’s header concluded a win for KESC, who are looking to win back the Premier League from […]

Christian Bale declines to feature in the movie Child 44

Christian Bale declines to feature in the movie Child 44 Christian Bale has bailed on starring in “Child 44,” the film being produced by Ridley Scott and directed by David Espinosa based on Tom Rob Smith’s novel. Bale, 38, had been in negotiations to star in “Child 44,” about a Soviet military policeman who investigates […]

Court summons U.S. journalist in Benazir Bhutto murder case

A Pakistani Anti-terrorism court Saturday summoned American journalist, Mark Siegel, to record his statement in the 2007 assassination case of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.   Mark Siegel, who has served as lobbyist for Benazir Bhutto in the U.S., had stated that he was with Benazir Bhutto in London when former President Pervez Musharraf called and threatened […]

PTI’s Imran Khan rules out alliance with any party

Ruling out any alliance in the upcoming elections, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan has said the polls will be a war between the PTI’s ideology and looters of the public money and greedy politicians of the PML-N and PPP.   Speaking to the media he said his party will collect taxes fairly and eradicate […]

Rehman Malik denies comparing demolition of Babari mosque with terror attacks

Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik has denied he had equated the demolition of the Babri Masjid with terror attacks, saying that he came in India with a message of love and peace.   While interviewing to an India TV channel, he made it clear that he had never compared terror attacks with the December 6, […]

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