Shandur festival starts tomorrow

Shandur polo festival starts tomorrow CHITRAL: The three-day Shandur polo festival will be held on the scheduled date on June 20 (Friday) despite boycott of the event by the Gilgit-Baltistan team. Talking to Dawn, on Wednesday, Chitral deputy commissioner, Aminul Haq, said that the provincial government had decided to hold the event on its scheduled date keeping in view the...

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Bad news for 'Good' Taliban?

Zarb-i-Azb — Bad news for 'Good' Taliban? The North Waziristan military offensive is on. As we all hope, it will change the militant landscape of the country besides having a far-reaching impact on the political and strategic dynamics of conflict in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). So far, militants in North Waziristan were the ones least challenged by the state’s counter-terrorism...

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fighters head to Syria, Iraq

Indonesia fears terror return as fighters head to Syria, Iraq JAKARTA: Indonesians are joining the procession of jihadists to Syria and Iraq, sparking fears they will revive sophisticated militant networks when they return and undermine a decade-long crackdown that has crippled the most dangerous cells. Support for...

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TTP commander Killed

Karachi Rangers kill alleged TTP commander during operation KARACHI: Rangers personnel conducted an operation in Sultanabad area of Manghopir in Karachi on Thursday, allegedly killing a key commander and the local vice-emir of the proscribed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), DawnNews reported. Rangers personnel had cordoned off the area sealing all entry and exit points of the locality while conducting...

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Zarb-i-Azb

Zarb-i-Azb: 20 militants killed, 150,000 civilians evacuated BANNU: Pakistan's military gunship helicopters pounded militant targets in North Waziristan tribal region on Friday, killing up to 20 suspected rebels, as the number of civilians fleeing an expected ground offensive passed 150,000. Nearly 100,000 people have left North Waziristan tribal area, on the Afghan...

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Threaten Afghan Elections By Talban

Taliban threaten Afghan election, warn voters to stay away KABUL: Taliban insurgents threatened Monday to attack Afghanistan's run-off presidential election, warning voters to stay away from polling stations for fear of injury or death. Afghans are due to go to the polls on June 14 to choose whether Ashraf Ghani or Abdullah Abdullah should succeed President Hamid Karzai. The militants, ousted from power in Kabul by a 2001 US-led...

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India int-ruble in Afghanistan

Indian aid worker abducted in Afghanistan HEART: An Indian aid worker was Monday abducted by unidentified gunmen in Afghanistan's western Herat province, local officials and India's foreign ministry said. Sayed Fazullah Wahidy, governor of Herat province, said the aid worker was kidnapped in the afternoon, adding “police have started the search operation for him.” India's foreign ministry confirmed the incident, with spokesman...

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Indian aid worker abducted in Afghanistan By AFP Updated 32 minutes ago Local officials and India's foreign ministry said that the aid worker was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in Heart. – File Photo HEART: An Indian aid worker was Monday abducted by unidentified gunmen in Afghanistan's western Herat province, local officials and India's foreign ministry said. Sayed Fazullah Wahidy, governor of Herat province, said...

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America sit down infront of Talban

US lawmakers assail release as incentive for capturing Americans WASHINGTON: Republican lawmakers berated US President Barack Obama on Sunday for releasing five Taliban prisoners in exchange for a US soldier, claiming that the bargain had created a new incentive for capturing Americans. Also, some media reports suggested that the soldier, Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, had apparently defected to the Taliban in June 2009 because he...

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PAK ARMY COAS

COAS leaves for China ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif on Monday left for China on an official visit. “General Raheel Sharif is visiting China at the invitation of Chinese defence authorities,” a spokesman for the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. It is General Sharif’s first ever visit to China since he assumed the command of the country’s military last year. During his visit, General...

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PAKISTAN GDP growth recorded

4.14pc GDP growth recorded, highest since 2008-09 ◻◻ ‹› ISLAMABAD: Admitting failure towards achieving the economic targets set for the outgoing fiscal year 2013-14, Finance Minister Senator Ishaq Dar on Monday released the Pakistan Economic Survey, a pre-budget document saying the country, however, provisionally achieved 4.14 per cent GDP growth rate. He will also present the second budget by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz...

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