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Afghan leader assails Pakistan for Taliban support
KABUL, Afghanistan: The Afghan president says Taliban insurgents ”can’t move a finger” without Pakistani support. Hamid Karzai spoke in an interview with the BBC that aired on Friday, the 10th anniversary of the US invasion. However, Karzai insists he doesn’t mean to reprimand Pakistan but is simply saying what both nations already know in the…
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Afghanistan says Rabbani’s killer was Pakistani
KABUL: Afghanistan said on Sunday that the suicide bomber who assassinated Afghan peace negotiator Burhanuddin Rabbani was a Pakistani national. Tensions between the neighbours have been rising amid allegations from Afghan officials that Pakistan and its powerful ISI intelligence agency masterminded Rabbani’s assassination and are seeking to destabilise Afghanistan. An investigative delegation established by President…
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Around 26 Shia pilgrims killed in Quetta
QUETTA: Gunmen opened fire on a bus in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan in a suspected sectarian attack on Tuesday, killing around 26 Shia Muslim pilgrims traveling to Iran, police said. Four assailants attacked the bus carrying more than 50 pilgrims near Mastung town around 50 km (30 miles) from the provincial capital of Quetta.…
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Blast In Peshawar CD Market Kills 4, 34 Injured
Firdous says that the location is fairly frequented especially in the evening, with the main road being jam packed with traffic. He added that the market is located in a residential cluster. Firdous said that the cause of the blast had not yet been ascertained, though some reports suggested that it was a suicide blast.…
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Taliban suicide blast in Karachi leaves eight dead
KARACHI: A car-borne Taliban suicide bomber flattened the house of a senior counter-terrorism police officer in Karachi on Monday, killing eight people including six policemen. Senior Superintendent Aslam Khan, who was unhurt in the attack but whose home was destroyed, told AFP he had been threatened by the Pakistani Taliban and knew that he was…