ISLAMABAD - In a first, Pakistani officials break silence over mysterious escape of the TTP spokesperson Ehsan Ullah Ehsan. A leading member of the Pakistan Taliban has escaped custody more than two years after surrendering to authorities, a senior security official said Sunday. The ...

PESHAWAR: A key commander of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has been killed in exchange of fire with Afghan security forces, the militant group confirmed on Saturday. In a statement published by the SITE monitoring group Friday, the TTP said Sheikh Khalid Haqqani, who served on the ...

ISLAMABAD - Global research has found that the international media is hesitant to term extremist attacks perpetrated by far-right non-Muslims as terrorist attacks. The study found that violent Islamists are three times more likely to be called terrorists in the media as compared to the far-right ...

LONDON - UK weekly The Economist has said Pakistan’s army, which fought a 22-month campaign from 2014 to evict militants from North Waziristan, is trying to transform the town from a byword for extremism into a showcase of the stability to which the generals say the country is returning. The ...

ISLAMABAD - Apart from the current uneasy relations between Pakistan and the US, there are broader issues at play in the US to harm Pakistan’s territorial integrity. India in this regard seems to be closely working with the successive US governments and its members of Congress to influence them ...

Apart from the current uneasy relations between Pakistan and the US, as a consequence of the recent closure of military assistance to Pakistan by asking it to do more on countering Afghanistan related terrorism, there are deeper issues at play in the US to harm Pakistan’s territorial ...

PARIS - The French Muslim woman, Mennel Ibtissem, has quit The Voice, a TV singing competition in France, amid criticism of comments she posted on Facebook after Islamic extremist attacks in 2016. Ibtissem drew nationwide attention for a moving performance Saturday on The Voice of Leonard ...

ISLAMABAD - Terror incidents have declined in Pakistan, according to the report by Global Terrorism Index released Wednesday.Pakistan ranks fifth on the index, a marked improvement as it ranked fourth in 2007.“Pakistan recorded a decrease in the number of people killed by terrorism with a 12 ...

RIYADH  – United States (US) embassy has stated on Sunday that a meeting between President Donald J Trump and Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif is not scheduled.Trump is visiting Saudi Arabia for the first US-Arab Islamic summit which is being attended by heads of 55 Muslim states including PM ...

PARIS (APP) - America's response to the 9/11 attacks augmented rather than defeated the militant threat, with the consequences of the Iraq war now being felt in terror-scarred France, President Francois Hollande said Sunday.In a Facebook post commemorating the victims of the attacks Hollande echoed ...