Tag Archives : FATA

The United Nations has announced its intention to recall 60 staff members of the organization that constitute its international staff in Pakistan amid growing security concerns in the country. The withdrawal of the U.N workers will be in effect for six months and will not be applicable to the 2,700 Pakistani nationals, currently serving under United [...]

Five people were killed and eighty injured in a suicide bombing that took place outside a Shiite religious gathering in the capital of Kashmir, controlled by Pakistan. The bomber detonated the explosives during a security check at a checkpoint. Of the five killed, two have been identified as part of the police force and most of the 80 injured people [...]

After a brief lull in the relentless terror campaign led by militant forces hiding in South Waziristan, Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad was once again rocked by a suicide bomb attack, this time on the country’s naval headquarters. The blast killed 1 person and injured 11 others in a country whose sole survival is now threatened by the exponential [...]

In a recent survey conducted by the conducted by the Nielsen research company and sponsored by the British Council, it has been determined that generation next of Pakistan, specifically the youth population of the country is extremely dissatisfied with their government and see very little future for themselves. These troublesome statistics state a disturbing [...]

In a recent development in Pakistan’s ravaged and terror infested Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), a suspected U.S missile attack killed two militants. The attack came at the time of fierce fighting between the Pakistani security forces and the Taliban in the Northwest Pakistan. The missile is believed to have been fired from a U.S [...]

While the terrain is, indeed, extremely rugged, the area along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border is heavily populated, contrary to popular belief. The area of the FATA has millions of Pakistani residents, and most of them are ‘extremely conservative and hostile toward the Pakistani government.’ In 1998, South Waziristan had a population of nearly [...]

Pakistan Army in conjunction with heavy artillery support, today intensified its attacks on the militant strongholds in the Dera Ismail Khan region of South Waziristan, near the Afghanistan border. Today’s attack is part of a large scale campaign initiated by the Pakistani government to eradicate the terror outfits operating out of the Federally [...]

Today, the Pakistani military initiated the much anticipated cleaning operation in the South Waziristan region, close to the Afghanistan border, in an effort to root out the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and other foreign militant fighters, that have made the Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA), their home base and the platform from which, the militant factions [...]

Based on credible intelligence, United States military and the CIA, launched a pre-emptive strike at the house of Baitullah Mehsud’s father-in-law, in the South Waziristan region of Pakistan, which is a Federally Administered Tribal Area, a rugged and largely lawless region, where tribes dominate the governance of the region. According to initial [...]

A U.S attack drone carried out missile strikes today against suspected Taliban militants near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border killing six militants according to intelligence sources. The attack took place at pre-dawn in the South Waziristan region of FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Regions) of Pakistan. This region is known to be a stronghold of [...]