Tag Archives : South Waziristan

A massive truck bomb devastated a police station in the city of Peshawar in Pakistan and claimed the lives of four people and injured 30 more, in a region that been marred by a serious of terror attacks in retaliation of the military offensive against the militant outfits in the region. The intensity of the blast ripped through the police station, [...]

Pakistan Taliban, that has become the bane of Pakistan’s peace and has been carrying out relentless terror attacks all across the country, has urged the its followers and fighters to fight ferociously against the military of Pakistan, that is currently conducting massive offensive campaign to root out the Taliban and other foreign fighters from [...]

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 [...]

The terror attacks in Pakistan seem to be getting bolder and increasingly violent. Today, as U.S Secretary Of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton continued her official tour to Pakistan, a car bomb went off in one of the busiest markets in the city of Peshawar, killing 91 people and injuring 200 more. Today’s attack is considered to be the most devastating [...]

Pakistani military forces today re-captured a key Taliban town, considered to be the birthplace of the Pakistan Taliban and holds a significant strategic advantage, as the the town of Kotkai in the South Waziristan region is known to be the gateway to the militant heartland. The town of Kotkai has been the center of the military offensive by the Pakistani [...]

A suicide bomber from the Pakistan Taliban, today targeted a main air force research and maintenance facility in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. The suicide attack killed six people, including two soldiers and four civilians. The suicide bomber detonated the explosives wrapped around him, around the time when he was stopped at a checkpoint for security [...]

Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, was rocked by two simultaneous suicide bomb blasts carried out by the Pakistan Taliban. The attacks targeted an Islamic university and killed six people while injuring 20 others. For the last two weeks, Taliban has intensified its terror campaign throughout Pakistan, carrying out numerous attacks on Pakistani security [...]

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 [...]