Tag: TTP
Encounter Specialist Rao Anwar likely to be released on bail
News Analysis | In a seemingly lucky turn of events for twice convicted and former Malir district SSP; Rao Anwar, bail was granted after anti-terrorism...
Identity: A factor in making and breaking of terrorist organizations
Khurram Minhas | Terrorist organizations often advertise their struggle for protection and promotion of their brand of Islam. They often propagate their mission and its...
Indian engineers abducted in Afghanistan as New Delhi’s footprint in Afghanistan...
News Analysis | Seven Indian engineers of an RPG group company working in Afghanistan's northern Baghlan province were abducted on Sunday by Taliban gunmen who...
Manzoor Pashteen’s PTM: A ‘Rights Movement’ or a new ‘Regional Agenda’?
Moeed Pirzada | Ahmed Khan, (not his original name) waits in his car behind a long line of other vehicles, for his turn to be...
Slaps Don’t Turn In to Claps
Faisal Ashfaq | It was the silence of the lions which made the wolves stronger. What PTM is demanding is nothing unconstitutional but coupling it...
Army hands over security to civil government in Dir
News Desk | On April 10, 2018, Pakistan’s military authorities transferred the control to civil administration after 10 years in Lower and Upper Dir districts at...
What is Pashtun Tahafuz Movement and what are its objectives?
News Analysis | Thousands of Pasthuns gathered at Ring Road, near Pishtakhara, Peshawar to participate in a rally organized by the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement's (PTM)....
Malala visits Pakistan for the first time in six years
News Analysis | Malala Yousafzai has come to visit Pakistan for the first time after six years. She arrived in Islamabad in the early hours...
U.S drone strike killed 20 militants linked with TTP
News Analysis | In the eastern province of Kunar, Afghanistan, a US drone strike targeted a training camp of militants who are believed to be...
Pakistan and the US: Together adrift
Salman Bashir | A raft of acerbic public messages has created uncertainty about the course of US-Pakistan relations. Strategic circles in Washington have unleashed a...
Fereeha Idrees: Why she had to unlearn everything learned in UK...
GVS News | GVS sat down with the TV Anchor, Fereeha Idris, to learn more about her journey to becoming a journalist, what it takes...
Pak forces destroy radio tower along Pak-Afghan border for transmitting TTP...
News Analysis | A radio tower along the Pak-Afghan border was destroyed by the Pakistan armed forces to stop the transmission of hostile, anti-state propaganda...
Intizar murder case: inspector gets pre-arrest bail
News Analysis | The accused police inspector Tariq Mehmood in the Intizar Ahmed murder case was granted bail by a session’s court on Wednesday. Eight...
Ban imposed on religious service at unauthorized churches
News Analysis | On January 15th 2018, the authorities decided to ban service in unauthorized churches in Abbottabad. The security officials stated that this decision...
Quetta blast: were parliamentarians the target?
News Analysis | The police and intelligence agencies are still trying to assess the target of yesterday’s Quetta attack. They are of the opinion that...
Ajit Kumar Doval – An Indian jackal or a wily old...
Jamal Hussain | Ajit Kumar Doval, the current Indian National Security Adviser (NSA) to the Modi led BJP government of India has impressive credentials for...
Is Imran’s Mullahism more barbaric or the liberal mindset?
Waqas Shabbir | Liberals of the country are displeased with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan. It is evident from their response on social media. Spreading...
Pakistan’s Jihadist cauldron: From national asset to national millstone
Adnan Qaiser | National interests of states are often blind-and brutal, yet they call for some rationality considering our interlinked global destinies in the 21st...
Afghanistan acknowledges TTP’s presence on its soil
News Analysis | Amidst simmering tensions between Kabul and Islamabad, the Chief Executive of Afghanistan, Abdullah Abdullah has said that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has...
TTP is backed by enemies including India: Imran Khan
News Analysis | Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Imran Khan has said that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was helped and financed by the enemies of the country...
I persuaded Benazir Bhutto against returning to Pakistan: friend
News Desk | Desmond de Silva, an old friend of former prime minister, the late Benazir Bhutto has revealed how he implored her not to...
India’s dirty war inside Pakistan – Part II
Asif Haroon Raja | In the last 15 years, India has been able to make successes against Pakistan:- It succeeded in maligning the image of Pakistan...
Let’s build a positive ‘transactional relationship’ with the US
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery | U.S Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson will visit Pakistan next week to discuss the US vision for the new South...
Are Islamabad & Washington all set to take the relationship to...
News Analysis | Pakistan and the US have agreed to carry forward the positive momentum in ties by enhancing high-level interactions and counterterrorism cooperation. This...
Leader of Jammat-ul-Ahrar killed in US drone strike
News Analysis | The leader of Jammat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), Umer Khalid Khurasani, has reportedly been killed in a US drone strike conducted on Tuesday in Afghanistan's...
Kurram IED blast: Signs of a new terror war to come
News Analysis | Captain Hasnain, who was martyred in a blast in Kurram Agency along with three other soldiers Sunday morning, was laid to rest...
Khawaja Asif talks about Indian hand behind the attack on APS...
News Analysis | Foreign Minister, Khawaja Asif has made a somewhat startling revelation regarding the gory terrorist attack on the Army Public School, Peshawar on...
BRICS summit 2017: India’s maneuvering troublesome for Pakistan
Taimoor Khan | The BRICS summit was held this week between Sept 3-5 in Xiamen, China and was attended by the heads of Brazil, Russia,...
BRICS potentially strengthens Trumps’ hand in tackling Pakistani support of militants
James M. Dorsey | Pakistan, already furious and reeling from US President Donald J. Trump’s threat to sanction it for supporting militants, has been dealt...
Khan condemns Trump; advises him to talk with the Taliban
News analysis | PTI Chief, Imran Khan while taking serious exceptions to President Trump's tirade against Pakistan, suggested that the US top man should find...
Iraqi forces ‘completely surround ISIL’ in Tal Afar
News Analysis | According to Iraqi and US officials, Iraqi forces backed by Shiite militias have "completely surrounded" fighters affiliated with the Islamic State group in...
Is Panama gate a foreign conspiracy to derail Pakistan? Part II
Asif Haroon Raja | The traitors within The PPP-MQM-ANP dream team carved out by USA and UK in March 2008 with the help of infamous NRO...
The importance of being a Pakistani
Afrah Jamal | Implications of a Modi – Trump style ‘meet and greet’ As Mr. Modi descended upon Washington, armed with Kashmiri shawls, tea, honey,...
The Afghan marsh enveloping the region
Saad Yousaf | Since the 2001 US invasion, the rapidly changing dynamics of the Afghan insurgency have stumped the strategic elite of regional countries. The...
When and why terror groups synchronize or coordinate violent acts: Learning...
Muhammad Feyyaz | When and why terrorists vary violence has been investigated adequately in extant terrorism literature. However, the question when and why terror groups...
Jadhav makes clemency appeal to the COAS: What will be his...
News Analysis | Kulbushan Jadhav, the convicted Indian spy has appealed to COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa to overturn the death sentence awarded to him...
