Mangal Bagh willing to accept Jirga decision

Appreciating the on going Sirate Mustaqeem operation in tehsil Bara, Khyber Agency started against the miscreants, Ansarul Islam (AL) supporter Wednesday demanded of the government to get back the houses from defunct Lashkare Islam (LA) taken from ...

Lashkar-i-Islam chief Mangal Bagh has linked holding talks with the government to withdrawal aof security forces from Bara tehsil, release of all its detained associates and opening of bazaars and roads in the area. Sources privy to the proceedings ...

Taliban Saturday freed two journalists held hostage in a tribal region in northwestern Pakistan, Taliban spokesman said. Pir Zubair Shah, a part time employee of The New York Times and Akhtar Somroo, photographer for the newspaper, were taken Friday ...

Lashkar-e-Islam chief Mangal Bagh has expressed his willingness to accept the decision of the 35-member tribal jirga negotiating peace between him and the government. The tribal Jirga, consisting of two elders from each of the eight sub-tribes of ...

We have selected targets and the operation will resume if the jirga fails." The military has halted search operations and relaxed a curfew imposed in the Bara area, a stronghold of Lashkar-e-Islam, one of the two main extremist groups in the region. ...

Who will attack Peshawar with what weapons and, more importantly, with what objectives and goals was not spelt out in the doomsday scenario painted by the protagonists of such a potent threat. A hype was created as if a force of pro taliban elements,...

Pakistani security forces have halted an operation against militants in the country's volatile northwest to try negotiating peace through tribal elders, officials said Saturday. Tariq Hayat, chief administrator for the Khyber tribal area, said local ...

he government Friday suspended its operation against suspected militants and criminals in the country's northwestern tribal agency of Khyber for 36 hours to allow local tribesmen to meet outlawed Lashkar-e-Islam chief Mangal Bagh and conduct peace ...

Taliban militants released two Pakistani journalists on Saturday more than 36-hours after they were abducted in a tribal region near the Afghan border. "When it was proven that they're journalists and not spies, we freed them," Taliban spokesman ...

Pakistan � Pakistani security forces have eased an operation against insurgents in a tribal region near the border with Afghanistan as local elders try to negotiate peace with a militant leader, a government official said Saturday. Muhammad Ali,...