insurgency

(Reuters) – An Afghan insurgent group rejected on Saturday reports that it was providing intelligence on the Taliban to the government and foreign troops.
General Murad Ali Murad, commander of Afghan troops in the north, told Reuters that Hezb-i-Islami fighters had tipped-off government and U.S. forces, revealing locations of key Taliban figures there.
“This is part of [...]

July 10 (Reuters) – An Afghan insurgent group rejected on Saturday reports that it was providing intelligence on the Taliban to the government and foreign troops.
General Murad Ali Murad, commander of Afghan troops in the north, told Reuters that Hezb-i-Islami fighters had tipped-off government and U.S. forces, revealing locations of key Taliban figures there. [ID:nSGE66300D]
“This [...]

(Reuters) – Following are security developments in Pakistan at 0602 GMT on Sunday.
QUETTA – A car-bomb blast wounded four soldiers and four passersby on the outskirts of Quetta city, police said.
Quetta is the capital of southwestern Baluchistan province where Baluch militants have waged a low-level insurgency for decades for greater autonomy.
MOHMAND – Security forces battled [...]

Islamabad, Sep.20 (ANI): US Ambassador to Pakistan, Anne Patterson, has said that Islamabad is reluctant to target Taliban leaders present on its soil despite repeated appeals by America in this regard.

In an interview with a US daily, Patterson said even after eight years of Pakistan agreeing to support the US in its war against the [...]

Islamabad, Sep.14 (ANI): Security forces killed 16 more militants, at least two of them senior Taliban members, while one soldier was killed in clashes during searches in Swat on Monday, the military said in a daily update.

Over 1,700 militants have been killed since Pakistani security forces launched the military operation against Taliban militants in [...]

London, Sep.14 (ANI): The primary focus of America’s war strategy in Afghanistan could shift towards the eastern provinces bordering Pakistan and away from the south of the country, senior military officials have said.

They believe the Afghan Taliban’s ability to find sanctuary and support across the porous border with Pakistan plus the suspected presence in the [...]

Islamabad, Sep. 13 (ANI): The Pakistan Government has said that it has credible evidence that there are more than 5,000 Uzbek militants hiding in North and South Waziristan.

Briefing the Senate Standing Committee on States and Frontier Regions (SAFRON), FATA Additional Chief Secretary Habibullah Khan said these militants regularly travel through Balochistan.

The Daily Times quoted him [...]

Kabul, Sep. 11 (ANI): Almost eight years after the war began in Afghanistan in the aftermath of the 9/11 carnage, the Taliban insurgency has spread across 80 percent of the country.

The violent incidents this week have drawn attention to the deteriorating security situation of northern Afghanistan, which had largely remained peaceful so far, the Christian [...]

Islamabad, Sep.12 (ANI): In yet another evidence of Pakistan’s flip-flops, Islamabad, for the first time has admitted that it has not handed any dossier regarding Baloch insurgency to India.

In an interview with Outlook magazine, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, in an apparent volte-face, said Pakistan actually never handed any dossier to India during Prime Minister [...]

New Delhi, Sep 11 (ANI): Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram will inaugurate the DGPs/IGPs Confernce-2009 on September 14.

Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will address the conference on the second day and also present police medals for meritorious services.

The conference is expected to deliberate [...]

Islamabad, Sep. 8 (ANI): Pakistan has once again urged the United States to hasten the process of passing the Kerry-Lugar and ROZ bills through the Congress to facilitate early release of funds for establishing health and infrastructure facilities in the war ravaged Swat [...]

Srinagar, Sep 7 (ANI): Kashmir’s heritage Emporium Garden is all set to get a facelift with the state government planning to spend rupees 15 million to restore the garden to its lost glory.

Located in Srinagar, the garden used to be under the British residency during the state’s erstwhile Dogra era, and the Britishers had [...]

Islamabad, Sep.6 (ANI): In what may be seen as an attempt by Islamabad to divert the international community’s attention from the Mumbai attack probe, Pakistani intelligence agencies are preparing a dossier linking the Indian spy agency, RAW, with the prevailing militancy in the tribal areas.

Officials said Islamabad has found evidence that RAW is funding insurgency [...]

Islamabad, Sep.5 (ANI): The Pakistan Air Force (PAF), for the first time, is using unmanned UAV drone planes in its ongoing annual war exercise in Sargodha.

The focus of the drill named ‘Saffron Bandit 2009-10′ is to train fighter pilots in counter insurgency operations and carrying out precision [...]

Islamabad, Sep.2 (ANI): Expressing concerns over the Baloch insurgency, the United States has asked the Pakistan Government to settle all outstanding issues with the Baloch people as soon as possible.

According to sources, three US Senators met President Asif Ali Zardari and asked him to resolve the crisis while expressing concerns over the deteriorating law [...]

New Delhi, Sep 1 (ANI) Lt. Gen. P C Bhardwaj, who is currently heading the Indian Army’s Northern Command, will be the next Vice Chief of Army Staff, bypassing the senior most three-star officer Lt. Gen. V K Singh.

Lt. Gen. Bhardwaj will assume office on October 1 when the incumbent Lt. Gen. Noble Thamburaj retires.

The [...]

New York, Aug.29 (ANI): Taliban insurgents have resorted to ‘organized crime’ to generate funds for their militant activities being carried out in the lawless northwestern Pakistan, and the banned outfit has made Karachi their hub for the new ‘business’.

The Taliban is using Karachi, Pakistan’s financial capital, to regroup, smuggle weapons and even work seasonal jobs, [...]

Srinagar, Aug 24 (ANI): Consequent to signs of peace returning in Jammu and Kashmir, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is being gradually withdrawn.

At the outset, five formations, three from Jammu and two from the Valley areas will be withdrawn in the coming weeks.

Further, in place of CRPF, the Indian Reserve Police Force (IRPF), [...]

Washington, Aug. 24 (ANI): Even as Afghanistan awaits the result of its second presidential election, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, has said conditions in Afghanistan are “deteriorating,” and hinted at further troop increases.

“I think it is serious and it is deteriorating and I’ve said that over the past [...]

Washington, August 22 (ANI): A team of anthropologists has claimed that five bodies found in Bolivia may be guerrilla soldiers killed four decades ago for their involvement with revolutionary leader Che Guevara.

According to a report in National Geographic News, the remains were found in the town of Teoponte, Bolivia, by a team of Argentine [...]