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Amir Mir

  • July 09, 2023

    Prof. Waris Mir, a writer and a fighter

    There is a rising trend of tagging those writers and intellectuals as...

  • July 09, 2023

    Prof. Waris Mir, a writer and a fighter

    There is a rising trend of tagging those writers and intellectuals as...

  • July 09, 2020

    Waris Mir died with his boots on

    For some time now, there is a rising trend of tagging those writers and...

  • October 19, 2015

    Suspect in Bhutto attack freely pursues jehadi agenda

    Islamabad Eight years after the October 18, 2007 Karsaz suicide bombings targeting Benazir Bhutto Shaheed's homecoming procession in Karachi, Qari Saifullah Akhtar, the ameer of the Harkatul Jehadul...

  • August 26, 2015

    Khanzada assassination an open and shut case

    Islamabad While Interior Minister Ch Nisar Ali Khan has said the murder of Punjab Home Minister Shuja Khanzada was still a "blind case" and there had been no "breakthrough" in it so far, those...

  • August 25, 2015

    Khanzada’s assassination an open and shut case

    ISLAMABAD: While Interior Minister Ch Nisar Ali Khan has said the murder of Punjab Home Minister Shuja Khanzada was still a “blind case” and there had been no “breakthrough” in it so far,...

  • August 10, 2015

    Hunt for key surviving LeJ leader intensified

    NEW YORK: Following the July 29, 2015 killing of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi chief Malik Mohammad Ishaq, his two sons, his deputy Ghulam Rasool Shah and 11 LeJ operatives in a police encounter in...

  • August 08, 2015

    Al-Qaeda lauds Mulla Omar, but Zawahiri keeps mum

    NEW YORK: Amid growing concerns in the ranks of al-Qaeda about the fate of their fugitive ameer Dr Ayman Al Zawahiri, who has strangely failed to give any reaction to Mullah Mohammad Omar’s death,...

  • August 07, 2015

    Mulla Omar’s death takes new turn

    Did he die of heart attack or was he assassinated?

  • August 07, 2015

    Uzbek jehadis want to know truth about Omar’s death

    As the controversy about Mullah Mohammad Omar’s mysterious death refuses to die down, more and more Taliban-linked militant groups, which had been a part and parcel of the Afghan and the Pakistani...

  • August 06, 2015

    Uzbek Jihadis want to know truth about Omar’s death

    NEW YORK: As the controversy about Mullah Mohammad Omar’s mysterious death refuses to die down, more and more Taliban-linked militant groups, which had been a part and parcel of the Afghan and the...

  • August 05, 2015

    Daesh advances in Pakistan after Omar’s death

    NEW YORK: The death of the Afghan Taliban’s ameer Mullah Mohammad Omar has evidently encouraged Abu Bakar Al Baghdadi-led Islamic State to step up its activities in the Pak-Afghan tribal region,...

  • August 04, 2015

    Doubts over fate of al-Qaeda chief Zawahiri

    NEW YORK: Following the death of the Afghan Taliban’s ameer Mulla Mohammad Omar, questions are being raised in the militant circles about the fate of the fugitive al-Qaeda ameer, Dr Ayman Al...

  • August 04, 2015

    Mystery continues to surround Mulla Omar’s death

    The mystery surrounding Mulla Mohammad Omar's death is deepening further with every passing day, with more and more reports suggesting that he did not die by natural causes as being claimed by the...

  • August 03, 2015

    Mystery continues to surround Mulla Omar’s death

    NEW YORK: The mystery surrounding Mulla Mohammad Omar’s death is deepening further with every passing day, with more and more reports suggesting that he did not die by natural causes as being...

  • July 31, 2015

    Question marks over death of Mulla Omar

    NEW YORK: If the past is any guide, the latest reports about the death of the fugitive Afghan Taliban ameer Mulla Mohammad Omar lack credibility given the fact that he had been declared dead at...

  • July 12, 2015

    Top brass of Daesh Pakistan droned by CIA

    ISLAMABAD: The reported death of Hafiz Saeed Khan Orakzai, the chief of the Islamic State or Daesh for Khorasan in a US drone attack, has come as a major blow to the Baghdadi-led terrorist outfit...

  • July 12, 2015

    Shahidullah’s death: A setback for Daesh, relief for Taliban

    IslamabadThe reported death of the former TTP spokesman Shahidullah Shahid, who had joined hands with the Islamic State in October 2014, has come as a major setback to Abu Bakar al Baghdadi-led...

  • July 12, 2015

    Top brass of Daesh in Pakistan droned by CIA

    ISLAMABAD: The reported death of Hafiz Saeed Khan Orakzai, the chief of the Islamic State or Daesh for Khorasan in a US drone attack, has come as a major blow to the Baghdadi-led terrorist outfit...

  • July 11, 2015

    Shahidullah’s death: A setback for Daesh, relief for Taliban

    ISLAMABAD: The reported death of the former TTP spokesman Shahidullah Shahid, who had joined hands with the Islamic State in October 2014, has come as a major setback to Abu Bakar al Baghdadi-led...

  • May 28, 2015

    Fazlullah-led TTP takes on Daesh chief Baghdadi

    ISLAMABAD: In the backdrop of recent media reports that the chief of the Islamic State Abu Bakar Al Baghdadi was either dead or seriously wounded in a US air strike on the Syrian border, Mullah...

  • May 12, 2015

    Brig Usman Khalid informed CIA of Osama’s presence in Abbottabad

    ISLAMABAD: Pulitzer prize winning American journalist Seymour Hersh’s most recent claim that a former Pakistani intelligence official had actually informed the Americans about the Abbottabad...

  • May 09, 2015

    TTP launches special group for terrorist operations

    ISLAMABAD: As five ferocious militant commanders have recently joined hands with Mullah Fazlullah-led Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, the TTP has launched a special group of highly trained fidayeen ...

  • May 09, 2015

    Most wanted al-Qaeda leader fortifying TTP

    IslamabadThe most wanted Lashkar-e-Jhangvi-linked al-Qaeda commander Matiur Rehman aka Abdul Samad Sial has staged a comeback on the Pakistani jehadi horizons with a big bang by joining hands with...

  • May 08, 2015

    Most wanted al-Qaeda leader fortifying TTP

    ISLAMABAD: The most wanted Lashkar-e-Jhangvi-linked al-Qaeda commander Matiur Rehman aka Abdul Samad Sial has staged a comeback on the Pakistani jehadi horizons with a big bang by joining hands with...

  • April 28, 2015

    Five American Jihadis droned in Pakistan

    ISLAMABAD: Of the dozens of American nationals who had joined the jehadi front in Pakistan, five have so far been perished by the CIA-run US drones in the tribal areas of Pakistan, including...

  • April 27, 2015

    Uzbek kidnappers of Weinstein in Pakistani custody

    ISLAMABAD: Pakistani authorities had arrested two Uzbek kidnappers of the slain American hostage, Warren Weinstein, way back in July 2013. However the kidnappers told their interrogators that they...

  • April 27, 2015

    Even ransom money failed to secure Weinstein’s release

    IslamabadThe slain American hostage Warren Weinstein could have been released had his captors not gone back on their deal after pocketing $250,000 in ransom money from his family way back in...

  • April 26, 2015

    Even ransom money failed to secure Weinstein’s release

    ISLAMABAD: The slain American hostage Warren Weinstein could have been released had his captors not gone back on their deal after pocketing $250,000 in ransom money from his family way back in...

  • April 26, 2015

    Obama rightly takes blame for Weinstein deat

    IslamabadThe killing of kidnapped American aid worker Dr Warren Weinstein is more tragic in the sense that the blame for his death has been accepted by the same person - President Obama - to whom...

  • April 25, 2015

    Obama rightly takes blame for Weinstein death

    ISLAMABAD: The killing of kidnapped American aid worker Dr Warren Weinstein is more tragic in the sense that the blame for his death has been accepted by the same person - President Obama - to whom...

  • April 24, 2015

    Daesh’s Pakistan chapter top brass eliminated

    IslamabadWithin a short span of three months since its launch in January 2015, three top leaders of the Pakistan chapter of the Islamic State or Daesh, including its ameer Hafiz Saeed Khan, deputy...

  • April 23, 2015

    Top brass of Daesh’s Pakistan chapter eliminated

    ISLAMABAD: Within a short span of three months since its launch in January 2015, three top leaders of the Pakistan chapter of the Islamic State or Daesh, including its ameer Hafiz Saeed Khan,...

  • March 17, 2015

    Jamaatul Ahraar’s clandestine network needs to be unearthed

    ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani security agencies are desperately trying to uncover the clandestine terrorist network of the TTP Jamaatul Ahraar which has created havoc in Lahore by carrying out some...

  • March 13, 2015

    Saulat Mirza: the first target killer to face the gallows

    ISLAMABAD: Having dodged the gallows for almost 16 long years despite killing 58 Pakistanis, Saulat Mirza will be the first ever target killer belonging to a political party who will be sent to the...

  • March 12, 2015

    JIT revealed Faisal Mota’s role in Wali Babar’s murder

    ISLAMABAD: Faisal Mahmood alias Mota, who has been arrested by the Sindh Rangers during a raid at the Nine-Zero headquarters of the MQM, was wanted by the Sindh police after a Karachi Anti Terrorism...

  • February 18, 2015

    Killing of Usman Kurd a major blow to LeJ

    Islamabad The February 15 killing of the most wanted ameer of Balochistan chapter of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi , Usman Saifullah Kurd, is a major blow to the al-Qaeda linked terrorist outfit which has...

  • February 17, 2015

    Killing of Usman Kurd a major blow to LeJ

    ISLAMABAD: The February 15 killing of the most wanted ameer of Balochistan chapter of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi , Usman Saifullah Kurd, is a major blow to the al-Qaeda linked terrorist outfit which has...

  • February 16, 2015

    Pakistan wants US to deport ISI office attacker

    ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has requested the United States to deport a Pakistani-American Riaz Qadir Khan who has pleaded guilty to financing the 2009 fidayeen attack on the Lawrence Road headquarters of...

  • February 15, 2015

    Architect of APS carnage plotted mosque attack

    ISLAMABAD: Investigations by the security agencies have confirmed that the February 13 fidayeen attack targeting a Shia mosque in Peshawar during Friday prayers was masterminded by Mullah...

  • February 03, 2015

    Jundallah ameer dodges gallows for a decade

    Islamabad Sheikh Ataur Rehman, the jailed ameer of Jundallah , which has claimed the deadly Shikarpur Imambargah bombing killing 60-plus people, keeps dodging death for a decade despite being...

  • February 02, 2015

    Bhutto murder trial suffers another setback

    ISLAMABAD: The Benazir Bhutto murder trial has suffered another major setback in a short span of two weeks as yet another witness has retracted his previous statement recorded before the Rawalpindi...

  • February 02, 2015

    Jundallah Ameer dodges gallows for a decade

    ISLAMABAD: Sheikh Ataur Rehman, the jailed ameer of Jundallah , which has claimed the deadly Shikarpur Imambargah bombing killing 60-plus people, keeps dodging death for a decade despite being...

  • January 30, 2015

    Al-Qaeda, Daesh tug of war feared in Pakistan

    Islamabad With the formal nomination of a former TTP commander from Orakzai Agency, Hafiz Saeed Khan, as the ameer of the Khorasan chapter of the Islamic State , or Daesh, the ongoing battle for...

  • January 29, 2015

    Al-Qaeda, Daesh tug of war feared in Pakistan

    ISLAMABAD: With the formal nomination of a former TTP commander from Orakzai Agency, Hafiz Saeed Khan, as the ameer of the Khorasan chapter of the Islamic State , or Daesh, the ongoing battle for...

  • January 26, 2015

    Ghazi Force in focus after Wah bomber identified

    ISLAMABAD: Amidst intelligence reports that the Lal Masjid-linked Ghazi Force was flexing its muscles to carry out some major acts of terrorism in Rawalpindi and Islamabad by using its human bombs,...

  • January 25, 2015

    JuD’s official website still operational

    ISLAMABAD: Amid repeated government claims that the bank accounts of Jamaatud Dawa have been frozen and the movement of its leaders has been restricted, the JuD is not only free to hold public...

  • January 23, 2015

    Shahbaz Bhatti murder case moving at a snail’s pace

    ISLAMABAD: The federal government has yet to transfer the murder case of the former Minorities Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti to a military court for a speedy trial despite the fact that the case...

  • January 21, 2015

    50 Amr Bil Maroof militants join Daish

    IslamabadHardly a week after renouncing violence and agreeing to cooperate with the political administration of Khyber Agency in the ongoing military operation, dozens of the fighters of a militant...

  • January 20, 2015

    50 Amr Bil Maroof militants join Daish

    ISLAMABAD: Hardly a week after renouncing violence and agreeing to cooperate with the political administration of Khyber Agency in the ongoing military operation, dozens of the fighters of a...