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Taliban attack prison in Pakistan, free militants

By AP News Sun, Apr 15, 2012 1:18PM UTC View Comments

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Close to 150 Taliban fighters armed with guns and rocket-propelled grenades attacked a prison in northwest Pakistan before dawn Sunday, freeing hundreds of prisoners, including some suspected militants, police said. The prison was located in the city of Bannu in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, said police officer Shafique Khan. The fighters...

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Pakistan school strives to beat the Taliban trap

By AP News Mon, Feb 27, 2012 1:10PM UTC View Comments

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) – The boy was 2 when his mother dumped him on the streets, 4 when he spent his first night in a tiny prison cell, being sexually assaulted by an older inmate. Prostitution for money and shelter followed, then hashish, and glue-sniffing. Now 10 and gangly, he fidgets and stares at the...

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Opinion: The Pakistan Taliban are not nationalists

By Ahsan Butt Fri, Feb 03, 2012 12:58AM UTC View Comments

There is a conventional wisdom out there – parroted often by the likes of Imran Khan – that the Taliban and their local affiliates act the way they do because they are solely and exclusively motivated by the presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan, as well as Pakistan’s alliance with the U.S. By this logic,...

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Taliban to open Qatar office for peace talks

By AP News Wed, Jan 04, 2012 10:51AM UTC View Comments

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban announced Tuesday that they will open an office in the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar to hold talks with the United States, an unprecedented step toward a peace process that might lead to a winding down of the 10-year war in Afghanistan. Although U.S. and Taliban representatives have met...

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Growing voices against armed struggle in Pakistan

By Ihsanullah Tipu Mehsud Fri, Oct 28, 2011 1:49PM UTC View Comments

Maulana Fazalur Rehman (left), addresses a public rally.

Pakistan’s largest and an influential relgio-political party, Jamiat-e-Ulma Islam-F (JUI-F), nullified an armed resistance inside the country. In a recently held grand conference in Peshawar, provincial capital of Pakistan’s Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province, commemorating the party’s founder and former head Mulana Mufti Mehmud, the party current chief and Mufti’s eldest son, Mulana Fazal-u-Rehman termed an armed...

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