KABUL. Ms Dam made the claim in her book The Secret Life of Mullah Omar, The fugitive Taliban chief never hid in neighbouring Pakistan, she says, contradicting US allegations. Mullah Omar lived just three miles from a major US Forward…
KABUL Omar as well as the fate of the stalled Afghan reconciliation talks, Pakistani media reports. Senator Rabbani, the Express Tribune reports issued instructions for a briefing by Sartaj Aziz a few days after his colleague in the upper house,…
KABUL Omar, the spy agency on Monday warned that any gatherings condoling his death would be a “legitimate target” for Afghan forces. The announcement comes hours after Afghan forces targeted a funeral ceremony in absentia for Omar in the Qarah…
Maulvi’s Baluchistan province, a Taliban source said on Monday. The source, wishing anonymity, told Pajhwok Afghan News a former Nangarhar governor and head of the Taliban’s central committee, Maulvi Abdul Kabir, was also travelling in the convoy. Both…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): One policeman has been killed and four others injured when a suicide bomber targeted a police check post in Marjah district of the southern Helmand province, an official said Thursday. Fawad Askari, provincial police spokesperson, told Pajhwok Afghan…
JALALABAD (PAN): Gun toting Taliban fighters marched through an outcrop of east Jalal Abad province on Monday after a deadly firefight with Afghan security forces in the area on Friday. Taliban members noisily revved captured Afghan Police jeeps, chanting "long…
KABUL organisations in Kabul said on Sunday slammed the new university entry test system as unjust and ineffective. Prepared by ministries of higher education, education and labour and social affairs, the draft strategy is set to be placed before the…
KABUL Mohammad Omar could contest the presidential elections, due in 2014, President Hamid Karzai told A German newspaper on Tuesday. According to the Associated Press, the president acknowledged in an interview with the Sueddeutsche Zeitung “sporadic contacts” between his government…
KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai on Sunday said senior US and Taliban leaders have resumed their negotiations suspended a year ago in Qatar. Speaking at a gathering marking the international women's day in Kabul, Karzai said the talks held on…
KABUL (HIA) leader Gulbadin Hekmatyar has spurned the strategy of the United States and the Karzai administration for ending the decade-long conflict as unacceptable. In an exclusive interview with Pajhwok Afghan News, the former prime minister blamed Moscow and Washington…
WASHINGTON (PAN Omar, contrary to media reports, was never on the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) most wanted list, and continues to be on the most wanted terrorist list of the United States. Under the Reward for Justice (RFJ) programme,…
KABUL Muhammad Omar's name from its list of the most wanted terrorists, carrying huge bounties on their heads, media reports said on Tuesday. Several Pakistani media outlets, including private Geo News and Dunya TV channels, quoted an unnamed FBI source…
KABUL Mohammad Omar, has asked the fighters to protect life and property of civilians and avoid harming them during their operations. In a statement congratulating Afghans on the occasion of Eidul Azha, Omar said the fighters should protect the property…
KABUL Omar, the leader of the Afghan Taliban movement. Earlier on Wednesday morning, some media outlets received messages from phone numbers and email addresses of Taliban spokesmen Zabihullah Mujahid and Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, saying that Mullah Omar died. One of…
KABUL, a security official revealed on Monday. The one-eyed fugitive was killed on his way from Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, to the tribal region of North Waziristan, an Afghan security official said on condition of anonymity.…
KABUL Mohammad Omar, to leave the country, under pressure from the US, a reliable source confided to Pajhwok Afghan News on Tuesday. Once referred to as the “father of the Taliban, the ex-ISI chief, Gen. Hamid Gul, conveyed the message to…
