Pak Taliban threatens country-wide attacks on election day

With a little more than a month to go for Pakistan's general election, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Hakimullah Mehsud has described democracy as a system of kafirs (non-believers) and vowed to wage jihad to implement Islamic law in the country.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Hakimullah Mehsud has said his group is focussed on ending the country's democratic system.

KARACHI: The Crime Investigation Department arrested five members of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan's Hakimullah Mehsud group from Manghopir, Karachi, on Thursday. The culprits were identified as Sher Ali Khan, Saeed Alam, Mubarak Hussain Shah, ...

ISLAMABAD Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud, in a message to the group's spokesman, outlined plans for the attacks, including suicide blasts, in all four of the country's provinces on polling day on Saturday. "We don't accept the system of ...

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The Baber Ghar area is a reported stronghold of Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud where the faction runs several camps. The five killed were suspected al-Qaeda fighters, according to t local security ...

ISLAMABAD, May 16: ANP chief Asfandyar Wali Khan has credited the Taliban for successfully engineering the rout of his party in recent elections. At the same time, he fired a broadside at the Election Commission of Pakistan which, according to him, ...

ISLAMABAD: His party is under siege. It has borne the brunt of Taliban violence together with other liberal political groups. He is disillusioned but outspoken. Asfandyar Wali Khan, the chief of Awami National Party (ANP), blames the election ...

But on what terms? The TTP had declared the previous government non-serious about peace talks. During the elections, it had launched deadly attacks on the candidates and the meetings and rallies of the PPP, the ANP and the MQM targeting the trio ...