Af-pak Region

The ISIS continues to recruit from the restive Af-Pak border region even as the terror outfit is struggling financially in Afghanistan and has resorted to extortion, according to a UN report.

The Af-Pak border region continues to be safe haven for many terrorist groups, the US said today acknowledging that efforts made in this regard have not always gone smoothly in the past.

The ISIS has emerged as the most potent terrorist threat globally but in the Af-Pak region the space is dominated by other terrorist groups like Taliban, Haqqani network and Lashkar-e-Taiba, America's top spymaster has said.

Entire communities of earthquake survivors in Afghanistan and Pakistan were bracing for a third night without shelter in plummeting temperatures today as rescuers struggled to reach remote mountainous regions, with the death toll climbing to 370.

Ayman Al Zawahiri, who took over the leadership of al-Qaeda after the death of Osama bin Laden last year, remains in the Af-Pak region, a top US counter-terrorism official said on Sunday.

Increasing Talibanisation of Pakistan and shifting of terror focus from Af-Pak region would pose a serious security threat to India in the next two years, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne said in Bangalore on Saturday.

The process of withdrawing US combat troops from Afghanistan will begin in July next year and will be completed in four years in a phased manner, America's Special Envoy for Af-Pak region Richard Holbrooke said today.The process of troop withdrawal is not an exit strategy but a transition strategy, Holbrooke told reporters at a roundtable discussio...

A range of strategic issues, including America's Af-Pak policy will top the agenda of Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor who arrived in Washington on Monday.

It is "too early" to gauge the success of the new Af-Pak policy of the Obama Administration, the US National Security Advisor has said.

The ISIS continues to recruit from the restive Af-Pak border region even as the terror outfit is struggling financially in Afghanistan and has resorted to extortion, according to a UN report.

The Af-Pak border region continues to be safe haven for many terrorist groups, the US said today acknowledging that efforts made in this regard have not always gone smoothly in the past.

The ISIS has emerged as the most potent terrorist threat globally but in the Af-Pak region the space is dominated by other terrorist groups like Taliban, Haqqani network and Lashkar-e-Taiba, America's top spymaster has said.

Entire communities of earthquake survivors in Afghanistan and Pakistan were bracing for a third night without shelter in plummeting temperatures today as rescuers struggled to reach remote mountainous regions, with the death toll climbing to 370.

Ayman Al Zawahiri, who took over the leadership of al-Qaeda after the death of Osama bin Laden last year, remains in the Af-Pak region, a top US counter-terrorism official said on Sunday.

Increasing Talibanisation of Pakistan and shifting of terror focus from Af-Pak region would pose a serious security threat to India in the next two years, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne said in Bangalore on Saturday.

The process of withdrawing US combat troops from Afghanistan will begin in July next year and will be completed in four years in a phased manner, America's Special Envoy for Af-Pak region Richard Holbrooke said today.The process of troop withdrawal is not an exit strategy but a transition strategy, Holbrooke told reporters at a roundtable discussio...

A range of strategic issues, including America's Af-Pak policy will top the agenda of Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor who arrived in Washington on Monday.

It is "too early" to gauge the success of the new Af-Pak policy of the Obama Administration, the US National Security Advisor has said.