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ایمن الظواہری کی لاش ہمیں اب تک نہیں ملی، تحقیقات جاری ہیں: طالبان ترجمان

کابل: افغان طالبان کا کہنا ہےکہ القاعدہ رہنما ایمن الظواہری کی ہلاکت سے متعلق تحقیقات مکمل نہیں ہوئیں، ان کی لاش ہمیں اب تک نہیں ملی۔ کابل میں پریس کانفرنس کرتے ہوئے افغانستان حکومت کے ترجمان ذبیح اللّٰہ مجاہد نے کہا کہ داعش کو افغانستان میں شکست دی جا چکی ہے اور دنیا کو افغانستان میں داعش کے خطرے سے متعلق پریشان نہیں ہونا چاہیے۔ ذبیح اللہ مجاہد کے مطابق طالبان حکام کو اب تک ایمن الظواہری کی لاش کے کوئی شواہد نہیں ملے ہیں اور اس ضمن میں تحقیقات ابھی جاری ہیں۔ اس سے قبل، امریکی صدر نے 2

August 25, 2022

Taliban say they’ve not found body of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri

KABUL: Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid on Thursday said that the group have not found the body of Ayman al-Zawahiri and are continuing investigations. According to the details, Zabihullah during a press conference said, “the investigation into the killing of Ayman Al Zawahiri is still ongoing, which will be clarified after the investigation is completed.” The US killed Zawahiri with a missile fired from a drone while he stood on a balcony at his hideout in July, US officials said, in the biggest blow to Al Qaeda since US Navy SEALS shot dead Osama bin Laden more than a decade ago. His death

August 10, 2022

TTP activates its B-Team in the form of Hafiz Gul Bahadur group and IMAM group, says FJ

ISLAMABAD/LONDON: Faran Jeffery, deputy director and head of the South Asia desk on terrorism at the Britain-based Islamic Theology of Counter Terrorism (ITCT) think tank, has said that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) doesn’t want to embarrass the Afghan Taliban in front of the international community and has therefore agreed for a ceasefire with Pakistan. Faran Jeffery, also known as NatSecJeff and FJ is considered to be amongst the most well-informed security analysts covering the AfPak region. He has a deep insight into the psychology and dynamics of terrorist and extremist groups in Pakistan. Speaking exclusively to The Pakistan Daily‘s correspondent Raja Furqan Ahmed,

August 5, 2022

Pakistan’s soil not used in Zawahiri’s killing, says DG ISPR

RAWALPINDI: Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Spokesperson Major General Babar Iftikhar on Friday ruled out any chance that Pakistan’s soil has been used in the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan. Speaking to a private TV channel on Friday, he said that the foreign office has already given an explanation on the incident of the killing of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in a US drone strike in Afghanistan and it was not appropriate to discuss this topic again and again. To a question, Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar said that a tragic helicopter crash took place in Lasbela on August

August 5, 2022

No Pak airspace used for US drone strike in Kabul: Foreign Office

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan categorically rejected reports that Pakistan’s airspace had been used by a US drone strike in Kabul killing al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri. “I would refer you to the statement that we have issued (earlier) on this incident, and that is our stated position. There is no evidence of this action having been undertaken using Pakistan’s airspace, so this is something that I can add to that,” said the spokesman at the Foreign Office during the weekly media briefing. In its earlier statement on August 2, the spokesman issued a vague statement on the US drone strike, saying that Pakistan

August 5, 2022

Hamza Azhar Salam

Pak journalist Anas Mallick goes missing from Kabul

KABUL/ISLAMABAD: Pakistani journalist Anas Mallick has gone missing from Kabul just a day after arriving in Afghanistan. Mallick, who is the Pakistan Bureau Chief for Wion News had reported on Al Qaeda Chief Aymen Al Zawahari’s killing by a US drone strike. Zawahari was living in a posh Kabul neighbourhood during the time of the strike, suggesting that the Taliban had provided the terrorist mastermind a safe haven within the city. According to reports, Mallick was going to report from the place where Zawahari was found when he was picked up by unknown men who are believed to be the

August 4, 2022

Afghan Taliban warns US to ‘never repeat’ drone strike on Kabul

KABUL: The Afghan Taliban has issued its first official comments on the killing of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a US drone strike on Kabul, saying the group had no knowledge of the wanted militant’s presence in the Afghan capital. In a statement, Taliban senior spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said that the group has instructed its investigative and intelligence agencies to conduct thorough and comprehensive probes on various aspects of this case. “The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has no information about Ayman al-Zawahiri’s arrival and stay in Kabul, ” he added. According to him, no country, including the United States, is under threat from Afghanistan. Furthermore, he said that the

August 4, 2022

Drone that hit Ayman al Zawahiri likely flew from Kyrgyzstan: Reports

The US drone that killed Al Qaeda chief Ayman Al Zawahri on July 31 in Afghanistan’s capital city Kabul was possibly launched from an airbase in Kyrgyzstan, according to reports. According to Dawn, the attack was launched from Ganci Airbase, a US transit facility at Manas in northern Kyrgyzstan. Ganci is a former American military base in Kyrgyzstan, near the Bishkek international airport, according to the US Department of Defence as cited by Dawn. It was operated by the US Air Force, which handed it over to the Kyrgyz military in June 2014. However, the US administration did not comment on over the exact location

August 4, 2022