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March 2003 – US/NATO invade Al Qaeda Iraq (AQI) begins war against US in Iraq May 2006 – Nouri al-Maliki forms government under US auspice Dec 2011–US troops complete their withdrawal 2012 – AQI changes name to ISI, Islamic State of Iraq Dec 2012 – Major protest in Anbar against Maliki...

PKKH Exclusive | By Khoulah Afzal Qamer After being divided and ruled upon for seven years, the two main Palestinian political factions -Hamas and Fatah - influenced Palestinian Authority (PA) reconciled lately. Together they unveiled a plan of a technocratic government in what little...

PKKH Exclusive | By Mariam Shah Following the ban imposed by the United States on June 25, 2014 against two senior members, one of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Kashmir-based organization fighting for freedom of Kashmir and the other of charity and dawa’ah organization ‘Jamaat-ud-Dawa’, there are few very...

PKKH Exclusive | by Aneela Shahzad The NATO forces pulled out of Sangin district in Helmand almost a month ago. Last week, after a fierce attack launched by 800 to a 1000 heavily armed Taliban fighters that lasted for five days, the Taliban were able to overrun the ANSF, the Afghan National...

Operation Zarb-e-Azb: 2nd July Developments - PKKH.tv On the eighteenth day of Operation Zarb-e-Azab military gunship helicopter shelled militant hideouts and destroyed several compounds in the area of Khar Warsak. ISPR spokesperson said today that the operation in progressing successfully...

Operation Zarb-e-Azb: 1st July Developments - PKKH.tv Military Forces discovered a large IED-making plant in Miranshah area of NWA on the seventeenth day of the offensive. DG ISPR Asim Bajwa told delegation of foreign media reporters that troops recovered 225 cylinders of explosive...

PKKH Exclusive | By Muhammad Sharreh Qazi Often misconceived to be a franchise of the Taliban organization operative within Afghanistan, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP for short, is seen as a terrorist organization with a very confused but highly dangerous profile. The starting of the...

Operation Zarb-e-Azb: 30th June Developments The ground operation started in and around Miranshah early morning on the 30th. House to house search of Miranshah town is being carried out by infantry troops with special operations forces operatives. 15 terrorists have been eliminated in ground...

PKKH Exclusive | by Sh Fahad In 2003, US along with its allies invaded Iraq to remove Saddam’s regime in the name of saving the world from a despot who controls Weapon of Mass Destruction and making Iraq a democratic state. After 11 years, despite sacrificing more than 4500 US soldier, killing...

PKKH Exclusive | by Ahmed Khan Roger Handberg’s endeavor Seeking New World Vistas: The Militarization of Space (London: Praeger, Publishers, 2000), 286, another effort to explore the military advantages of the outer space. Roger’s research embarks on the historical illustration of beginning of...

Operation Zarb-e-Azb: 29th June Developments - PKKH.tv The operation has now entered in its fifteenth day; with air strikes continuing to eliminate terrorists and destroy their hideouts. Fresh air strikes today eliminated 16 terrorists and destroyed a number of their hideouts on the...

Operation Zarb-e-Azb: 25th June Developments - PKKH.tv The eleventh day of the operation resulted in some phenomenal developments. The first batch of militants surrendered to security forces. Devastation of militant hideout with the help of airforce jets continued, while the ground forces...

On the tenth day of Operation Zarb-e-Azab, PAF jets targeted militants, and their ammunition depots along with their hideouts. Security forces also foiled a suicide attack on the hospital in the Spinwam area of North Waziristan. Casualties According to ISPR, at least 47 suspected militants...

Operation Zarb-e-Azab: 23rd June Developments - PKKH.tv Operation Zarb-e-Azab entered into second week yesterday. Although the local authorities and the military is fully concentrating on the evacuation of IDPs before the ground assault, the security forces are also utilizing the aerial...

Operation Zarb-e-Azab: 22nd June Developments - PKKH.tv Today marked the eighth day of military operation in North Waziristan Agency. No air strikes or ground assaults by the security forces were reported today. The registration and other arrangements for Internally Displaced Persons...

by Atiq Durrani After several attempts for peace through negotiations and delays of North Waziristan operation, finally, the Government of Pakistan has decided a full fledged Operation Zarb-e-Azb in North Waziristan. This decision has been taken after exhausting the option of negotiations for...

PKKH Exclusiev | by Shoaib Ahmed It is the early hours of this battle named "Zarbe Azab", and I am sure that dust from the first round of bombs being dropped at terrorist camps would not have even settled by now, and I want a quick attention to the issue of collateral damage. War, battles, or...

Operation Zarb-e-Azab : 21st June Developments - PKKH.tv After targeting tehsil Miranshah, Mir Ali and other areas of North Waziristan, PAF jet fighters flattened the militant’s bastions in Khyber Agency. The officials of National Database Registration Authorities (NADRA) remained busy in...

The fifth day of Operation Zarb-e-Azb was marked with multiple ingresses in militants controlled areas by the Pakistan army. Militants were targeted in different areas of North Waziristan by the Cobra Gunship helicopters of Army Aviation. The security forces further constricted the cordon around...

The Miranshah Tehsil remained on the military radar on the sixth day of the counter insurgency operation. So far 232 militants have been killed and 20 hideouts have been pummeled by the security forces. A substantial number of IDP’s reached Bannu today after the three days relaxation in curfew...