By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan | Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:05am IST PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – The leader of the Pakistani Taliban, the militant movement that poses the gravest security threat to the country, is believed to have been killed by a U.S. drone strike, four Pakistan intelligence officials told Reuters on Sunday. The officials said they intercepted wireless radio chatter between Taliban fighters detailing how Hakimullah Mehsud was killed…

By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan | Thu Jan 5, 2012 8:38am EST PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – The Pakistani Taliban have killed 15 kidnapped troops in revenge for military operations against them near the Afghan border, a Taliban spokesman said Thursday, vowing further such violence. Local officials confirmed that 15 bodies, with gunshot wounds and telltale signs of torture, had been found in the Thal area of the northwestern Hangu district,…

By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan | Sat Dec 10, 2011 3:37am EST PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – The deputy commander of the Pakistan Taliban, who have been waging a four-year war against the government in Islamabad, confirmed the two sides were in peace talks, a move that could further fray the U.S.-Pakistan relationship. “Our talks are going in the right direction,” Maulvi Faqir Mohammad, the commander of the Pakistani Taliban in…

By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan | Wed Nov 30, 2011 10:54pm EST PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – A bomb exploded near the office of a regional government official in the often restive northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar early on Thursday, police officials said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties. A wall of the district coordination officer’s building collapsed after the blast, which was heard throughout Peshawar, the last major…

By Michael Georgy and Qasim Nauman ISLAMABAD | Mon Nov 21, 2011 3:43am EST ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan‘s Taliban movement, a major security threat to the country, is holding exploratory peace talks with the U.S.-backed government, a senior Taliban commander and mediators told Reuters Monday. The United States, the source of billions of dollars of aid vital for Pakistan‘s military and feeble economy, is unlikely to look kindly on peace…