<p>Updated: Aug. 25, 2009</p><p>Baitullah Mehsud, the supreme leader of Pakistan's feared Taliban movement and the country's No. 1 enemy, is believed to have been killed on Aug. 5, 2009, in a <a ...

As a succession of generals before Asim Munir learned, cooptation of Pakistani jihadism is a dangerous—and mostly short-lived ...

Pakistan Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir attended the funeral of a Pakistani Major who was involved in the capture of Indian Air Force officer Abhinandan Varthaman in 2019. The 37-year-old was ...

In his revelations, the detained commander Nasrullah alias Maulvi Mansoor said before joining TTP, he had been taking part in subversive activities from the platform of Baitullah Mehsud. He revealed ...

The TTP, founded in 2007 by Baitullah Mehsud, seeks to establish an Islamist state in Pakistan similar to the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan and has executed numerous deadly attacks, including the 2014 ...

When I picked up Baitullah Quaderee’s 'Bangladesher Shater Dashaker Kabita', it wasn’t particularly out of scholarly curiosity. The book is, by design, a doctoral thesis—its structure ...

News about The Taliban in Pakistan (Hakimullah Mehsud), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Anila Masood, daughter of tribal elder Malik Masood Ahmad Khan Mahsud, has made history by becoming the first woman from South Waziristan’s Mehsud tribe to earn a PhD in English Literature. She ...