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 ...

Major Moiz was involved in the capture of the IAF pilot during the 2019 India-Pakistan standoff that followed the Pulwama attack and India’s surgical strikes on Balakot.

Pakistan has ramped up its campaign against Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, placing a bounty on the chieftain’s head and launching air strikes on his stronghold in the country’s north-west.

Furthermore, Waziristan was the de facto emirate of the TTP, with Baitullah Mehsud and then Hakimullah Mehsud as its unchallenged chiefs.

Pakistani officials charged Baitullah Mehsud in the assassination of former two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in November 2007.

Mehsud became leader of the Pakistani Taliban in 2009, aged 30, after Baitullah Mehsud died in a US drone strike at his father-in-law's residence in South Waziristan.

In 2009, following the killing of then Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud in a US drone strike, a young Hakimullah Mehsud became the leader of the militant group – until his death four ...

In this respect he remains true to Baitullah Mehsud's ideology - carving out a Taliban emirate in Pakistan and taking on the army to defend it.

Baitullah Mehsud, the slain leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or the Pakistani Taliban, was once hailed by a Pakistani general as a “soldier of peace”. He had been declared “emir” of ...

After weeks of denial, the Pakistani Taliban on Tuesday acknowledged for the first time that their chief Baitullah Mehsud has died.

Hakeemullah Mehsud, the new leader of the Pakistani Taliban, confirmed former leader Baitullah Mehsud died Sunday from wounds suffered in an airstrike.