Kabul - The deputy of the Afghan Taliban's supreme leader Mullah Omar announced Wednesday that the militants would launch a new "strong and robust" operation in Afghanistan to counter more than 25,000 additional US and NATO forces due to arrive in the country this year. "As the US and NATO wants to send more troops to Afghanistan, the Afghans too sense the need for a strong and robust operation to counter the new forces," Mullah Brodar Akhund, the Taliban movement's number two leader, said in a statement posted on their website.

Islamabad  - The leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan has directed Pakistani militants to immediately halt attacks on Pakistani forces and divert their resources to defeat the US-led international forces in Afghanistan, a media report said on Tuesday.

Mullah Mohammad Omar, the head of ousted Taliban regime, in a letter addressed to the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leadership and other militant leaders, said that fighting fellow Muslims was not jihad.

Washington, Feb 21 : Pakistan is providing its air base to the US to launch strikes against militants hiding in tribal areas, but has imposed restrictions on exactly which terrorist can be hit.

Taliban leader Mullah Omar and other big terrorists are never targeted due to their secret ties to Pakistani intelligence agencies, according to Christine Fair of Rand Corporation.

"These fellows are completely off-limits, and yet these fellows are so responsible for so much of the violence that is happening in Afghanistan," CBS News quoted her, as saying.

In an attempt to stop cross-border raids into Afghanistan, the CIA has launched more than 30 missile strikes since August, killing nine senior al Qaeda operatives.

London, Sept. 30 : Taliban leader Mullah Omar has urged the United States and NATO forces in Afghanistan to withdraw or face a similar defeat to occupying Soviet troops a generation ago.

In a rare message, posted on militant websites and monitored by the US-based SITE intelligence group, Omar offered a bargain to the US-led forces that drove the Taliban from power in 2001 but are now fighting a fierce insurgency by the Islamist militia.

"Reconsider your wrong decision of wrong occupation, and seek a safe exit to withdraw your forces," said the message, which the Taliban said came from Omar.

Karachi, June 6 : Shaikh-ul Hadith Maulana Dr Sher Ali Shah, widely considered as the teacher of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar, has denied of ever having taught the

Ontario, Feb 28 (ANI): If Pakistan attempts to secure the Durand Line by withdrawing its security forces from the Indian border, it would be seen as a failure of the Pakistan Government’s Kashmir policy.

In fact, the Pakistan Government’s excessive much focus on India-centric confrontationist policies is also a reason for Pashtun backwardness in that country, Hari Sud writes in his column in UPI Asia Online.