According to the National Security Directorate, Karachi-born Mohammad Hanif also had “close ties” with the Taliban.A Pakistani bomb maker who trained Taliban members before switching to al-Qaeda was killed in a security operation in western…
BAZARAK, Afghanistan - His face protrudes along the single-lane roads carved into the remote and forbidden Panjshir Valley, protruding above twisted piles of Soviet tanks and the patchwork of grain fields. Billboards seemingly everywhere…