Siraj Haqqani sheltering in Kurram, near area of US helicopter strikes
The operational leader of the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network is thought to have been in the same area in Pakistan where US Apache helicopters carried out cross-border attacks last month. Siraj’s presence in part sparked the Pakistani military’s outrage over the incursion.
Jamaat-ud Dawa, the banned front for the Lashkar-e-Taiba, renamed itself the Movement for the Safeguarding of the First Center of Prayer and held a protest in Lahore.