A US strike n North Waziristan killed 15 Taliban and five Uzbek fighters; the strike targeted the compound of Usman Jan, the new leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. Security forces killed three Taliban fighters in Swat and South Waziristan, and detained a pro-Taliban tribal leader and three of his sons in Kohat. The […]
Marshall Plan needed for Pakistan: Zardari
The US again targeted Hakeemullah in a region in North Waziristan that borders South Waziristan.
Poor schooling slows anti-terrorism effort in Pakistan
Elite US troops ready to combat Pakistani nuclear hijacks
Hakeemullah Mehsud released a tape confirming that he survived the Jan. 14 airstrike in North Waziristan. Security forces killed five Lashkar-e-Islam fighters in Khyber and detained a Taliban commander and five fighters at a hospital in Rawalpindi. The Taliban blew up a clinic in Landi Kotal.
US-funded Pashto radio a new weapon in war against Taliban
The US killed eight Taliban and three al Qaeda operatives in two strikes in North Waziristan. A wanted Palestinian terrorist is thought to have been killed in the Jan. 9 strike in North Waziristan. Seven Taliban fighters were killed in Kohat; a tribal leader was killed in Mohmand. The Taliban attacked a security convoy in […]
RFE/RL launches radio station in Pakistan’s Pashtun heartland
Pakistani Taliban chief injured in drone attack: official
Senator Carl Levin is the first senior US figure to publicly rebuke the Pakistani government for its double game of criticizing the US air campaign against the Taliban and al Qaeda while secretly providing support and approval. From The Times of India: In a public rebuke to the Pakistani leadership on Thursday, a leading US […]
Hakeemullah Mehsud dodged yesterday’s airstrike, according to US intelligence officials. He may have been wounded in the attack.
A US strike targeted Movement of the Taliban leader Hakeemullah Mehsud; 12 Taliban and foreign fighters were reported killed. Taliban spokesman Tariq Azam denied Hakeemullah was killed in the airstrike. The World Food Programme closed its offices in Lower Dir due to security concerns.
Taking on Pakistan™s “military-jihadi”
The leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan was reported killed in the early morning strike in North Waziristan. His spokesman denied he was killed.
The data on the US airstrikes against the Taliban and al Qaeda in Pakistan’s lawless tribal agencies, updated in real time.
The government is preparing to release two TNSM clerics. Security forces killed three Taliban fighters and detained nine more in Swat, and killed a Taliban commander and captured nine fighters in Hangu. Police arrested nine Taliban in Kohat. A child was killed in an explosion in Tank.
Pak Army should keep up pressure on Taliban: Burgess
The Taliban killed one soldier in an attack on a security checkpoint in Mohmand. General Pasha, the chief of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), said Afghan soil was being used for attacks against Pakistan. The former chief of the ISI, Hamid Gul, said the government should end operations and negotiate with the Taliban.
Drone attacks intensified after Khost blast: US
Pakistan seen becoming more Islamist, anti-US
Mansur al Shami was an al Qaeda ideologue and a bodyguard for al Qaeda’s leader in Afghanistan. His death was reported on jihadist forums.
Eight Taliban fighters and one soldier were killed in fighting in South Waziristan. Security forces detained a “key” Taliban operative behind the recent suicide attack in Lakki Marwat, a Taliban commander in Karachi, and 30 fighters in Kohat.
Forty-six people were killed in targeted killings in Karachi over the past four days. The Taliban killed two tribal elders in Mohmand and attacked a NATO supply truck in Khuzdar. A politician escaped an assassination attempt in Peshawar.
Action likely in Pakistan’s North Waziristan, say US senators
The Long War Journal’s reporting on the covert US air campaign in Pakistan has been widely cited in the media. Here is one cite we’d like to take back. Iran’s PressTV has completely distorted the The Long War Journal’s data on the Paksitan air campaign in this report. Here is what PressTV claims: The Long […]
Wave of political killings hits southern Pakistan
Petraeus: ‘Pak-Afghan border most important war locale™
Pakistan – ‘Fazlullah will not surrender until Sharia implemented’
The US killed four Taliban fighters in a strike in North Waziristan. Security forces killed five Taliban fighters in Arakzai and detained 50 more in Kohat and Darra Adam Khel. The Taliban wounded seven policemen in a suicide attack in Peshawar.