A suicide bomber killed 90 Pakistanis after detonating a truck at a volleyball match in Lakki Marwat. The Taliban killed a tribal leader and five others in Bajaur and attacked two NATO fuel tankers in Baluchistan. The military killed seven Taliban fighters in Arakzai and Hangu. The US killed three Taliban fighters in an airstrike […]
Eight South Waziristan Taliban commanders, pictured in a wanted poster: 1. Hakeemullah Mehsud, 2. Waliur Rehman Mehsud, 3. Qari Hussain Mehsud, 4. Azam Tariq, 5. Maulvi Azmatullah, 6. Mufti Noor Wali, 7. Asmatullah Bhittani, 8. Mohammad Anwar Gandapur. Qari Hussain Mehsud, a senior deputy to Hakeemullah Mehsud (pictured above), has taken credit for the Dec. […]
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The blast in Lakki Marwat leveled nearby homes. The attack took place in a town recently under control of the Taliban.
2009 – the year terrorism changed the face of Lahore
The US killed four people in an airstrike in North Waziristan. The Pakistani military killed four al Qaeda operatives and four Taliban fighters in South Waziristan, and four more Taliban fighters in Arakzai. The Taliban kidnapped a tribal elder in Arakzai and blew up two schools in Bajaur. Hakeemulah Mehsud’s spokesman denied the Taliban carried […]
Waziristan: The last frontier
Four al Qaeda fighters were killed during a raid in a hospital in Wana, a region under the control of ‘good’ Taliban leader Mullah Nazir.
UN to move some staff out of Pakistan for safety
The Taliban took credit for the Dec. 28 suicide attack in Karachi. Security forces detained the leader of the Punjab Taliban and a suicide bomber in Manawan and 19 Taliban fighters in Swat. The Taliban killed a tribal leader in Bajuar and two drivers returning from transporting NATO supplies in Baluchistan.
The Dec. 28 Karachi suicide attack killed 43 people. Taliban commander Asmatullah Bhittani said such attacks would continue.
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Thirty-seven Taliban fighters, five tribal fighters and four security personnel were killed in clashes in Arakzai. Four children, a woman, and two security personnel were killed in clashes in Mohmand. A wanted Taliban commander was killed in South Waziristan. The Taliban killed a policeman in Bajaur.
Pakistan – The return of Yazid
The four Taliban operatives behind the assassination of Afghanistan’s deputy intel chief. Quqnoos photo. According to Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security, the assassination of NDS Deputy Director Dr. Abdullah Laghmani was hatched by Pakistani Taliban commanders based in Peshawar. Laghmani was one of 23 Afghans killed in a suicide attack in a mosque in the […]
A suicide bomber killed more than 30 Pakistanis in an attack on a Shia procession in Karachi. Fifteen Taliban fighters and two soldiers were killed in clashes in South Waziristan. Nine tribal fighters, including a tribal leader, and six Taliban fighters were killed in clashes in Arakzai. The Taliban destroyed five NATO supply trailers in […]
Pakistan: Riots erupt in Karachi after deadly bomb attack
The Taliban killed a government official and five family members in Kurram and a tribal leader in Bajaur. Security forces killed four Taliban fighters in Arakzai and detained three weapons smugglers in Sindh.
10 killed in Pakistan bombings on anniversary of Bhutto assassination
Daily Times inadvertently stumbles across one of the many mysteries that is Pakistan. Shah Doran, the second in command of the Swat chapter of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan and Mullah Fazlullah’s right hand man, died of complications from cancer in the Bajaur tribal agency and was buried the other day: A leader […]
Suspected US airstrike kills 3 in northwest Pakistan
Four terrorists were killed in a US airstrike in North Waziristan. The Taliban beheaded a tribal leader in Bajaur. Twenty-six people were wounded in a bombing at a Shia procession in Karachi. The military said 10 Taliban fighters were killed in Arakzai and Mohmand.
US behind attacks on Pakistani civilians: Ex-ISI chief
Security forces killed 10 Taliban fighters in Arakzai, but locals claimed 10 civilians were killed. The Taliban killed a tribal leader and kidnapped 18 tribal members, and blew up two schools in Khyber, and killed two policemen in Peshawar. Five US citizens arrested for attempting to join al Qaeda have been remanded to custody.
The Taliban killed five Pakistanis in suicide attacks in Peshawar and Rawalpindi, and blew up two schools in Khyber. Security forces detained 32 suspected Taliban fighters in Kohat, 18 in Malakand, and four in Mianwali.
Image of Haqqani Network military commander Mullah Sangeen Zadran. Obtained by The Long War Journal from a Taliban propaganda tape. A few tidbits from someone claiming to be “Mullah Sangeen, a key commander of Afghan Taliban” (and the shadow governor of Paktika province) in this article in Pakistani media outlet The News: What Afghan Taliban […]
Security forces killed 10 Taliban fighters in Bajaur and detained a person transporting explosives in Mianwali. The Taliban bombed a school in Peshawar and fired rockets at a police station in Bannu. Members of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi are regrouping in Karachi.
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