Pakistan
Pakistan – Is there a Taliban connection?
Pakistan – Is there a Taliban connection?
Pakistan rebuffs US on Taliban crackdown
Pakistan may face new jihad, this time on Internet
Pak officers working with jihadis, Headley confirms to FBI
Americans, not Taliban pose threat to Pakistan’s nukes: Fazl
Seven Taliban fighters and two troops were killed in Kurram. Security forces detained Mullah Fazlullah’s driver in Mardan and four Taliban fighters in Quaidabad. The Taliban bombed a school in Mohmand and torched eight homes of government officials in Bajaur. The foreign minister said India is behind terror attacks in Pakistan.
Terror suspect was drug dealer, then informant
On 26/11, Headley was in LeT control room in Pak
The prime minister and interior minister both said talks would be considered but said the government would work through pro-Islamist political parties.
BBC Urdu reported on Dec. 11 that Pakistani intelligence arrested three military officers officers for spying at the Shamsi Air Force base in Baluchistan province and “inciting army officers to commit acts of terrorism.” The court-martial of Col Shahid Bashir, Nadeem Ahmad Shah, a former air force pilot who is now an advocate, and Awais […]
Pakistan eyes Taliban front after S. Waziristan
The defense minister admitted the Quetta Shura operates in Pakistan, but said it is no longer a threat. The military said 23 Taliban fighters were killed and 90 more were detained in Kyber, Arakzai, and Hangu, and 54 Taliban fighters were detained in Swat and South Waziristan. Five civilians were wounded in a grenade attack […]
Saleh al Somali, a longtime operative of the terror group, is thought to have been killed in the Dec. 8 strike in Miramshah in North Waziristan. He directed al Qaeda’s operations against targets in the West.
Pakistani officials: N.Va. men had contacted radical groups
Four al Qaeda operatives and two Taliban fighters were killed in a US airstrike in South Waziristan. Five Taliban fighters and one soldier were killed in fighting in South Waziristan. Security forces detained 11 Taliban fighters in Kurram.
The is plenty of interesting information available on the five Americans detained in Pakistan who were trying to link up with al Qaeda and allied terror groups within Pakistan. The radicalization process and recruitment via the Internet by “Saifullah,” a known jihadist, will certainly raise some eyebrows. Ultimately, it seems all roads to jihad pass […]
Mumbai terrorist suspect led double life in US
CNN reports on a story that has broken over the past couple of days: Five people arrested in Pakistan had been reported missing in the United States, and police are confident they were planning terrorist acts, a Pakistani police official told CNN. It is too soon to link the men with any terrorist organizations, said […]
The military claimed 589 Taliban fighters and 79 Pakistani soldiers were killed during the South Waziristan operation. Three Taliban fighters were killed in Bajaur. The Taliban bombed two schools in Khyber.
Pakistan arrests 5 men reported missing in United States
Retired Pakistani major charged with acting as al-Qaeda go-between
Pakistan’s Peshawar, epicenter of jihad
5 Americans detained in Pakistan; no reason given
A Taliban suicide assault team killed 12 people during an attack on an Inter-Services Intelligence agency building in Multan. The US killed three Taliban fighters in an airstrike in North Waziristan. Security forces detained 14 Taliban fighters in Swat and four more in South Waziristan.
Ex-Taliban in action to sniff out comrades-in-arms
Serving officers in Pak Army linked to 26/11?
A terror assault team struck a “sensitive agency” in the city in southern Punjab, killing 12 Pakistanis in the attack.
Pakistan – Clerics declare terrorism crime against Islam, humanity
Suicide bombers killed 45 people in an attack at a market in Lahore and 11 more outside a courthouse in Peshawar. Security forces killed four Taliban fighters in Swat and detained 17 more. Six Taliban fighters were killed in Bajaur and two bomb makers died in a work accident.
The military killed 13 Taliban fighters in Swat and Dir, eight in Arakzai, four in Mohmand, one in Peshawar, and one more in South Waziristan; 52 more were detained in the tribal areas. The Taliban killed two tribal leaders in Bajaur and claimed to have killed 10 soldiers in Mohmand.