Maulana Masood Azhar, the leader of the Jaish-e-Mohammed. From the Department of How You Know You’ve Struck A Nerve, via The Hindu: Pakistani authorities have barred foreign journalists from visiting any seminary or other places in southern Punjab province after the Western media reported on the presence of the Taliban in that area. “All foreign […]
One Pakistani soldier was killed after a platoon of Taliban fighters attacked a checkpoint in Wana. The area is controlled by Mullah Nazir, who signed a peace agreement with the military.
Security forces killed seven Takiban fighters in Arakzai and detained two senior Taliban leaders in Hangu, three Lashkar-e-Islam commanders and 32 fighters in Khyber, and six suspects in the Rawalpindi mosque attack in Islamabad. The Taliban killed a soldier in South Waziristan. The trial of the Mumbai terror suspects was postponed for one week.
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A suicide assault team killed 40 Pakistanis in an attack on a mosque in Rawalpindi; two generals, four other officers, and relatives of many senior officers were among those killed. The Taliban took credit for the attack. Security forces killed 13 Taliban fighters in Swat, seven in Arakzai, and seven more in Dir. The Taliban […]
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Operatives behind the US’ not-so-covert air campaign against the Taliban and al Qaeda in Pakistan’s tribal areas claim that the number of civilian casualties is far lower than even Alex Mayer and I reported in our study from October [note: we’ll have a new one coming for the end of the year]. From The New […]
Security forces killed 12 Taliban fighters in Swat and night fighters and a commander in Arakzai, and detained 10 Lashkar-e-Islam fighters and three commanders in Khyber. The Taliban wounded one person in an IED attack in Peshawar.
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A suicide bomber killed a guard outside the naval headquarters in Islamabad. Security forces killed 10 Taliban fighters in Hangu and detained 128 more, killed a Taliban commander and a fighter in Kurram and detained 12 more, detained 14 Taliban fighters in Swat, and captured nine Lashkar-e-Islam fighters in Khyber.
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One naval security guard was killed after the teenaged suicide bomber detonated at the guardpost outside the naval headquarters in the capital of Islamabad.
The Taliban killed a member of the provincial assembly in a suicide attack in Swat and four tribal leaders in Arakzai and Swabi. The military killed four Lashkar-e-Islam fighters in Khyber and detained 10 Taliban fighters in Swat.
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A member of a secular Pashtun political party who served in the provincial assembly was killed as he greeted Eid well-wishers outside his home in Swat.
Security forces killed 10 Taliban fighters in Kurram and detained 10 in Swat and South Waziristan. The Frontier Corps said 61 Lashkar-e-Islam, Taliban, and Uzbek and Afghan fighters have been killed since the latest operation began in Khyber last week.
The commander of the Frontier Corps in Khyber said the Lashkar-e-Islam has been cleared from the Bara region.
Security forces killed 14 Taliban fighters during clashes in Kurram, Khyber, and South Waziristan. One soldier was injured during a Taliban attack on a Frontier Corps camp in South Waziristan. Police detained a member of the banned Khair-un-Nisa who provided weapons to terrorists in the city.
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