Security forces killed 15 Taliban fighters in South Waziristan and 15 Lashkar-e-Islam fighters in Khyber, and detained 17 Taliban fighters in Bannu and a suicide bomber in Dera Ismail Khan. The Taliban killed a pro-government tribal leader in Bajaur and captured another in Mohmand.
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Abdullah Shah Mehsud is one of 19 most-wanted Taliban commanders in the South Waziristan region. He was detained recently in Tank.
The military detained a wanted South Waziristan Taliban commander in Tank, killed five Taliban fighters during airstrikes in Arakzai, and seized control of a Taliban training camp in Kurram. Pakistan’s interior minister said the Taliban are receiving weapons from Afghanistan.
Taliban, allies slip through Waziristan dragnet
Pakistan Taliban regrouping outside Waziristan
At the Asia Times, Syed Saleem Shahzad explains how the fruitless US/NATO attempts to conduct high-level negotiations with the Taliban and President Obama’s “dithering” over the path forward in Afghanistan have impacted the Pakistani military calculations. According to Shahzad, the Pakistani Army has opened channels to al Qaeda and has put off pursuing the Taliban […]
Security forces killed 10 Taliban fighters and detained 19 more in Arakzai, Hangu, Kurram, and Swat. A jirga turned over 10 Taliban fighters in Dir. The Taliban destroyed a NATO fuel tanker near Peshawar. A court indicted seven Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives for the November 2008 terror assault.
An Indian commando rappels to assault the Jewish center in Mumbai in November 2008. Reuters photograph. With the one-year anniversary of the deadly Mumbai terror assault by Lashkar-e-Taiba just days away, Pakistan has finally indicted seven operatives from the terror group. From AKI: A Pakistani court has charged seven suspects in connection with last November’s […]
The Frontier Corps killed 18 Lashkar-e-Islam fighters and detained 12 more in the latest operation in Khyber. The military killed eight Taliban fighters in Arakzai. Five Pakistani Army officers have been arrested in connection with the Headley/Rana terror plot.
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The Frontier Corps killed 18 members of the Lashkar-e-Islam in the Bara region in the latest attempt to relieve the pressure on Peshawar.
The military killed nine Taliban fighters in South Waziristan. The Taliban ambushed and torched several NATO supply and oil transports in Jafarabad. The military moved troops into the Bara region in Khyber.
US sleuths believe ISI had links with Headley
Pakistan nuclear facilities at risk: Security expert
The military is conducting a limited operation in the Arakzai tribal agency, where fighting has intensified over the past week.
Security forces killed 18 Taliban fighters in Bajaur, 13 in Hangu, and five more in South Waziristan, and detained a suicide bomber in Swat. The Air Force targeted 17 Taliban installations in Arakzai. An ammendment to the Anti-Terrorism Law prevents the issuance of bail to terror suspects.
‘75% in Pak say they’re Muslims first’
The military said 25 Taliban fighters were killed and eight, including a commander, were captured, during fighting in Arakzai, Hangu, Khyber, and Bajaur. Another 14 Taliban fighters and six soldiers were killed in South Waziristan.
Fourteen Taliban fighters and six soldiers were killed in clashes in South Waziristan. Eleven Taliban fighters were killed in airstrikes in Arakzai, and seven Taliban fighters and a commander were captured in Hangu after ambushing a military convoy. In Dera Ghazi Khan, police detained two weapons smugglers linked to HuJI and the Taliban. And in […]
‘Mastermind’ of Mumbai attack preaches at mosque in Lahore
Mullah Omar not in Pakistan, asserts Pakistani Foreign Office
Five Taliban and three al Qaeda operatives were killed in a US airstrike in North Waziristan. Security forces killed five Taliban fighters in South Waziristan and captured the Ghazi Force suicide attack leader in Islamabad. The Taliban killed a Frontier Corps trooper and a civilian in Arakzai and attacked a NATO convoy in Quetta.
Taliban chief hides among Pakistan populace
Rana and Headley have elite Pak antecedents
A suicide bomber killed 19 Pakistanis in an attack outside a courthouse in Peshawar; two policemen were killed in a second bombing in Peshawar. Eight Taliban and four security officers were killed in clashes in Bajaur. The military killed eight civilians and two Taliban fighters in Hangu and seven Taliban fighters in South Waziristan.
A US airstrike killed four Haqqani Network fighters in North Waziristan. Pakistani airstrikes killed 24 Taliban fighters in Arakzai, Hangu, and Bajaur. Security forces killed six Taliban fighters in South Waziristan and detained 13 terrorists in Punjab, 10 Taliban fighters in Mohmand and Swat, and an al Qaeda operative in Quetta.
Major General Athar Abbas, the Director General of Inter Services Public Relations. Here is a very bad sign that the Pakistani Army views the very narrow offensive against the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan in South Waziristan as sufficient to defeat the Taliban. Major General Athar Abbas, the top military spokesman, in Reuters: ‘You […]
The military killed four Taliban fighters and a commander in Swat. Police detained three suicide bombers in Quetta. The Taliban bombed a girls’ school in Khyber. Mullah Fazullah said he is in Afghanistan.
Militants change tack in Pakistan