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Pakistani Army pressing deeper into mountains in pursuit of insurgents
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Pakistani troops advance on Uzbek stronghold in South Waziristan
Soldiers are close to surrounding the town of Kanigoram, the scene of two Predator strikes this year. The passport of an al Qaeda operative involved in the 9/11 attacks has been found by the military at a camp in Sherwangi.
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A Taliban car bomb at a market in Peshawar killed 105 Pakistanis and leveled a mosque. The military said 25 Taliban fighters were killed and an Uzbek base has been surrounded in South Waziristan and three more were killed in Mohmand. Police arrested five Lashkar-i-Jhangvi members in Karachi.
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Pakistan: Neglected hearts and minds
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Pakistan’s Baghdad Bob
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Among people of S. Waziristan, doubts about offensive deepen
Nuristan drawdown gives new life to Pakistani Taliban
Northeastern Afghanistan and Northwestern Pakistan. Map from the Asia Times; click to view. Asia Times reporter Syed Saleem Shahzad says that the US pullback in Nuristan has breathed new life into the Taliban in the Pakistani tribal agencies of Bajaur and Mohmand, and in the Swat Valley as well. The effective Taliban control of Nuristan […]
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Taliban take over Afghan province
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Pakistan: Northwest attack ‘retaliation’ for military offensive
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In South Waziristan, 42 Taliban fighters and one soldier were reported killed. Eleven Taliban fighters and two soldiers were killed in Mohmand. A brigadier general escaped an assassination attempt in Islamabad. Police detained the supposed mastermind of the attack on Army headquarters in Rawalpindi and seven other Taliban fighters.
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UN special rapporteur questions legality of US use of drones
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Pakistan ‘key’ to UK terror plots
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Forty-four Taliban fighters and 12 soldiers were killed during fighting in South Waziristan, Hangu, Abjaur, and Khyber. Security forces detained an aide to Mullah Fazlullah and 11 Taliban fighters in Swat. Border guards detained 12 Iranians, some who are thought to be Revolutionary Guards members, in Baluchistan.
Taliban, Army clash throughout Pakistan’s northwest
Recent clashes in South Waziristan, Bajaur, and Hangu have reportedly killed 46 Taliban fighters and 12 soldiers. The Taliban are reinforcing in South Waziristan via North Waziristan despite the military’s peace agreement with Hafiz Gul Bahadar.
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Iran: Foreign agents behind Iraq, Pakistan, Iran attacks
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Pakistan arrests Iranian guards
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Pakistan attack kills four troops
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Pakistani Taliban’s chief warns of more attacks unless military stops assaults
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Security forces killed 15 Taliban fighters in South Waziristan and eight in Bajaur and Khyber, and detained 11 in Swat. Gunmen killed the education minister for Baluchistan province in Quetta and a police inspector in Khuzdar.
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Jihad™s dirt-track
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A US airstrike in Bajaur killed 17 Taliban and 11 foreign fighters. The Army retook the town of Kotkai in South Waziristan; 21 Taliban fighters and three soldiers were killed. Taliban suicide bombers killed a police chief on a highway. Three Frontier Corps troops were killed in a helicopter crash in Bajaur. Security forces detained […]
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Pakistan: The new face of Talibanisation
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Taliban bans non-local reporters’ entry into Waziristan
Al Qaeda releases Pakistani Taliban propaganda tape
On Oct. 22, As Sahab, al Qaeda’s media production company, released a videotape of Pakistani Taliban leader Hakeemullah Mehsud and South Waziristan commander Waliur Rehman Mehsud to Al Fajr Media Center, al Qaeda’s distribution network. The video was published on the Islamic Al Fallujah Forums and then distributed to the network of other jihadi web […]
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Caught in the crossfire of war against the Taliban
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Pakistan troops retake Taliban stronghold in Waziristan
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The Taliban killed seven Pakistanis in a suicide attack near a nuclear facility in Kamra and 15 more in a landmine attack on a bus in Mohmand; 15 civilians were wounded in a carbombing in Peshawar. Security forces killed six Uzbeks and seven Taliban fighters in South Waziristan, and 19 Taliban fighters in Khyber, Mohmand, […]
Are drone strikes making more enemies in Pakistan?
Andrew Exum linked to my recent Threat Matrix post in his own post about drone strikes — as an example of how “careless readers of [Exum and Kilcullen’s] argument mistakenly assume we agree with open-source reporting out of Pakistan.” A few points in response. First of all, I have a lot of respect for Andrew […]
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US tells Pak not to use aid for confrontation against India
Pakistan reaps harvest of poisoned peace deals
Nek Mohammed, the former leader of the Taliban in South Waziristan, speaks to his followers after being showered with gifts by the Pakistani Army after a peace agreement on April 24, 2004. Nek was later killed in a US Predator strike, and was replaced by Baitullah Mehsud, who was killed in another Predator strike on […]