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Pakistan – Four soldiers killed, 12 injured in South Waziristan operation


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Pakistan – On the trail of the Punjabi Taliban


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No answers for escalating Pakistan guerrilla war


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Suicide bombers killed 14 Pakistanis during an attack on a police station in Peshawar. Security forces killed six Taliban fighters and six civilians during bombardments in South Waziristan and three Taliban fighters in Bajaur. Three soldiers were killed in a rocket attack in South Waziristan. The government has given a green light for operations in […]


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Battle-inoculated militants™ last stand?


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Pakistan ‘not prepared for attacks’


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Pakistan: Deadly militant attacks signal new ‘guerrilla war’


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Scenarios: Can things get any worse for Pakistan?


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Terrorists assaulted three police centers in Lahore; 26 people were killed. A suicide bomber killed 10 police and civilians in Kohat. One child was killed in a carbombing in Peshawar. Police detained two terrorists in Islamabad.


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Pak police accuse India after 5 terror attacks in a day


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French nuclear facility under scrutiny over plutonium stocks


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Al Qaeda publicly cements ties to the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan



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A US airstrike killed four members of the Haqqani Network in North Waziristan. The Pakistani military killed 17 Taliban fighters and an unknown number of civilians during air and artillery strikes in South Waziristan. Pakistani troops and a tribal lashkar drove the Taliban from a region in Bajaur.


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The military hit South Waziristan with air and artillery strikes; two tribal leaders are thought to have been killed. The Taliban claimed credit for the suicide attack in Shangla and vowed to conduct further attacks. Investigators said three Uzbeks may have been among the assault team that attacked Army GHQ.


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Soldiers turning rogue Pak’s new terror headache


What’s wrong with Pakistan’s Army? A former officer’s perspective

Earlier, I noted that the Pakistani military’s lack of response to the assault on Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi is going to have serious repercussions. A comment from a former Pakistani Army officer, passed along from my friend Ravi Rikhye at Orbat.com, drives the point home. The note below was written by Agha H. Amin, […]




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Pakistan – Tehrik-i-Taliban claims responsibility for army HQ attack


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A Taliban suicide bomber killed 41 civilians and soldiers in an attack on a convoy in Shangla. Security forces killed 15 Taliban fighters in Bajaur and five more in South Waziristan, and detained 28 suspects in Islamabad and Rawalpindi and five Harkat-ul Mujahideen fighters in Dera Ismail Khan. The Taliban bombed a school in Hangu.


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Pakistan GHQ attackers demanded militant release: Army


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Pakistan Police launch crackdown in Dera Ismail Khan


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Pakistan – Soviet-era refugee camps are Taleban breeding ground


Charges dropped against Hafiz Saeed, Pakistan’s Teflon Don

This news shouldn’t surprise the readers of the Threat Matrix and The Long War Journal. The Lahore High Court has dismissed terrorism charges against Lashkar-e-Taiba / Jamaat-ud-Dawa leader Hafiz Saeed. From The Times of India: Pakistan’s Lahore High Court on Monday dismissed the FIRs lodged under anti-terrorism act against JuD chief Hafiz Mohd Saeed, who […]


Suicide bomber kills 41 in Pakistan’s northwest

The Taliban’s terror counteroffensive is in full swing with the fourth major attack in seven days. A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle packed with explosives in a bazaar in the district of Shangla.


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Pakistan bombs region once declared Taliban-free


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Pakistani commandos ended the siege at Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi; four terrorist and three hostages were killed. Dr. Usman, the leader of the Amjad Farooqi Group, was captured. The Air Force killed 19 Taliban fighters in strikes in South Waziristan. Police detained 121 Afghans in Peshawar and 35 suspected terrorists in Hangu.


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In the Pakistani mountains of Waziristan, young jihadis wait for martyrdom


Pakistani commandos break siege on Army headquarters

The Taliban penetrated security at Army General Headquarters and shut down operations for 18 hours. Twenty-five hostages were freed and three more were killed; four Taliban fighters were killed during the early morning assault.