The Amjad Farooqi Group took credit for the assault on the Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi. Six soldiers and four terrorists have been killed; surviving terrorists have taken more than 10 soldiers hostage. The Taliban killed two workers during an attack on a NATO supply convoy in Khuzdar and lobbed mortars at a Levies outpost […]
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The Amjad Farooqi Group, a faction of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan and an al Qaeda ally, took credit for the assault on the GHQ in Rawalpindi. Taliban fighters are holding military personnel hostage.
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Four attackers and six soldiers were killed in a battle outside the front gate of the General Headquarters in the military garrison city. Several of the terrorists escaped and are holding more than a dozen people hostage.
Wanted flyer for Swat Taliban leaders. A Pakistani court has ordered the release of Syed Muhammad Javed, the pro-Taliban commissioner of the Malakand Division, the region that encompasses the Swat Valley. Javed openly aided the rise of the Taliban in Swat after being appointed commissioner in February. He openly facilitated the Taliban takeover of neighboring […]
A suicide bomber killed 49 Pakistanis and wounded more than 100 in an attack in Peshawar. Security forces killed 10 Taliban fighters in Darra Adam Khel, and eight Taliban fighters and two Uzbeks in Swat and North Waziristan. The Taliban wounded four soldiers in a rocket attack in North Waziristan and torched a NATO fuel […]
Security forces killed 17 Taliban fighters in Swat and two more in South Waziristan; the bodies 15 Taliban fighters were found in Swat. One soldier and two Taliban fighters were killed in a clash in North Waziristan. The Taliban killed a soldier in Bajaur and launched three rockets at Peshawar.
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The Army killed one of the 21 most-wanted Taliban leaders in Swat. The operation in South Waziristan is expected to be launched in mid-October. The World Food Program suspended operations in the wake of the suicide attack on its headquarters in Islamabad. The military expects a tough fight in South Waziristan.
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The Pakistani Air Force killed six Taliban fighters during strikes in South Waziristan. Security forces arrested 10 Taliban fighters in Swat while 17 more surrendered in Swat and Dir. The Taliban killed a member of a “peace committee” in Hangu and injured three people in a rocket attack in Peshawar.
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Four Pakistanis and an Iraqi were killed in a suicide attack at the World Food Program compound in Islamabad. Security forces killed eight Taliban fighters in Malakand and detained 30 Afghan imams in Mardan. The Lashkar-i-Islam wounded five Frontier Corps troops in Khyber. Ten TNSM members surrendered in Dir.
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A Taliban leader said Tahir Yuldashev was killed in a Predator airstrike in late August. Security forces killed three Taliban commanders and six fighters in Swat. The military said the peace agreement with Mullah Nazir is still in place. Maulana Fazulur Rehman offered to mediate between the government and the Taliban.
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Security forces killed four Taliban fighters in Bajaur and detained 20 in Karachi and 12 more in Swat. The Taliban killed a tribal leader in Bajaur and wounded six soldiers in North Waziristan. The UN said an operation in Waziristan would displace more than 170,000 civilians.