Pakistan’s interior ministry has a top ten most-wanted list, according to Amir Mir, the journalist for The News. According to Mir, the top ten list is as follows: 1. Mullah Fazlullah – the chief of the Taliban in Swat. 2. Hakeemullah Mehsud – the new leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan and […]
The Chaman border crossing has been reopened after 25 NATO vehicles and oil tankers were destroyed in Taliban attacks. Security forces killed 30 Taliban fighters in Swat and detained one Taliban operative in Sukkar.
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Top Taliban leadership eliminated: Rehman Malik
Blast Kills 15 Pakistani Police Recruits
A suicide bomber killed 16 cadets in an attack on a training center in Swat. The Taliban destroyed 25 NATO supply trucks and oil tankers at the Chaman border crossing, killed a counterterrorism police chief and an officer in Karak, and attacked a police station in Lakki Marwat. Security forces killed 3 Taliban fighters in […]
US accuses Pakistan of altering missiles
The good news is Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik seems to have dropped the charade that newly appointed Taliban chief Hakeemullah Mehsud is dead. The bad news is we’re going to be bombarded with more of the “Taliban is collapsing” rhetoric. From The Nation (the Pakistani newspaper): Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said Pakistan and […]
Pakistan: Jamaat-e-Islami striving for alliance of anti-US political parties
Security forces killed 12 Taliban fighters and six suicide bombers in Swat and captured 13 more in Swat and Malakand, and detained the superintendent of a hospital in North Waziristan for treating Taliban fighters. The Pakistani government closed the border crossing at Chaman in Baluchistan. Sufi Mohammed’s detention was extended for one month.
Organized crime in Pakistan feeds Taliban
Pakistan bans coverage of Mumbai 26/11 trial
Security forces killed six Taliban fighters in Malakand and detained seven Turks, three Swedes, a Russian, and an Iranian as they attempted to enter Pakistan. The Taliban beheaded five people in Khyber, killed a tribal leader and kidnapped another in Mohmand, wounded another in Bajaur, and also kidnapped eight Christians in North Waziristan. AQ Khan […]
Pakistan’s non-campaign against the Taliban
Threat of suicide attacks in Punjab Ramazan bazaars
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan’s new spokesman said the attack was aimed at the US. Zawahiri continues the call for jihad in Pakistan.
Pakistan nuclear secrets scientist to go free
Pakistan: Taliban commander ‘target’ of drone attack
A suicide bomber killed 22 border guards at the Torkham crossing in Khyber. A US airstrike killed eight Taliban fighters in South Waziristan. Four soldiers and nine Taliban fighters were killed in South Waziristan. Police killed seven Taliban fighters and detained four more in Buner. Security forces captured 31 Taliban fighters in Swat and Malakand. […]
Pakistan – Post Baitullah
A teenaged bomber targeted the guards as they broke the Ramadan fast. Hakeemullah Mehsud pulled off his first major attack as the new leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan.
Pakistan – Taliban witch-hunt?
Pakistan – Hakimullah a fiercely ambitious militant
Security forces killed five Taliban fighters and detained 13 more in Swat, and arrested 46 suspected terrorists in Islamabad. Helicopters and aircraft attacked Taliban positions in South Waziristan. Ansar-ul-Islam accused Lashkar-e-Islam of hiring an assassin to killed the group’s spokesman. The Peshawar High Court released Sufi Mohammed’s sons on bail.
NATO to enhance cooperation with Pakistan
Even though Waliur Rehman Mehsud and Hakeemullah Mehsud conducted several phone calls to the press and confirmed Baitullah is dead and Hakeemullah is the new chief, Pakistan’s Interior and Foreign Ministers continue to insist the Taliban are fighting over who will be the new leader. From Daily Times: “It is all speculation until Hakeemullah Mehsud […]
Security forces killed three Taliban fighters and detained 18 more in Swat. The bodies of 14 suspected Taliban fighters were found in Swat. Security forces detained 39 tribesmen in Bajaur under the Frontier Crimes Regulation, which President Zardari said would no longer be used.
‘Pakistan must exploit Taliban leadership rifts’