Pakistan
Pakistan orders offensive against Taliban chief
Pakistan orders offensive against Taliban chief
Pakistan: Dir lashkar struggles to dislodge holed-up militants
The military said 35 Taliban fighters were killed in Bannu and the Frontier Corps fort in Jani Khel was retaken. Seven Taliban fighters and six civilians were killed during airstrikes against Baitullah Mehsud in South Waziristan. One policeman and a civilian were killed in an IED attack in Kohat. Security forces detained 12 Taliban fighters […]
UN reviews its operation in Pakistan after Peshawar attack
Heavy fighting reported in Swat, Bajaur, Bannu, Mohmand, and South Waziristan. Seventy-nine Taliban fighters and 16 soldiers and policemen are reported to have been killed over the past 24 hours.
The Taliban took credit for suicide attacks that killed 11 people, including an anti-Taliban cleric, at mosques in Lahore and Nowshera. Thirty-nine Taliban fighters and ten soldiers were killed in Swat; 21 Taliban fighters were killed in Bannu. Twelve Taliban and two soldiers were killed during fighting in Mohmand. The Taliban killed four policemen in […]
Pakistan to import anti-terror equipment from China
Taliban & Arakzai
Pakistan: Sunni strike to protest against cleric’s murder
An outspoken anti-Taliban cleric was among 11 people killed in suicide strikes in Lahore and Nowshera. The attacks are the latest in a series of strikes at mosques.
Pakistan – Kalash tribe under Taliban threat
The Pakistani military killed 47 people in artillery strikes in Hangu and Arakzai, 30 Taliban were killed in Bannu, and 22 more were killed in a failed assault on forts in South Waziristan. Police detained 29 Taliban fighters in Nowshera and Kohat and arrested 25 more in Islamabad. Three people were killed in a suicide […]
Record violence in Afghanistan in early June: Petraeus
Militants show sophisticated tactics in Pakistan
Pakistani offensive to help nab Osama: CIA
The Pakistan Army claimed more than 130 Taliban fighters have been killed since the Bannu offensive began three days ago. Taliban attacks on two forts in South Waziristan are repelled.
Security forces killed 100 Taliban fighters in Bannu and 23 more in Swat; a Taliban commander also surrendered in Swat. A lashkar in Dir killed two Taliban fighters. Six terrorists were detained in Islamabad. The UN suspended operations in Peshawar. The US delivered four MI-17 helicopters to the Pakistani military.
Lal Masjid cleric booked for provocative speech
Take Taliban, al Qaeda head on: Pentagon to Pakistan
Suicide bombers strike luxury hotel in Pakistan
A Taliban assault team killed 11 people in a complex suicide attack on a hotel in Peshawar. The Pakistani military killed 20 Taliban fighters during an operation in Bannu, killed 27 Taliban fighters in Dir and Swat, and detained the Swat emir of the TNSM in Peshawar. The Taliban killed three people in attacks in […]
More than 20 Taliban fighters have been killed in two tribal areas just outside of North Waziristan. The move may be a prelude to an operation into Waziristan.
India PM willing to meet Pakistan ‘more than half way™
The military said 21 Taliban fighters were killed in Swat, Dir, and Buner and six more were captured in Darra Adam Khel. Police detained members of the Punjabi Taliban in Sargodha. The Taliban killed a policeman in an IED attack in Peshawar and took more than 100 TNSM members hostage in Bajaur. Twelve people were […]
ISI maintains link with militant commanders, says Musharraf
Pakistanis turn backs on ‘erring’ Taliban
Pakistan: Terrorism and piety
Former militant renounces extremism
Tribes in Dir killed 13 Taliban fighters while thousands of tribal fighters surrounded 300 more Taliban. Security forces killed four Taliban in Swat and killed two civilians for violating a curfew in Mardan, and detained a senior Taliban bomber in Karachi. Clashes in Karachi killed 13 people. The Taliban killed a relative of a member […]
Pakistani Army to stay in Swat indefinitely, says ISPR