Pakistan
‘Pakistan still aiding Kashmiri militants™
‘Pakistan still aiding Kashmiri militants™
Twelve children were killed in a bombing in Dir. Swabi police seized 475 kg explosives and detained two men. Police in Sargodha captured an aide to Baitullah Mehsud and five other Taliban fighters. Policemen refused to deploy in Buner. The Taliban blocked a military convoy in Swat, stood up the local Taliban in Buner, and […]
To save Pakistan get the army out of politics
The Taliban stop a convoy in Swat as rumors of a military operation there are rampant. Taliban withdrawal from Buner is only partial.
Reports of Taliban re-entering Buner, Army set for assault
Islamic militancy and Pakistan’s rogue generals
General Kiyani and General Petraeus said the Pakistani Army has the will to fight the Taliban. Some Taliban foces have withdrawn from Buner. Malakand division commissioner Syed Mohammad Javed has been replaced. Taliban fighters fired rockets at an outpost in North Waziristan.
Pakistan’s dispersed nukes greater risk
Pakistan acts on US carrot and stick policy
Taliban heading Swat, not Karachi: Muslim Khan
Pakistani Taliban withdraws from key valley
The Islamabad government is deploying Rangers to halt a potential Taliban advance. The Taliban blocked a police deployment in Buner; one policeman was killed. Five NATO fuel trucks were destroyed in Peshawar. Pakistani helicopters killed seven children and two women in Khyber.
Pakistani militants turn children into living bombs
The Taliban kidnapped the district coordination officer in Dir, destroyed six NATO fuel tankers outside Peshawar, and said they would remain in Buner until sharia is enforced. Mullah Fazlullah ordered the Taliban to halt patrols in Swat. The military warned that a major operation would begin soon in Arakzai.
Pakistan ‘abdicating to Taliban’
Swat Taliban vow to extend sharia law to other areas
The Taliban kidnapped six Frontier Constabulary personnel in Swat, and banned political parties and bombed a boys’ school in Bajaur. Security forces killed three civilians while mortaring Taliban positions in South Waziristan, captured a would-be suicide bomber in Islamabad, and targeted Taliban bases in Jamrud in Khyber.
Tiny weapons, jet engines in killer drone upgrades
Taliban in Pakistani ex-resort: `Welcome, Osama!’
Pakistan continues policy of state-sponsored terror
Hakeemullah Mehsud reportedly was the target of a series of air and artillery strikes against Taliban camps in Arakzai.
Extremist tide rises in Pakistan
Pakistan: No room for democracy in Islam: TNSM Chief
Pakistan: MQM rejects Taliban™s Shariah laws
A US strike on a Taliban camp in South Waziristan killed eight fighters. Security forces killed 15 Taliban fighters during airstrikes in Arakzai. A clash between the TNSM and the Taliban killed two. Sufi Mohammed demanded the government withdraw all courts from the Malakand Division.
Pakistan: What the Taliban ideology means
Pakistan: Taliban influence in bureaucracy
‘No justification for Taliban to display arms in Malakand now™
Taliban shoot US drone ‘informants™
Pakistanis see friends™ $5 billion pledge as political boon