A senior Pakistani antiterrorism judge remains in critical condition after his convoy struck a roadside bomb this morning in the sprawling city of Karachi. The Pakistani Taliban were quick to claim credit for the attack.
Pakistani security forces seized 3,000 sticks of dynamite and other lethal cargo at a checkpoint near Peshawar yesterday. This is the third largest seizure of explosives with a connection to Peshawar this month.
The Taliban killed 10 foreign mountain climbers from the US, Ukraine, China, Slovakia, Lithuania, and Nepal, and a Pakistani guide in an attack at a base camp in Gilgit-Baltistan. The Taliban also killed a soldier in North Waziristan and a security official in Bannu.
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A suicide bomber killed 35 civilians, in an attack at a funeral procession in Mardan. Among those killed was a member of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s provincial assembly. An Army lieutenant colonel died of wounds suffered in an IED attack in North Waziristan on June 9.
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Police in Islamabad arrested Abdullah Umar, an al Qaeda operative who is thought to have been behind the murder of the prosecutor who was investigating the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto as well as terrorists involved in the 2008 attack on Mumbai, India. Security forces in Chaman captured a “militant” and seized suicide […]
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Mutaqi was reportedly preparing to lead fighters across the border to wage jihad in Afghanistan. The Obama administration has claimed that drone strikes would be conducted only against targets that pose an “imminent threat” to the US.
The minister of state for foreign affairs castigated a US Embassy official for a drone strike, and called the US attacks a “violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.” Yesterday’s drone strike in North Waziristan killed six “militants.”
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Nawaz Sharif, the head of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, has been sworn in as prime minister. Sharif immediately called for the US to end drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal area. In the past he has called for negotiations with the Taliban.
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Twenty Taliban fighters and three soldiers were killed during fighting in Arakzai. The Taliban killed a member of a police committee in Peshawar, and killed a security official and bombed a girls’ school in Bannu.
Foreign jihadists are being spotted on multiple battlefields throughout Afghanistan, far beyond Kunar and Nuristan.
Spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan said that Waliur Rehman was indeed killed yesterday in a drone strike in North Waziristan. Rehman was wanted by the US for involvement in terror plots, including the failed Times Square bombing.
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US drones killed seven people in the first strike in Pakistan in six weeks. Waliur Rehman, the emir of Taliban forces in South Waziristan, is rumored to have been killed but the reports are unconfirmed. Polio vaccination aid workers were pelted with stones in Hangu.
The strike in North Waziristan killed seven people in an area administered by the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network. Senior Taliban commander Waliur Rehman is rumored to have been killed. The program had been put on hold for “political considerations.”
The Taliban killed a police chief and and four policemen in an IED attack in Shangla, the son of a peace committee in a bombing in Swat, and a female anti-polio aid worker in a shooting in Peshawar. Security forces detained 14 suspects in the Peshawar attack. The WHO has suspended polio vaccinations in Peshawar.
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Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan “proudly” claimed responsibility for today’s deadly bombing in Quetta, Pakistan that killed at least 11 members of an elite police unit.
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