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Debate Aside, Number of Drone Strikes Drops Sharply

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Sherry Rehman urges end to drone strikes

Panjwai district chief of police: ‘Pakistan has been trying to bring Afghanistan under its control’

District Chief of Police Lieutenant Colonel Sultan Mohammad discusses the roots of the insurgency, the Kandahar massacre, poppy eradication, and Panjwai’s improvement in security.

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Pakistan – Terror threats: Taliban plotting major attacks, cabinet told

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Pakistan – KP government confirms that women vote blocked by political parties

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Christians vote for protection in Pakistan

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Extremists Pursue Mainstream in Pakistan Election

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Benazir assassination case: FIA prosecutor gunned down

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Pakistan – KP okays compensation policy for terror victims

Pakistani Taliban praise bin Laden by ‘waging jihad for the Caliphate’

“We dedicate all our activities for the next decade to Sheikh Osama bin Laden,” Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan said in a video praising the slain al Qaeda leader.

ISAF targets ‘insurgent leader’ linked to Haqqanis, Pakistani Taliban, and ‘Arabs’

The insurgent leader runs a training camp somewhere along the Afghan-Pakistan border and commands more than 100 fighters, including suicide bombers.

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Pakistan – Security situation in the country bleak: Chief Justice

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Targeting militants: Balochistan operation commences today

A bomb in Peshawar killed at least nine people, including two Afghan officials, and injured over 60 more. Unidentified gunmen attacked a NATO container truck in Jamrud, killing the driver. Four bombs leveled a boys’ school in Bannu. Security forces arrested eight Taliban members in Karachi’s Maripur area and seized “tennis balls bombs” and a […]

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Swat: The valley of the Wali

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Taliban, taboos bar millions of women from voting

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Taliban ‘little commandos’ in terror camp training video

Pakistani Taliban active in Logar

The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan unit featured in a recently released video is named after al Qaeda’s emir for Kunar province, who was killed in 2011.

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“Militants” killed four Pakistani soldiers in an IED attack in the Mir Ali area of North Waziristan. Three Taliban fighters were killed and four security personnel were wounded in a clash in Arakzai. Three more Taliban fighters were captured in Darra Adam Khel.

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Pakistani Taliban Violently Reshape the Ballot

Female suicide bomber kills 4 outside Pakistani hospital

The Taliban have deployed female suicide bombers at least six times in Pakistan and three times in Afghanistan June 2010.

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Insight: Pakistan cleric tries hand at politics

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Police arrested former president Musharraf, based on allegations that he abused power while in office. Four rockets fired at two political gatherings in Wana in South Waziristan killed two people and injured 22 more. Anti-polio teams were attacked in Tank and Nawabhshah.

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Pakistan – First 2013 polio drive: 1.3 million children go unvaccinated

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A US drone strike fired two missiles at a Taliban training camp in South Waziristan, killing at least five people and injuring several more. One civilian was killed and 20 injured in a clash between military forces and the Taliban in Miranshah. The house of an ANP candidate was bombed in Charsadda.

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Sixteen people were killed in a bombing at an Awami National Party political rally in Peshawar. The Taliban killed four soldiers in a bombing in Miramshah in North Waziristan. Polio vaccination workers were attacked in Karachi.

Pakistani Taliban deny responsibility for Boston Marathon bombings

Authorities warned police to be on the lookout for a “darker-skinned or black male” with a foreign accent, while a Saudi student being questioned is said to be a person of interest.

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Deadly prelude: Taliban step up attacks on politicians

4 ‘militants’ killed in US drone strike in Pakistan

The strike is the first by the US in Pakistan in 23 days. The attack took place in the al Qaeda and Taliban haven of Datta Khel in North Waziristan.

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Four Taliban fighters and a policeman were killed during a clash in Peshawar. The US will end counterinsurgency support funding for Pakistani forces starting in 2014. Former President Musharraf admitted that he approved some US drone strikes in Pakistan.