Fifteen policemen, including a police chief, were among 19 killed in a suicide bombing in Islamabad. The military will release all prisoners detained in the Khyber operation after the government agreed to end the offensive. The Taliban established sharia courts in Bajaur. The government and the Taliban swapped prisoners in Mohmand.
Attack occurred in Nangarhar province in a district neighboring the Pakistani tribal agency of Khyber.
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Pakistan has suspended operations in Khyber and initiated peace talks with Lashkar-i-Islam. The government claimed the operation is a success. The Taliban kidnapped three journalists in Mohmand, three policemen in Hangu, and two paramilitary soldiers in North Waziristan. Nine Taliban fighters were detained in Tank.
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The Pakistani government has started peace talks in Khyber. An operation to clear an area in Mohmand near Peshawar has been put on hold. The Mohmand Taliban ordered women to wear a veil. A political party warned of the Taliban takeover of Karachi while a Shia group plastered anti-Taliban graffiti in the city.
Haji Namdar rides with the Frontier Corps as his representatives conduct talks with Baitullah Mehsud. Baitullah orders negotiations with the government to continue.
Pakistani security forces detained 52 “militants” during two days of operations in Khyber. The Taliban burned a college and attacked a police post in Swat. Two Pakistanis were killed in a missile attack in Bajaur. Baitulah Mehsud called for the resumption of peace talks. Mullah Nazir has teamed up with a North Waziristan Taliban leader […]
Taliban spokesman Maulvi Omar survived the explosion at Haji Namdar’s home in Khyber; seven were killed. Haji Namdar denied links to Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden. The military detained 18 members of Ansar-ul-Islam and Lashkar-e-Islam during operations in Khyber. Six people were killed in fighting between Ansar-ul-Islam and Lashkar-e-Islam in Khyber. The Taliban threatened […]
Thirty-three Taliban fighters killed in Khost province after attacking a US outpost. The fighters fled into Pakistan.
The government banned Lashkar-e-Islam, Ansar-ul-Islam, and Haji Namdar’s virtue and vice group in Khyber agency. “Tribesmen” kidnapped 30 security personnel in Kurram agency. The bodies of eight men, including a former Taliban leader, were found in Kurram. A former Taliban leader said Mullah Omar is residing in Quetta.
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An explosion destroyed a home owned by Khyber’s Haji Namdar; eight people have been reported killed. Residents in Khyber are flying the flag of Lashkar-e-Islam as the military conducts operations in the tribal agency. A Peshawar police chief said an operation against the Taliban would be launched in parts of the city. The leader of […]
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Bara under government control. Taliban suspends peace agreements in all regions. Government bans three Khyber-based groups.
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