NWFP/FATA map. Red agencies/ districts openly controlled by the Taliban; purple is defacto control; yellow is under threat. Click map to view. Army convoy hit en route to Miramshah as violence increases throughout the Northwest Frontier Province The Northwest Frontier Province is in danger of catching fire in the aftermath of the assault on the […]
The Taliban-supporting MMA political party organized rallies nationwide to protest the Lal Masjid assault. Troops have begun to patrol in Battagram and Swat, and an army brigade was deployed to Tank. The TNSM is enforcing a Friday holiday in Bajaur, while three pro-government tribal leaders were murdered in North Waziristan. Police arrested three “militants” in […]
Pashtuns keep Pakistan on edge
A new battle front opens in Pakistan
Adbul Rashid Ghazi was buried in his home town as “Al Jihad” played at his service. His brother Abdul Aziz spoke at the funeral. Two suicide attacks in Swat and North Waziristan killed nine. A “US spy” was beheaded in North Waziristan. The FATA jirga called for the withdrawal of Pakistani troops as rumors of […]
Moderate Pakistanis applaud extremist crackdown
Musharraf vows war on militants
Red Mosque cleric forecasts ‘Islamic revolution’
Pakistan Cleric Buried, Officials Attacked
The Lal Majsid has been cleared and operations are over. All illegal buildings built at the compound will be destroyed. The Taliban-supporting Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal political party will hold a three-day mourning period. Fighting in Peshawar, Battagram, and Kohat resulted in one soldier killed and 19 wounded.
Abdul Rashid Ghazi – the mullah who dreamed of ‘martyrdom’
US issues citizen warning for Pakistan
Pakistan counts costs of bloody end to mosque siege
Lal Masjid Stand-off & Musharraf’s Future
Eight “high value terrorists” wanted by Pakistan and other countries are inside the Lal Masjid, according the Minister of Religious Affairs. The commander of the Special Services Group was killed during fighting at the mosque. Ghazi claimed to have received a call from the person that attacked President Musharraf’s airplaine.
Pakistani rebel cleric urges Islamic revolution
2 Uzbek bombers on the prowl, NWFP police on maximum alert
Fatwa issued against Ghazi brothers
Behind a Siege in Pakistan, Rumblings of Wider Dissent
Aurakzai concerned over worsening law and order in Pakistan’s NWFP
President Musharraf told the Islamists inside the Red Mosque to “surrender or die” as the government continues to negotiate with those inside the mosque. The information minister said only the courts can grant Ghazi safe passage. MMA chief Fazlur Rehman said Ghazi should surrender.
Explosion rocks besieged mosque in Pakistani capital
Musharraf approves amnesty; update on latest news from the Lal Masjid and the Taliban’s response Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who survived an assassination attempt earlier today, is prepared to pardon the Islamists and the leaders of the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, according to Pakistan’s Daily Times. President Musharraf “approved a plan to extend a […]
The latest attempt in a string of attacks against Pakistani government officials Pakistani security officials examine a long barreled anti-aircraft gun and a light machine gun, found on the rooftop of a house in Rawalpindi [AP Photo]. Click to view. As the Lal Masjid standoff nears the end of its fourth day, a report surfaced […]
Militants express support for Pakistani mosque with terrorism
Pakistan demands ‘total surrender’ in mosque siege
[UPDATE2] Government forces detonated a series of explosions at the front wall of the Lal Masjid; CNN claimed the wall was “demolished.” Up to 20 have been killed and 200 wounded during the fighting, while about 1,200 students have left the mosque. The Religious Affairs minister asked Abdul Aziz to call for the student’s surrender. […]
Believers Under Siege in Pakistan
Over 700 Islamists surrendered to government forces at the Red Mosque in Islamabad, but thousands remain inside. Both President Musharraf and Tariq Azim, the Minister of Information, said clerics Aziz and Ghazi must surrender. Minister Aziz said the government does not want bloodshed but prefers to resolve the issue through dialogue, while President Musharraf said […]
Pakistan’s Taliban fight each other