Search Results for: Pakistan

President Musharraf admits al Qaeda is in Pakistan: “Al -Qaeda is in our mountains, in Mir Ali [North Waziristan]. This is completely true.” The government has pardoned Faqir Mohammed, a self described al Qaeda leader. Tank is under curfew.

Clashes between the Taliban and security forces in Tank led to 6 killed and 15 wounded. The Interior Ministry has called for the arrest of the Quetta based Mullah Hadi terrorist group, which is “reorganising the old jihadi elements for terrorist activities in the country.” NATO has demanded an inquiry into the death of a […]

Baitullah Mehsud’s Taliban from South Waziristan attacked a police checkpoint in Tank. The Peshawar suicide bombing has “links with terrorists operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan™s troubled Waziristan region,” and was directed against anti-Taliban Pakistani informants. Punjab is on high alert for suicide bombers attacking military targets.

[UPDATE2] Pakistani and American soldiers clashed during a meeting about border security in Kurram agency in the NWFP. Reuters reports 2 American soldiers were killed after a Pakistani soldier opened fire. AFP reported 3 Americans and 2 Pakistanis were wounded. Pakistani and Taliban forces clashed in Tank, resulting in 2 killed and 10 wounded.

Afghan and Pakistani security forces clashed at the border “when Pakistani forces attempted to install an outpost in eastern Afghanistan.” The government has issued shoot-on-sight orders to paramilitary forces in Karachi in an effort to end the rioting. Security forces arrested 25 TNSM fighters in the Kabal region of the NWFP. Chitral has again become […]

Yesterday’s riots in Karachi which stemmed over the arrival of the chief justice led to 34 killed and over 140 injured as the police stood by and allowed the fighting. Air and train service was disrupted or canceled due to the violence. “Armed men” attacked a private TV station in Karachi.

Over 31 were killed and 115 wounded during anti-government protests related to the chief justice were held in Karachi. The Lal Masjid issued “guidelines for enforcement of Sharia in all spheres of life.” The PML president fears talks with the Lal Masjid will break down. Christians living in Charsadda have received letters ordering them to […]

The Taliban bombed 15 video shops in Charsadda. Fourteen mortars launched from Khost, Afghanistan landed in Miranshah. President Musharraf has announced an amnesty plan for Baluch insurgents.

Three suicide bombers from Waziristan are believed to have entered Islamabad. “We know that Al Qaeda has re-established itself in the Federally-Administered Territories,” said the US Secretary of Defense. “Miscreants” bombed a barber shop in Dir. Karachi Police arrested 12 in a plot to assassinate Pakistan’s Chief Justice.

Pakistani CD and internet cafe owners in the NWFP are appealing to MMA led government for protection from Taliban threats, but state “no one from the district administration is lending a helping hand.” Pakistan claimed it deployed an additional 10,000 troops to the NWFP.

Nine tankers carrying fuel to US forces were blown up in Khyber. The Taliban have banned music and its sale in North Waziristan. The interior ministry is warning of suicide attacks by a “Waziristan-based jihadi organisation” against security forces. NWFP Governor Aurakzai “expressed concern” over the Taliban’s influence in Bajaur. PML-Q President Shujaat “visited the […]

The vice president of the NWFP People™s Party Parliamentarians was assassinated in Peshawar. The Lashkar-e-Islam issued a set of demands to the the Khyber Agency administration. Clerics are concerned their fatwas against suicide bombings are failing to achieve the desired effect.

A large force of Taliban set up checkpoints in Bajaur, and “destroyed tape recorders… snatched mobile phones and threatened clean-shaven males with ‘strict action’ if they did not grow beards.” Seven Pakistani soldiers were injured in a grenade attack in Mir Ali, North Waziristan. The Lashkar-i-Islam destroyed a military checkpoint in Landi Kotal.

The Taliban bombed 20 video stores in the NWFP towns of Charsadda and Tangi, and set off a bomb outside the main gate of a girl’s school in Gujrat. The Taliban fired 10 rockets at an Army camp in North Waziristan. Female Jamia Hafsa students demanded a fatwa on President Musharraf’s policy of ‘enlightened moderation.™

The central government ‘expressed concerns over the rising Talibanisation‘ in the NWFP to the provincial government. The Taliban bombed a barber shop in Darra Adamkhel and beheaded another “US spy” in North Waziristan. Maulana Fazlur Rehman Khalil, the leader of the banned Harkat-ul-Ansar, was arrested. The government denied Pakistanis were killed in fighting in Afghanistan […]

“Lots of Pakistanis” have been killed or captured during fighting in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. Pakistani intelligence has stopped investigating 10 suicide attacks due to lack of evidence. The Islamabad city government has alotted 6 plots to rebuild mosques as demanded by the Lal Masjid.

Police are widening the scope of the Chardassa suicide bombing that targeted the interior minister after indications of al Qaeda’s involvement have surfaced. The suspect is now believed to be a man aged 18-20. The Interior Ministry is the “only civilian body fully trusted by Western intelligence” [see our update on April 28].