A suicide bomber killed nine civilians and three policemen in Dera Ismail Khan. The US sent National Security Advisor Jones and CIA Director Panetta to Pakistan to discuss intelligence related to the failed Times Square bombing. The Punjab Home Department claimed the Taliban issued a death threat to Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Hafiz Saeed.
A look at the top leaders of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan.
In the wake of the failed Times Square attack, US officials are pressuring a reluctant Pakistan to move into the jihadist sanctuary.
India troops claimed to have killed five Lashkar-e-Taiba fighters during a clash in the city of Sheikhpora. An Indian Army major and a soldier were also killed in the clash. The Hizbul Mujahideen denied the report and claimed the fighters were their own.
According to AKI, Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American in custody who admitted to carrying out the failed Times Square bomb plot, had met with Qari Hussain Mehsud, the Taliban’s top trainer of suicide bombers: Officials believe 30-year-old Shahzad, a Karachi-born Pushtun, had no relationship with any militant organisation, until Rehan put him in contact with Qari […]
Mumbai profile: Lashkar e Taiba
The “Asian Tigers” killed pro-Taliban and al Qaeda lawyer Khalid Khawaja after the Pakistani government failed to release top Afghan Taliban leaders.
The Washington Post has a good read on the covert US air campaign in Pakistan. According to the Post’s CIA sources, the strikes have been much more effective in killing enemy fighters and commanders, and have killed far fewer civilians, since smaller warheads and increased surveillance have been employed. According to an internal CIA accounting […]
The five Americans detained in Sargodha while trying to link up with al Qaeda were in contact with HUJI leader Qari Saifullah Akhtar.
Police in Sylhet detained a British man for his involvement with the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami. Gholam Mostafa is the leader of HUJI’s branch in Britain. He is thought to have ties to Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed.
The leaders of the Al Akhtar Trust and the Al Rashid Trust continue to support the Taliban using their charitable fronts based in Karachi.
Five civilians, five Philippine Marines, and a policeman were killed as Abu Sayyaf Group fighters attacked in the southern city. The brother of a known terror leader was among the four Abu Sayyaf Group fighters also killed.
Indian troops killed eight terrorists during fighting over the past two days in the Rajouri region in Kashmir. The eight Lashkar-e-Taiba fighters infiltrated from Pakistan-held Kashmir. A bomb blast on a train track in the Pulwama district disrupted service.
Five Lashkar-e-Taiba fighters and three Indian soldiers were killed during two clashes in forests in Rajouri. Soldiers and counterterrorism police have been carrying out operations in the region.
David Headley pled guilty to scouting the city of Mumbai for the 2008 terror assault as well as plotting to kill a Danish cartoonist who drew an image of the Prophet Mohammed. Headley passed along intelligence to Lashkar-e-Taiba for the 2008 Mumbai attack that resulted in the deaths of 175 people.
The Indian Mujahideen, a front group for the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, was behind the bombing in Pune that killed 16 people, according to India’s home minister. “The handlers are the same, the set of handlers which was involved in Mumbai,” Home Secretary Gopal Pillai said.
Counterterrorism police detained four terrorists, including two men directed from within Pakistan who were tasked with conducting attacks inside Mumbai. Indian intelligence believes Pakistan’s ISI will use Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s fighters and the Lashkar-e-Taiba to attack Indians in Afghanistan.
Detonating just seconds apart, two bombers targeted the Pakistani military. The attack is the third suicide strike in five days.
The Taliban kidnapped a tribal leader and three associates in Kunduz, and torched a school in Faryab. The National Directorate of Security claimed the Lashkar-e-Taiba conducted the Feb. 26 suicide assault in Kabul.
The Lahore High Court ruled that Baradar and other members of the Quetta Shura could not be extradited to Afghanistan, the US, or any other country.
A team of suicide bombers struck at sites frequented by foreigners. Five Indians are among the 17 people reported killed.
The New York Times has the scoop on the capture of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Afghan Taliban’s deputy commander. According to the Times, Baradar’s capture was “a lucky accident”: When Pakistani security officers raided a house outside Karachi in late January, they had no idea that they had just made their most important capture […]
Pakistan banned the Lashkar-e-Taiba in January 2002, and its successor front group Jamaat-ud-Dawa in December 2008 after the November 2008 suicide terror assault on Mumbai, India . So what is Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, the leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamaat-ud-Dawa, doing sitting in front of a Jamaat-ud-Dawa banner during the recent interview with Al Jazeera […]
Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Hafiz Saeed. The Pakistani government wants the world to believe it is sincere in its fight against Islamist terror groups, but at the same time refuses to deal with the Lashkar-e-Taiba and its front group, the Jamaat-ud-Dawa. Even though both groups are banned, its leader, Hafiz Saeed, who has been implicated by the […]
The US has a $1 million bounty on Abdul Basit Usman for conducting attacks that murdered civilians. He is thought to have been killed in a strike on Jan. 14.
Police arrested Mohammad Abdul Khwaja, the south India chief of of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, during a raid in Hyderabad. Khwaja, who also goes by the name Amjad, is believed to be involved in terror attacks in Hyderabad, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Jaipur, and Ahmedabad.
Suicide assault teams struck at government and civilian centers in the heart of the city. Security forces restored control after hours-long battles.
Mafia and terror kingpin Dawood Ibrahim. The Congressional Research Service has issued a solid report on the nexus between criminal syndicates and terrorist groups. Entitled “International Terrorism and Transnational Crime: Security Threats, U.S. Policy, and Considerations for Congress,” the report has a section devoted to Dawood Ibrahim, the criminal don of South Asia. The report […]
Three security personnel were killed in an attack on an Army barracks. It was the fourth suicide attack in Pakistan-held Kashmir since June 2009.
Al Sahwa (one of my favorite blogs on issues related to the war and counterinsurgency) points us to a presentation by Colonel Andrea Thompson on the state of the Afghan insurgency as viewed by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Al Sahwa has a good rundown on the important points, so head over there to […]