The Taliban attacked a Frontier Corps base in battalion strength; 40 Taliban fighters and 15 Frontier Corps troops reported killed; more than 25 troops reported missing. Four soldiers were mutilated in Bajaur.
A new program by Amnesty International advocates “Solidarity with Guantanamo Detainees.”
Six Pakistani handlers are recorded giving orders to murder civilians, being asked to remain on the phone, and cheering after the killings, according to the Indian dossier. Former ISI chief Hamid Gul is one of the handlers.
Prime Minister Gilani fired his national security adviser after he went of Indian television and confirmed the captured Mumbai attacker is a Pakistani citizen.
The Long War Journal’s roundup of the major developments in the primary and secondary theaters during the past year.
Lashkar-e-Taiba plotting to target Indian warship: US intelligence
Sharia declared in upper and lower Arakzai; 16 of 21 tribes bow to Taliban law. Taliban welcome Pakistani Army withdrawal in the northwest, negotiations with the government are underway.
At least one division of Pakistani troops has been redeployed from the Bajaur-Dir region to the border near Lahore in eastern Pakistan.
The Pakistani police claim the attack was carried out by Indian intelligence operatives.
Three Jaish-e-Mohammed operatives detained in Jammu and Kashmir were supported by the Inter-Services Intelligence, according to Indian police. One of the men is a Pakistani soldier.
Interpol said India has failed to share evidence concerning the Mumbai attacks, while a UN official said Pakistan has complied with sanctions against Jamaat-ud-Daw and Lashkar-e-Taiba. A soldier was killed in a Taliban rocket attack in North Waziristan. A Taliban leader was handed over to authorities in Mohmand. The Taliban killed four people and bombed […]
Baitullah Mehsud offers to send hundreds of suicide bombers and thousands of “well-armed” fighters to fight alongside the Pakistani Army in the event of war with India.
The government treads lightly against Jamaat-ud-Dawa in the week since the group was declared a front for the Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Hafiz Saeed and three other leaders have been named as terrorists. Pakistan has vowed to act.
US sharpens focus on Lashkar-e-Taiba
Masood Azhar has been in Pakistani custody two other times in the past. Pakistan said operations against jihadi terror groups would continue.
More than 50 NATO vehicles and supply trucks were destroyed in a Taliban attack in Peshawar. The Army confirmed it is conducting operations against Lashkar-e-Taiba. A government official was kidnapped in North Waziristan. Three men were beheaded in Swat.
Hamid Gul was a director of the Umma Tameer-E-Nau, a Pakistani non-governmental organization that advised al Qaeda and the Taliban on the development of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons.
An estimated 300 Taliban fighters stormed two truck terminals in Peshawar and destroyed more than 160 military vehicles destined for NATO forces in Afghanistan. Dozens of Lashkar-e-Taiba fighters are said to have been detained in raids on a camp and at offices in Muzaffarabad. A rocket attack on a terminal in Peshawar destroyed more vehicles. […]
The Two Faces of Lashkar-e-Taiba
Car bombing killed 21 and wounded more than 90 in Peshawar. Suicide attack killed seven in Arakzai.
Five terrorists involved in the Mumbai terror attack may still be at large. India will await the outcome of the international community’s efforts to track down the plotters of the Mumbai attacks. The Lashkar-e-Taiba is confident Pakistan will not turn over their leaders to India. Security has been tightened at airports after yesterday’s gunshot scare.
The US will attempt to get four senior former Pakistani military officers added to the UN terrorist list. Hafiz Saeed denied Lashkar-e-Taiba was behind the Mumbai attacks. Ten Taliban and a politician were killed in Swat. A foreign NGO project manager and his driver were kidnapped in Khyber.
The US wants to place three senior former ISI officers and a former Chief of Army Staff on the United Nations international terrorist list.
The Director of US National Intelligence implicated Lashkar-e-Taiba in last week’s Mumbai attack. Fourteen members of Lashkar-e-Taiba that trained the Mumbai assault team in Pakistan are still unaccounted for. Police defused another RDX bomb left over from last week’s attack in Mumbai, this time at the train station. Two policemen were wounded while arresting a […]
The Northwest Frontier Province government called for military action in Jamrud, just west of Peshawar, as the Taliban is in control of the area. The Taliban attacked a NATO convoy in Peshawar. Security forces killed six Taliban fighters in Bajaur. One soldier, six militants, and six civilians were killed in Swat. The Taliban murdered a […]
India demanded Pakistan turn over 20 wanted terrorists. The military has not ruled out military action in Pakistan. Pakistan fears India may strike Lashkar-e-Taiba’s complex in Muridke. India is not interested in conducting a joint probe with Pakistan on the Mumbai attack.
Hafiz Saeed, Maulana Masood Azhar, and Dawood Ibrahim top the list. Other names on the list have been provided to The Long War Journal
The Pakistani Army looks to the Pashtun tribes and the Taliban in the insurgency-racked northwest as tensions with India rise over allegations of Pakistani involvement in the Mumbai terror assault.
Lashkar-e-Taiba operative Ajmal Amir Kasab said the Pakistani Navy and Dawood Ibrahim’s criminal network aided in the attack, while information shows the terrorists made phone calls to senior Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders.