Afghanistan
Pakistan taxes Afghan-bound goods, NATO still exempt
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Jamaat-ud-Dawa
Pakistan – Lives at risk as terrorist threat to shrines remains
Taliban mourn death of ’eminent commander’ at Gitmo
In a piece last week, I noted that a former Taliban commander, Awal Gul, died of an apparent heart attack at Guantanamo on Tuesday, Feb. 1. The Taliban have now released a statement online concerning Gul’s death, calling him “the prominent Jihadi commander of Nangarhar province” and lamenting the “martyrdom of the eminent commander.” Much […]
Ayman al Zawahiri’s deputy releases statement in support of Egyptian opposition
Thirwat Salah Shehata, a top al Qaeda operative who has long served Ayman al Zawahiri, has released a statement in support of the Egyptian protesters. According to a Saudi publication, Shehata issued the statement from Iran.
Hizbul Mujahideen
Jamaat, Hizbul hold anti-India meet in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir
Al Qaeda
Powell on drone strikes in Pakistan
Al Qaeda
US said to reduce civilian deaths after increasing CIA Pakistan strikes
Afghanistan
Security forces killed 15 Taliban fighters in Nangarhar. The Taliban attempted to assassinate Kandahar’s chief of police, for the second time in three days; the suicide bomber killed only himself. Officials in Parwan said the Taliban are plotting attacks from Pakistan.
Former Taliban commander dies at Gitmo
Awal Gul, a former Taliban commander, died of an apparent heart attack at Guantanamo on Tuesday. According to the US military’s declassified files, Osama bin Laden allegedly gave Gul $100,000 to help al Qaeda members escape Afghanistan after 9/11.
Afghanistan
22,000 Pakistanis flee fighting near Afghan border
Taliban leader, police link Iran to attacks in Afghanistan
Afghan officials said that training camps for the Taliban and al Qaeda are located in the Iranian cities of Zahedan, Birjan, Maibod, and in the Shamsabad area near Tehran.
Bombing in Peshawar market kills 9
Three children and a woman were among those killed in the latest bombing in the northwestern provincial capital.
Afghanistan
US general sees success even if Pakistan doesn’t act
Bahadar flexes Taliban muscle in North Waziristan
Just in case you weren’t sure who really runs the show in Pakistan’s tribal agency of North Waziristan, Taliban supremo Hafiz Gul Bahadar sent the locals there a reminder: He is. Bahadar issued pamphlets notifying the locals that the Taliban are the law, and will “punish” kidnappers and car thieves, and even burn down their […]
India
Pakistani nuclear arms pose challenge to US policy
Al Qaeda leader kidnaps 21 Afghan tribal leaders in Kunar
Qari Zia Rahman, the dual-hatted al Qaeda and Taliban commander, said the tribal leaders would not be free unless their family members quit the Afghan government and security forces.
Jamaat-ud-Dawa
Pakistan – Saeed slams Pope, pledges to fight for blasphemy law
Lashkar-e-Islam exact revenge for death of Taliban commander in Predator strike
Ibn Amin, from a ‘wanted’ poster released by the Pakistani government in 2009. The Lashkar-e-Islam, a Taliban-like group based in Pakistan’s Khyber tribal agency, recently assassinated four of their own after accusing them of providing the means for the US to kill a dangerous Taliban commander linked to al Qaeda. According to The News, a […]
Afghanistan
New estimates put Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal at more than 100
Taliban suicide bomber kills deputy governor of Kandahar
A Taliban suicide bomber driving a motorcycle picked out Deputy Governor Abdul Latif’s car in a convoy traveling in Kandahar city.
Spain
Police arrested a Pakistani man linked to an al Qaeda support cell. The Pakistani forged documents for al Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Taiba. He is linked to a cell of seven Pakistanis arrested in Spain and three more arrested in Thailand.
Afghanistan
Pakistan seeks US security for gas pipeline
Suicide bomber kills 8 in Kabul
The Taliban claimed the deadly attack, and said they were targeting “foreigners.”
Afghanistan
Pakistan gets role in Afghan peace talks
Saudi Arabia
A CNN investigation “found that hundreds of millions of dollars of Saudi money had been funneled to leading Islamist politicians and political activists overseas.” The Muslim Brotherhood is then filtering the funds to al Qaeda, while Taliban supporters based in Saudi Arabia send money to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
US consular employees kill 2 ‘gunmen,’ civilian in Lahore
This story bears watching. The Pakistani reaction to the US consular employee’s killing of two “gunmen” who attempted to attack and possibly rob him, and the subsequent death of a civilian struck by another consular vehicle coming to his rescue, has the potential to spark violent protests against US and other Western nations in Pakistan, […]
ISAF kills senior IMU leader in Afghan north
Nurullah Bai had close ties to al Qaeda and senior Taliban leaders in Takhar, and was involved in a drug trafficking network that operated between Badakhshan province and Tajikistan.
Italy
Protest in Rome against Pakistan’s blasphemy law
‘Foreign trainers’ active in southeastern Afghan province
“Arabs, Chechens, and Pakistanis” are supporting the Taliban in Ghazni province, while Pakistani intelligence is sabotaging security.
Russia
Russian intelligence believes members of the suicide team that attacked an airport in Moscow spent time in Pakistan and Iran. Female “Black Widows” are thought to be involved in the attack. Prime Minister Putin said it is unlikely the attack is linked to Chechnya.