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India: Ready to go ‘extra mile™ if Pakistan acts against terror
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Taliban confirm wanted terror leader Qari Zafar killed in US airstrike
Zafar was involved in several major attacks in Pakistan, including the 2006 suicide attack on the US Consulate in Karachi and attacks on major hotels in Islamabad in 2008 and Peshawar in 2009. The US had a $5 million bounty out for Zafar.
Afghanistan
Pakistan wipes out half of Quetta Shura
Al Qaeda
Pakistan blocks prisoner transfers
CIA agents killed in suicide attack ‘a gift from Allah’
The Jordanian-born al Qaeda suicide bomber explained how he was able to trick his intelligence handlers and lure CIA officials and a Jordanian intelligence official into a suicide bombing trap on a US outpost in Khost.
Transcript of interview with Jordanian suicide bomber Khurasani
Below is the full transcript of the last interview with Abu Dujanah al Khurasani, a longtime internet jihadi who was recruited by Jordanian intelligence to provide targeting information for the US’ covert air campaign against al Qaeda’s leaders and operations in Pakistan’s tribal areas. Khurasani (who is also known as Humam Khalil Muhammed Abu Mulal […]
Al Qaeda
Taliban militants find breathing room in slums of Karachi, Pakistan
Jamaat-ud-Dawa
Pak will have to fight war if India doesn’t talk: JuD chief
Bangladesh
Security forces detained five members of Jaish-e-Mohammad, including a Pakistani and four Bangladeshis, during a raid in a market in the capital of Dhaka. The five admitted to plotting attacks in the capital.
Taliban release videotape of Hakeemullah Mehsud
The leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan is seen in an interview, but there is no indication as to when the tape was recorded.
Al Qaeda
Frustrated strivers in Pakistan turn to jihad
Iran contradicts itself over claims of US support for Jundallah
Jundallah leader Abdul Malik Rigi, after his capture by Iranian intelligence. Just three days after Iran captured Abdul Malik Rigi, the government is claiming that the US supports Jundallah, Rigi’s terror group, which conducts suicide and other attacks in southeastern Iran. Here is what Rigi said during an interrogation, according to the Iranian-government owned and […]
The Taliban
The Lahore High Court in Pakistan blocked the extradition of Mullah Baradar and four senior members of the Quetta Shura to Afghanistan or the US. The ruling came just one day after Afghanistan demanded their extradition.
Khawaja’s petition blocks extradition of Mullah Baradar, Quetta Shura leaders
Today, the Lahore High Court has blocked the extradition of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Afghan Taliban’s second in command; Maulvi Abdul Kabir, the leader of the Peshawar Regional Military Shura; Mullah Abdul Salam, the shadow governor of Kunduz; Mullah Mir Mohammed, the shadow governor of Baghlan province; and Mohammed Younis, the former shadow governor […]
Suicide assault teams target foreigners in Afghan capital
A team of suicide bombers struck at sites frequented by foreigners. Five Indians are among the 17 people reported killed.
Fedayeen-i-Islam commander thought killed in US airstrike
Qari Mohammed Zafar is reported to have been killed in a recent strike outside of Miramshah. Zafar was involved in serveral major attacks in Pakistan, including the 2002 suicide attack on the US Consulate in Karachi. The US has a $5 million bounty out for Zafar.
India
Terrorism lingers over India-Pakistan peace talks
Afghanistan
Twenty Taliban fighters and two Afghan soldiers were killed during fighting in Kunduz. The Taliban killed a British solider in Helmand. The Afghan government raised the flag over Marja. An Interior Ministry spokesman demanded Pakistan turn over Mullah Baradar, Mullah Omar’s deputy. South Korea will send 350 troops to Parwan.
Al Qaeda
CIA and Pakistan work together, but do so warily
Baradar to Afghanistan? Not so fast
Rehman Malik, Pakistan’s Interior Minister, quickly backed away from reports by an Afghan official that Pakistan will turn over Mullah Baradar, Mullah Omar’s deputy, to the Afghan government. From CNN: However, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik told CNN there is no agreement to hand over Baradar as part of a prisoner swap and Afghanistan has […]
Israel
Pakistan: Scholar confirms link between Israelites and Pashtuns
US hits Haqqani Network in North Waziristan, kills 8
Unmanned strike aircraft hit a compound and a vehicle in a village outside of Miramshah. Three foreign fighters are among those killed.
More on the Quetta Shura move to Karachi
An old photograph of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the former leader of the Quetta Shura who was detained in Karachi. Image from The New York Times. Top US defense officials briefed Congress about the move of the Afghan Taliban’s top council, the Quetta Shura, from Quetta to Karachi. From Dawn: “Elements of the Afghan Taliban […]
The Afghan Taliban’s top leaders
A look at the Afghan Taliban’s top leaders, its regional military shuras, and its governing committees.
Iran captures Jundallah’s leader
Abdul Malik Rigi, the founder and leader of Jundallah, was captured during an operation in eastern Iran, the Intelligence Ministry said.
Suicide bomber kills senior anti-Taliban leader in Nangarhar
Mohammad Haji Zaman, a former mujahedeen commander who fought against al Qaeda at Tora Bora, was killed along with 14 others in an attack at a tribal meeting.
Afghanistan
Baradar™s lips sealed, US wants him shifted to Afghan prison
The Taliban
Maulvi Abdul Kabir, the Taliban’s former shadow governor of the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar who led the group’s council in the city of Peshawar, was arrested in the district of Nowshera in Pakistan. Kabir served as a liaison between the Afghan Taliban and al Qaeda, Hezb-i-Islami Gulbuddin, and the Movement of the Taliban in […]
The Taliban
The US wants Mullah Baradar to be transferred to Afghanistan; Pakistan said it would not turn him over to the US. South Korean police arrested a Pakistani man who claimed to be a member of the Taliban in Daegu. The Pakistani man used fake passports to enter Korea 17 times.
Senior al Qaeda military commander killed in Predator strike
Sheikh Mansoor, an al Qaeda military commander in North Waziristan, is thought to have been killed in the Feb. 17 airstrike. Mansoor was a Canadian citizen and directed attacks in Afghanistan.