A report issued by India’s Defense Ministry said there is “clear evidence” that the November 2008 terror assault on Mumbai was “was planned and launched by Pakistan.” “Pakistan™s history of military and quasi-military adventurism underscores the seriousness of the threat we face.”
Security forces detained 10 suspected terrorists after identifying the suicide bomber behind the May suicide attack in Anidjan. The bomber was identified as Kamoliddin Matkosimo. He was trained in Pakistan and recruited Uzbek workers in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.
A series of raids and a clash with the terror network in Ghazni and Khost provinces resulted in 22 fighters killed and two senior commanders captured.
Pakistan’s military spokesman said the government maintains contact with Mullah Omar, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Mullah Nazir, and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and is willing to broker negotiations with Omar if the US addresses Pakistan’s concerns with India. “By maintaining the contacts with the organizations like [Mullah Omar’s Taliban and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar] doesn’t mean that that state policy is […]
Three Taliban fighters are reported killed during the latest airstrike in Baitullah Mehsud’s tribal areas.
Pir Samiullah was one of the few tribal leaders to put up significant resistance to Mullah Fazlullah and Ibn Amin. He and his lieutenants were brutally murdered and mutilated while the Pakistani Army stood by.
Predators attacked a Taliban convoy in an attempt to kill a high value target.
The strike targeted the Taliban camp in Karwan Manza, which was featured in a recent propaganda video.
The Marines at the newly established Combat Outpost Payne in Khanishin are tasked with blocking the Taliban cross-border activity into Pakistan.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court rejected the government’s appeal to re-arrest Lashkar-e-Taiba/Jamaat-ud-Dawa founder and spiritual leader Hafiz Saeed. The court denied the detention on a technicality; the government has refiled charges.
Six of the last eight US airstrikes in Pakistan have targeted Baitullah’s camps and safe houses in South Waziristan.
Hafiz Gul Bahadar issued night letters warning tribesmen he would use suicide bombers against anyone cooperating with the government.
Hizb ut-Tahrir admitted it is seeking to foment a “bloodless coup” by turning to Pakistani military officers. “…[W]e are asking them to give their allegiance to Hizb ut-Tahrir,” the group™s official spokesman in Karachi said. “I can™t explain to you in detail how we are trying to influence the military … we never disclose our […]
The complex assault on a base in Afghanistan’s Paktika province was stopped short by US troops, who then hunted down the Haqqani Network fighters behind the attack.
Mullah Sangeen Zadran, a senior lieutenant to Sirajuddin Haqqani, took credit for the kidnapping and said the soldier’s fate is in the hands of the Taliban leadership.
Terrorist groups expanding operations in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir: Report
The US military killed “more than a dozen militants” from the Haqqani Network during airstrikes in Khost province. Afghan police killed 15 Taliban fighters in Baghlan province. A suicide bomber dressed as a woman crossed over the Torkham border from Pakistan and detonated his vest in Nangarhar province, killing two people.
Dozens of fighters led by Siraj Haqqani have been killed or captured over the past several days. The US military calls the Haqqanis “one of the most lethal Taliban organizations operating out of Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas.”
The government and military have purposefully avoided a confrontation with Hafiz Gul Bahadar and the Haqqani Network, but may get one anyway.
The ambush capped a bloody weekend in the Waziristan region, where the military has yet to take on Baitullah Mehsud in a full-fledged ground offensive.
Hakeemullah Mehsud of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing in Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir that killed two soldiers. The attack was the first of its kind in that region.
Two Pakistani soldiers were killed and three more were wounded during the first recorded suicide attack in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. The suicide bomber targeted a military convoy in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir.
Zardari asks US to give Pakistan drone technology
Qari Hussain Mehsud and Mullah Sangeen survived Tuesday’s airstrike that was aimed at South Waziristan Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.
India has issued arrested warrants for 22 Pakistanis for complicity in the Novemeber 2008 terror assault on Mumbai. Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, and senior leaders Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi and Zarar Shah are among those charged. Pakistan has refused to extradite the men as it has no agreements with India.
Baitullah Mehsud, Qari Hussain Mehsud, and Mullah Sangeen Zadran were the targets of the follow-on Predator attack in South Waziristan that killed 83 Taliban fighters. Sangeen and Qari Hussain were reported killed, although this has not been confirmed.
Predators fired on the funeral of a Taliban commander near Baitullah Mehsud’s stronghold in Makeen. More than 65 Taliban fighters were reported killed in the attack.
The latest US airstrike in Pakistan’s tribal areas hit a compound in Ladha, a region run by Baitullah Mehsud.
One of Baitullah Mehsud’s followers shot and killed Qari Zainuddin Mehsud in Dera Ismail Khan. Zainuddin had denounced Baitullah and claimed he would fight alongside the military against Baitullah in South Waziristan.
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