Today’s suicide attack against a police checkpoint in Charsadda is the latest in a series of major attacks against the police, the Army, the Frontier Corps, and other Pakistani security and intelligence services since July 2007.
Maulana Abdul Aziz, the leader of the radical Lal Masjid who led a revolt in the heart of Islamabad, is released on bail by Pakistan’s Supreme Court after serving less than two years in jail.
Assassins shot dead Sitara Achekzai, a proclaimed champion of women’s rights, during a broad daylight shooting outside her home in southern Kandahar. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the shooting.
Thirteen are reported killed in the latest airstrike in Pakistan’s tribal areas. A suicide attack in North Waziristan targets security forces, kills five. Baitullah Mehsud takes credit for New York shooting spree.
Four Taliban suicide bombers killed seven policemen and six civilians in an assault on Kandahar’s provincial government center. Thirty-one Taliban fighters were killed during a battle in the Kajaki district in Helmand province. A senior Taliban spokesman described US reconciliation efforts as a “lunatic idea.”
Pakistan’s Taliban leader threatened to strike in Washington and said the recent attacks on the Lahore police training center, a military convoy in Bannu, and a special police unit in Islamabad were in response to the US air campaign targeting Taliban leaders in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
A terrorist assault on a police training center in Lahore killed more than 30 recruits and officers. The South Waziristan-based Fedayeen-e-Islam said it conducted the attack. A Taliban suicide bomber killed four security personnel in Bannu. Security forces launched a new operation in Khyber.
A terrorist assault team launched a complex attack against a police academy, killing dozens of recruits and officers. The attack is the latest in a series of complex military assaults by Pakistani terror groups.
A bridge in Khyber is severely damaged in a mortar attack while Taliban fighters rocketed a trucking terminal in Peshawar.
The Department of State has offered a $5 million reward for information leading to the capture of Baitullah Mehsud and Sirajuddin Haqqani, and a $1 million bounty on Abu Yahya al Libi.
Two wanted leaders in Helmand province were killed during a March 16 airstrike. Afghan and Coalition forces launch an offensive in central Afghanistan.
More than 20 NATO vehicles are destroyed after a Taliban rocket attack set a terminal ablaze.
Three people were killed in Peshawar after an assault team attempted to kill the chief minister of the Northwest Frontier Province.
The Taliban has launched attacks in the tribal agencies of Mohmand and Bajaur, where the military claimed to have defeated the group.
Seven policemen, one civilian killed in the latest attack on police in the provincial capital.
A general, a colonel, and several senior Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders are among 38 people charged with involvement in the November 2008 Mumbai terror assault. Only three suspects are in Indian custody.
Afghan troops have deployed throughout the capital of Kabul after yesterday’s Taliban assault. NATO has overcome legal hurdles to target drug kingpins as military targets. One policeman was killed and five more were wounded in a suicide attack in Paktika province.
Mustafa Abu Yazid, al Qaeda’s commander in Afghanistan, said India will “pay a heavy price” if it attacked Pakistan. This is Yazid’s fifth propaganda tape since the Pakistani military insisted he was killed last summer.
The ‘Lashkar al Zil’ or Shadow Army is comprised of al Qaeda, Taliban, and allied terror groups, and operates as a paramilitary force in Pakistan’s northwest and in eastern Afghanistan.
Taliban fighters kill seven policemen in a complex assault on a police station in Mianwali district in Punjab province.
Foreign Minister Menon said the Mumbai attackers “were and remain clients and creations of the ISI.” Banned Pakistani groups rally in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.
A new program by Amnesty International advocates “Solidarity with Guantanamo Detainees.”
The Long War Journal’s roundup of the major developments in the primary and secondary theaters during the past year.
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.
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.
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.
Car bombing killed 21 and wounded more than 90 in Peshawar. Suicide attack killed seven in Arakzai.
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 leader of the Yemeni Soldiers Brigades claimed the Yemeni state participates in terror attacks for political gain.