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Militias stem Pakistani Taliban, but at what cost?

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Necessity pushes Pakistani women into jobs and peril

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Suicide bombings in Pakistan: the bloodiest year

The World Food Program shut down aid delivery in Bajaur after yesterday’s suicide attack. The Taliban killed a truck driver in Mastung who was transporting supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan. Prime Minister Gilani said US drone attacks in Pakistan are counterproductive.

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Pakistan to review blasphemy laws, official says

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Pakistan’s rape victim who dared to fight back

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Pakistan’s interior minister for changing pro-terror mindset

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Pakistan’s ‘Mother Teresa’ on floods frontline

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A female Taliban suicide bomber killed 42 civilians in an attack at a World Food Program ration distribution point in Bajaur. The Taliban kidnapped 25 tribal leaders who met with General Kayani in South Waziristan. Security forces killed 16 Taliban fighters in Mohmand.

Female suicide bomber kills 42 people in Pakistan’s northwest

The suicide bomber targeted civilians as they waited to receive rations at a World Food Program distribution point in Bajaur.

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Pakistan – Protestors warn of anarchy if blasphemy law changed

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Pakistan’s Christians not cowering amid rising intolerance

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Eleven Pakistani soldiers and 24 Taliban fighters were killed in heavy fighting after the Taliban assaulted five checkpoints in Mohmand. Pakistani security forces reportedly detained Nasiruddin Haqqani, the top financier for the Haqqani Network. The US transferred more than $600 million to Pakistan to fighter terrorists groups.

Taliban assault Pakistani military checkpoints in Mohmand

Eleven Pakistani soldiers and 24 Taliban fighters were killed in heavy fighting after the Taliban assaulted five checkpoints in the tribal agency.

Pakistan detains top Haqqani Network leader

Nasiruddin Haqqani was reportedly detained after returning from the hajj in Saudi Arabia, where he conducted fundraising for the Haqqani Network.

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As drone strikes have increased, so have assassinations, Pakistanis say

Pakistani Taliban commander reported killed in Kunar

A Pakistani Taliban commander who aided in the murder of three US Special operations troops in the Pakistani district of Dir in February 2010 may have been killed in a recent US airstrike in Afghanistan’s Kunar province. From Express News, via AKI: Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) [or Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan] leader Hafeezullah and […]

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ISAF’s top spokesman said there was “absolutely no truth” to rumors that special operations raids would target the Taliban in Pakistan. Pakistan’s ambassador to the US insisted foreign troops could not operate on its soil. The Taliban torched two NATO container trucks in Khudzar.

ISAF: ‘Absolutely no truth’ to rumors of cross-border raids into Pakistan

As noted last night, the likelihood of US special operations forces expanding ground operations into Pakistan is slim. Today, ISAF repudiated last night’s report by The New York Times, which claimed that the US was on the cusp of green-lighting expanded operations in Pakistan’s tribal areas. Today, ISAF’s spokesman forcefully denied the NYT report. From […]

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Drone activity in Pakistan moves northward, official says

US to expand ground ops in Pakistan?

According to The New York Times, US military leaders are pushing for the expansion of US ground operations against the Taliban based in Pakistan: The proposal, described by American officials in Washington and Afghanistan, would escalate military activities inside Pakistan, where the movement of American forces has been largely prohibited because of fears of provoking […]

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Ibn Amin, a senior Taliban and al Qaeda commander, was killed in the Dec. 17 Predator strike in Khyber. The Peshawar High Court released hundreds of Taliban fighters. The Taliban ambushed a NATO fuel convoy in Khyber and destroyed two tankers. Four terrorists were detained in Khyber.