Pakistan
Ashura tests Pakistan’s security resolve
Ashura tests Pakistan’s security resolve
The Taliban killed a bus driver and a child, and wounded several children in an IED attack on a school bus in Peshawar. The Taliban killed two policemen in an attack in Charsadda.
Pakistan teachers being killed, says Human Rights Watch
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government will allow negotiations with the Taliban to secure the release of a university vice chancellor. Security forces arrested 50 terror suspects in Swat and Nowshera. The Taliban torched a NATO supply trailer in Kalat.
Pakistan – Doctor arrested for blasphemy: police
No Taliban or Quetta Shura in Balochistan – Frontier Corps official
Security forces killed five Taliban fighters in Swat and four more in Mohmand. Police foiled a massive car bomb attack in Kohat. The Taliban killed two policemen in Peshawar.
Abu Abdulrahman al Qahtani was a veteran jihadist and propagandist who was close to the suicide bomber who killed seven CIA officials in a suicide attack in Khost, Afghanistan, late last year.
Pakistan – Hardline clerics launch hate campaign against Mughalpura Ahmedis
Blasphemy trials in Pakistan reveal a broken justice system
A suicide bomber killed 15 civilians in an attack on a hospital in Hangu. A US airstrike killed four “militants” in North Waziristan. Nine Taliban fighters and one soldier were killed during clashes in South Waziristan. Security forces killed five Taliban fighters in Swat.
Pakistani police most frequent recipients of bribes: Transparency International survey
US suspends aid group in Pakistan fraud probe
The Taliban and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi have carried out four suicide attacks over the past five days.
We’re pleased we delayed the announcement of a winner of this month’s Captain Louis Renault Award the other day, because this story from The Guardian is truly worthy of the honor. Someone in Pakistan is manufacturing US cables in the WikiLeaks document dump. The faux cables are said to claim that the US is concerned […]
Pakistan – Lashkars threaten to end govt support in war on terror
A Taliban suicide bomber killed 17 Pakistani civilians in an attack at a market in Kohat. General Kayani said the situation in South Waziristan is “under control.”
The attack is the third of its kind in Pakistan in three days.
Kayani escapes Taliban rocket attack in South Waziristan
Media watchdog calls on Taliban to stop bombing public places
A Lashkar-e-Jhangvi suicide bomber killed one person in an attack that targeted the chief minister of Baluchistan. Security forces killed three Taliban fighters in Swat and detained 13 terrorists in Karachi. The Taliban bombed a school in Peshawar.
Woman from Swat recounts ordeal under Taliban
The Taliban claimed a dual suicide attack that killed 50 people in Mohmand; the bombers targeted a meeting of tribal leaders and government officials. A US Predator strike killed five “militants” in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan.
Two interesting articles were published over the past week which highlight the continuing integration of the Pakistani Taliban with al Qaeda. The first article, from Central Asia Online, documents the formation of the al Qaeda-led Shura al Mujahideen (Mujahideen Council), which was set up to settle intra-Taliban rivalries and coordinate operations: A council of five […]
The suicide bombers targeted anti-Taliban tribal leaders as they met with local officials in the main town of Mohmand.
Pak cleric offers Rs 5 lakhs for killing Christian woman
The US added Amanullah Afrid, the top leader of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi; Matiur Rehman, LeJ’s operations chief; and Abdul Rauf Azhar, senior leader in Jaish-e-Mohammed, to its list of global terrorists. The Taliban killed a NATO truck driver and torched his truck in Mardan,
Amanullah Afrid, the top leader of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi; Matiur Rehman, LeJ’s operations chief; and Abdul Rauf Azhar, senior leader in Jaish-e-Mohammed, have been added to the US’ list of terrorists.
Denuclearising Pakistan
Ceremony marks end of US military’s Pakistan flood relief operations