Security forces killed two Taliban fighters in Swat. The Taliban torched a NATO fuel tanker in Khudzar. Prime Minister Gilani said the government made the decision to take action on North Waziristan, and the timing of an operation is in the Army’s hands.
Pakistan’s flood aid ‘unspent and mismanaged’
Small teams have been secretly deployed to Pakistani military headquarters in the tribal areas to provide intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance support to units fighting the Taliban in Bajaur and in North and South Waziristan.
Wikileaks: Pakistan rejects US fears on nuclear arms
A suicide bomber killed a policeman and five civilians in Bannu. Three Taliban fighters blew themselves up after being surrounded by police in Buner. Police arrested four Taliban fighters in Karachi. A Jaish-e-Mohammed member was killed in Karachi.
Pakistani woman publicly lashed by Taliban seeks justice
Anticorruption group claims harassment in Pakistan
Police arrests Taliban planning Karachi attacks
The Taliban threatened to kill Hamid Saeed Kazmi, Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Religious Affairs, if he didn’t resign. Kazmi was the target of a suicide attack in September 2009. The Taliban kidnapped four truckers and torched three trucks in Mohmand.
Ayman al Zawahiri. The Associated Press reports on three US attempts to kill or capture Ayman al Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s second-in-command. All three near-misses took place in northwestern Pakistan: the first in the city of Peshawar in 2003, the second in the tribal agencies of South Waziristan in 2004, and the third in Bajaur in […]
Suspect in Oregon bomb plot is called confused
Oregon Muslim leaders fear retribution after plot
Pakistan confirms Wikileaks claim of US nuclear appeals
A soldier and a civilian were killed during a clash with “miscreants” in Darra Adam Khel. The Interior Ministry offered a reward to those who inform on the Pakistani Taliban. The Mehsud tribe said internal refugees would return to South Waziristan in December.
34,000 women paramedics go missing after Pakistan floods
Pakistan – North Pakistan ceasefire under threat
For the second time this week, ISAF denied reports that its helicopters penetrated Pakistani airspace in North Waziristan.
Top Balochistan minister alleges extrajudicial killings
The military killed eight Taliban fighters in artillery strikes in Arakzai. The Taliban killed two soldiers in IED attacks in South Waziristan and Hangu. A US court summoned the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate and the head of Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Remember when, immediately after the Lashkar-e-Taiba carried out the terror assault on the city of Mumbai in November 2008, a Pakistani Army corps commander called Taliban leaders Baitullah Mehsud and Mullah Fazlullah “patriots” during a briefing with senior Pakistani journalists? We do. Sadly, that sentiment runs deep in Pakistani military and government circles. Yesterday, Maulana […]
According to The Nation (the Pakistani version, which is pro-military), the Pakistani military is considering cutting off its support for US Predator airstrikes in the tribal areas: In a major policy shift, Pakistan is likely to say ‘NO’ to the US over its CIA-operated drone strikes in North Waziristan Agency, thus bringing an end to […]
Pakistan – Religious minority Ahmedis terrified of ‘hate campaigns’
Pakistan president urged not to pardon Christian woman
This month’s winner of the coveted Captain Louis Renault Award goes to Pakistan’s military, which again delayed the elusive offensive into North Waziristan. The Pakistani military claims it doesn’t have enough resources to throw at the problem, and it is miffed at President Obama’s visit to India. From The Telegraph: But Pakistan military chiefs say […]
Ten people were killed in violence in Karachi. Security forces killed 14 Taliban fighters in Arakzai. ISAF denied reports that its helicopters crossed the boder into Pakistan.
When US helicopters under ISAF command in Afghanistan attacked Taliban positions across the border in the tribal agencies of North Waziristan and Kurram earlier this fall, some observers thought a new, more muscular approach to Pakistan had been signaled. But the strikes quickly rankled the Pakistani establishment, causing it to cut off ISAF’s supply line […]
Pakistan will not repeal blasphemy law – govt minister
The US killed five Taliban fighters in a Predator strike in North Waziristan; A Taliban commander was among nine killed in yesterday’s Predator strike strike in the tribal agency. Security forces killed two “militants” in Khyber. General Petraeus praised Pakistan’s counterinsurgency efforts in Swat and South Waziristan.
As noted in yesterday’s post on Pakistan rejecting a US push to expand strikes into Baluchistan province, there is a good reason for the US wanting to do so. Pakistani border cities like Chaman remain command and control centers for al Qaeda and the Taliban. Just yesterday, ISAF captured a suicide attack facilitator in Spin […]
Pakistan denied US requests to expand the Predator campaign against al Qaeda and the Taliban into Baluchistan. Five Taliban fighters were killed in Swat. The Taliban bombed a girls’ school in Khyber.