Pakistan
A US Predator strike in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan killed six “militants” on Sept. 12. Four people were killed in an IED attack in Kurram. A policeman and a civilian were wounded in a bombing at a Christian church in Mardan.
A US Predator strike in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan killed six “militants” on Sept. 12. Four people were killed in an IED attack in Kurram. A policeman and a civilian were wounded in a bombing at a Christian church in Mardan.
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Three Pakistanis in North Waziristan were killed in shelling that originated from Afghanistan. Twelve tribesman were killed in a water dispute in Kurram. A Jaish-e-Mohammed member and an Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat member were killed in Karachi.
A suicide bomber killed five people in an attack at the home of Baluchistan’s Finance Minister; the minister was not hurt. The Taliban killed 10 tribesmen in an IED attack in Kurram. The US may have killed an Islamic Jihad Group commander in yesterday’s strikes in North Waziristan.
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Afghan Taliban were reported among the six terrorists killed in an attack outside of Miramshah.
The US killed 18 Taliban and Haqqani Network fighters in three Predator strikes in North Waziristan. The Taliban killed a police official and a policeman in bombings in Hangu, and bombed a girls’ school in Kalam. Pakistan will charge three men for supporting the Taliban’s failed Times Square bombing in New York City.
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Today the Pakistani Army claimed that the Taliban-infested tribal agency of Arakzai has been “cleared” of the Taliban. From Dawn: Operation incharge Brigadier Pervez, while addressing a press briefing, said that 90 per cent of the agency area has been cleared of militants during the operation, which was lasted for five and a half months. […]
The Taliban killed 21 people in an attack on a police headquarters in Kohat and torched a girls’ school in Peshawar. The military killed two Taliban fighters in Swat and claimed the Taliban has been defeated and ejected from Arakzai.
The bombing in Kohat is the fifth this month, and signals that the Taliban have relaunched their terror campaign in Pakistan.
Scores of children trained to become suicide bombers at a camp run by Qair Hussain Mehsud in Spinkai, South Waziristan, prior to its destruction in January 2008. Image courtesy of AfPax Insider. The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan today claimed it carried out the recent suicide attack on a police station in Lakki Marwat […]
A suicide bomber killed nine policemen and 10 civilians in an attack on a police station in Lakki Marwat. US Predators killed five “rebels” in an airstrike in Datta Khel in North Waziristan.
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The attack took place in the northwestern district of Lakki Marwat. The suicide attack is the fourth in Pakistan since Sept. 1.
Pakistan: Suicide bomber attacks Laki Marwat police station
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US Predators killed eight Taliban fighters in North Waziristan. The military killed 14 Taliban fighters in Kurram. The Taliban bombed a girls’ school in Kalam, destroyed three NATO fuel tankers in Kalat, and are imposing shariah in a suburb of Peshawar.
The Taliban killed 55 people in suicide attacks on a Shia procession in Quetta and an Ahmadi mosque in Mardan. A policeman was killed in an IED attack in Peshawar. US Predators killed 15 Taliban fighters in a pair of attacks in North Waziristan.
At the end of a report on the Taliban taking credit for the kidnapping of six migrant workers in Chitral, the Taliban spokesman for Swat, Omar Hasan Ahrabi, accused the Pakistani military of assassinating commanders after capturing and imprisoning them. From The News: The TTP Swat spokesman accused the military authorities of killing Taliban prisoners. […]
The Taliban killed a female teacher in an ambush in Bajaur and said they kidnapped six migrant workers in Chitral. Lashkar-e-Islam chief Mangal Bagh escaped Pakistani Air Force strikes in the Tirah Valley in Khyber.