Pakistan
Pakistan – Inquiry into attacks on Ahmedis pulls off vanishing act
Pakistan – Inquiry into attacks on Ahmedis pulls off vanishing act
Security forces killed a senior Taliban commander in North Waziristan and 10 fighters in Arakzai. Four Taliban fighters and a soldier were killed in a clash in Dir. Punjab has banned 23 terror groups. The US will send a delegation to Pakistan to convince the government to strike at al Qaeda.
Pakistan clerics accuse Punjab leaders of Taliban link
Iran’s PressTV continues to distort The Long War Journal‘s data on the US air campaign against al Qaeda and the Taliban in northwestern Pakistan. According to PressTV, LWJ‘s data shows that mostly civilians are killed in the covert air campaign in Pakistan: Washington claims its airstrikes target militant hideouts though most of the attacks have […]
Security forces killed 12 Taliban fighters in Arakzai and detained 12 terror suspects in Lahore and five “Afghan militants” in Bajaur. The Taliban killed two people in an IED attack in Kohat and wounded 12 more in a suicide attack in Dir.
Pakistan – Search for soul
South Waziristan Taliban leader Mullah Nazir. Click to view. Al Qaeda and the Punjabi Taliban are sheltering in “good Taliban” leader Mullah Nazir’s tribal areas in South Waziristan, tribal leaders told Dawn yesterday. And Pakistani troops are ignoring them: Malik Sungeen, an elder of the Ahmadzai Wazir, said that outsiders were coming through checkposts being […]
Terrorists™ trainers based in Punjab: Mian Iftikhar
Shrine blast: Pakistan rages against Taliban
Security forces killed 10 Taliban fighters in Arakzai. The Taliban is setting up a “media regulatory authority” to monitor the news for state “propaganda.” The Wazir tribes failed to agree on the government’s demand to expel al Qaeda and the Punjabi Taliban.
Pakistan – Terrorism is not just Punjab’s problem: Gilani
Mosque attacks becoming a trend in ‘divided’ Pak
Pakistanis blame US after shrine attack kills 42
High alert after Pakistan shrine suicide blasts
Three suicide bombers killed 41 people in an attack at a Sufi shrine in Lahore. Ten people were killed during a clash between rival Taliban groups in Kurram. The Army claimed South Waziristan is cleared of terrorists. General Kayani denied brokering a meeting with President Karzai and Siraj Haqqani.
US – Flournoy notes India™s growing role as security partner
Pakistan and Iran ‘backing Afghan attacks on British troops’
Security forces killed 20 Taliban fighters in airstrikes in Arakzai. The interior minister said the government is willing to negotiate with the Taliban. A spokesman for the Foreign Office said Indian claims that Pakistan runs training camps for Kashmiri terrorists are baseless.
Pakistan – Civil-military nexus to make media fall in line
Pakistan: Baradar’s extradition to Afghanistan likely to happen
During his testimony to Congress yesterday, General David Petraeus made a point of directly addressing the problem of the existing Rules of Engagement (ROE). The existing Rules of Engagement were put in place by General Stanley McChrystal, with the intention of reducing civilian casualties. And they appear to have done so; the ROE change has […]
Pakistan – Reasons for an operation in south Punjab
The Taliban killed four soldiers in an ambush in Bajaur; three Taliban fighters were killed in the clash. Detained Taliban fighters in Swat will be tried in a sharia court. Five Pakistani-Americans convicted of terrorist activities will appeal their convictions.
Taliban planning major attack on Peshawar
Afghanistan: Pakistani militants stepping up attacks in Khost
The US killed a Taliban commander and four fighters in an airstrike in North Waziristan. Security forces killed eight Taliban fighters in Arakzai and six more in Swat. The government is attempting to resettle the displaced Mehsud tribe into South Waziristan.
US embassy launches campaign to correct errors in Pakistani media
New Afghan minister to hurt talks with Taliban
Lashkar and ISI united in pan-Islamic terror, Headley tells NIA
The US killed two Taliban fighters in a strike in North Waziristan. Security forces killed eight Taliban fighters in Arakzai. Four people were wounded in two low-intensity bombings in a market in Karachi.