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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.

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Pakistan clerics accuse Punjab leaders of Taliban link

Iran’s PressTV continues to distort LWJ’s coverage of US strikes in Pakistan

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 […]

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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.

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Pakistan – Search for soul

Pakistani troops ignore al Qaeda in South Waziristan

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 […]

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Terrorists™ trainers based in Punjab: Mian Iftikhar

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Shrine blast: Pakistan rages against Taliban

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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.

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Pakistan – Terrorism is not just Punjab’s problem: Gilani

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Mosque attacks becoming a trend in ‘divided’ Pak

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Pakistanis blame US after shrine attack kills 42

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High alert after Pakistan shrine suicide blasts

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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.

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US – Flournoy notes India™s growing role as security partner

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Pakistan and Iran ‘backing Afghan attacks on British troops’

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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.

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Pakistan – Civil-military nexus to make media fall in line

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Pakistan: Baradar’s extradition to Afghanistan likely to happen

General P, the ROE, and Pakistan

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 […]

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Pakistan – Reasons for an operation in south Punjab

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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.

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Taliban planning major attack on Peshawar

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Afghanistan: Pakistani militants stepping up attacks in Khost

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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.