Pakistan
US showed Pakistan evidence on militant faction
US showed Pakistan evidence on militant faction
Here is an excellent reason why upping Pakistan’s aid from about $500 million a year to $1.5 billion a year was and still is a terrible idea. Last year, the provincial government of Punjab handed over $951,000 to Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the thinly veiled front group for Hafiz Saeed’s Lashkar-e-Taiba. This is the same group that launched […]
The Quetta Shura issued a statement denying a report from the London School of Economics that outlined Pakistani military and intelligence support for the Afghan Taliban.
Security forces detained an American in Chitral who claimed to be hunting Osama bin Laden. The Taliban have regrouped in Bajaur and bombed a NATO fuel tanker in Chaman. Eleven Taliban surrendered to local officials in Swat.
Pakistan – Taliban ‘reappear™ in Bajaur Agency
Scottish woman held hostage in Pakistan for 10 years returns home
Security forces killed 10 Taliban fighters in Arakzai and detained seven more in Bajaur. The Taliban killed two policemen in Bannu. The Mercy Corp charity shut down its offices after a driver was killed in Baluchistan.
Pakistan – No victory in Orakzai despite hue and cry
Insurgent commander tells of links with Pakistani intelligence service
Pakistan – Hafiz Saeed rubs shoulders with party chiefs in Lahore
Pakistan – Sectarian killings part of Talibanisation: Sattar
Pakistan – Govt neglect sees law against terror lapse
Report: Pakistani spy agency supports Taliban
A report published yesterday by the London School of Economics documents Pakistan’s extensive links to the Afghan Taliban. You can download and read the full report here [PDF file]. The author, Matt Waldman, doesn’t claim that only certain elements of Pakistan’s notorious Inter-Services Intelligence directorate back the Afghan Taliban. Instead, Waldman goes further and states […]
Pakistan puppet masters guide the Taliban killers
Security forces killed 11 Taliban fighters in Mohmand, 10 in Arakzai, and four more in Khyber; seven Taliban fighters died in an IED blast in Kurram. The Taliban attacked a NATO convoy in Mach in Baluchistan. Muslim leaders demanded that Punjab’s law minister resign due to links to terrorists.
The US killed 14 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters in two airstrikes targeting Taliban compounds in North Waziristan. Security forces captured two Taliban leaders in Karachi.
Police arrests Taliban planning Karachi attacks
Two Pakistani Taliban commanders arrested in Karachi
CIA, military rely heavily on Predator drones
The valley at the centre of the Kashmir insurgency
Islamabad unfazed by nearby Taliban attack
Classified data stolen from Gilani™s office
Militia is said to be target of Afghan wedding attack
The US killed three terrorists in an airstrike in North Waziristan. The military killed 10 Taliban fighters in Arakzai. Amnesty International said that more than 4 million Pakistanis live under the yoke of the Taliban, and that the Pakistani military has used brutal methods against civilians while fighting the terror group.
The Taliban killed eight people and destroyed more than 30 NATO supply trucks in an attack on a depot just outside of Islamabad. Six Taliban fighters and two Frontier Corps troops were killed in clashes in Mohmand. Tribes in South Waziristan demanded an end to the US airstrikes in the tribal areas.
Pakistan – Attack on military convoy in Orakzai
United States Special Envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke has long been sidelined by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and now it appears the Pakistanis no longer wish to deal with him as well. A June 9 visit to Islamabad by Holbrooke has been canceled “after he was informed that no important officials would be […]
The Taliban killed six Frontier Corps troops in Arakzai; 30 Taliban fighters were killed in the counterattack. The Taliban killed five people and destroyed more than 30 fuel tankers and cargo trucks in the suburbs of Islamabad, and executed a man in North Waziristan.
A Taliban force killed six Frontier Corps troops in an attack in Arakzai; the military claimed 30 Taliban fighters were killed in the counterattack. On June 1, the Pakistani army had said that military operations in Arakzai were completed.