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Security forces killed 11 Taliban fighters in Arakzai. Twelve Afghans with bullet wounds were detained in Lahore. The foreign minister claimed that many of the Taliban’s top leaders have fled the country.
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Security forces killed 44 Taliban fighters in Arakzai. Twenty-one people have been killed in fighting between the Lashkar-e-Islam and the Taliban in Khyber. Bajaur tribal elders vowed to support the government against the Taliban.
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Security forces killed 25 Taliban fighters in airstrikes in Arakzai. Eight people were killed in Khyber during clashes between the Lashkar-e-Islam and the Taliban. Twenty-five Taliban fighters surrendered in Bajaur.
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Police officials™ hand in Lahore mosque attacks?
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Pakistan – Investigations reveal security loopholes in Jinnah Hospital attack
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Pakistan: State of denial
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Afghan, Pakistani ministers to meet in Turkey
Al Qaeda in Iraq is ‘broken,’ cut off from leaders in Pakistan, says top US general
General Ray Odierno said that Iraqi and US forces have captured or killed 34 of the top 42 al Qaeda in Iraq leaders over the past three months. The terror group is cut off from the senior leadership in Pakistan and Afghanistan and is also having difficulty recruiting.
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The Wazir tribe said it would expel the Mehsuds from the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan from their tribal regions in South Waziristan. The Taliban beheaded a 70-year-old Afghan man for “spying” and executed another tribesman in North Waziristan. Police detained two Taliban fighters in Nowshera.
US acknowledgment of Predator program unlikely to alter Pakistani perceptions
Al Jazeera‘s Gregg Carlstrom has written a thoughtful piece on the accuracy — and perception of accuracy — of US drone strikes in Pakistan. Carlstrom points out that research studies on the number of civilians killed in drone attacks vary widely, noting that while some Pakistani surveys have claimed that more than 700 civilians have […]
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Pakistan – Tribes vow to expel Mehsud militants
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Army plans $100 million Special Ops HQ in Afghanistan
Pakistan balks at taking on the Punjabi Taliban
Despite the numerous, heinous terror attacks carried out in Pakistan’s major cities, the Pakistani government is hesitant to take on the myriad of home-grown and supported terror groups known as the Punjabi Taliban. Yesterday, Rehman Malik, Pakistan’s Minister of the Interior, stated that “no military operation is planned against banned outfits in Punjab, rather effective […]
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An al Qaeda operative and a Taliban commander were killed in the May 28 Predator strike in South Waziristan. Police killed a Jashkar-e-Jhangvi fighter and detained three more during a bank robbery in Karachi. An Anti-Terrorism Court acquitted four terrorist suspects. Clerics denied that terrorist groups are based in Punjab.
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Pakistan – Punjab™s militants
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Pakistan bank governor resigns two days before budget
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Pakistan’s nuke arsenal bigger than India’s
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Israeli strike echoes in Pakistan
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The military killed 12 Taliban fighters in Arakzai. Local officials in Arakzai said half of the agency is still under Taliban control despite the military’s announcement that the operation was over. Two people were wounded in a Taliban attack on a NATO fuel tanker in Sibi.
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Pakistan – Corruption thrived in country this year: TI report
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On the death of Mustafa Abu Yazid
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The Pakistani Army declared the military operation in Arakzai has ended successfully. Security forces killed 20 Taliban fighters in Arakzai and detained 43 more in Kohat. The Taliban bombed a school in Mohmand and targeted a NATO fuel tanker in Kalat.
Pakistani military ends operation in Arakzai
General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani’s visit to the Taliban-controlled region “marks the successful conclusion of operations in the Agency.”
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Pakistan plays long game in Afghan peace drive
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Terrorists fail to reach comrade in Lahore hospital
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Four Taliban fighters dressed as policemen stormed a hospital in Lahore and killed five people, including three policemen. The Taliban are suspected of trying to free or kill one of their own who carried out the attack on two Ahmadi mosques in Lahore on May 28. The military claimed 42 Taliban fighters were killed in […]
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US rejects reports Pakistan given deadline for operation
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US presses Pakistan for more data on travelers
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A top Taliban and al Qaeda operative is thought to have been killed in the May 15 airstrike in the Khyber. Security forces killed 42 Taliban fighters in Arakzai and detained 14 Lashkar-e-Islam fighters in Peshawar. Two French journalists detained for spying on May 28 have been transferred to a jail in Peshawar.
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Drone wars