Pakistan
Spy chief in Pakistan to stay on another year
Spy chief in Pakistan to stay on another year
Pakistan, Afghanistan agree to revive jirga process
The Taliban killed six members of a US aid agency in Mansehra. A US airstrike killed 15 Taliban fighters in North Waziristan. Sixty-six Taliban fighters from South Waziristan who trained to carry out attacks are believed to have entered Sindh. There will be no negotiations with the Taliban in South Waziristan, the political agent said.
Upset by US security, Pakistanis return as heroes
Six Pakistanis working for World Vision International, including two women, were killed after the Taliban stormed their office in Mansehra and opened fire.
Lone stand of surrounded Pakistan anti-Taliban militia
The Taliban took credit for the March 9 suicide attack in Lahore and vowed further attacks. A Salarzai lashkar in Bajaur torched the homes of 130 Taliban fighters. A suspected suicide bomber was captured while planting an IED in Mohmand. Thirty-five suspected Taliban fighters were detained in Kohat.
Why Pakistan is ‘boosting Kashmir militants’
Lahore attack
A suicide bomber killed 13 Pakistanis in an attack on a Federal Investigation Agency building in Lahore. The Taliban sprang three terrorists from an FIA prison in Multan. The US killed five Haqqani Network fighters in an airstrike in North Waziristan.
Pakistan delivers but doubts remain
The reports of the arrest of al Qaeda’s American-born propagandist in Karachi appear to be a case of mistaken identity.
The Taliban commander was reported killed by Pakistan’s Interior Minister in a strike in Mohmand last week.
Earlier today, reports from Pakistan indicated that American turncoat and traitor Adam Gadahn was detained in a Pashtun neighborhood in Karachi. Now, some news outlets are saying this is a case of mistaken identity, and that either a Taliban or an al Qaeda leader named Abu Yahya Mujahdeen al Adam was actually the one captured. […]
Eight Taliban fighters were killed in a Pakistani airstrike in South Waziristan; locals claimed those killed were civilians. A Taliban commander was killed in a shooting in North Waziristan. The Taliban beheaded a pro-government tribal elder in Arakzai.
The American charged with treason for serving as al Qaeda’s mouthpiece is thought to have been detained in a Pashtun region in Karachi. The reports are unconfirmed.
Compensation of trade losses incurred in war on terror; Pakistan to place three proposals before EU
Shut 42 terror camps for talks to succeed, India tells Pakistan
Faqir Mohammed, the leader of the Taliban in Bajaur and the deputy leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan. Image courtesy of AfPax Insider. Rehman Malik, Pakistan’s Interior Minister, is certain that al Qaeda military commander Qari Zia Rahman and Bajaur Taliban commander Faqir Mohammed, as well as a mid-level Swat Taliban leader […]
A suicide bomber killed 14 Pakistanis in Hangu. A top Taliban leader and an al Qaeda military commander may have been killed in Pakistani airstrikes that killed 30 fighters in Mohmand; a Swat Taliban leader is also thought to have been killed. Police arrested three terrorists in Buner.
Pakistan™s tactical moves displease US
A young Taliban suicide bomber attacked a large convoy transporting Shia in the district of Hangu. Tensions rise in North Waziristan.
Taliban calls Pak army ‘impure force’
Security forces claimed to have killed 30 Taliban fighters in air and artillery strikes after a checkpoint in Mohmand came under attack and a soldier was killed. Seven Taliban fighters were killed in Arakzai. The Army has begun to withdraw from Bajaur. A suicide bomber was killed during a premature detonation in Muzaffargarh.
Agha Jan Mohtasim, the former Finance Minister during the Taliban regime and a relative of Mullah Omar, is reported to have been detained along with three associates.
Analysis: kidnapping a multimillion-pound industry in Pakistan
The names of top Taliban leaders are missing from the Federal Investigation Agency’s ‘red book’ of wanted terrorists. Six Taliban fighters and a commander were killed during infighting in Kurram. Soldiers killed a suicide vest manufacturer in Peshawar. The Taliban bombed a school in Khyber. Four soldiers wanted for questioning in Benazir Bhutto’s murder are […]
Pakistan to get US smart-bomb kits
The military claimed the Taliban has been defeated in Bajaur; seven Taliban fighters were killed in Khyber and two commanders were killed in Peshawar. The US will provide 1,000 laser-guided bomb kits to Pakistan. The military dropped pamphlets in North Waziristan blaming India and Israel for the Taliban’s actions.
The commander of the Frontier Corps claimed the Taliban have been driven from Bajaur and the movement “is no longer significant” in the tribal areas.