The US killed an al Qaeda military commander in the Feb. 17 airstrike in North Waziristan. The Pakistani Air Force killed 30 Taliban fighters in South Waziristan. The Taliban killed a police chief during suicide attacks in Mansehra. Police detained a suicide bomber in Lahore.
The Taliban hit two police stations in the relatively stable district of Mansehra; a police chief was killed. The Pakistani Air Force killed 30 Taliban fighters in airstrikes in South Waziristan.
Siraj Haqqani’s brother was killed in yesterday’s airstrike in North Waziristan. Pakistan will not turn over Mullah Baradar and other captured Taliban leader to the US. Two college students were killed while assembling an explosive device in Peshawar. Four members of the Mercy Corps were kidnapped in Baluchistan. The Taliban bombed two schools and a […]
A US strike in North Waziristan killed four Haqqani network fighters; Jalaluddin Haqqani’s son Mohammed may have been killed. Thirty-six Pakistanis were killed in bombings in Khyber and Arakzai. Ten al Qaeda and Taliban leaders and operatives were detained in Karachi and Nowshera. The Taliban bombed a NATO supply truck in Khuzdar.
Rival extremist groups vie for control in Khyber; a blast kills 11 civilians in Arakzai.
Mullah Mir Mohammad was arrested along with Mullah Abdul Salam, the shadow governor of Kunduz. Pakistan also rounded up nine al Qaeda operatives and local Taliban commanders in Karachi.
Mullah Abdul Salam was captured by the ISI and CIA in Faisalabad one week ago. Salam is the second senior Taliban leader captured in Pakistan in the past two weeks.
The military confirmed that Afghan Taliban deputy leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was arrested and is in ISI custody in Karachi. Security forces killed six Taliban fighters in Kurram. A tribal policeman was killed in a bombing in Mohmand. A court rejected bail for five Americans captured while trying to join al Qaeda.
Interview: Hafiz Muhammed Saeed
Pakistan banned the Lashkar-e-Taiba in January 2002, and its successor front group Jamaat-ud-Dawa in December 2008 after the November 2008 suicide terror assault on Mumbai, India . So what is Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, the leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamaat-ud-Dawa, doing sitting in front of a Jamaat-ud-Dawa banner during the recent interview with Al Jazeera […]
Taliban leader’s arrest hinged on US information
Pakistan’s top military spokesman confirmed that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Afghan Taliban’s second in command and the operational commander, is in custody, and said he was detained 10 days ago. From Dawn: Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was arrested around 10 days ago in a joint operation by CIA and Pakistani security forces in Karachi, […]
Radical Islamist leader stirs passion in Pakistan
Baradar capture: Aided by US-Pakistan cooperation?
The US killed three Taliban fighters in an airstrike in North Waziristan. Security forces killed 10 Taliban fighters in Bajaur. Five suicide vests were discovered by police after an explosion at a home in Chaman.
US pressed Pakistan for Taliban chief’s arrest
Afghan Taliban military chief captured, aides confirm
There certainly is a lot of speculation about Pakistan’s arrest of Mullah Baradar, Mullah Omar’s deputy and the operational commander of the Afghan Taliban. Many seem to think that Pakistan has had a change of heart on the Taliban, and are now serious about taking on the Afghan branch. As I noted before, if so, […]
Pakistani-US raid nabs Mullah Baradar: Kayani doctrine in full effect
A US airstrike in North Waziristan killed four Taliban fighters. Security forces killed three Taliban fighters in Bajaur and detained four more during a raid on a madrassa in Shangla. General Kiyani said the military objectives have been achieved in South Waziristan.
Pakistan – Swat diary: ‘No more a battlefield’
A US airstrike killed five Taliban fighters in North Waziristan. Security forces killed seven Taliban fighters in Bajaur and detained 20 more in Kohat and Hangu. The Taliban took credit for last week’s suicide attacks in Bannu. Three Pakistanis were killed in an explosion in Dadu in Sindh province.
Security forces detained 11 Lashkar-i-Islam fighters in Khyber and five Taliban fighters in Darra Adam Khel. The Taliban bombed a school in Mohmand. The US delivered 115 artillery pieces to the Pakistani Army.
Peshawar romantics defy Taliban for Valentine™s
The Taliban killed 12 policemen and three civilians in a dual attack in Bannu. The military created a 9-mile “security corridor” in Bajaur, forcing those living in the corridor to leave. A NATO supply truck was looted near Karachi. The US military plans to build new training centers for Pakistani forces.
The twin bombings mark the fourth major attack against security forces in Pakistan’s violent northwestern border with Afghanistan. Twelve policemen were among those killed.
Conservative Sunni activism reemerges in heart of Pakistan
Pakistan officials ‘100 percent’ certain Taliban’s Mehsud is dead
A suicide bomber killed 11 tribal police and eight civilians in an attack in Khyber. The Taliban killed a brigadier during an attempt to rescue two Cobra helicopter pilots in Khyber; the fate of the pilots is not known. The Taliban again denied Hakeemullah was killed; the interior minister said he was certain Hakeemullah is […]
Suicide attack kills police officers in Pakistan