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Pakistan – Sectarianism gradually seeping into all corners of country
Al Qaeda
JuD missing from Pakistan’s new terror list
Pakistan
Why Are Pakistan’s Militant Groups Splintering?
Al Qaeda
Pakistan: The suicide-bomb capital of the world
Suicide bombers kill 24 Pakistanis in Quetta
The attack took place just two days after the Pakistani military announced it arrested Younis al Mauritani, a senior member of al Qaeda’s external operations council, in Quetta. The Frontier Corps, which was the target of the suicide attack, was involved in the raid that netted Mauritani.
Suicide bomber kills 11 outside Pakistani mosque
The bomber attempted to ram a car packed with explosives into a mosque in Quetta as Shia worshipers celebrated the end of Ramadan.
Pakistan
Pak bans LeT, JeM from taking donations
Pakistan releases Lashkar-e-Jhangvi commander from jail
Malik Ishaq was involved in the March 3, 2009 assault on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore. He plotted attacks from prison.
India
Dawood Ibrahim, LeT in Russia’s list of terror financiers
US Predators strike 3 targets in South Waziristan
The strikes took place in areas controlled by Mullah Nazir. “Punjabi Taliban,” Arabs, and Uzbeks are said to be among those killed. Al Qaeda commander Ilyas Kashmiri is also reported to have been killed in the same area just four days ago.
Pakistani government refused to move against radical madrassas in Punjab
A leaked US State Department cable details the network of radical Islamist madrassas in South Punjab and their role as an engine of jihad.
Afghanistan
With Al Qaeda weakened, US warns about other Pakistani terror groups
Al Qaeda
Terror ‘franchises’ pose huge post-Bin Laden risk
Al Qaeda
Pakistan – Terrorism: judicial flaws
Suicide bombers kill 41 at Sufi shrine in central Pakistan
The Taliban claimed the attack, which occurred during a religious festival at the Sakhi Sarwar shrine in the district of Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjab province.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
Pakistan – Artists, students can’t leave country without clearance: Malik
Pakistani Taliban step up attacks in northwest
A pair of bombings in Peshawar, including a suicide attack, are the latest in a series of attacks throughout Pakistan’s Taliban-infested northwest.
Pakistan
Report says militants in Pearl killing still at large
17 killed in bus bombing in northwestern Pakistan
The attack is the latest in an area adjacent to the Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan.
Suicide bomber kills 20 in Pakistan’s northwest, Taliban claim attack
Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq said the attacks would continue until US Predator strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas are halted.
Pakistan released HUJI chief, unable to keep him behind bars
Last week our sources confirmed a report that Qari Saifullah Akhtar, the leader of the Harakat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI, or the Movement of Islamic Holy War), was released from Pakistani custody in early December 2010 (you can read the report and all the information about Akhtar’s connections to al Qaeda and Pakistan’s military and intelligence service here.) […]
Suicide bomber kills 10 in attack at hospital in Pakistan
The Taliban and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi have carried out four suicide attacks over the past five days.
Al Qaeda
Al-Qaeda backs massive push in Swat
US designates Pakistan-based leaders of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Jaish-e-Mohammed as terrorists
Amanullah Afrid, the top leader of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi; Matiur Rehman, LeJ’s operations chief; and Abdul Rauf Azhar, senior leader in Jaish-e-Mohammed, have been added to the US’ list of terrorists.
US designates Lashkar-e-Taiba’s charitable front as terror group
Falah-i Insaniat Foundation, its chief Hafiz Abdur Rauf, and two longtime members of Lashkar-e-Taiba were put on the US list of terror entities today.
Taliban
Taliban teen describes path to jihad
5 killed in bombing at shrine in eastern Pakistan
A remotely triggered bomb was detonated this morning at a Sufi and Hindu shrine in the city of Pakpattan in Punjab province.
Suicide bombers kill 8 in attack at Karachi shrine
Two suicide bombers detonated within minutes of each other at the shrine of the patron saint of Karachi.
Pakistan
Karachi shut down after killing of exile Imran Farooq