Two Pakistanis on trial in the US said that the ISI backed the Mumbai terror assault that was carried out by the Lashkar-e-Taiba. Pakistan wants the US to end its Predator campaign in the tribal areas; the US said the attacks would continue.
David Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana told a US court they scouted the Mumbai assault for Pakistani intelligence.
The al Qaeda leader is an Afghan who works on both sides of the Durand Line.
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The US is “basing the relationship on wishful thinking,” said Congressman Rohrabacher.
More than 350 suicide bombers are training in North Waziristan. The military claimed it killed 30 Taliban fighters in airstrikes in Mohmand. Police captured two Taliban fighters in Karachi.
Kayani satisfied with progress in militancy-hit region
A young suicide bomber who was captured said the camps are run by a Taliban leader known as Commander Sangeen Khan.
Pakistan – Fighting flares in northwest between security forces and suspected militants
The military claimed it killed 50 Taliban fighters in airstrikes in Mohmand. A suicide bomber killed one person in Quetta. The Taliban claimed it killed Colonel Imam for betraying Islam by working for Pakistan’s intelligence services.
Al-Qaeda ‘setting up training centres in Afghanistan’
The Mullah Dadullah Front, a radical Taliban subgroup closely linked to al Qaeda, is likely behind today’s complex attack.
One of the suicide bombers who attacked a Sufi mosque last week was from Bajaur. Seven troops were wounded in an ambush on a convoy in Khyber. The Taliban torched two NATO fuel trucks in Dhaddar.
Al-Qaeda’s unfinished work