Pakistan
Pakistan – The politics of appeasement
Tag Archives: Pakistan
Al Qaeda
Pakistan Christians bury murdered leader Shahbaz Bhatti
Taliban kill 9 in bombing at mosque in northwestern Pakistan
The Taliban continue their terror campaign in the central region of northwestern Pakistan. The attack is the latest at mosques and other religious sites in Pakistan.
Afghanistan
US senators uneasy about Afghanistan, Pakistan
Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed nine people, including four policemen, in Hangu. The Taliban killed six policemen in an ambush in Khyber. Police arrested 18 suspects in the assassination of Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti.
Jama’at-i Islami
This time, murder of Pakistan minister spurs condemnation from Islamic clerics
Taliban suicide bomber kills 9 in Hangu; 6 police killed in ambush in Khyber
The attacks are the latest in the Taliban’s renewed offensive in the central regions of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the tribal agencies.
Al Qaeda
Christians across Pakistan protest Bhatti’s killing
Pakistan
Analysis: Pakistan unlikely to bend on blasphemy
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Commanders expect Taliban will try to regain lost ground
India
Mumbai attack: US links cover for ISI chief to Davis case
Afghanistan
A return to Hell in Swat
Pakistan
Most US aid to Pakistan hasn’t gotten there yet
Afghanistan
Pakistan: under attack from within
Afghanistan
Afghan tells of his ordeal at the ‘center of al Qaeda’
Al Qaeda
Pakistani minister gunned down
Pakistan
Pakistan’s blasphemy law: timeline
Punjabi Taliban, al Qaeda assassinate Pakistan’s Christian minorities minister
Shahbaz Bhatti was gunned down after leaving his mother’s home in Islamabad. He was killed for opposing Pakistan’s repressive blasphemy laws.
Afghanistan
UK faults Coalition’s Afghan effort
Afghanistan
US repositions troops in eastern Afghanistan
Pakistan
The Taliban executed four “US spies” in North Waziristan and killed three people in IED attacks in Mohmand. The Taliban also wounded 15 schoolgirls in an attack at a campus in Mardan. The Taliban torched a NATO fuel tanker in Wah.
Afghanistan
Private spies aid FBI in Afghan investigation
Taliban execute 4 tribesmen ‘spying for America’ in North Waziristan
“We killed them because they were spying for America, anyone who acts like this will face the same fate,” the Taliban statement read. The men were shot in the face multiple times.
Pakistan
Pakistan playing cynical game with CIA contractor, says official
ISAF statement on the withdrawal from Pech Valley
US Army Sergeant David M. Pooler, of 1st Platoon, Able Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, scans the area across the Kunar River as he provides security in the Noorgal district of Kunar province, Afghanistan, May 1, 2010 as part of a community development council meeting. US Army photo by […]
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – ISAF plans ‘better targeting’ of insurgents in border regions
Pakistan attempts to trade CIA contractor for convicted al Qaeda operative Aafia Siddiqui
ABC News reported today that Pakistan attempted to exchange CIA contractor Raymond Davis for convicted al Qaeda operative Aafia Siddiqui. This should come as no surprise, as speculation about a possible prisoner exchange first appeared in the Pakistani press just days after Davis’ arrest. ABC News reports: The government of Pakistan offered to trade a […]
Pakistan
Police arrested 45 people whose phone numbers were on Raymond Davis’ cell phone. Pakistan attempted to trade Davis for convicted al Qaeda operative Aafia Siddiqui.
Afghanistan
The CIA and Pakistan’s ISI: on the high ground
Al Qaeda
Spy war threatens Pakistan-US ties