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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.
Jamaat-ud-Dawa
Pakistan – Saeed slams Pope, pledges to fight for blasphemy law
Lashkar-e-Islam exact revenge for death of Taliban commander in Predator strike
Ibn Amin, from a ‘wanted’ poster released by the Pakistani government in 2009. The Lashkar-e-Islam, a Taliban-like group based in Pakistan’s Khyber tribal agency, recently assassinated four of their own after accusing them of providing the means for the US to kill a dangerous Taliban commander linked to al Qaeda. According to The News, a […]
Afghanistan
New estimates put Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal at more than 100
Pakistan
The military claimed it defeated the Taliban in an area along the border between the tribal agencies of Bajaur and Mohmand. Two people were killed in a Taliban ambush in Khyber. A court sentenced a failed suicide bomber to death.
Pakistan
In Pakistan, even anti-violence Islamic sect lauds assassination of liberal governor
Pakistan
Pakistan: Government in new ‘tug of war’ with Baloch separatists
Pakistan
US Embassy demands release of ‘unlawfully detained’ diplomat who shot 2 Pakistanis
Taliban suicide bomber kills deputy governor of Kandahar
A Taliban suicide bomber driving a motorcycle picked out Deputy Governor Abdul Latif’s car in a convoy traveling in Kandahar city.
Bangladesh
‘LeT supplied grenades for 7 terror attacks in Bangladesh’
Pakistan
US diplomat tells court he killed 2 Pakistani men in self-defense
China
Pak-China trade jumps by 28 percent to $8.7 billion
Pakistan
Security forces killed 28 Taliban fighters in Mohmand. The Taliban killed four people in two bombings in Kohat, and torched two NATO fuel tankers in Dhaddar.
Pakistan
Pakistani extremists step up ‘blasphemy’ attacks
Afghanistan
Pakistan seeks US security for gas pipeline
Afghanistan
Pakistan gets role in Afghan peace talks
Pakistan
A US consular official shot and killed two Pakistani men on a motorcycle who are said to have been attempting to rob him in Lahore. One civilian was killed as Americans in a separate car raced to help. Security forces killed 12 Taliban fighters, including two suicide bombers, in Mohmand.
US consular employees kill 2 ‘gunmen,’ civilian in Lahore
This story bears watching. The Pakistani reaction to the US consular employee’s killing of two “gunmen” who attempted to attack and possibly rob him, and the subsequent death of a civilian struck by another consular vehicle coming to his rescue, has the potential to spark violent protests against US and other Western nations in Pakistan, […]
Pakistan
American embassy official in Pakistan kills suspected armed robbers
Nigeria
Global Muslim population gains will outstrip non-Muslim growth over the next 20 years
Pakistan
Pakistan: Supreme Court petition urges martial law in Karachi
Afghanistan
Afghan police pledge justice for Taliban stoning
ISAF targets another IMU leader in Takhar
ISAF continues to pursue the leaders of the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan in the northern Afghan province of Takhar: In Takhar province, Afghan and coalition forces detained two insurgents and killed several armed combatants during their search for a high-ranking Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan senior leader. The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader specializes […]
Pakistan
The Taliban in Pakistan: We’ve got a bigger problem now
Italy
Protest in Rome against Pakistan’s blasphemy law
‘Foreign trainers’ active in southeastern Afghan province
“Arabs, Chechens, and Pakistanis” are supporting the Taliban in Ghazni province, while Pakistani intelligence is sabotaging security.
Afghanistan
Joining the jihad? German held by US Military in Afghanistan
Pakistan
Suicide bombers killed 16 Pakistanis in Lahore and Karachi; the Fedayeen-e-Islam claimed the Lahore attack. Security forces killed 18 Taliban fighters in Mohmand.
Afghanistan
Petraeus offers optimistic assessment of war in Afghanistan