US Predators kill 5 ‘militants’ in al Qaeda haven of Datta Khel
The strike is the fourth this year. Datta Khel is a known hub for al Qaeda’s leadership.
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Pakistan
A tribal lashkar killed three Taliban fighters; three more Taliban fighters were found killed in Arakzai. An Awami National Party leader was killed in Mardan. The US will donate $190 million in flood aid.
China
Democratic countries confronting their own creeping challenge of censorship
Pakistan
Chaos over Mumtaz Qadri’s court appearance
Pakistan
Former boss feared Pakistan suspect’s “extremism”
Pakistan
After assassination, Pakistan’s Christians fear for their lives
Pakistan
Barelvi clerics feted Governor Taseer’s assassin and warned Pakistanis not to mourn Taseer’s death, while lawyers showered the assassin with rose petals as he entered a courtroom. The US and Pakistan are stalemated over the transfer of drone technology.
Pakistan
Pakistani men grooming British girls for sex
Pakistani lawyers, ‘moderate’ Muslim group fete governor’s assassin
To understand just how bad things are in Pakistan, read this Associated Press account of the treatment of the assassin who brutally murdered Punjab’s governor, Salman Taseer, for opposing Pakistan’s repressive blasphemy law. The lawyers showered the assassin bodyguard with rose petals, while Barelvi clerics, who are upheld as the caretakers of Pakistan’s moderate Muslims, […]
Pakistan
Salman Taseer: Thousands mourn Pakistan governor
Pakistan
Pakistan Muslim scholars praise killer of governor
Pakistan
Salman Taseer assassination points to Pakistani extremists’ mounting power
Pakistan
Killing of governor deepens crisis in Pakistan
Pakistan
Punjab’s governor was assassinated by his bodyguard for opposing the country’s blasphemy law. The Taliban killed a “spy” and chopped off the hand of a thief in Arakzai, and bombed a NATO fuel tanker in Khyber. Security forces arrested 39 suspected Taliban fighters in Mohmand.
Bodyguard assassinates Pakistani governor for opposition to blasphemy law
Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab province and a senior politician in the ruling Pakistan People’s Party, was assassinated today by his bodyguard. Reports indicate that Taseer was assassinated for his opposition to Pakistan’s repressive blasphemy laws, which target non-Muslims for perceived slights to Islam. From Dawn: Interior Minister Rahman Malik told reporters that the […]
Pakistan releases top al Qaeda-linked terrorist leader
Qari Saifullah Akhtar, the leader of the Harakat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami, was recently freed after being placed into “protective custody” in August.
Latest Predator strike rumor: AQAP’s leader killed in North Waziristan
The latest from the Pakistan rumor mill is that Nasir al Wuhayshi, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s top leader, was killed in a Dec. 28, 2010 Predator strike in North Waziristan. From The Associated Press (CNN-IBN is also reporting this): Nasir al Wahishi, a Yemeni national who reportedly served as an aide of al-Qaida […]
Another rumor of Qari Hussain’s death in October Predator strike
Rumors of the death of Qari Hussain Mehsud, the Taliban’s “Ustad-e-Fedayeen” or teacher of suicide bombers, have surfaced again, after a Pakistani provincial minister claimed he was killed in a US Predator airstrike in October. From The Times of India: “Qari Hussain was killed in a drone strike,” Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain […]
China
India, Pakistan and their growing nuclear arsenal
Afghanistan
Afghanis seek peace with the Taliban in Pakistan
Afghanistan
The way out of Afghanistan
ISAF, Afghan forces killed deputy shadow governor in the north
Bahadur had close ties to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, an al Qaeda affiliate, and was also linked to Taliban leaders in Pakistan.
Pakistan
New defection leaves Pakistan with minority government
Pakistan
The US killed 19 “militants,” including four “foreigners” in three separate airstrikes in North Waziristan. Prime Minister Gilani said the US would ultimately end the Predator strikes as they are “counterproductive.”
India
India, Pakistan exchange lists of nuclear installations
Afghanistan
US efforts fail to convince Pakistan’s top general to target Taliban
Afghanistan
US to send agents to fight Afghan smuggling
US Predators strike 3 times in North Waziristan
Four “foreigners” were reported killed in one of the strikes.
Pakistan
US missiles kill 6 in northwest Pakistan
Afghanistan
Taliban leader was killed, Afghans say