The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government will allow negotiations with the Taliban to secure the release of a university vice chancellor. Security forces arrested 50 terror suspects in Swat and Nowshera. The Taliban torched a NATO supply trailer in Kalat.
Pakistan – Officials go after Pakistani who ferrets out corruption
Pakistan – Doctor arrested for blasphemy: police
Terrorists entered India via Nepal
Man on a mission: US defence secretary Robert Gates is still hungry for the fight in Afghanistan
Germany alleges Pakistan of airing terror for political gains
Former Afghan spy chief slams Taliban talks
Jailed Afghan drug lord was informer on US payroll
No Taliban or Quetta Shura in Balochistan – Frontier Corps official
WikiLeaks: US concern about terrorism in Spain
Afghanistan, Pakistan get bleak intelligence brief
Security forces killed five Taliban fighters in Swat and four more in Mohmand. Police foiled a massive car bomb attack in Kohat. The Taliban killed two policemen in Peshawar.
Broadside fired at al-Qaeda leaders
Agreement reached on Afghan-Pakistan gas pipeline
Abu Abdulrahman al Qahtani was a veteran jihadist and propagandist who was close to the suicide bomber who killed seven CIA officials in a suicide attack in Khost, Afghanistan, late last year.
Pakistan – Hardline clerics launch hate campaign against Mughalpura Ahmedis
Blasphemy trials in Pakistan reveal a broken justice system
Pakistan media hoaxed by bogus anti-India cables
A suicide bomber killed 15 civilians in an attack on a hospital in Hangu. A US airstrike killed four “militants” in North Waziristan. Nine Taliban fighters and one soldier were killed during clashes in South Waziristan. Security forces killed five Taliban fighters in Swat.
Pakistani police most frequent recipients of bribes: Transparency International survey
US suspends aid group in Pakistan fraud probe
Evan Kohlmann is reporting, via Twitter, that a Yemeni al Qaeda commander has been killed somewhere along the Afghan-Pakistani border. Here is Kohlmann’s first Tweet: Slain Yemeni AQ commander Abu Abdelrahman al-Qahtani has been linked to Camp Chapman bomber Humam al-Balawi (aka Abu Dujanah al-Khorasani). Kohlmann followed that up with a quick description of Qahtani: […]
The strike is the second this month; both strikes have hit targets in Datta Khel, a haven for al Qaeda’s leadership cadre.
The Taliban and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi have carried out four suicide attacks over the past five days.
We’re pleased we delayed the announcement of a winner of this month’s Captain Louis Renault Award the other day, because this story from The Guardian is truly worthy of the honor. Someone in Pakistan is manufacturing US cables in the WikiLeaks document dump. The faux cables are said to claim that the US is concerned […]
Insecurity and violence spreads to northern Afghanistan
Pakistan – Lashkars threaten to end govt support in war on terror
Kidnapped by the Taliban
Pakistani media publish fake WikiLeaks cables attacking India
Shell shocked