Pakistan
Top Balochistan minister alleges extrajudicial killings
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Pakistan
The military killed eight Taliban fighters in artillery strikes in Arakzai. The Taliban killed two soldiers in IED attacks in South Waziristan and Hangu. A US court summoned the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate and the head of Lashkar-e-Taiba.
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Pakistan: Terrorist attack demonstrates Karachi is ‘in serious danger’
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Pakistan: Military ‘ready to attack’ insurgents in North Waziristan
Pakistani minister ♥ the Taliban
Remember when, immediately after the Lashkar-e-Taiba carried out the terror assault on the city of Mumbai in November 2008, a Pakistani Army corps commander called Taliban leaders Baitullah Mehsud and Mullah Fazlullah “patriots” during a briefing with senior Pakistani journalists? We do. Sadly, that sentiment runs deep in Pakistani military and government circles. Yesterday, Maulana […]
Pakistan
Pakistan – Religious minority Ahmedis terrified of ‘hate campaigns’
US designates Lashkar-e-Taiba’s charitable front as terror group
Falah-i Insaniat Foundation, its chief Hafiz Abdur Rauf, and two longtime members of Lashkar-e-Taiba were put on the US list of terror entities today.
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Europeans training in Pakistan terrorist camps
Afghanistan
Oops … wrong man!
Pakistan
Pakistan president urged not to pardon Christian woman
Afghanistan
Sign of Afghanistan war gains proves false
Jamaat-ud-Dawa
Banned outfits raise cash from sacrifice day
Senior Taliban military commander killed in Helmand
Mullah Abdul Qayoum, the Taliban’s shadow governor for the district of Sangin, was killed in an ISAF airstrike on Nov. 20. Qayoum commanded an estimated 600 to 800 Taliban fighters and served as a key link to the Taliban leadership in Pakistan.
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Taliban impostor reveals perils of negotiation
Afghanistan
Pentagon report cites gains in Afghanistan
United States
Afghan violence soars, insurgency expanding: US
Shocking: Pakistan again delays North Waziristan offensive
This month’s winner of the coveted Captain Louis Renault Award goes to Pakistan’s military, which again delayed the elusive offensive into North Waziristan. The Pakistani military claims it doesn’t have enough resources to throw at the problem, and it is miffed at President Obama’s visit to India. From The Telegraph: But Pakistan military chiefs say […]
Pakistan
Ten people were killed in violence in Karachi. Security forces killed 14 Taliban fighters in Arakzai. ISAF denied reports that its helicopters crossed the boder into Pakistan.
ISAF denies helos crossed border into Pakistan
When US helicopters under ISAF command in Afghanistan attacked Taliban positions across the border in the tribal agencies of North Waziristan and Kurram earlier this fall, some observers thought a new, more muscular approach to Pakistan had been signaled. But the strikes quickly rankled the Pakistani establishment, causing it to cut off ISAF’s supply line […]
Afghanistan
Negotiator for Taliban was an impostor, Afghan officials say
Afghanistan
Fake Taliban leader ‘dupes Nato negotiators’
Pakistan
Pakistan will not repeal blasphemy law – govt minister
NATO, Afghan officials negotiated with Taliban ‘impostor’
Afghan and NATO officials thought they were in peace talks with Mullah Akhtar Mohammed Mansour, one of Mullah Omar’s top two deputies who ran the Quetta Shura. The so-called leader turned out to be a fake.
United States
Taliban leader in secret talks was an impostor
Pakistan
The US killed five Taliban fighters in a Predator strike in North Waziristan; A Taliban commander was among nine killed in yesterday’s Predator strike strike in the tribal agency. Security forces killed two “militants” in Khyber. General Petraeus praised Pakistan’s counterinsurgency efforts in Swat and South Waziristan.
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Pakistan hits back at American support for India by stopping al-Qaeda offensive
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The story behind Germany’s terror threat
5 Taliban killed in latest US Predator strike in North Waziristan
Predators hit a vehicle and a motorcycle in a village controlled by “good Taliban” commander Hafiz Gul Bahadar.
ISAF captures suicide attack facilitator operating from Pakistan
As noted in yesterday’s post on Pakistan rejecting a US push to expand strikes into Baluchistan province, there is a good reason for the US wanting to do so. Pakistani border cities like Chaman remain command and control centers for al Qaeda and the Taliban. Just yesterday, ISAF captured a suicide attack facilitator in Spin […]
Afghanistan
Pakistan cautiously backs NATO’s Afghan plans