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Pakistan: North Waziristan operation is not on the table
Just days after the US government committed to providing the Pakistani military more than $2 billion in aid, the top general in the northwest said an operation in North Waziristan won’t happen anytime soon. From Dawn: Pakistan will consider mounting an anti-Taliban offensive in North Waziristan only when other tribal areas are stabilised, a senior […]
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Lieutenant General Malik said the military is not going to carry out an operation in North Waziristan in the next six months. The Inspector General of the Frontier Corps said Arakzai is 90 percent cleared of the Taliban. Six Taliban fighters and one soldier were killed in fighting in Arakzai.
Anti-Taliban tribe in Kurram cut off by Pakistani Army
The Pakistani military has cut off the Shia, anti-Taliban Turi tribe from any remaining support it may have received from neighboring Afghanistan. The BBC reports: The blockade comes amid reports that the Turis have once again refused to allow the militants to enter Afghanistan via Kurram. The Taliban have been trying to launch operations around […]
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Pakistan: Amnesty urges probe of Baloch killings and ‘torture’
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Pakistan army blockades anti-Taliban tribe in Kurram
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commander killed in Afghan north
Qari Mahmad Umar, a shadow district governor in Takhar, was also a senior leader in the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
Pakistan
Five people were killed in a bombing at a Sufi shrine in Pakpattan. Three people were killed in an IED attack in Arakzai. The military sealed the border between Kurram and Afghanistan. Two suicide bombers were detained in Karachi.
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Pakistan feudalism boosts Taliban cause
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North Waziristan operation reports upset Taliban
Afghanistan
Taliban peace talks with Hamid Karzai are ‘mostly hype’
India
Jammu & Kashmir police fear terror attacks ahead of Obama’s visit
Pakistan
Pakistan’s Pashtuns feel more alone than ever
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Pakistan border region becomes terror epicenter
5 killed in bombing at shrine in eastern Pakistan
A remotely triggered bomb was detonated this morning at a Sufi and Hindu shrine in the city of Pakpattan in Punjab province.
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Security forces killed 17 Taliban fighters in Swat and Arakzai. The Taliban bombed two schools in Bajaur and torched two NATO trucks in Khuzdar.
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Pakistani security officials seek larger role in negotiations with Taliban
United States
Pakistan resists US push to expand terror fight
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Afghan warlords prepare to rearm as Taliban arrive for peace talks in Kabul
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Despite successful US attacks on Taliban leaders in Afghanistan’s northwest, insurgency remains in control
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US seeks wider CIA role in Pakistan
India
India is waging a lone battle against terror
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Western media getting Afghanistan wrong
Pakistan
Pakistani Taliban leader’s former bodyguard nabbed, sources say
Pakistan
The Pakistani military killed 12 Taliban fighters in helicopter strikes in Arakzai. General Wyne, the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, said the Taliban’s network has been broken and the group is on the verge of defeat.
Kohistan, Chitral are quiet terrorist havens in northwestern Pakistan
Spiegel has an interesting report on how the Taliban are sheltering in areas of Pakistan far removed from the tribal areas that have become the focus of discussion. Kohistan is one such area, as Spiegel notes, and the Pakistani Army isn’t viewed as a threat. In fact they are often “quite nice”: Rafiullah, 25, is […]
Pakistan
The Taliban killed six soldiers in an IED attack Arakzai and five civilians in a bombing in a mosque in Peshawar. The US approved a $2 billion military aid package to Pakistan, but cut of certain units from funding due to human rights violations.
Siraj Haqqani sheltering in Kurram, near area of US helicopter strikes
The operational leader of the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network is thought to have been in the same area in Pakistan where US Apache helicopters carried out cross-border attacks last month. Siraj’s presence in part sparked the Pakistani military’s outrage over the incursion.
Afghanistan
Taliban leaders in talks lack ‘influence’