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Pakistan
Pakistan kept in the dark about Afghan peace contacts
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Afghan insurgents dismiss peace talks, NATO upbeat
Taliban bomb mosque in Peshawar, kill 5
The attack is the Taliban’s latest in a long string of attacks at religious institutions in Pakistan. The Taliban have also stepped up attacks against security forces, killing 17 soldiers and paramilitary troops over the past week.
Pakistan
US halts aid to some Pakistan military units
Pakistan
The military killed four Taliban fighters in Arakzai and four more in Kurram. Six Taliban fighters, including their commander, were killed in an IED blast in Kurram. Two of Jalaluddin Haqqani’s sons are mediating negotiations in Kurram.
Pakistan
ICRC urges Pakistan to grant access to detention centres
India
India – 42 terror camps active in PoK, new ones added: Army Chief
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Taliban: ‘Britons are our main bankrollers’
Afghanistan
Coalition routs Taliban in southern Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Taliban second in command in talks with Afghan and US officials
Pakistan
The Taliban killed three paramilitary soldiers in Khyber and wounded a policeman in a grenade attack in Peshawar. Police found four stolen NATO containers in Peshawar. The prime minister said the military will not be deployed in Karachi.
Al Qaeda IED cell member properly detained at Gitmo, judge finds
A DC district judge denied the petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed by an Afghan detained at Gitmo. The judge’s decision and declassified memos produced at Gitmo indicate that the detainee, known as Obaydullah, was a member of an al Qaeda IED cell tasked with attacking US forces.
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Get tough on Pakistan
Taliban step up attacks in South Waziristan
Eight Pakistani soldiers have been killed in attacks since Oct. 15, and another was captured.
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US plans increased military aid for Pakistan
Afghanistan
Petraeus rewrites the playbook in Afghanistan
Pakistan
Pakistan: 4-day death toll rises to 51 in Karachi
Pakistan
Twenty-nine people died in targeted killings in Karachi. The Taliban killed three Pakistani soldiers in South Waziristan and destroyed two NATO supply trucks in Kalat. The US is finalizing a $2 billion military aid package to Pakistan.
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Pakistan’s haven for terror unit irks US
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High-level talks aim for an end to the Afghan war
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CIA inquiry finds ‘systemic breakdowns’ in Afghan bombing that killed agents
‘Al Qaeda associate’ killed during Kunar operation
Gul Nabi was killed during a firefight in the Pech River Valley. Nabi “facilitated the movement of Pakistani and Arab fighters into Kunar province.”
India
Indian gov’t: Pakistan spies tied to Mumbai siege
Pakistan
Sources: US finalizing aid package to help Pakistan fight extremists
Pakistan
Pakistan helped US arrest Taliban leaders: Haqqani
Pakistan
US Predators killed six “militants” in a Predator strike in Datta Khel in North Waziristan. Security forces foiled a suicide attack in Lakki Marwat. The Taliban torched two NATO tankers in Quetta and Kalat. Eight more people were killed in violence in Karachi.
US Predators strike in Datta Khel, killing 6 ‘militants’
So far this year, the US has hit targets in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan in 24 of the 88 strikes.
ISI shelters Osama bin Laden, Zawahiri. Shocking!
This month’s winner of the coveted Captain Louis Renault Award is a simple choice. Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Agency is sheltering al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his second in command, Ayman al Zawahiri. Oh, and they’re operating somewhere in Pakistan’s northwest, in the vast region between Kurram and Chitral (note: they are not in […]
Europe
Pakistan feels US has let it down