Tag Archives: Pakistan

Pakistan

| September 13, 2010

Italy to press UN for protection of religious minorities in Pakistan

Pakistan

| September 12, 2010

While Pakistan grapples with floods, US turns up the heat in northwest

’19 Arab fedayeen hailing from al Qaeda’ behind Sept. 11 attacks – Hekmatyar

| September 12, 2010

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the notorious jihadi commander of his own faction of Hizb-i-Islami and an ally of the Taliban and al Qaeda, stated the obvious on Saturday: that al Qaeda carried out the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. From Geo News: Hizb-i-Islami leader and Afghanistan’s former Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar said the September 11 […]

Pakistan

| September 10, 2010

Three Pakistanis in North Waziristan were killed in shelling that originated from Afghanistan. Twelve tribesman were killed in a water dispute in Kurram. A Jaish-e-Mohammed member and an Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat member were killed in Karachi.

Pakistan

| September 9, 2010

A suicide bomber killed five people in an attack at the home of Baluchistan’s Finance Minister; the minister was not hurt. The Taliban killed 10 tribesmen in an IED attack in Kurram. The US may have killed an Islamic Jihad Group commander in yesterday’s strikes in North Waziristan.

HIG facilitator properly detained at Gitmo, judge finds

| September 9, 2010

Earlier this month, a DC district judge ruled that a facilitator for the HIG is properly detained at Guantanamo. The detainee, Shawali Khan, allegedly plotted attacks against American forces on behalf of his uncle, a HIG commander based in Quetta, Pakistan.

Pakistan

| September 8, 2010

The US killed 18 Taliban and Haqqani Network fighters in three Predator strikes in North Waziristan. The Taliban killed a police official and a policeman in bombings in Hangu, and bombed a girls’ school in Kalam. Pakistan will charge three men for supporting the Taliban’s failed Times Square bombing in New York City.

Pakistani military declares victory in Arakzai. Again.

| September 7, 2010

Today the Pakistani Army claimed that the Taliban-infested tribal agency of Arakzai has been “cleared” of the Taliban. From Dawn: Operation incharge Brigadier Pervez, while addressing a press briefing, said that 90 per cent of the agency area has been cleared of militants during the operation, which was lasted for five and a half months. […]

Pakistan

| September 7, 2010

The Taliban killed 21 people in an attack on a police headquarters in Kohat and torched a girls’ school in Peshawar. The military killed two Taliban fighters in Swat and claimed the Taliban has been defeated and ejected from Arakzai.