Pakistan
Pakistan: UN envoy warns of militant threat during flood
Pakistan: UN envoy warns of militant threat during flood
The Taliban suggested the government deny foreign donations for flood relief and said it would provide funds. The US will not provide Pakistan with armed Predator UAVs. Two major news outlets have been shut down in Sindh for airing footage of a protester throwing a shoe at President Zardari.
US reassures India on military aid to Pakistan
US aid to Pakistani flood victims ramps up
Pakistani Taliban: Reject Foreign Flood Aid
Army, Islamists Ride High in Submerged Pakistan
The Kabul Attack Network targeted a civilian compound in the capital; two Afghan guards were killed in the attack. The Kabul Attack Network is led by a Haqqani Network commander.
Pakistan – Days of rogue spies are over: Zardari
Pakistan – Geo News blocked over news of shoe hurling at Zardari
Pakistan – Sindh Governor House ‘a safe haven for terrorists™: Mehanti
More rains hit flooded Pakistan, Islamists step up
Afghanistan despatch: ‘If Nato pulls out too early there will be civil war again’
Sectarian clashes surge in a city in Pakistan™s heartland
Investigators detained a police official and two cousins in connection with the suicide attack that killed the chief of the Frontier Constabulary in Peshawar. President Zardari said he is willing to consider negotiating with the Taliban. The two main political parties in Karachi agreed on a ‘code of conduct™ to end the fighting that resulted […]
Eight Westerners and two Afghans were murdered. HIG claimed the medical team was killed for spying; the Taliban claimed they were proselytizing Christianity.
Afghanistan – A long, hard slog in Paktika
Hard-line Islam fills void in Pakistan™s flood response
Zardari claims win in terror row with UK
Pakistan floods ‘hit 14m people’
The commander of al Qaeda’s Brigade 313 and the Lashkar al Zil has been added to the list of global terrorists. HUJI has also been named a terrorist organization.
Hundreds expected at UK Muslim anti-terrorism camp
More than 15 Taliban fighters, including two commanders, and upwards of 12 civilians, are reported to have been killed during a special operations raid in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar.
Swat school seeks to turn boys from Taliban
US Army begins relief missions in Pakistan
Lahore, the Taliban’s new target; Ahmed Rashid losing faith in Pakistan’s future
Spreading Pakistan floods affect 4m people, says UN
More die as violence and arson continue in Karachi
Pakistan in peril of succumbing to Iran-style Islamic revolution: Study
Floods ravage Pakistan’s heartland, threaten south
A suicide bomber killed the commandant of the Frontier Constabulary and four bodyguards in an attack in Peshawar. Police killed a terror suspect during a raid in Islamabad. Six people were wounded in a grenade attack on a mosque in Karachi.