Tag Archives: Pakistan

India

| July 14, 2010

Indian foreign minister to press Pakistan on Mumbai probe in talks

Afghan villagers battle the Taliban in Ghazni

| July 13, 2010

At The Weekly Standard, I rounded up the news of Afghan villagers in Ghazni province who stood up to a force of Taliban fighters infiltrating from neighboring Uruzgan province. The news is welcome as it gives hope that the Afghan people can eventually organize to oppose the Taliban, much as the Sunni tribes in Iraq […]

Pakistan

| July 13, 2010

The military claimed more than 100 Taliban fighters were killed in Arakzai. The Taliban killed a NATO-hired truck driver in Mastung, destroyed a NATO oil tanker and seven supply trucks in Nowshera, and bombed a school in Bajaur.

Pakistan

| July 12, 2010

Security forces detained 87 extremists in Punjab and 280 more in Khyber. The Taliban killed a security officer in an IED attack in Arakzai and bombed a school in Bajaur. A suicide bomber killed only himself in a premature detonation in Kohat.

Pakistan

| July 11, 2010

Security forces killed 22 Taliban fighters in airstrikes in Arakzai, and detained 50 Taliban fighters in Nowshera and 20 members of the Punjabi Taliban in southern Punjub. The Taliban killed a soldier in an IED attack in Khyber. A leader of the anti-Taliban Awami National Party was killed in Buner.

Pakistani military, Taliban clash in South Waziristan

| July 10, 2010

Six Pakistani soldiers were killed in Taliban attacks on security posts in the Mehsud tribal areas. The military said 38 Taliban fighters were killed in counterstrikes. Just 10 days ago, the military claimed that South Waziristan was cleared of the Taliban.

Pakistan

| July 10, 2010

Thirty-eight Taliban fighters and six Pakistani troops were killed in clashes in South Waziristan. Security forces killed 15 Taliban fighters in Arakzai, and detained a German wanted in Germany, a Lashkar-e-Jhangvi fighter in Karachi, and three terrorists in Peshawar.

Pakistan

| July 9, 2010

A suicide bomber killed 65 Pakistanis and wounded more than 100 in an attack on pro-government tribal leaders in Mohmand. The military killed 12 Taliban fighters in airstrikes in Arakzai.