Pakistan
Pakistanis living on brink, and too often in the dark
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Predator strikes now leaner, meaner in Pakistan
The Washington Post has a good read on the covert US air campaign in Pakistan. According to the Post’s CIA sources, the strikes have been much more effective in killing enemy fighters and commanders, and have killed far fewer civilians, since smaller warheads and increased surveillance have been employed. According to an internal CIA accounting […]
Pakistan
US strike aircraft killed eight Taliban fighters in North Waziristan. Security forces killed four Taliban fighters and detained nine more in Swat, and detained a senior Taliban commander from Swat in Karachi. The military launched a new operation in Khyber; 12 extremists were captured.
Taliban
Taliban gone, Pakistan area still wants Islamic justice
US strike kills 8 Taliban in North Waziristan
Predators hit a compound operated by a known Taliban commander. The strike is the second in North Waziristan in three days.
Pakistan
In Pakistan, mystery deepens over missing former spies
Afghanistan
On tipping points and Taliban talks
Pakistan
Amid outrage over civilian deaths in Pakistan, CIA turns to smaller missiles
Pakistan
Pakistan – Legal experts oppose bail for terror suspects
Pakistan
Security forces killed eight Taliban fighters in Arakzai. Baluch fighters killed three policemen in an attack on a checkpoint in Nasirabad. The Mehsud tribes said they would return to South Waziristan and promised not to aid or shelter the Taliban.
Pakistan
A US airstrike killed seven Taliban fighters in North Waziristan. The military killed 20 Taliban fighters in Arakzai. The Taliban killed four policemen and bombed 12 NATO tankers in Mianwali and wounded 10 policemen in a suicide attack in Dir.
US airstrike kills 7 Taliban in North Waziristan
The strike took place near the Taliban and al Qaeda hub of Miramshah and is the first by the US in eight days.
Pakistan
Bombs, missiles, bullets leave 29 dead in Pakistan
Kashmir
Kashmir – Mechanism to prevent Indo-Pak nuclear war urged
Al Qaeda
Afghanistan ‘foils Kabul bomb plot’
Pakistan
The Taliban took credit for an ambush that killed eight soldiers in North Waziristan. The Taliban also beheaded four “US spies” in North Waziristan. Security forces killed 16 Taliban fighters in Arakzai.
Al Qaeda
Confessions of a Pakistani spy
Pakistan
Pakistan – Suspects in 471 terror cases acquitted in Punjab
Taliban
Afghanistan – Taleban rift ignites power struggle over who controls the insurgency
Taliban ambush military convoy in North Waziristan, kill 8 soldiers
The attack is a direct violation of the peace agreement between Hafiz Gul Bahadar and the government. The Taliban also executed four “US spies” in Miramshah.
Pakistan
Pakistan – ‘Jihadi channels™ opened to secure release of former ISI spies
Al Qaeda
Arrest led to strike on two top Iraq Qaeda leaders
Pakistan
Thirty-five Taliban and one soldier were killed in fighting in Arakzai and Swat. The Taliban killed three tribesmen in Arakzai and a politician in Charsadda. The military killed a woman during mortar strikes in Khyber. The government closed two hospitals and 177 health clinics in North Waziristan.
Afghanistan
In cat vs. drone, cat wins
Taliban deny kidnapping ex-ISI officers
The top spokesman for the Afghan Taliban and an unnamed commander denied any involvement in kidnapping Colonel Imam and Khalid Khawaja.
Al Qaeda
Pakistan holding thousands in indefinite detention, officials say
Pakistan
Caught in the crossfire of Pakistan’s secret war
Pakistan
The top Taliban spokesman denied carrying out attacks in crowded cities and claimed Blackwater was behind the recent suicide strikes in Kohat and Peshawar. The Taliban warned shop owners and leaders to stop the “growing vulgarity.” Only four Taliban fighters were detained among 500 suspects rounded up in Swat.
Al Qaeda
On the run, Pakistan militants find new haven
Why the Korengal Valley matters
At The New York Times, Sebastian Junger shares what he knows about Kunar’s Korengal Valley, the region abandoned by US forces last week and now overtaken by the Taliban. Junger’s article should be read in full, but the two paragraphs below point out that the valley does indeed possess tactical significance. And the oft-repeated mantra […]