Pakistan
In Pakistan’s Swat, Taliban instill fear after defeat
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Hekmatyar’s ‘peace plan’ calls for NATO withdrawal by 2011
The al Qaeda-linked leader sent a delegation to meet with the Afghan government. Conditions include an end to military operations and the withdrawal of “foreign fighters” after a NATO withdrawal.
Afghanistan
Beijing-bound Karzai seeks China help in peace push
Pakistan
Pakistan sees no reason to stop supporting terrorists
Pakistan
Pakistani tribes against Taliban
Pakistan
Army chief driving Pakistan™s agenda for talks
Afghanistan
13 die in Afghanistan amid calls for peace talks with insurgents
Pakistan
A US strike in North Waziristan killed four Taliban fighters. The Taliban killed four “US spies” in North Waziristan. The military killed 28 Taliban fighters in airstrikes in Kurram and Arakzai. A Taliban commander was detained in Peshawar.
US strike kills 4 in North Waziristan
The airstrike is the fourth in the Taliban-controlled tribal area in six days. The Taliban murdered four “US spies” in North Waziristan.
Iran
Afghanistan – Taliban claims of Iran training dismissed by diplomats
Pakistan
Pakistan – N-plants to figure in talks, says Patterson
Iran
Afghanistan – Iranians train Taliban to use roadside bombs
Kurram lashkar cuts deal with the Taliban
After 10 days of fighting, the two groups have signed a peace agreement. The Pakistani military claims success in Arakzai.
Pakistan
Fourteen Taliban fighters and three lashkar fighters were killed in a clash in Kurram. The military killed 13 Taliban fighters in Arakzai and two more in Mohmand. Police detained two terrorists in Lahore.
Al Qaeda
Under Panetta, a more aggressive CIA
Name that army
At least one squad of the joint Taliban-al Qaeda Shadow Army operating in Swat. In a London Times article on foreign fighters’ influence in Pakistan’s tribal areas, the author notes that the Punjabi and Arab fighters in the region are quite organized and efficient: The Arabs, regarded by locals as good, quiet tenants, paying up […]
Al Qaeda
Pakistan – Arabs throw in their lot with ‘global terrorists™ in war against the infidel
India
India to get access to US man on Mumbai attack
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Taliban harness power of the web
Pakistan
A tribal militia killed 21 Taliban fighters in Kurram; 10 more fighters were killed in airstrikes in Arakzai. Security forces detained a Taliban commander in Karachi. The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan distributed pamphlets in North Waziristan that declared it would liberate Pakistan from US control. The Taliban bombed two schools in Bajaur.
Tribal militia battles the Taliban in Pakistan’s Kurram agency
Over the past six days, 37 Taliban fighters have been reported killed in the remote tribal agency.
Pakistan
Pakistan denies arrests thwarted Taliban talks
India
Rana knew every detail of 26/11 plan: Headley to US court
Afghanistan
As Taliban makes comeback in Kunduz province, war spreads to northern Afghanistan
Al Qaeda
Pakistan arrests ‘halt secret UN contacts with Taliban’
Pakistan
Security forces killed six Taliban fighters and two civilians in Kohat, and detained a Taliban leader in Karachi. Two wanted Swat Taliban commanders were among five killed in a military operation. Prime Minister Gilani said the government is “not in a rush” to launch new offensives in the northwest.
Pakistan
Interview with Yusuf Raza Gilani
Al Qaeda
CIA director says secret attacks in Pakistan have hobbled al-Qaeda
Pakistan
India – Headley may rat on Lashkar aide to escape death
Taliban
Tehran accused of arming Taleban with weapons and explosives