The military claimed that the Mamond region in Bajaur has been cleared and the government now controls 90 percent of the tribal agency. The Taliban bombed a girls’ school in Bannu. The Pakistani Taliban spends $45 million year, according to the governor of the NWFP.
With Taliban leader reported dead, new Pakistani figure emerges
Dir: A Pakistani militant hotbed
Pakistan – Swati women want army to stay
Twenty-five Pakistanis were killed in two bombings at a Shia procession in Karachi; police also defused a bomb placed at a hospital in the city. The Taliban killed a teacher and attacked an electrical grid station in Khyber.
Pakistan – Karachi bombings a ‘conspiracy’ to paralyse financial hub
Bombs and beatings: Life among the Taliban
The BBC has a chilling story of Meena, a young Pakistani girl from Dir whose father and brother are Taliban. The father and brother had recruited, trained, and deployed many suicide bombers, according to Meena. They tried to make her become a suicide bomber, too, and forced her 9-year-old younger sister to carry out a […]
Even where Pakistani law exists, Taliban find a porous border
Fifteen Taliban were killed in airstrikes in Bajaur. Security forces detained 35 suspects in yesterday’s suicide attack in Dir. The Taliban said Hakeemullah Mehsud is in hiding; US intelligence officials believe he is dead.
Pakistani Taliban leader alive, in hiding, spokesman says
US puzzles over top militant’s fate
Who™s who of terror meet in PoK, vow jihad
Pakistan ‘ready to help’ Afghan reconciliation: ministry
The planning and execution of the suicide car bomb attack in Dir was “too perfect,” according to US military and intelligence officials.
Pakistani N-arsenal safe but vulnerable: US
Hakeemullah Mehsud in a US Humvee looted from a NATO supply column in Khyber. First Hakeemullah was dead, US and Pakistani officials said. Now he’s alive, an anonymous Pakistani intelligence official told Dawn: A senior government functionary has told DawnNews on condition of anonymity that Hakeemullah Mehsud may have survived a drone strike. The official […]
Pakistani Taliban has its work cut out
Three US soldiers were among nine people killed in an IED attack in Dir; the Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. Pakistani intelligence officials said Hakeemullah Mehsud and Qari Hussain Mehsud likely survived a US Predator strike. Two security personnel were wounded an IED attack in Khyber.
The US soldiers were killed while traveling to attend the opening of a girls’ school in Dir. The soldiers served as trainers to the Frontier Corps.
Pakistan has reversed Taliban gains: Mullen
US aircraft killed 17 terrorists in a massive attack in North Waziristan. Security forces killed 18 Taliban fighters in Bajaur, while tribesmen killed and hanged two Taliban fighters. The military also killed three Taliban fighters in Swabi. The Taliban killed two members of a peace committee in Mohmand.
Eighteen missiles were reported to have been fired from five unmanned strike aircraft. Seventeen terrorists are said to have been killed.
US steps up missions targeting Taliban leaders
Pakistan offers to train Afghan soldiers
Pakistan does not want to control Afghanistan: Kayani
A Taliban leader said Hakeemullah Mehsud will release a tape in the next couple of days to prove he is alive. Security forces killed 20 Taliban fighters in Bajaur and detained 12 Taliban fighters in Swat and South Waziristan. The Taliban torched a NATO fuel tanker in Khyber.
Team Obama scuttles the term "AfPak"
How unmanned drones are changing modern warfare
Taliban-Pak army links deepening?