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Five Muslim men missing from US reportedly arrested in Pakistan

CNN reports on a story that has broken over the past couple of days: Five people arrested in Pakistan had been reported missing in the United States, and police are confident they were planning terrorist acts, a Pakistani police official told CNN. It is too soon to link the men with any terrorist organizations, said […]


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The military claimed 589 Taliban fighters and 79 Pakistani soldiers were killed during the South Waziristan operation. Three Taliban fighters were killed in Bajaur. The Taliban bombed two schools in Khyber.


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Pakistan arrests 5 men reported missing in United States


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Retired Pakistani major charged with acting as al-Qaeda go-between






‘We will wait till January for our offensive’ – Hakeemullah

Taliban commander Hakeemullah Mehsud at a press conference in Peshawar in 2008. Hakeemullah Mehsud, the leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, came out of hiding to talk to CNN about the military operation in South Waziristan and the Taliban’s planned response: “We will wait till January for our offensive since we are […]


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A Taliban suicide assault team killed 12 people during an attack on an Inter-Services Intelligence agency building in Multan. The US killed three Taliban fighters in an airstrike in North Waziristan. Security forces detained 14 Taliban fighters in Swat and four more in South Waziristan.








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Pakistan – Clerics declare terrorism crime against Islam, humanity



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Suicide bombers killed 45 people in an attack at a market in Lahore and 11 more outside a courthouse in Peshawar. Security forces killed four Taliban fighters in Swat and detained 17 more. Six Taliban fighters were killed in Bajaur and two bomb makers died in a work accident.






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The military killed 13 Taliban fighters in Swat and Dir, eight in Arakzai, four in Mohmand, one in Peshawar, and one more in South Waziristan; 52 more were detained in the tribal areas. The Taliban killed two tribal leaders in Bajaur and claimed to have killed 10 soldiers in Mohmand.


Pakistan bars foreign reporters in South Punjab

Maulana Masood Azhar, the leader of the Jaish-e-Mohammed. From the Department of How You Know You’ve Struck A Nerve, via The Hindu: Pakistani authorities have barred foreign journalists from visiting any seminary or other places in southern Punjab province after the Western media reported on the presence of the Taliban in that area. “All foreign […]



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Security forces killed seven Takiban fighters in Arakzai and detained two senior Taliban leaders in Hangu, three Lashkar-e-Islam commanders and 32 fighters in Khyber, and six suspects in the Rawalpindi mosque attack in Islamabad. The Taliban killed a soldier in South Waziristan. The trial of the Mumbai terror suspects was postponed for one week.


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Pakistan – Drone attacks in Balochistan can™t be opposed: governor


Captured Taliban commander killed in combat in Swat

Dawn reports on the death of a dangerous Taliban commander who was captured in Swat on Sept. 22 after being “seriously wounded.” According to the military, Abu Faraj, a deputy to Mullah Fazlullah and a commander notorious for training and plotting suicide attacks, was killed during a clash in Swat while accompanying troops: In Swat, […]