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Blast in Peshawar kills three
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Pakistan opposes expanded US drone attacks
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Pakistan – US diplomat alleges some Al Qaeda leaders are in Quetta
Pakistan
A suicide assault team killed 40 Pakistanis in an attack on a mosque in Rawalpindi; two generals, four other officers, and relatives of many senior officers were among those killed. The Taliban took credit for the attack. Security forces killed 13 Taliban fighters in Swat, seven in Arakzai, and seven more in Dir. The Taliban […]
Taliban take credit for Rawalpindi mosque assault
Pakistani soldiers stand guard outside the Rawalpindi mosque after the Taliban suicide assault. AFP photo. The Taliban didn’t blame today’s terror assault on Blackwater, but instead took credit. Here is the rationale, via Daily Times: Claiming responsibility for Friday’s attack, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) said the Parade Lane mosque was similar to Masjid-e-Zarrar built in […]
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Take the war to Pakistan
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Pakistan: Mosque attack ‘a failure’ of military intelligence
Pakistan
Massacre at Pakistan mosque shows Taliban strength
Afghanistan
Pakistani offensive pushes extremists, Petraeus says
United Kingdom
BBC obtains Pakistan’s charges against Mumbai accused
Low civilian casualties in US air campaign in Pakistan: US
Operatives behind the US’ not-so-covert air campaign against the Taliban and al Qaeda in Pakistan’s tribal areas claim that the number of civilian casualties is far lower than even Alex Mayer and I reported in our study from October [note: we’ll have a new one coming for the end of the year]. From The New […]
Suicide bombers assault mosque in Rawalpindi, kill 40
Forty Pakistani worshippers were killed and 83 more were wounded when a suicide assault team opened fire in a mosque in the military garrison city. Two senior generals were killed in the attack.
Al Qaeda
Taliban detainee ‘met Bin Laden this year’
Al Qaeda
Yousuf Raza Gilani: we are fighting the Taleban and reviving democracy
Pakistan
Security forces killed 12 Taliban fighters in Swat and night fighters and a commander in Arakzai, and detained 10 Lashkar-e-Islam fighters and three commanders in Khyber. The Taliban wounded one person in an IED attack in Peshawar.
Pakistan
Lahore High Court rejects Lakhvi’s plea against indictment over Mumbai
Al Qaeda
Pakistan Prime Minister at odds with Gordon Brown over Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan and Pakistan rattled by plan for drawdown
Pakistan
Pakistan: Taliban plans fresh assault in Swat
Pakistan
Pak formally asks Mehsud tribe to handover Hakeemullah
Pakistan
Mumbai plotter Lakhvi’s indictment to be challenged in Lahore
Pakistan
The extremists who hit Mumbai are poised to strike again
Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed a guard outside the naval headquarters in Islamabad. Security forces killed 10 Taliban fighters in Hangu and detained 128 more, killed a Taliban commander and a fighter in Kurram and detained 12 more, detained 14 Taliban fighters in Swat, and captured nine Lashkar-e-Islam fighters in Khyber.
Pakistan
Pakistan’s Karachi the Taliban revenue engine – mayor
Afghanistan
Fate of Afghanistan surge ‘lies in Pakistan’
Suicide bomber strikes outside Pakistani naval headquarters
One naval security guard was killed after the teenaged suicide bomber detonated at the guardpost outside the naval headquarters in the capital of Islamabad.
Pakistan
The Taliban killed a member of the provincial assembly in a suicide attack in Swat and four tribal leaders in Arakzai and Swabi. The military killed four Lashkar-e-Islam fighters in Khyber and detained 10 Taliban fighters in Swat.
Pakistan
Pakistan’s failing war on terror
Pakistan
Pakistani journalist critical of the military is threatened
Pakistan
Pakistan’s Zardari on the ropes