Pakistani Army opens new front in the northwest
The military is conducting a limited operation in the Arakzai tribal agency, where fighting has intensified over the past week.
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Pakistan
Security forces killed 18 Taliban fighters in Bajaur, 13 in Hangu, and five more in South Waziristan, and detained a suicide bomber in Swat. The Air Force targeted 17 Taliban installations in Arakzai. An ammendment to the Anti-Terrorism Law prevents the issuance of bail to terror suspects.
Pakistan
‘75% in Pak say they’re Muslims first’
Jalaluddin Haqqani on suicide bombings in Afghanistan
Jalaluddin Haqqani with his son Nasrudin. Jihadica points to an interview with Jalaluddin Haqqani, the patriarch of the Haqqani family network, which is based in eastern Afghanistan and across the border in North Waziristan in Pakistan. Jalaluddin has a clever answer to a question on suicide attacks being plotted and launched from Pakistan, as Jihadica […]
Afghanistan
New interview with Jalaluddin Haqqani
Pakistani forces strike again in Arakzai
The military said 25 Taliban fighters were killed and eight, including a commander, were captured, during fighting in Arakzai, Hangu, Khyber, and Bajaur. Another 14 Taliban fighters and six soldiers were killed in South Waziristan.
Pakistan
Fourteen Taliban fighters and six soldiers were killed in clashes in South Waziristan. Eleven Taliban fighters were killed in airstrikes in Arakzai, and seven Taliban fighters and a commander were captured in Hangu after ambushing a military convoy. In Dera Ghazi Khan, police detained two weapons smugglers linked to HuJI and the Taliban. And in […]
Pakistan
‘Mastermind’ of Mumbai attack preaches at mosque in Lahore
Islamabad police capture ‘Ghazi Force’ commander
The Arakzai-based Taliban group has been implicated in four of the five suicide attacks in Islamabad this year.
Pakistan
Mullah Omar not in Pakistan, asserts Pakistani Foreign Office
Pakistan
Five Taliban and three al Qaeda operatives were killed in a US airstrike in North Waziristan. Security forces killed five Taliban fighters in South Waziristan and captured the Ghazi Force suicide attack leader in Islamabad. The Taliban killed a Frontier Corps trooper and a civilian in Arakzai and attacked a NATO convoy in Quetta.
Pakistan
Taliban chief hides among Pakistan populace
Mullah Omar goes to Karachi
Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Amir al Mumineen (“the commander of the faithful”) of the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban. According to The Washington Times, Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency has helped Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Amir al Mumineen (“the commander of the faithful”) for both the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban, relocate to the southern port city of […]
US strikes Taliban camp in North Waziristan, kills 8
A Taliban training camp near Mir Ali was the target of the attack. Three al Qaeda operatives are reported to have been killed.
Pakistan
Rana and Headley have elite Pak antecedents
Algeria
Muslim countries seek blasphemy ban
Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed 19 Pakistanis in an attack outside a courthouse in Peshawar; two policemen were killed in a second bombing in Peshawar. Eight Taliban and four security officers were killed in clashes in Bajaur. The military killed eight civilians and two Taliban fighters in Hangu and seven Taliban fighters in South Waziristan.
US captures al Qaeda Shadow Army trainer in Ghazni
We’ve noted several times at The Long War Journal that al Qaeda embeds trainers from the Shadow Army (or Lashkar al Zil) into Taliban units to increase their effectiveness. An International Security Assistance Force press release provides another example of an al Qaeda trainer embedded with the Taliban in Ghazni province: In another operation, an […]
Suicide bomber kills 19 outside Peshawar courthouse
More than 50 are wounded, six critically, in the latest suicide strike in the besieged city of Peshawar.
Pakistan
A US airstrike killed four Haqqani Network fighters in North Waziristan. Pakistani airstrikes killed 24 Taliban fighters in Arakzai, Hangu, and Bajaur. Security forces killed six Taliban fighters in South Waziristan and detained 13 terrorists in Punjab, 10 Taliban fighters in Mohmand and Swat, and an al Qaeda operative in Quetta.
US airstrike kills 4 Taliban in North Waziristan
The US airstrikes in Pakistan have tapered off in the past three months.
Taliban ‘defeated’ in South Waziristan: Pakistani Army spokesman
Major General Athar Abbas, the Director General of Inter Services Public Relations. Here is a very bad sign that the Pakistani Army views the very narrow offensive against the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan in South Waziristan as sufficient to defeat the Taliban. Major General Athar Abbas, the top military spokesman, in Reuters: ‘You […]
Afghan forces battle the Haqqani Network in Paktika
Afghan troops killed 23 Haqqani Network fighters during a clash in the Barmal district. Arab and Pakistani fighters were reported killed in the battle.
Pakistan
The military killed four Taliban fighters and a commander in Swat. Police detained three suicide bombers in Quetta. The Taliban bombed a girls’ school in Khyber. Mullah Fazullah said he is in Afghanistan.
Mullah Fazlullah, in Afghanistan, vows to relaunch Swat insurgency
Wanted flyer for Swat Taliban leaders. Fazlullah is in the top right. Mullah Fazlullah, the leader of the Swat Taliban, has surfaced in Afghanistan and has threatened to reignite the insurgency in Pakistan’s Swat Valley. From BBC: “I have reached Afghanistan safely,” Maulana Fazlullah told BBC Urdu. “We are soon going to launch full-fledged punitive […]
Pakistan
Militants change tack in Pakistan
Pakistani military hits Taliban in Arakzai
Taliban leaders from South Waziristan have regrouped in Arakzai to continue their terror offensive against the Pakistani state.
Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed four Pakistanis in an attack in Peshawar. Security forces killed 18 Taliban fighters in airstrikes in Arakzai and five more in Swat. A Taliban deputy confessed to executing a Polish engineer earlier this year.
Pakistan
Taliban under fire from Pakistan™s faithful
Pakistan
Pakistan Taliban taps Punjab heartland for recruits