Nine Taliban fighters and two soldiers have been killed during fighting in South Waziristan; the military said Makeen and Sararogha are now surrounded while troops have cleared half of Kanigoram. The Taliban killed two people in a mortar attack in Khyber.
The military said Makeen and Sararogha are now surrounded while troops have cleared half of Kanigoram.
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The attack was a joint operation between the Haqqani Network and the Lashkar al Zil. Siraj Haqqani and Ajmal, a senior Lashkar al Zil commander, have been implicated by Afghan intelligence.
The Army said 33 Taliban fighters and four soldiers were killed during clashes in South Waziristan and that the towns of Kanigoram and Sararogha have been surrounded. Security forces detained seven Islamist extremists in Sargodha and three more in Karachi.
In Khyber, seven Pakistani troops were killed in an IED attack. In South Waziristan, 21 Taliban fighters and two soldiers were killed as the military closes in on Sararogha. And in Arakzai, 12 Taliban were killed in strikes.
Fourteen Taliban fighters and two soldiers were killed during fighting in South Waziristan. The military claims to be closing in on Saraogha, where Waliur Rehman Mehsud is said to be directing the Taliban’s operations. The Taliban bombed a high school and a medical clinic in Hangu.
Protesters at “Tehreek-e-Tahafuz Qibla Awal’s” rally in Lahore fly the Jamaat-ud Dawa flag during a rally in January. While the Pakistani military is moving against the Taliban and al Qaeda in South Waziristan, the al Qaeda-linked, home-grown jihadist groups Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed continue to conduct business as usual. Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the front group for Hafiz Saeed’s […]
A street is ablaze in the aftermath of the blast in Peshawar. AFP photo. The Taliban have denied involvement in this week’s deadly bombing near a bazaar in Peshawar that has now killed 119 people and wounded 500 more. Instead, Hakeemullah Mehsud said, the US contracting firm “Blackwater” (which changed its name and is now […]
Clinton challenges Pakistanis on al Qaeda
Security forces killed 11 Taliban fighters in South Waziristan and detained 200 foreigners in Karachi and four Taliban fighters in Dera Ghazi Khan. Soldiers found the passport of a 9/11 plotter as well as the passport of the wife of a senior al Qaeda leader linked to the Madrid 3/11 bombings.
Taliban chief blames Blackwater for Peshawar blast
Pakistani Army pressing deeper into mountains in pursuit of insurgents
Soldiers are close to surrounding the town of Kanigoram, the scene of two Predator strikes this year. The passport of an al Qaeda operative involved in the 9/11 attacks has been found by the military at a camp in Sherwangi.
Said-Bahaji. Little surprise here: South Waziristan is used by al Qaeda operatives who have conducted attacks in the West. Pakistani security forces found the passport of a 9/11 plotter as well as the passport of the wife of a senior al Qaeda leader linked to the Madrid 3/11 bombings. From the Telegraph: A passport belonging […]
A Taliban car bomb at a market in Peshawar killed 105 Pakistanis and leveled a mosque. The military said 25 Taliban fighters were killed and an Uzbek base has been surrounded in South Waziristan and three more were killed in Mohmand. Police arrested five Lashkar-i-Jhangvi members in Karachi.
Pakistan: Neglected hearts and minds
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Northeastern Afghanistan and Northwestern Pakistan. Map from the Asia Times; click to view. Asia Times reporter Syed Saleem Shahzad says that the US pullback in Nuristan has breathed new life into the Taliban in the Pakistani tribal agencies of Bajaur and Mohmand, and in the Swat Valley as well. The effective Taliban control of Nuristan […]
Taliban take over Afghan province
Pakistan: Northwest attack ‘retaliation’ for military offensive
The car bomb took place in a crowded bazaar in the provincial capital. Hundreds are wounded. The blast leveled a mosque.
In South Waziristan, 42 Taliban fighters and one soldier were reported killed. Eleven Taliban fighters and two soldiers were killed in Mohmand. A brigadier general escaped an assassination attempt in Islamabad. Police detained the supposed mastermind of the attack on Army headquarters in Rawalpindi and seven other Taliban fighters.
UN special rapporteur questions legality of US use of drones
The senior al Qaeda military commander and two Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives aided two Americans as they plotted to strike at a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
Ilyas Kashmiri, the leader of the Harakat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami and al Qaeda’s Brigade 313. It has emerged that David Coleman Headley (also known as Daood Gilani), one of the two Chicago men charged with conspiracy to commit terrorist acts and providing material support to terrorists, had contact with al Qaeda field commander Ilyas Kashmiri and two Lashkar-e-Taiba […]
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