Pakistan opens new terror camps after Mumbai assault
Less than a year after the Lashkar-e-Taiba launched the deadly terror assault on Mumbai, jihadi groups are opening more training camps in Pakistan.
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Pakistan
Taliban suicide bombers killed 20 people and wounded more than 100 in dual attacks in Peshawar and Bannu cities. Twenty Taliban fighters surrendered in Swat. The Taliban demanded that captive leaders be released in exchange for a kidnapped Greek aid worker.
Taliban suicide bombers strike in Pakistan’s northwest
Twenty Pakistanis, including police oficers, were killed in attacks in Peshawar and Bannu.
Pakistan
Security forces killed 10 Taliban fighters in North Waziristan. In Swat, 13 Taliban fighters were captured and 57 more surrendered. Five terror suspects were detained in Dera Ghazi Khan. The Taliban wounded a lashkar fighter in Bajaur.
Al Qaeda
Pakistan discovers ‘village’ of white German al-Qaeda insurgents
Taliban suicide bombing master Qari Hussain Mehsud speaks
Scores of children train to become suicide bombers at a camp run by Qair Hussain in Spinkai, South Waziristan. Image courtesy of AfPax Insider. Qari Hussain Mehsud, the cousin of slain Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, popped up from hiding and conducted an interview with the Associated Press. Qari Hussain is the Taliban leader who is […]
Pakistan
Saeed is in custody, believes Pak PM
Pakistan
A US airstrike killed eight Haqqani Network fighters in an attack in North Waziristan. The Taliban killed seven pro-government tribal leaders during an attack in Bannu. The military killed eight Taliban fighters in Malakand and detained three more in Hangu.
US airstrike targets Haqqani Network in North Waziristan
Eight people have been reported killed in the latest US strike in Pakistan’s tribal areas. The attack targeted a compound run by Ahmad Haqqani, one of Jalaluddin Haqqani’s sons.
Jihad in Pakistan’s South Punjab
Newsline has a must-read article on the critical role the southern half of Pakistan’s Punjab province plays in the jihadi network. Read the whole thing; I’ve excerpted some interesting portions below: Four major militant outfits, the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT), are all comfortably ensconced in South Punjab (see article […]
Taliban kill pro-government tribal leaders in Pakistan’s northwest
The attack took place in Jani Khel, a region known to have hosted al Qaeda’s executive council as well as an al Qaeda bank in the past.
Pakistan
Pak seeks more time to probe Saeed’s role in 26/11 attacks
Afghanistan
Taliban widen Afghan attacks from base in Pakistan
Pakistani General dined with Hafiz Saeed
Just days before Lashkar-e-Taiba / Jamaat-ud-Dawa leader Hafiz Saeed was charged by Faisalbad police with preaching jihad and raising money for terrorist activities, he was the guest of a senior Pakistani military commander in Rawalpindi. The Times of India reports: Two FIRs [first information requests] against Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed and “restrictions” on his movements […]
Counterterrorism at the expense of counterinsurgency will doom Afghanistan and Pakistan: US officials
Shifting to a counterterrorism-heavy strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan will have disastrous consequences, according to US military and intelligence officials familiar with the region.
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Al Qaeda external operations op tempo
Pakistan
Pakistan’s Punjab: Terror™s training ground
Kashmir
4 Indian soldiers, 4 militants killed in Kashmir clashes
US airstrikes alone cannot defeat al Qaeda
US military and intelligence officials warn that al Qaeda maintains a robust network in northwestern Pakistan despite two years of targeted strikes.
Pakistan
Forty-five Pakistani troops and 34 Taliban fighters were killed during clashes in North and South Waziristan. Security forces detained a Taliban commander and 10 fighters in Swat and Malakand. The Taliban bombed a girls’ school in Peshawar. The US Congress approved $2.376 billion in aid for Pakistan.
Counterterrorism ops without counterinsurgency will expand al Qaeda’s reach
Over at The Weekly Standard, I noted that the proposal to rely on counterterrorism techniques, specifically Predator/Reaper strikes, to take out al Qaeda’s senior leadership in Pakistan in lieu of a counterinsurgency program to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan, is seriously flawed. The proponents of this strategy make the assumption that al Qaeda and the […]
Pakistan
US Congress approves $2.3bn aid package for Pakistan
Pakistani Army, Taliban clash in Waziristan
The Taliban claimed 45 Pakistani soldiers were killed in a battalion-sized assault in North Waziristan. The military claimed 26 Taliban fighters were killed in airstrikes in South Waziristan, while eight more were killed in North Waziristan.
Pakistan
Sources: US eyes more drone hits on terror havens
Pakistan
Saeed under ‘house arrest’, was Pak army’s iftar guest
Pakistan
Security forces detained Abu Faraj, a Taliban commander who was behind suicide attacks in Swat. Faraj was wounded by soldiers before he was captured in Swat. Police killed one suicide bomber in Buner; two others escaped. The suicide bomber was planning to assassinate the provincial education minister.
Lashkar-e-Taiba chief again placed under house arrest
Hafiz Saeed is placed under house arrest in Lahore for the second time in 10 months. Police filed charges against Saeed for preaching jihad and raising funds for terror activities just days ago.
Pakistan
Pakistan foils terror plot in latest success
Pakistan
Security forces killed eight Taliban fighters and detained 43 more in Swat. Swat Taliban commander Sher Muhammad Qasab died in custody. Taliban fighters killed four people in an attack at a bazaar in Hangu. Pakistan has placed 83 wanted terrorists on a watch lsit.
Ilyas Kashmiri was a Pakistani Army commando
Kashmiri terrorists in training. Image from Der Speigel. New details have emerged about Ilyas Kashmiri, the al Qaeda and Harakat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami leader who is thought to have been killed during a US Predator strike in North Waziristan earlier this month. The News and Middle East Transparent reported that Kashmiri had been a commando in the elite […]