US strikes Taliban compound in South Waziristan, 8 killed
The strike in Kanigoram is the second in that village this year. Eight Taliban fighters were killed in today’s strike. Waliur Rehman Mehsud was the target of the attack.
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Pakistan – Taliban witch-hunt?
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Pakistan – Hakimullah a fiercely ambitious militant
New Taliban chief threatens US
Hakeemullah Mehsud said he would avenge Baitullah’s death and would strike at the US. He has a history of successfully carrying out high-profile attacks inside Pakistan.
Pakistan
Security forces killed five Taliban fighters and detained 13 more in Swat, and arrested 46 suspected terrorists in Islamabad. Helicopters and aircraft attacked Taliban positions in South Waziristan. Ansar-ul-Islam accused Lashkar-e-Islam of hiring an assassin to killed the group’s spokesman. The Peshawar High Court released Sufi Mohammed’s sons on bail.
Pakistan
NATO to enhance cooperation with Pakistan
Pakistani officials deny Taliban selected new leader
Even though Waliur Rehman Mehsud and Hakeemullah Mehsud conducted several phone calls to the press and confirmed Baitullah is dead and Hakeemullah is the new chief, Pakistan’s Interior and Foreign Ministers continue to insist the Taliban are fighting over who will be the new leader. From Daily Times: “It is all speculation until Hakeemullah Mehsud […]
Pakistan
Security forces killed three Taliban fighters and detained 18 more in Swat. The bodies of 14 suspected Taliban fighters were found in Swat. Security forces detained 39 tribesmen in Bajaur under the Frontier Crimes Regulation, which President Zardari said would no longer be used.
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‘Pakistan must exploit Taliban leadership rifts’
Pakistan
Taliban confirm commander’s death
Baitullah Mehsud dead; Hakeemullah new leader of Pakistani Taliban
Hakeemullah and Waliur Rehman Mehsud confirmed that Baitullah died of wounds suffered in the Aug. 5 Predator strike. Waliur said Hakeemullah is the new Taliban leader.
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Q A-Is the Pakistani Taliban in transition or disarray?
Pakistan
The Taliban killed two intelligence operatives in Nowshera and killed an anti-Taliban Afghan journalist in Khyber. Police arrested six members of the Punjabi Taliban in Sargodha. The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl warned the government not to arrest its members or raid its seminaries.
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Pak raids unravel Taliban-drugs link
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Profile: Hakeemullah Mehsud
Pakistan believes a body double now runs the Taliban
Hakeemullah Mehsud, left, or his body double?. AFP photo. Pakistani intelligence officials and Interior Minister Rehman Maik are now claiming that Hakeemulah Mehsud is dead and his twin brother is standing as the new Taliban chief.From The Times of India: The Taliban, in order to save their image, are giving the impression that Hakeemullah Mehsud […]
Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed three civilians outside the Peshawar home of the spokesman for Ansar-ul-Islam; the spokesman was killed in a suicide attack on Aug. 22. Security forces detained 51 Taliban fighters in Swat and seven Lashkar-e-Jhangvi members in Karachi. A Taliban tribal leader and three relatives were killed during a shooting in Wana in […]
Taliban leader challenges appointment of Hakeemullah Mehsud as group’s leader
Waliur Rehman Mehsud claimed Baitullah deputed him to lead the Pakistani Taliban two months ago and also claimed that the Taliban council would name a new leader within five days. While a leadership struggle exists, reports of open fighting within the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan are incorrect.
If Pakistani intelligence knows so much, how did it miss the Taliban shura meeting?
Pakistani intelligence is claiming that Hakeemullah Mehsud, Baitullah Mehsud’s successor to lead the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, is dead and that his appointment to lead the Taliban is a ruse to hide infighting: Pakistani intelligence officials have said Hakeemullah Mehsud is also dead, killed in a shootout with rivals days after Baitullah Mehsud […]
Don’t expect quick results in Afghanistan
The Obama administration is betting that the ‘surge’ of nearly 21,000 US forces to Afghanistan will produce positive results within the next year. What will happen if the situation doesn’t improve in that year isn’t stated, and leaves much cause for concern. If you are hoping the influx of US forces into Helmand province and […]
Pakistan
Pak Taliban planned to target Gilani, Shahbaz Sharif: Report
Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed two security personnel in Swat; another bomber killed himself during a military raid in Swat. A car bomb in Peshawar killed two Ansar-ul-Islam members. Two children were killed in a rocket attack in Landi Kotal. A tribe in Mardan is raising a lashkar to fight the Taliban.
Pakistan
Pakistani Taliban quiz Mehsud kin over spying
Hakeemullah Mehsud appointed the new leader of Pakistani Taliban
Hakeemullah was appointed by the Taliban shura just days after Faqir Mohammed named himself the temporary leader of the group. The appointment gives new weight to claims that Baitullah was killed during an Aug. 5 Predator strike.
Pakistan
India gives Pakistan info on PM’s ‘credible threat’
Siraj Haqqani target of yesterday’s Predator strike
Siraj Haqqani, the military commander of the Haqqani Network and a close ally of al Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban, was the target of the Thursday night Predator strike outside of Miramshah in North Waziristan. On Thursday night I heard that a senior Haqqani Network commander and an al Qaeda operative were the main targets, […]
Senior al Qaeda leader leaves Pakistan, directs Iraq operations from Syria
Longtime jihadi religious and military leader Sheikh Issa al Masri left North Waziristan in Pakistan to aid in the revival of al Qaeda in Iraq’s network inside Syria.
Pakistan
Security forces killed 12 Taliban fighters in Mohmand and killed eight more in Bannu. A suicide bomber detonated his vest after being surrounded in Kohat. Civilians accused the military of conducting human rights violations during the Swat operation. The military will manufacture UAVs in Kamra.
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Sri Lanka to train Pak army
US Predators target the Haqqanis in North Waziristan
Two Hellfire missiles targeted a senior Haqqani Network commander and an al Qaeda operative in a town that is home to the Haqqanis’ main madrassa.