Pakistan
Pakistan – Anti-Taliban wave
Pakistan – Anti-Taliban wave
Taliban leader Fazlullah killed in Swat strikes?
A Waziri tribal leader said Mullah Nazir would sit out the fighting in South Waziristan; Nazir denied the report. The military killed 23 Taliban in Swat and moved troops to the border of Afghanistan’s Helmand province. The Taliban wounded 37 civilians in a suicide attack on a bus used by a nuclear facility in Rawalpindi, […]
Pakistan: Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud behind bus attack
A profile of the late Qari Zainuddin Mehsud -Waziristan militant and opponent of Baitullah Mehsud
Pakistan: Taliban switches to NATO convoy attacks in southwest
Mullah Sangeen Zadran, a senior lieutenant to Sirajuddin Haqqani, took credit for the kidnapping and said the soldier’s fate is in the hands of the Taliban leadership.
Pakistan elder killed by gunmen
Pakistan – Tribesmen to quit Levies, Khasadars after Taliban threat
Four terror leaders are singled out, while Pakistani terror groups in Kashmir and the Northern Areas are thriving.
The military said 28 Taliban fighters were killed in Khyber and five more were killed in Bannu. Twenty-eight Taliban fighters and seven tribesmen were killed in Kurram. The Taliban killed a policeman in Hangu and a civilian in Dera Ismail Khan, and bombed a school in Bajaur. A suicide bomber killed himself in Peshawar.
Bombs Away: Pakistani Taliban Under Fire
The military dropped pamphlets over the Taliban-controlled tribal agency, announcing the peace agreement is intact and saying the military would retaliate only if attacked.
UN launches Benazir Bhutto assassination probe
The military killed 18 Taliban fighters in Swat and Dir; the Taliban killed three soldiers in Swat. A lashkar in Dir killed 8 Taliban fighters. Four civilians were killed in a bombing in Kalat. The military relaunched an offensive in Buner.
Terrorist groups expanding operations in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir: Report
Dozens of fighters led by Siraj Haqqani have been killed or captured over the past several days. The US military calls the Haqqanis “one of the most lethal Taliban organizations operating out of Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas.”
US resumes surveillance flights over Pakistan
Pakistan: Taliban attack signals change of tactic
The Taliban dissolved the North Waziristan peace agreement with the government. The military said it killed 15 Taliban fighters during airstrikes in South Waziristan and eight more in Swat, while a tribal lashkar killed 21 more in Kurram. Sixteen civilians and two policemen were wounded in a bombing in Buner. The military will not deploy […]
The government and military have purposefully avoided a confrontation with Hafiz Gul Bahadar and the Haqqani Network, but may get one anyway.
Life in Iran will be worse than before the election
Pakistan not to relocate troops from eastern border
Pakistan plays dangerous double game
‘US helping modernise Pakistan™s N-arsenal™
Pakistan – Time for dialogue with militants over: PM
The ambush capped a bloody weekend in the Waziristan region, where the military has yet to take on Baitullah Mehsud in a full-fledged ground offensive.
Pakistani Taliban leader: Pakistan will be ours
Pakistan among top 10 failed states
Eighteen Taliban fighters and 10 soldiers were killed during a Taliban ambush in North Waziristan. The government issued bounties for Baitullah Mehsud and 10 senior Taliban commanders. The military killed 11 Taliban fighters during airstrikes in South Waziristan. Security forces detained three terrorists in Swat and two more in Charsadda. The Taliban killed two soldiers […]