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ISAF kills ‘several’ al Qaeda-linked fighters in Kunar raid
The northeastern Afghan province remains a stronghold for al Qaeda despite the surge in US forces. The US conducted 67 raids against al Qaeda and allied groups in Afghanistan in 2012.
Pakistan
The Taliban executed 21 policemen after capturing them in an operation several days ago in Peshawar. Nineteen people were killed in a bombing in Mastung; the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi is suspected of carrying out the IED attack.
Afghanistan
A fight for Afghanistan’s most famous artifact
Daily Times op-ed hits the mark on Pakistani Taliban
“Now having been offered this incontrovertible proof of the Taliban on both sides of the western border and al Qaeda being one and the same thing, one hopes the foolishness about ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Taliban can be relegated where it belongs: in the dustbin,” Daily Times writes.
Taliban execute 21 Pakistani policemen in Peshawar
Since June 2011, the Taliban have conducted three mass executions of Pakistani security personnel.
Afghanistan
Pakistan – EDITORIAL : Taliban diktat
China
Nations Move to Stem Trade in Bomb Chemicals
Pakistan
Pakistan to Lift YouTube Ban, as a Viral Video Star Is Welcomed Home
Afghanistan
Casting doubts: Afghan Taliban reject Kabul Ulema moot
Pakistan
Mobile services suspended in Karachi to ‘avert’ terror attack
Pakistan
Pakistan: Troubled north-west comes to town (Karachi)
Pakistani Taliban release video refuting rumors of leadership rift
The Pakistani Taliban leaders are seen sitting side by side. Hakeemullah Mehsud also said the Taliban are “willing to get our heads cut off for al Qaeda.”
Afghanistan
Pakistan close Torkham gate at Pak-Afghan border
US drones strike in Pakistan’s Shawal Valley
More than one-fifth of the drone strikes in Pakistan this year have taken place in the remote valley in North Waziristan.
Taliban capture more than 20 Pakistani policemen
Coordinated raids by the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan on checkpoints outside of the provincial capital of Peshawar also resulted in the deaths of at least two soldiers.
Afghanistan
Betrayed While They Sleep, Afghan Police Are Dying in Numbers
Afghanistan
The high cost of disengagement
CIA
CIA’s Global Response Staff emerging from shadows after incidents in Libya and Pakistan
Pakistan
Only son of Pakistan’s murdered Bhutto launches political career
Al Qaeda
US drone strategy in Yemen is fraught with peril
Taliban suicide bomber attacks US base in Khost
An Afghan policeman and two civilians were killed in a blast outside of Forward Operating Base Chapman, which is known to host CIA operations.
Pakistan
Unidentified gunmen shot and wounded Auranzeb Farooqi, a prominent Sunni cleric and leader of the Ahle Sunnat-Wal-Jamaat party, in Karachi. Pakistani militants shot dead two Afghan policemen who were traveling to Quetta via Chaman. The policemen were accompanying a sick female companion to a medical facility in Quetta when they were abducted and murdered; the […]
Pakistan
Mullah Nazir banned cellphones with cameras and memory cards in Wana in South Waziristan. Following the assassination of ANP leader Bashir Bilour, the party is pushing for an operation to clear North Waziristan of insurgents.
Pakistan
Pakistan – VIEW : Abysmal state of democracy in FATA
Afghanistan
Pakistan’s army chief makes Afghan peace “top priority”
Pakistan
Pakistan – Mob burns alive blasphemy accused in Dadu
Pakistan
Pakistan – Taliban silence another critic
Taliban suicide bomber kills Pakistani provincial minister
Bashir Ahmed Bilour, the Minister for Local Government and Rural Development of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, was killed along with eight other people in today’s attack in Peshawar.
Pakistani Taliban commander killed in bombing in Wana
Maulvi Abbas Wazir, a commander in the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan in the Wana area, was killed in a blast at his office yesterday. The attack is thought to be linked to an assassination attempt against Mullah Nazir late last month.