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White House Backs Blacklisting Militant Organization
Tag Archives: Pakistan
Afghanistan
Pakistan – USAID to help repair NATO-damaged road network, NA told
Afghanistan
Foreign forces asked to quit Kunar
Afghanistan
Kunar Province Vows Jihad if Cross-Border Shelling Continues
Al Qaeda
Pakistan expels Save the Children’s foreign staff
Analysis: The Taliban’s ‘momentum’ has not been broken
President Obama claims that the Taliban’s “momentum” has been broken in Afghanistan. Other officials have made similar claims. The Long War Journal has examined several sources that measure the insurgency’s capacity for violence and finds that the Taliban’s momentum has not been broken. The overall level of violence in Afghanistan today remains worse than prior to the surge.
Al Qaeda operative killed in Kunar airstrike
Abu Saif, a Pakistani national, served as a cross-border facilitator and a conduit between senior al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and was involved in media operations. Two other Pakistanis and a Saudi were also killed.
Pakistan
Pakistan – Taliban threat: Nuclear site in DG Khan cordoned off
Afghanistan
Trilateral initiative: Formal talks begin on safe passage for Afghan Taliban
Pakistan
D Pakistan – Govt frames laws to empty terror pockets
Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed only himself in an attack outside of a police station in Dir. The FBI will lead the investigation into a suicide attack that killed two Pakistanis and wounded two US Consulate personnel in Peshawar.
Pakistan
FBI probing Peshawar suicide attack: US
Pakistan
Pakistan – 2,000 minorities girls converted to Islam forcibly: report
A new social media app: Cyberterrorism
Pakistani and Bangladeshi terrorist groups are suspected of using social media to spread fear and panic in India.
Afghanistan
Afghans Terrorized By Border Shelling As Blame Game Goes On
Afghanistan
Pakistan – Lower Dir border with Afghanistan sealed: DCO
China
Stop all ventures in PoK, India tells China
Pakistan
Security forces killed nine Taliban fighters in Bajaur and seven more in South Waziristan. The Taliban killed three people in an attack on a US Consulate vehicle in Peshawar, attacked military convoys in North Waziristan, and bombed a CD shop in Mardan.
Taliban release video of beheaded Pakistani soldiers
“Mujahideen slit the throats of 11 army-men in light of Shariah Law,” the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan’s spokesman said.
Pakistan
Pakistan – Imam held in blasphemy case after new testimony
Senior al Qaeda leader, facilitator killed in airstrike in Kunar
Abu Walid, also known as Amru Mastur al Ghamrawi, was one of two al Qaeda leaders who were killed in an airstrike in the Watahpur district in Kunar on Aug 3. ISAF launched two airstrikes in Watahpur on Aug. 3.
6 killed in US drone strike in North Waziristan
The strike took place in an area under the control of Taliban leader Hafiz Gul Bahadar, and is the first in a week.
Afghanistan
US Seems Set to Brand Haqqanis as Terror Group
Pakistan
Pakistan – Twin cities put on high alert
Al Qaeda
ISI chief rules out handing over Dr Shakeel Afridi to US
Lashkar-e-Taiba leader’s son added to US terror list
Talha Saeed is wanted by the Indian government for running terror camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. He also instructed a Lashkar-e-Taiba operative to upload terrorist propaganda.
Afghanistan
Obama administration divided over designating Haqqani network as terrorist group
Afghanistan
Anti-Taliban public uprising started in Logar province
Pakistan
Pakistan blasphemy case: ‘Muslims could take law into their own hands’
Afghan intelligence thwarts terror plots in Kabul, Logar, and Parwan
Intelligence operatives disrupted four terror plots in the past two days and captured nine suspected Taliban insurgents along with homemade explosives believed to have been smuggled into Kabul from Pakistan.