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Pakistan
Even as talks progress, US seeks funds for blockade work-around
Report: Al Qaeda trained Mumbai attackers
The man suspected of being a key facilitator for the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks has reportedly told authorities that the attackers were trained by al Qaeda operatives.
Taliban
Afghans to respond Pakistan’s attacks: NDS
Guantanamo
High Peace Council Talks with Pakistan on Prisoner Transfer
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, Pakistan clash over border violence
ISAF targets al Qaeda leader in Kunar
ISAF has conducted three airstrikes against al Qaeda leaders in the Watahpur district in Kunar over the past five weeks. Two of the strikes killed al Qaeda’s second in command in Afghanistan, and Lashkar-e-Taiba’s senior leader in Kunar.
Afghanistan
Border tensions: Kabul threatens to move UN
India
Pakistan to press for details on Abu Hamza
Pakistan
US drones killed eight “militants” in a strike in the Shawal Valley in North Waziristan. Five Lashkar-e-Islam fighters were killed in a premature detonation in Khyber.
US drones strike again in the Shawal Valley
Eight “militants,” including members of the Turkistan Islamic Party, were killed in the latest airstrike in a Taliban and al Qaeda hub in Pakistan’s tribal agency of North Waziristan.
Pakistan
Labour lifts Lord Ahmed’s suspension
US Treasury targets money exchanges, owners, for funding Taliban
The Haji Khairullah Haji Sattar Money Exchange and the Roshan Money Exchange (RMX), and the Pakistan-based co-owners of HKHS have been funneling cash to the Taliban.
Afghanistan
Russia Allows NATO to Use Airbase
Afghanistan
US targets informal banks for alleged aid to Taliban
Afghanistan
Pakistan bombing hints at free rein for radicals in Quetta
Pakistan
The condemned: A special report on Ahmadi persecution – coming soon
Key Mumbai plotter arrested in Saudi Arabia
Saudi authorities arrested Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari, a key operative in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, earlier this month. Ansari has reportedly implicated Pakistani officials in the attacks.
Pakistan
Slain Pakistani Militia Leader Was Key Player In Anti-Taliban Fight
Taliban raid Nuristan district
Twenty Taliban fighters, six policemen, and four civilians are reported to have been killed in Kamdesh district. The Taliban claimed that 15 policemen were killed.
Jordanian cleric extols jihad at funeral of AQAP fighter
Omar Mahdi Zeidan offered religious justification for waging jihad against Muslims. His brother was killed in a US drone strike in North Waziristan in early 2010.
India
Abu Jundal escaped arrest in Pakistan at ISI’s behest
Afghanistan
Presence of Taliban sanctuaries in Afghanistan beyond explanation: Rehman
Burma
Pakistan – Jamaat-e Islami rally for expressing solidarity with Burmese Muslims today
Pakistan
The Taliban released a video of the beheading of 17 Pakistani soldiers. The Lashkar-e-Islam killed eight Pakistani soldiers in an IED attack in Khyber. Twenty Pakistanis traveling to Iran were killed in a bus bombing in Quetta.
Afghanistan
Afghan MOD Dismisses Pakistan’s Insistence on Afghan-grown Insurgency
Afghanistan
Pakistan’s Fazlullah re-emerges as a security threat
Pakistani Taliban release video of beheaded Pakistani soldiers
The Taliban displayed the heads of the soldiers and vowed to continue to fight the Pakistani military until sharia is imposed and Pakistan ends support for the US.
Afghanistan
TTP admits to having safe haven in Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Gen Allen-Gen Kayani meeting: Washington offers joint offensive against TTP