Pakistan
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said that the US is “reaching the limits of our patience” with terrorists sheltering in Pakistan and attacking in Afghanistan. Twelve people were killed in a bombing outside of a seminary in Quetta.
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Al Qaeda
Clinton backs drones after al Qaeda figure killed
Afghanistan
Panetta: US losing patience with Pakistan on militancy
Pakistan
US Secretary of Defense Panetta said that the drone strikes will continue in Pakistan. Nine Taliban fighters and two tribesmen were killed during fighting in Khyber. The Taliban has bombed 22 schools in Nowshera.
Azerbaijan
Iran and Azerbaijan, Wary Neighbors, Find Less to Agree On
Afghanistan
Pakistan is the Mother of Terrorism, Afghanistan the Victim: Afghan Analyst
Pakistan
Panetta: Drone attacks will continue in Pakistan
Taliban kill 21 Afghans in double suicide attack
“The agents of Punjab have once again spilled the blood of innocent civilians,” Kandahar’s chief of police said, referring to Pakistan’s influence over the Taliban.
Al Qaeda
Abu Yahya al-Libi of Al Qaeda Said to Be Killed
Inter-Services Intelligence Agency
Pak security establishment planning to kill me: Rights activist Asma Jahangir
Abu Yahya al Libi killed in latest drone strike, US officials say
US officials have confirmed that al Libi was killed in yesterday’s drone strike in Mir Ali. Al Qaeda has not confirmed his death.
Afghanistan
US apology needed to open NATO supply routes: Khar
Pakistan
US terminates funding for Pakistani Sesame Street
Afghanistan
Top al Qaeda strategist may have been killed in Pakistan
Pakistan
US drones killed fifteen “militants” in a strike in Mir Ali. Abu Yahya al Libi, al Qaeda’s second in command, is rumored to have been killed in the strike, but the report is unconfirmed.
Abu Yahya al Libi rumored killed in Mir Ali drone strike
US officials said that al Libi was the target of today’s strike, but his death has not been confirmed.
Afghanistan
Pakistan condemns US drone strikes
US drones kill 15 in North Waziristan strike
The strike in Mir Ali is the third in Pakistan in three days, and the eighth in the two weeks since the US failed to get Pakistan to reopen the supply lines for NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Pakistan
Radio in FATA: A foreign voice for local problems
Afghanistan
NATO supply routes: Pakistan, US to push for a deal this week
Afghanistan
China steps up Afghan role as Western pullout nears
Latest US drone strike kills 10 ‘militants’ in South Waziristan
The drones targeted a group of Taliban and “foreigners” who gathered to note the death of one of Mullah Nazir’s commanders, who was killed in yesterday’s drone strike.
US drones kill ‘good’ Taliban commander in South Wazirstan
Rahmanullah, “a key commander” for Mullah Nazir, was reported killed in today’s strike. Nazir considers himself an al Qaeda leader.
Pakistan
Pakistan defence budget goes up by 10 per cent
US troops repel suicide assault on base in eastern Afghanistan
“Some insurgents were able to get inside the perimeter” of Forward Operating Base Salerno, “but they were neutralized,” a US military spokesman told LWJ.
Afghanistan
US Liaisons Restored To Outpost In Pakistan
Pakistan
The Lashkar-e-Islam denied having links with the doctor who was imprisoned for aiding Osama bin Laden. The military denied reports that US trainers have re-entered Pakistan, and said it successfully tested Hatf-VIII, a “stealth” air-launched cruise missile.
IMU eulogizes military commander, media operative
Commander Abbos Mansoor was named the military emir of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan just days before he was killed in a drone strike, while Abdul Aziz served as a combat cameraman and producer for Jundallah Studio.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Rebel sympathisers exist in Zabul civil depts: police
Al Qaeda
Pakistani Taliban vows to kill bin Laden doctor