ISLAMABAD (AP) - Citing security concerns, the U.N. suspended long-term development work in two key areas along Pakistan’s volatile border with Afghanistan on Monday, a blow to international efforts to counter the country’s rising militancy.
Underscoring the militant threat, an explosion near a bank killed four people and wounded more than a dozen in the capital’s [...]
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) - An explosion outside a bank near Pakistan’s capital killed at least 34 people Monday, the latest in a wave of attacks by militants since the army launched a new offensive against them last month.
The growing violence in the country prompted the U.N. on Monday to suspend long-term development in Pakistan’s volatile [...]
ISLAMABAD (AP) - Pakistani forces killed two dozen militants in 24 hours and were closing in on a prominent insurgent stronghold in the mountains of South Waziristan, the army said Friday.
Government soldiers now control the hills above the village of Sararogha, where Taliban leaders long have operated openly, officials said in a statement. The army [...]
Times Online:
Pakistani troops fighting Islamist militants in the mountains of South Waziristan have picked up the trail of a leading al-Qaeda figure wanted in connection with the attacks on America on September 11, 2001.
The Times was shown yesterday the German passport of Said Bahaji, a close associate of the September 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta. The [...]
ISLAMABAD (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton chided Pakistani officials Thursday for failing to press the hunt for al-Qaida inside their borders, suggesting they know where the terror leaders are hiding.
American officials have long said that al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden and senior lieutenants of the network accused in the Sept. 11 [...]
There is no victory in leaving the countryside to the Taliban. Taliban under pressure in Pakistan will use the “free zones” in Afghanistan as haven. Obama does not want to make a decision before the upcoming November elections, and this whole delay, as well as his neutering of McChrystal’s request, is designed to [...]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - A car bomb struck a busy market in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing 100 people—mostly women and children—as visiting Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pledged U.S. support for Islamabad’s campaign against Islamic militants.
More than 200 people were wounded in the blast in the main northwestern city of Peshawar, the deadliest [...]
Fox News:
The chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on Monday accused the United States, Britain and Pakistan of having links with the Sunni militants responsible for a homicide bombing that killed five senior Guard commanders and 37 others.
“Behind this scene are the American and British intelligence apparatus and there will have to be retaliatory measures [...]
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani troops and the Taliban fought fierce battles in a militant sanctuary near the Afghan border, with both sides claiming early victories in an army campaign that could shape the future of the country’s battle against extremism.
The offensive in South Waziristan was expected to be a key topic [...]
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Agencie France Presse:
The Taliban put up fierce resistance Sunday as Pakistan pounded rebel bases from the air and bore down on their leader’s hometown, intensifying a major offensive against the Islamists.
More than 100,000 people have fled South Waziristan, part of the tribal belt on the Afghan border that US officials call the most dangerous place [...]
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) - More than 30,000 Pakistani soldiers launched a ground offensive against al-Qaida and the Taliban’s main stronghold along the Afghan border Saturday, officials said, in the country’s toughest test yet against a strengthening insurgency.
The United States has long pushed the government to carry out an assault in South Waziristan, and [...]
NRO:
I try to keep up to speed on Islamic law, but it’s more complicated than I’d thought. For example, women are supposed to be “modest” in public. But that’s no reason not to make them disrobe in the street and shake their breasts:
A hardline Islamist group in Somalia has begun publicly [...]
CNS News:
Emily Douglas, Web editor for The Nation magazine, said Wednesday that making the “recession worse” and making goods “more expensive” for Americans are means to reduce consumerism and preserve the environment.
Douglas was one of three journalists participating in a panel discussion, “Covering Climate: What’s Population Got to Do With It,” which was held at [...]
When ten French soldiers were killed last year in an ambush by Afghan insurgents in what had seemed a relatively peaceful area, the French public were horrified.
Their revulsion increased with the news that many of the dead soldiers had been mutilated — and with the publication of photographs showing the militants triumphantly sporting their victims’ [...]
Monday Update: Continued due to weekend site shutdown for server migration.
You’ll need an Amazon.com account to log-in here, so if you have one, great, if not it’s easy to set up, and if you’d rather use a different method, there is the snail mail, and at least one other system which will be set up [...]
Agencie France Presse:
A devastating suicide bomb hit northwest Pakistan killing 41 people Monday, as the military geared up for an assault on Taliban rebels blamed for increasingly bloody and brazen attacks.
The bomber, reported to be aged about 13, flung himself at a military convoy passing through a busy market in Shangla, a northwest district near [...]
