Source: The Press Association

A suspected US missile strike killed at least eight people in a Pakistani village close to the Afghan border on Friday, security officials said, the latest in a surge of attacks that a top American general said has eliminated three militant leaders.
The strikes are likely to trigger fresh anger from Pakistan’s civil […]

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Source: Sky News

Suspected American missiles have killed 29 people after they slammed into two Pakistani villages close to the Afghan border, intelligence officials have claimed.
Several foreign militants were thought to be among the dead.
Washington has allegedly launched at least 17 missile strikes inside northwestern Pakistan since August.
The attacks are straining seven-year alliance with American […]

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Source: Reuters
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani judge has extended the detention of a young American man of Pakistani descent for two weeks after he was caught trying to enter a known al Qaeda and Taliban militant sanctuary on the Afghan border.
The man, identified by police as Judi Kenan, was arrested on October 13 while […]

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Source: AP
Suspected U.S. missiles hit buildings in two Pakistani villages close to the Afghan border, killing 20 people, most of them alleged militants, officials said Saturday.
The United States has launched a flurry of strikes in recent weeks against suspected al-Qaida and Taliban targets in northwestern Pakistan, straining ties between the two anti-terror allies.
Pakistan has been […]

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Source: Associated Press
By MUNIR AHMAD

A missile strike by a suspected U.S. drone killed at least six people in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, two Pakistani intelligence officials said Wednesday.
American forces recently ramped up cross-border operations against Taliban and al-Qaida militants in Pakistan’s wild border zone, a possible hiding place for Osama bin […]

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Source:Bloomberg
By James Rupert

Pakistan says a two-month-old battle on its Afghan border has killed as many as 1,000 Islamic militants and is the new focus of its war against the Taliban. Cross-border attacks by U.S. forces may jeopardize that fight, according to tribal leaders and government officials.
“For us, the Taliban and America are the same,” said […]

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Source: Herald Sun
PAKISTANI troops backed by tanks and helicopter gunships killed at least 40 Islamic militants linked to al-Qaeda in a restive tribal area near the Afghan border, a security official said today.
Pakistani forces have for weeks been targeting rebel positions in Bajaur, in a major operation that has seen nearly 700 people killed, mostly […]

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Source: AP
By STEPHEN GRAHAM
Pakistani troops drove off a Taliban attack on a fort and pounded another band of militants holed up in a health center, officials said Wednesday as fighting spread to a third area of the tribal belt along the Afghan border.
As many as 49 insurgents were reported killed.
The violence came a week after […]

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Source: AP

Pakistan’s top diplomat Wednesday rejected the idea of any foreign troops operating inside Pakistan, reinforcing its refusal to accept U.S. military aid in battling insurgents near the Afghan border.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s comments during a U.N. Security Council session on Afghanistan’s future could deal a blow to the United States’ efforts to […]

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Source: CBS News
Pakistan’s top military commander for the country’s Waziristan tribal region along the Afghan border on Sunday promised to keep his troops deployed in the area at newer locations, after last week’s peace agreement between the newly-elected government and Baitullah Mehsud, a hardcore pro-Taliban tribal militant.
Speaking to the first group of journalists to visit […]

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Source: Reuters
By Sahibzada Bahauddin
DAMADOLA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Angry residents of a Pakistani village on the Afghan border stopped government officials on Thursday from approaching the ruins of a house struck by missiles suspected to have been fired by a U.S. drone.
Eighteen people including foreign militants were killed when two missiles hit a house in the […]

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Source: International Herald Tribune
PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Pakistani security forces recovered two U.N. employees after a gunbattle Monday with their captors in a militant stronghold near the Afghan border, an official said.
One paramilitary soldier was killed and four were wounded in the clash in Khyber tribal region, said Mohammed Iqbal, a local government official. The two employees […]

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Source: Reuters

PARACHINAR,  - Suspected militants attacked an ambulance in a Pakistani tribal region on the Afghan border on Thursday killing at least six people, including two paramilitary soldiers, a government official said.
The ambulance was taking people to a health meeting when it was attacked with a rocket-propelled grenade in the Kurram tribal region, residents of […]

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Source: Star Tribune
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan’s state news agency says a roadside bomb has struck an oil tanker carrying fuel for U.S.-led coalition forces in neighboring Afghanistan. No one was hurt.
The Associated Press of Pakistan says the truck “burst into flames” after the explosion Tuesday near Peshawar, a city near the Afghan border.
The tanker carrying […]

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Source: The Guardian
America’s massive military aid package to Pakistan has come under scrutiny after allegations that as much as 70% of $5.4bn in assistance has been misspent.
Since 2002, the US has paid the operating costs of Pakistan’s military operations in the tribal belt along the Afghan border, where Taliban and al-Qaida fighters are sheltering.
Pakistan provides […]

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Source: Globe and Mail
New government must mend deteriorating economy and tackle Islamic extremists in tribal areas bordering Afghanistan
SAEED SHAH
ISLAMABAD — The challenges facing the new government in Pakistan can be summed up as FATA and atta.
FATA is the acronym for the federally administered tribal areas - the badlands on the Afghan border that are reputedly […]

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Source: BBC News
Pakistani security forces say they have recaptured an important road tunnel which was seized by pro-Taleban militants on Thursday.
A battle has raged around the Kohat tunnel since Pakistan launched an operation to reclaim it on Friday.
The military said as many as 70 militants had died in the assault.
In holding the tunnel, the militants […]

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Source: AFP
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AFP) — Pakistani troops backed by tanks and gunships cleared militant hideouts near the Afghan border, sparking gunbattles that left eight troops and 40 rebels dead, the army said Thursday.
Thirty militants were also arrested in the clashes over the last 24 hours in the South Waziristan tribal district, the hideout […]

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Source: AFP
WANA,  — Pakistani military gunship helicopters opened fire on two cars near a contested fort near the Afghan border, killing eight Islamist militants, the army said on Friday.
The incident happened on Thursday near a military outpost at Siplatoi in the troubled tribal region of South Waziristan, in the latest unrest to grip the US-allied […]

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