Source: Al Jazeera.net

Pakistan’s foreign minister has ruled out allowing military personnel from the United States, or any other foreign country, in Pakistan to hunt for Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda.
Mahmoud Qureshi said on Saturday that the country’s new government had not permitted any such operation in the regions bordering Afghanistan and never would.
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Source: Minstrel Boy

Since”2005, al Qaeda forces have been regrouping in the mountains of Pakistan along the Afghan border, and the Bush administration has done little to go after them.
A report in Monday’s New York Times reveals that late last year the administration developed a secret plan for Special Operations forces to enter Pakistani tribal […]

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I am going to try to be as blunt and straight-forward as possible without deviating from the issue at hand (NOTE: I said I’ll try!).
This ‘one sided’ peace agreement with the Taliban holed up in Pakistan’s North is NOT GOING TO WORK!
Unless Islamabad has a few tricks up their sleeves and are earnestly at […]

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Source: Globe and Mail 
Former top Mountie was briefed on $500,000 reward
COLIN FREEZE
May 13, 2008
A U.S. intelligence agency paid a bounty of $500,000 (U.S.) to Pakistani military officials who arrested a Canadian citizen wanted for links to al-Qaeda, according to a new Federal Court ruling.
Mr. Justice Richard Mosley ordered an Oct. 19, 2004, RCMP memo released […]

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Source: Dawn
By Latafat Ali Siddiqui
Court documents made public here show a US intelligence agency paid a bounty of $500,000 to Pakistani military officials who arrested a Canadian citizen wanted for links with Al Qaeda, according to a newspaper report.
The Globe & Mail report said the American intelligence agency had classed Abdullah Khadr, who was raised […]

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Source: Daily Times
Policies for FATA and Balochistan are most important and should not be formulated as a reaction to previous policies but rather on the basis of having learnt from them
Post-9/11, when the US struck the Al Qaeda-Taliban combine in Afghanistan, Pakistan became the anvil for the US-Northern Alliance hammer. While the attack was largely […]

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Source: BBC News 
Pakistan has played down a recent US report that in February the Pentagon refused its request for funds to fight Taleban and al-Qaeda militants.
The military’s spokesman conceded that the funds had still not been released but called it a “routine matter”.
Pakistan receives some $80m (£41m) a month from the US to help […]

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Source: Boston.com
By Eric Schmitt
When the Pentagon announced in March that Major General Jay W. Hood would become the senior officer based in Pakistan, it reflected the military’s aim to put a crisis-tested veteran in a critical job at a pivotal time in the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
more stories […]

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Source: Bloomberg
By Tony Capaccio

Pakistan won’t be capable of rooting out terrorists based along its rugged border with Afghanistan for at least three years, according to the U.S. military.
“Safe havens” in this area for al-Qaeda and Taliban militants “have grown in recent years,” according to a report to the House and Senate defense panels.
“Deficiencies in […]

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Source: Reuters Blog
The United States, beginning with President George W. Bush himself, has this past two weeks trained its crosshairs on Pakistan, warning that another Sept. 11, if it were to happen, would most likely not be plotted out of Iraq, Afghanistan or even Iran, but Pakistan.
Like the steady drumbeat that has often preceded major […]

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Source: AFP
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The Pentagon announced Monday war crimes charges carrying the death penalty against a Tanzanian inmate held in Guantanamo Bay arising from Al-Qaeda attacks on US embassies in East Africa a decade ago.
The Defense Department said Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani would face a special military tribunal on nine counts including murder related to […]

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Source: USA Today
TORKHAM (AP) — U.S., Afghan and Pakistani officers opened the first of six joint military intelligence centers along the Afghan-Pakistan border Saturday, an effort to cut down on militants’ movement in a region of rising terrorist activity.
The centers represent the latest step in American efforts to get Afghanistan and Pakistan to coordinate […]

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Source: AFP
KARACHI (AFP) — An alleged Al-Qaeda militant detained over a bombing at Benazir Bhutto’s homecoming parade which killed 139 people was rearrested soon after he was freed on bail by a court, officials said Thursday.
A court on Wednesday granted bail to Qari Saifullah Akhtar — who had been accused by the former premier of […]

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Source: AFP
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP) — Islamist militants killed a tribesman after accusing him of working as a US spy in a lawless stronghold of Al-Qaeda and Taliban insurgents bordering Afghanistan, officials said Friday.
Rebels shot and then slit the throat of the 30-year-old man in the latest in a series of executions in Pakistan’s troubled tribal […]

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Source: The Associated Press
A look at suicide attacks in Pakistan this year:
_ March 11: Separate bombers shatter seven-story police headquarters and house in Lahore. At least 27 people killed, more than 200 wounded.
_ March 4: Two bombers blow themselves up at navy training college in Lahore, killing four college employees.
_ March 2: Bomber attacks tribesmen […]

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Source: Daily Times
* Maulana Faqir says US biggest terrorist in world
KHAR: A pro-Taliban leader in the Tribal Areas said on Sunday that Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden and fugitive Taliban militant leader Mullah Omar were “not enemies of Pakistan”.
Addressing a rally near Khar, the main town of Bajaur tribal district bordering Afghanistan, Maulana Faqir […]

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Source: Daily Times
WASHINGTON: Pakistan came up again as Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama sparred with each other in their last debate on Monday night, six days before the crucial Texas and Ohio primaries. If Clinton loses those two states, she is out of the race for her party’s presidential nomination.
Clinton said, “Senator Obama … last […]

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Source: AFP

WASHINGTON  - A controversial US wiretapping law can help track down Al-Qaeda suspects trained in “safe haven” Pakistan and sent to attack the United States, the US intelligence chief said Tuesday.
“When I mention Al-Qaeda…they have a place to operate de facto safe haven in Pakistan. They have leadership. They have middle level lieutenants,” Michael […]

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Source: CNN
(CNN) — – Support from Pakistanis for al Qaeda and the Taliban has plummeted in Pakistan, and so has their confidence in the current government, according to two recently released nationwide polls.
The separate polls were conducted by two U.S.-based organizations, the International Republican Institute and Terror Free Tomorrow.
They were released a week before Pakistanis […]

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Source: AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — The top two U.S. intelligence officials made a secret visit to Pakistan in early January to seek permission from President Pervez Musharraf for greater involvement of American forces in trying to ferret out al-Qaida and other militant groups active in the tribal regions along the Afghanistan border, a senior U.S. official […]

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Source: Washington Post
Libyan Killed Last Week Operated Openly
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Feb. 3 — A Libyan al-Qaeda commander who was killed last week in northwestern Pakistan had lived there for years and, despite a $200,000 U.S. bounty on his head, felt secure enough to meet officials and visit hospitals, according to officials and residents of this city.
As […]

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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
ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Pakistan was on high alert as Shiites prepared to observe the Muslim festival of Ashura, a day after security officials said they had foiled plots aimed at causing massive loss of life.
This year’s commemorations come amid widespread militancy and unrest across Pakistan, which Saturday saw the arrest of Sunni extremists intent […]

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Source: Los Angeles Times
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani intelligence officials said today they arrested a 15-year-old suspect in the killing of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, as police announced they had foiled new suicide attacks by militants against the country’s Shiite minority.
The teenager, who allegedly said he was part of a team of assassins […]

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Source: Los Angeles Times
An agency inquiry finds ’strong indications’ that Taliban leader Baitullah Mahsud and his associates were behind the slaying.
By Josh Meyer
WASHINGTON — The CIA believes that Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mahsud and his associates, some linked to Al Qaeda, were responsible for the assassination last month of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, […]

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