Source: Guardian
The family of Rashid Rauf, the British terror suspect who reportedly died last week in a US missile strike in Pakistan, have claimed he was not killed in the attack.
Speaking through Rauf’s lawyer, Hashmat Malik, the family of Rauf’s wife in Pakistan said that the body had not been handed over to them and […]

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Source: Daily Times
WASHINGTON: Dr Aafia Siddiqui, whom a government doctor has declared unfit to stand trial, will be repatriated to Pakistan, if a plea made by the Pakistan government succeeds in persuading American authorities to drop the case they have lodged against her of murderous assault on US serviceman in Kabul.
According to the official US […]

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Source: AP
The U.S. military has conducted nearly a dozen secret operations against al-Qaida and other terrorist groups in Syria, Pakistan and other countries since 2004, The New York Times reported Sunday night.
Citing anonymous U.S. officials, the Times story said the operations were authorized by a broad classified order that then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld signed […]

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Source: AP

A suspected U.S. missile strike killed a purported foreign militant Thursday in a Pakistani tribal area considered a haven for the Taliban and al-Qaida, while a suicide bombing left four security personnel dead, officials said.
In another sign of how violence and economic problems are shaking confidence in the nuclear-armed country, Pakistan’s currency slumped to […]

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Source: Kansas City
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Seven years after 9/11, al Qaida and its allies are gaining ground across the region where the plot was hatched, staging their most lethal attacks yet against NATO forces and posing a growing threat to the U.S.-backed governments in Afghanistan and nuclear-armed Pakistan.
While there have been no new strikes on […]

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Source: The Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — Three British Muslims with ties to Pakistan were found guilty Monday of conspiracy to murder in a terrorist bombing campaign but jurors failed to reach a verdict on whether they plotted to blow up multiple trans-Atlantic airliners with liquid explosives disguised as soft drinks.
The failure to get convictions on […]

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Source: Associated Press
By ISHTIAQ MAHSUD
DERA ISMAIL KHAN - A pre-dawn explosion demolished a house in Pakistan’s turbulent border zone Thursday, killing up to 12 people, intelligence officials and a local militant said.
The blast was reported in a village in South Waziristan, a region bordering Afghanistan where militants linked to al-Qaida and the Taliban operate. The […]

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Source: Associated Press
By PAMELA HESS
WASHINGTON - 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 […]

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Source: The Australian News
SHOOT-on-sight orders were issued to Pakistan’s security forces last night after suspected al-Qa’ida and Taliban-linked militants detonated a powerful bomb in the heart of the industrial zone in Karachi, the Islamic nation’s economic capital.

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Source: Reuters
By Hafiz Wazir
WANA, Pakistan, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Members of a Pakistani ethnic Pashtun tribe vowed on Thursday to raise a militia aimed at forcing al Qaeda-linked foreign militants from their lands on the Afghan border.
For several year Pakistani security forces have been trying with little success to rid the border tribal belt of […]

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Source: Dawn News
WASHINGTON, Jan 9: So far the US-led forces in Afghanistan have no plan for crossing into Pakistan to target Al Qaeda or Taliban hideouts, says a senior US military commander.

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Source: The Canadian Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Suspected Islamic militants fatally shot eight tribal leaders involved in efforts to broker a ceasefire between security forces and insurgents in Pakistan’s volatile northwest, authorities said Monday.

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Source: International Herald Tribune
The Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Pakistan reiterated Sunday that it will not let American forces hunt al-Qaida and Taliban militants on its soil, after a news report said Washington was considering expanding U.S. military and intelligence operations into Pakistan’s tribal regions.

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Source: Salt Lake Tribune
By Joe Galloway
In the real world, there are consequences. For every action there’s a reaction, and often even inaction triggers a reaction.
  The unfolding disaster in Pakistan in the wake of the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is in part a reaction to a series of inactions and actions by […]

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Source: The Press Association
Islamic militants have said they have no link to Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, dismissing government claims that a leader of pro-Taliban forces in Pakistan carried out the suicide attack on the opposition leader.
Bhutto’s aides also said they doubted the militant commander Baitullah Mehsud was behind the attack and accused the government of a […]

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