Source: AFP
Taliban rebels decapitated four pro-government tribal elders in a Pakistan border region where the army is fighting Al-Qaeda and extremist militants, officials said Saturday.
It was the second killing this week in Bajaur of tribal elders, who have established an armed force to support the government’s military campaign against Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters in the […]

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Source: BloombergOct. 9 (Bloomberg) — An explosion rocked a police complex in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, GEO television reported. The explosion was heard across the city.
More than 2,000 people were killed in Pakistan last year in terrorist attacks, including suicide bombings that the government blames on militants who oppose the country’s support for the U.S.-led […]

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Source: Press Trust of India
Islamabad, Oct 6 (PTI) Facing flak for President Asif Ali Zardari’s description of militants in Jammu and Kashmir as “terrorists”, the Pakistan government today said there was no change in its position and it was committed to the Kashmiri people’s right of self-determination.
Information Minister Sherry Rehman said there had been no […]

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Source: Pakistan Observer
WITH each passing day we are witnessing actions by the United States which reflect the hostile designs of the sole superpower hurting the interests of Pakistan. Continued violation of our airspace, criticism over lack of action to eliminate militants in FATA, expression of doubt over the security of our nuclear assets by the […]

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Source: DAWN
NEW YORK, Oct 4: Citing the threat posed by militants along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and the possible economic meltdown, President Asif Ali Zardari has asked the international community to give Pakistan $100 billion in grant to ensure the country’s survival.
“I need your help, if we fall, if we can’t do it, you can’t do […]

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Source: Newsweek
In the battle against militants, President Zardari is increasingly isolated and besieged.
The security guard on the CCTV screen cut a lone, heroic figure. It was Sept. 20, and the guard stood at the barricaded entrance of Islamabad’s Marriott Hotel trying to douse the explosives-laden truck while others around him ran for cover. Seconds later, […]

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Source: Seattle Times
WASHINGTON — The escalating insurgency in Afghanistan is being spearheaded by a trio of warlords who came to prominence in the CIA-backed war to oust the Soviets but who now direct attacks against U.S. forces from safe havens in Pakistan, according to U.S. military and intelligence officials.
Groups led by the three veteran mujahedeen […]

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Source: The Vancouver Sun
Clearly there has been a dramatic upheaval when local people think Afghanistan is a safer haven than Pakistan.
That’s just what happened on Monday when United Nations officials reported 20,000 people fleeing across the border into Afghanistan’s Kunar province from Pakistan’s semi-autonomous Bajaur Agency tribal territory.
And within Bajaur, the most northerly of Pakistan’s […]

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Source: The Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United Nations says 20,000 Pakistani refugees have fled to Afghanistan to avoid fighting between militants and Pakistan’s military.
The U.N.’s refugee agency says nearly 4,000 Pakistani families have fled Pakistan’s Bajur tribal agency into Afghanistan’s Kunar province.
Pakistan’s military launched an offensive in Bajur, the most northerly of Pakistan’s […]

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Source: The News
WASHINGTON: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Monday that US could take unilateral actions in Pakistan according to the international laws.
In a report published in a British daily today, Defence Secretary while responding to a question in Senate said US has every right to save the lives of it troops.
Without naming any country, […]

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Source: AFP
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari said in an interview broadcast Sunday that Islamabad’s military is capable of quelling militant elements on its border with Afghanistan, and again urged the US military against launching incursions into its territory.
“Let us do the job, we can do a better job than anybody else can. […]

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Source: Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s security forces pounded militant positions near strategic areas in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan, killing 25 suspected insurgents in a new round of a military offensive that also left three troops dead, officials said.
Security forces on Friday cleared militant compounds near Bajur’s Rashakai and Loi Sam areas, army […]

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Source: AP

Militants battling security forces in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan have forced families to give up sons to fight alongside Islamist extremists, a Pakistani military official said.Meanwhile, new violence in the region Saturday reportedly killed 16 insurgents.
Overall, more than 1,000 alleged militants have died since Pakistan launched a military offensive in the Bajur tribal […]

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Source: Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush on Tuesday said the United States wanted to help Pakistan protect itself amid questions about U.S. military strikes aimed at al Qaeda and Taliban militants in its remote border region.
Bush sat down for his first face-to-face meeting with newly elected Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari […]

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Source: Reuters
* Zardari says Pakistan won’t tolerate sovereignty violation
* Economy the greatest challenge, Zardari says
* Two bombs in Waziristan kill soldiers, civilians
By Zeeshan Haider
ISLAMABAD, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Pakistan will not tolerate any infringement of its territory in the name of the fight against militants, President Asif Ali Zardari said on Saturday.
He was speaking after […]

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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: Reuters
ISLAMABAD, Sept 12 (Reuters) - At least 10 people were killed on Friday in a U.S. drone missile attack in the northwestern Pakistani region of North Waziristan, a haven for al Qaeda and Taliban militants, a security official said.
“Yes, missiles have been fired. We have reports that more than 10 people were killed,” a […]

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Source: The Age
WITH angry protests spreading in Pakistan, US defence officials have said that the number of cross-border commando missions might grow in coming months to counter increasing violence in Afghanistan.
The developments threatened to aggravate US-Pakistani tensions just before today’s presidential election, in which attitudes towards the US might be a key issue. The raid […]

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Source: Ohmy
By Muhammad Aslam Khan

95 militants killed in clashes in Kurram Agency on Sunday

Taliban militants in Pakistan have accepted a truce offer from the government in deference of the holy month of Ramadan.
Last month, the same offer of a truce during Ramadan by the Taliban was vehemently rejected by the government.
The self-appointed spokesman of […]

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Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) — Indian special forces stormed a house in Jammu and Kashmir state and freed seven people being held hostage by militants. The gunmen killed three captives and a soldier during the battle with troops.
“The special forces of the army killed all three militants,” army spokesman S.D. Goswami said by telephone from Chinore […]

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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: Reuters
Militants shot and killed an Afghan woman accused of being a U.S spy in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region, and dumped her body in a sewer, a witness and intelligence officials said on Wednesday.
The pro-Taliban militants in North and South Waziristan have killed dozens of people they accused of being Pakistani government supporters or spies […]

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Source: AP
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s White House visit Monday comes amid increased calls by senior U.S. officials for Pakistan to stop militants from staging cross-border attacks on U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
The prime minister may have his own issues to raise in his talks with President Bush: Gilani visits Washington at a tense moment […]

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Source: AP
Police say militants have blown up a girls school and 10 shops in northwestern Pakistan. There were no casualties.
Police official Farman Khan said the attacks happened before dawn Friday in two separate areas of the troubled Swat valley.
Authorities in May signed a peace deal with militants in Swat, ending monthslong military operations against them.
The […]

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Source: AFP
Pakistani troops and helicopter gunships killed 15 pro-Taliban militants and captured 60 others while clearing a restive northwestern town near the Afghan border, the military said Sunday.
Authorities launched an offensive in the increasingly troubled district of Hangu on Wednesday after Taliban insurgents occupying the area killed 17 paramilitary troops in an ambush.
Pakistan is under […]

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