Source: Telegraph
Pakistan has claimed to have defeated Taliban militants in a key border stronghold.
Maj Gen Tariq Khan, the commander of military operations in five of Pakistan’s seven tribal agencies, said his paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) had driven extremists out of Bajaur, where Pakistani forces have waged a six-month long campaign.
He denied reports –and claims by […]

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Source: BBC News
At least three people have been killed by a car bomb which exploded outside the home of a government official in north-western Pakistan, police say.
They say that the bomb targeted a local anti-Taleban mayor in the suburb of Bazidkhel near the city of Peshawar. He survived but several people were hurt.
Officials say that […]

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Source: International Herald Tribune
MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan: Suspected Taliban militants killed six alleged U.S. spies in a lawless region of northwest Pakistan where U.S. missile attacks have targeted al-Qaida hideouts, police said Tuesday.
Word of the killings came as U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command and commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, […]

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Source: BBC News
India has handed over evidence to Pakistan linking the Mumbai attacks to “elements” in that country, Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee says.
Gunmen stormed multiple locations in Mumbai (Bombay) in November. At least 173 people died in the attacks.
Pakistan must act on the evidence and implement the bilateral commitments it has made to India, […]

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Source: Guardian
Helicopter gunships strike along border in effort to secure supply lines for western troops, officials say
Pakistani helicopter gunships today launched attacks along the Khyber Pass as part of a new offensive to secure vital supply lines for western troops fighting Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan.
Authorities suspended the shipment of supplies to the Afghan border yesterday […]

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Source: Wall Street Journal
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s own investigation of terror attacks in Mumbai has begun to show substantive links between the 10 gunmen and an Islamic militant group that its powerful spy agency spent years supporting, say people with knowledge of the probe.
At least one top leader of militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, or “Army of the […]

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Source: Wall Street Journal
Tensions between India and Pakistan rose over the weekend as Pakistan said it was redeploying an unspecified number of troops from the fight against Islamic militants in the country’s northwest, a move decried by Indian officials as needlessly provocative.
Pakistani officials wouldn’t say where the troops were headed nor provide estimates of how […]

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Source: BBC News
India’s defence minister says India is not planning any military action against Pakistan in response to the Mumbai (Bombay) attacks.
However, AK Antony said ties between the two countries would not be “normal” until Pakistan took action against militants operating on its soil.
Last month’s attacks in Mumbai left more than 170 people dead.
India says […]

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Source: AP

Militants attacked a terminal used by vehicles ferrying supplies to U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan early Saturday, the latest in a string of strikes on the critical and increasingly perilous supply route that snakes through northwest Pakistan.
The raiders torched 11 trucks along the outskirts of Peshawar, the main city in the region that […]

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Source: Guardian
By RAMOLA TALWAR BADAM
Associated Press Writer
 MUMBAI, India (AP) - India demanded Monday that Pakistan take “strong action” against those behind the deadly Mumbai attacks, and Washington pressured Islamabad to cooperate with the investigation.
The only known surviving attacker told police that his group trained for months in camps operated by a banned Pakistani militant group, […]

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Source: International Herald Tribune
LOE SAM, Pakistan: When Major Ijaz Hussain and nearly 150 soldiers were dispatched to recapture this strategic junction from the Taliban in Pakistan’s tribal belt this August, they had little idea what they were in for.
With scarce ammunition and little water in fierce heat, they fought the Taliban in close combat, but […]

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Source: Reuters

By Ibrahim Shinwari
Militants in northwest Pakistan hijacked 13 trucks carrying supplies for Western forces in Afghanistan on Monday as they passed through the Khyber Pass, a government official said.
Most supplies, including fuel, for U.S. and other Western forces battling a Taliban insurgency in landlocked Afghanistan are trucked through neighboring Pakistan, which is also facing […]

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Source: Tehran Times
QUETTA (AFP) — A car bomb exploded in the insurgency-hit southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Monday, killing at least two people and wounding eight others, police said.
The blast at a busy road in the government offices area in Quetta, the capital of gas-rich Baluchistan province, also destroyed several rickshaws, cars and a […]

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Source: The Hindu
ISLAMABAD: A unanimous resolution adopted by Pakistan’s Parliament on dealing with terrorism and militancy has called for an “urgent review” of the national security strategy based on an “independent foreign policy” and stressed the need for dialogue.
The resolution was adopted on Wednesday night after two weeks of in-camera sittings, which included a briefing […]

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Source: VOA
Pakistan’s parliament has called for an urgent review of the nation’s security strategy, with an emphasis on dialogue aimed at reducing violence.
In a rare joint session held behind closed doors, both houses of parliament late Wednesday passed a resolution calling for dialogue with all parties willing to abide by the rule of law. That […]

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Source: The Christain Science Monitor
Pakistan weighs asking the IMF for a loan, while continuing to battle militants in Swat and Bajaur in the northwest.
By David Montero

As Pakistan’s twin crises – its war against extremism and its wobbling economy – reached new heights over the weekend, Washington dispatched an envoy to Islamabad.
Dawn, a leading English language […]

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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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