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: Tehran Times
ISLAMABAD (The News) — Was there such an animal as the Tehrik Taliban-I-Pakistan before the American invasion of Afghanistan? The Americans sparked turmoil and chaos in this region and now that they are bogged down in Afghanistan, how come this adventure they thoughtlessly started becomes our war?
Yet from President Asif Zardari downwards our […]

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Source: Swiss Info
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military conceded it was not winning the fight against an increasingly deadly insurgency in Afghanistan and said on Wednesday it would revise its strategy to combat militant safe havens in Pakistan.
U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the […]

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Source: Reuters
Last week, after U.S. forces were reported to have launched their first ground assault in Pakistan, the website Registan.net asked the obvious question: “Did We Just Invade Pakistan?” Nearly a week and several missile attacks by U.S. drones later, I am still pondering the same question.
We have just witnessed what may have been the […]

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Source: Daily Times
* Abu Haris among 26 people killed g Haqqani’s four guards, two wives also killed
* US targets Haqqani’s network in Afghanistan
Daily Times Monitor
LAHORE/KABUL: Al Qaeda Pakistan chief Abu Haris was among 26 people killed in Monday’s missile strike by the United States in Miranshah, Geo News quoted sources close to Taliban commander Jalaluddin […]

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Source: AFP
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The White House said it respected Pakistan’s sovereignty and always mourned any loss of innocent life, but declined to comment directly on alleged US strikes inside the US ally’s borders.
“We respect their sovereignty and we support their new civilian government,” spokeswoman Dana Perino said, adding that US President George W. Bush […]

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Source: CNN
(CNN) — U.S. military forces landed at a compound in Pakistan to battle targets linked to recent attacks on U.S. troops in Afghanistan, a senior U.S. official confirmed Wednesday.
The official declined to be identified, citing the extreme sensitivity of U.S. forces operating within Pakistan’s borders.
The action was an uncommon one for the U.S. military. […]

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Source: Hindustan Times
Pakistani military jets pounded rebel hideouts in restive Swat valley in the northwest on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people and wounding dozens, a security official said.
The air strike came despite an offer of truce during the current Muslim fasting month of Ramadan announced by the government at the weekend.
A senior security official […]

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Source: CNN
Pakistan’s military discovered the location of al Qaeda’s second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, recently but missed catching him, a top official said Monday night.
A $25 million reward has been offered for Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s second-in-command.
Rahman Malik, the adviser to the prime minister on internal affairs and, effectively, Pakistan’s interior minister, told reporters that […]

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Source: AP
Some of the women were eating lunch, while others were busy making bread.
Then, the bombs fell like rain.
Pakistan’s latest military offensive against Taliban-led insurgents in its northwest had reached 60-year-old Haya Bibi and her extended family. They soon abandoned their mud homes in the Bajur tribal region and joined an exodus of tens of […]

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Source: CNN
A suicide bomber killed 10 people on Sunday after attacking a bakery on a Pakistan army base near the northwestern city of Peshawar, according to police and the Pakistani military.
Nineteen others were wounded in the suicide attack in Mardan, in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province, according to a Pakistani military news release.
The bomber […]

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Source: China View
ISLAMABAD, May 13 (Xinhua) — Pakistan and Sudan on Tuesday agreed to increase cooperation in divergent fields, particularly in the area of defense, official Associated Press of Pakistan reported.
At a meeting held here between Federal Minister for Defense Chaudhary Ahmad Mukhtar and the visiting Chief of Naval Staff of Sudan Vice Admiral Al […]

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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: 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: International Herald Tribune
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Pakistan said that a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead anywhere in India is ready for wartime use after troops launched it on Monday during a field exercise.
Scientists and engineers had prepared the Hatf VI missile, also known as Shaheen II, for the exercise with a test-firing on Saturday.
Monday’s […]

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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: The New York Times
WASHINGTON — American commanders in Afghanistan have in recent months urged a widening of the war that could include American attacks on indigenous Pakistani militants in the tribal areas inside Pakistan, according to United States officials.
The requests have been rebuffed for now, the officials said, after deliberations in Washington among senior […]

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Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON — Since Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani took command of Pakistan’s Army last November, a parade of top American officers and spymasters has trooped to Islamabad to urge him to wage an aggressive campaign against Al Qaeda and other militants in the country’s restive tribal areas.
The American officials have come away gushing […]

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The people of Pakistan have voted in this elections to condemn the policies of Musharaf and band. Sixty percent of the inhabitants have chosen the Anti-Musharaf forces to get rid of sucide bombers, empty stomachs and victimisation from their lives.
Firstly, the war on terror is not our battle and Pakistanis have realised it. Through the […]

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The ‘war on terror’ in Afghanistan is an unending war as its pinnacle where no one is able to surrender. Americans have brought so much carnage that they cannot leave the battlefield untill and unless stability starts to reside in Afghanistan again. Afghanis consists of Taleban supporters and Karzai supporters which includes the Northern Alliance, […]

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Letter to Pakistan Chief of Army Staff
General Pervaiz Ashfaque Kayani,
Abdul Basit Khawaja
Campaign to Restore Democracy to Pakistan
General Kiyani Sahib,
Every citizen of Pakistan who wants to chose the path majorly of Jinnah’s Ideologies would applaud your February 13th decision to recall all military officers from Pakistan’s civil departments. Pakistan’s bourgeoning civil society will be strengthened through […]

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Source: The Times of India
ISLAMABAD: Mehdi Hasan is one of Pakistan’s leading political analysts and media historians. A regular commentator on political affairs on TV and radio, Hasan is the author of The Political History of Pakistan, a widely acclaimed book. He spoke to Shobhan Saxena about the emerging political situation in the country. Excerpts:
With […]

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Source: VOA News
At least six people have died in an overnight clash between Pakistani security forces and insurgents operating near the border with Afghanistan.
A five-hour battle erupted in the Bajaur tribal area of northwestern Pakistan late Tuesday night, after a security vehicle on patrol was hit by an improvised roadside bomb. Military personnel exchanged fire […]

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