Source: AP
By ZARAR KHAN

Pakistani authorities searched Sunday for the possible wreckage of an American pilotless drone reported to have crashed in a northwestern militant stronghold, the military’s top spokesman said.
The CIA is believed to operate the drones, which have been used in an escalated U.S. campaign of missile strikes against al-Qaida and Taliban targets in […]

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Source: AP
By Riaz Khan
A bomb-laden car exploded Saturday in northwest Pakistan as police tried to pull a body from it, authorities said, killing seven police and a bystander as international fears grow over security and political stability in the nuclear-armed country.
Al-Qaida, Taliban and linked militants have staged numerous attacks against security forces along Pakistan’s northwest […]

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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: Bloomberg
Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) — Pakistan will seek a further $4.5 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund, warning that the country’s fight against terrorists is hurting the economy.
“We will ask the board of directors for the amount as the war on terror has caused serious economic problems,” Shaukat Tarin, the finance adviser to the […]

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Source: UPI
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 11 (UPI) — Pakistani militants have kidnapped a Red Cross worker, apparently an American, in the country’s restive Swat Valley region, local media reports said Wednesday.
Pakistani television says the worker for the International Committee of Red Cross was abducted two days after Taliban militants beheaded a kidnapped Polish engineer when the […]

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Source: AFP
Pakistan on Tuesday condemned the Taliban’s purported killing of a Polish hostage as “absolutely barbaric” but insisted that the government had yet to confirm the death.
“Officially the ministry of interior has to verify that tragic incident but it seems that if that is so, it is a very tragic event,” Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood […]

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Source: Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan has arrested nine men suspected in a string of deadly bombings last year which devastated the Danish Embassy, killed an army general and wounded several FBI personnel, police said Thursday.
Security forces detained the suspects in raids in the central city of Rawalpindi on Wednesday, police said in a […]

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Source: Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan says the United Nations will help organize an international effort to overcome the country’s massive security and economic problems.
Pakistan faces a dangerous combination of rising Taliban militancy and slowing economic growth, raising concern about the security of its nuclear weapons.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Thursday that the […]

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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: Reuters
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani security agencies Saturday arrested a senior Afghan Taliban official who had been released from prison in Afghanistan in 2007 in exchange for a kidnapped Italian journalist, intelligence officials said.
Ustad Yasar, who headed a Taliban information wing, was arrested in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, they said.
“Our security forces […]

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Source: CNN
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistani security forces launched an operation against Taliban militants in the nation’s tribal region along the border with Afghanistan on Tuesday, shutting down NATO supply routes, Pakistani military sources said.
Eight people — two suspected Taliban militants and six civilians — died in the operation in the Khyber Agency that involved […]

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Source: New York Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Four months ago, the people of the Pakistani mountain village of Shalbandi gained national repute after a village posse hunted down and killed six Taliban fighters who had tied up and killed eight local policemen. The posse displayed the Taliban corpses like trophies for other residents to see, and […]

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Source: Times of India
NEW DELHI: The capitulation of Pakistan’s panoramic Swat valley to the Taliban has set alarm bells ringing in Pakistan’s mainstream English media. “There has been no official announcement. But Swat, to all intents and purposes, has fallen to the Taliban.
The announcement that all girls’ education in the valley will cease from January […]

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Source: AFP
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) — Suspected Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan opened fire on an oil tanker used to supply fuel to foreign forces in Afghanistan, killing three people, local officials said Saturday.
Two drivers and one assistant were killed in the incident late Friday in the Khyber tribal district, located on the main supply route […]

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Source: Reuters
By Simon Cameron-Moore
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A former head of the Pakistani military’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency said Sunday the United States wants him on a U.N. list of people and organizations linked to al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Long retired, Lieutenant-General Hamid Gul told Reuters the U.S. moves against him began several weeks ago, pre-dating the […]

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Source: BBC News
A suicide bomber has killed one person in an attack outside a stadium in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, police say.
Officials said the bomber walked up to the gate and then blew himself up.
The attack happened as the governor of North West Frontier Province left after a sports tournament. He was unhurt but […]

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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: Wall Street Journal
As the election results were becoming clear, Pakistan’s Aaj TV news station summed up the cautious optimism with which the country greeted Obama’s victory, flashing the headline: “Obama wins, world awaits promised change.”
For many in Pakistan and Afghanistan, Obama’s promised change can’t come soon enough. Both countries are struggling to beat back […]

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Source: Guardian
• Strikes creating ‘credibility gap’ says president
• Taliban and al-Qaida targeted in tribal area
Pakistan delivered a blunt message yesterday to America’s new military commander for the region, warning General David Petraeus on his first international trip since taking the job that US missile strikes inside Pakistan must stop.
Petraeus, credited with pulling Iraq back from […]

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Source: CNN
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistan’s foreign ministry said Wednesday that it has lodged a “strong” protest with the U.S. ambassador over missile attacks conducted on Pakistani soil by unmanned drones.
The ministry said it summoned Ambassador Anne Patterson to underscore that such attacks violate Pakistan’s sovereignty and should be stopped immediately.
A statement from the ministry […]

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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: Guardian
US claim religious school belonged to a pro-Taliban cleric
A suspected US air strike killed nine people at a religious school in north-west Pakistan, intelligence officials said today.
It was claimed the school, on the outskirts of Miran Shah, the main town in the North Waziristan region, had links to the Taliban.
Four of those killed in […]

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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: Daily Times
* Seeks regional conference on Afghanistan
* FM supports access for Pakistani goods
* Pakistan, Italy likely to sign MoU on security
ISLAMABAD: Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini urged the international community on Monday to fully support Pakistan as it was playing its due role in the war on terror.
Addressing a joint press conference at the […]

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Source: Reuters
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani judge has extended the detention of a young American man of Pakistani descent for two weeks after he was caught trying to enter a known al Qaeda and Taliban militant sanctuary on the Afghan border.
The man, identified by police as Judi Kenan, was arrested on October 13 while […]

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