Source: AFP
Indian police shot and killed two suspected Pakistani militants near the capital New Delhi Sunday, as thousands of troops were deployed on the eve of a national holiday to prevent extremist attacks.
Brij Lal, a senior police officer in Uttar Pradesh state, told reporters an anti-terrorist team chased a car carrying two men towards 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: Daily Times

Tensions with India would force Pakistan to pull nearly 100,000 troops from its western borders, Defence sources said on Saturday.
The officials said Pakistan had already made it clear to the US and NATO that in case of mounting escalation with India, Pakistan’s priority on the war on terror would shift and it would […]

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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 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: 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: Associated Press
By AMIR SHAH, Associated Press Writer
Hundreds of Afghans gathered in eastern Afghanistan Monday in support of President Hamid Karzai’s threat to send troops after Taliban militants inside Pakistan, officials said.
Ghami Mohammad Yar, spokesman for the governor of Paktika province, which borders Pakistan, said hundreds of tribesmen, elders and clerics had gathered at the […]

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Source: Daily Times
* Coalition spokesman in Afghanistan confirms ‘precision-guided strike’ on ‘Haqqani network compound’
* Bajaur tribesmen protest killings
MIRANSHAH/KHAR: Pakistan lodged a protest with coalition forces in Afghanistan on Thursday after two Pakistani women and two children were killed by US fire from across the border in North Waziristan, the army said, AFP reported.
“They fired five […]

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Source: Associated Press
QUETTA — A military pickup truck struck a land mine that killed four troops and wounded two others Sunday in Pakistan’s insurgency-hit southwest, police said. A rebel group claimed responsibility for the attack.
The explosion occurred along a dirt road in Baluchistan province near the tribal town of Dera Bugti, where the troops were […]

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Source: The Canadian Press
Al-Qaida and Taliban leaders operate “outside the country.”
The war on terror “should know no borders.” The world should address the “root causes of terrorism - wherever they are.” Afghan officials weave hints and suggestions but their meaning is becoming increasingly clear: Afghanistan would be more than happy for U.S. forces to attack […]

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Source: china view
WASHINGTON, (Xinhua) — The U.S. troops in Iraq should be redeployed to Pakistan and Afghanistan to focus on fighting terrorist threats there, a U.S. lawmaker said on Saturday.
The House Representative from New York, Kirsten Gillibrand, said in her weekly Democratic radio address that the Democrat-dominated Congress is challenging President George W. Bush […]

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