Source: CBS News
Pakistan’s top military commander for the country’s Waziristan tribal region along the Afghan border on Sunday promised to keep his troops deployed in the area at newer locations, after last week’s peace agreement between the newly-elected government and Baitullah Mehsud, a hardcore pro-Taliban tribal militant.
Speaking to the first group of journalists to visit […]

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Source: AFP
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP) — Islamist militants killed a tribesman after accusing him of working as a US spy in a lawless stronghold of Al-Qaeda and Taliban insurgents bordering Afghanistan, officials said Friday.
Rebels shot and then slit the throat of the 30-year-old man in the latest in a series of executions in Pakistan’s troubled tribal […]

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Source: AFP
ISLAMABAD (AFP) — A suicide car bomber killed an election candidate and nine other people in northwest Pakistan on Monday, fuelling fears about the increasingly bloody campaign for key national polls in a week’s time.
The blast highlighted the dangers of campaigning in the troubled Islamic republic, with candidates keeping a low profile since the […]

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Source: DAWN
WASHINGTON, Feb 9: Mullah Omar and other Taliban leaders are directing operations against the US-led forces in Afghanistan from Quetta while Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al Zawahri, are hiding in the tribal area, a US official said on Friday.
In Islamabad, a spokesman for the Foreign Office dismissed the US claim. “The claim […]

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Source: AFP
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AFP) — Pakistani troops backed by tanks and gunships cleared militant hideouts near the Afghan border, sparking gunbattles that left eight troops and 40 rebels dead, the army said Thursday.
Thirty militants were also arrested in the clashes over the last 24 hours in the South Waziristan tribal district, the hideout […]

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Source: The Scotsman
By Sadaqat Jan
DOZENS of Pakistani troops are understood to have fled an outpost near the border with Afghanistan yesterday after receiving threats from Taleban militants who a day earlier overran a nearby fort.
If reports are confirmed, it would raise questions about the central government’s ability to control the border area, where Taleban and […]

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Source: CNN
Islamic militants have abandoned a border fort in northwestern Pakistan they overran during a pitched battle Wednesday, a military spokesman said.
The militants left later Wednesday without another battle with Pakistani forces, Major General Athar Abbas told CNN.

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Source: Reuters
By Hafiz Wazir
WANA, Pakistan, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Members of a Pakistani ethnic Pashtun tribe vowed on Thursday to raise a militia aimed at forcing al Qaeda-linked foreign militants from their lands on the Afghan border.
For several year Pakistani security forces have been trying with little success to rid the border tribal belt of […]

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Ever thought why there is no threat to Qazi Hussain’s life, when there is a threat to every leader life including Fazal-ur-Rehman?
Jamaat is trying to impose Islamic rule through supporting suicide bombings in Pakistan….
They were sending Jihadist in Kashmir and Afghanistan..it is a known fact…now the same “Jihadist” have become terrorist and destroying Pakistan. , […]

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Source: The Canadian Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Suspected Islamic militants fatally shot eight tribal leaders involved in efforts to broker a ceasefire between security forces and insurgents in Pakistan’s volatile northwest, authorities said Monday.

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