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 The suicide blasts come seconds apart and fan fears of a new wave of militant violence after a period of calm. Pakistanis had been gaining confidence that offensives were shutting down the Taliban.
By Alex Rodriguez and Aoun Sahi
March 12, 2010 [...]
Target was house in North Waziristan, officials say
NBC News and news services
updated 57 minutes ago
Source: MSNBC
MIR ALI, Pakistan – A U.S. drone fired two to three missiles at a house in northwest Pakistan, close to the Afghan border, killing at [...]
From The Times
February 18, 2010
Jeremy Page, South Asia Correspondent
Pakistan has captured two more leaders of the Afghan Taleban, Afghan officials revealed today, in the latest indication of a new level of cooperation between US and Pakistani intelligence agencies.
Mullah Abdul Salam [...]
 By Michael Hoffman – Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Feb 2, 2010 21:26:05 EST
Source: Air Force Times
The Air Force avoided the budget ax it fell under last year and increased its investment in unmanned aircraft, according to fiscal 2011 budget recommendations [...]
Villagers pull injured pupils from rubble after Taliban fighters kill seven in military convoy attack
Declan Walsh in Islamabad
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 3 February 2010 20.06 GMT
Three American soldiers were killed and two others injured today in a bomb attack that marked the [...]
Associated Press
updated 7:27 a.m. PT, Sun., Jan. 17, 2010
Source: MSNBC
ISLAMABAD – At least one suspected U.S. drone fired on a house in Pakistan’s volatile tribal region Sunday, killing 20 people in the 11th such attack since militants in the area [...]
EAGAN, MINN., January 14th, 2010 — Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] recently delivered two of seven upgraded P-3C maritime surveillance aircraft for the Islamic Republic of Pakistan under the U.S. Government’s Foreign Military Sales program.
The most recent aircraft delivery occurred on [...]
Palestinian sought in deadly ’86 hijacking had $5 million bounty on his head
Associated Press
Source: MSNBC
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan – A U.S. missile strike in Pakistan killed one of the FBI’s most-wanted terrorists, a man suspected in a deadly 1986 plane [...]
Washington’s diplomatic dance with Islamabad has limits in terror fight
ANALYSIS
By ANNE GEARAN, AP National Security Writer
Source: MSNBC
updated 2 hours, 16 minutes ago
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan will not go as far as Washington wants, and there’s nothing the U.S. can do about [...]
U.S. Department of Defense
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)
News Transcript
Presenter: Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates
December 11, 2009
SEC. GATES: (Applause.) I want to thank all of you for coming today, although I suspect more than [...]
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Official says al-Qaida-linked group wary of Americans’ lack of references
NBC News and news services
updated 59 [...]
By Sean Maroney
Islamabad, 13 November 2009
Source: VOA News
Pakistani security officials say two suicide car bombings killed at least 16 people and wounded scores of others in northwestern Pakistan on Friday. The attacks come as U.S. National Security Advisor Jim [...]
Sunday, November 08, 2009
Associated Press
Source: Fox News
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A homicide bomber blew himself up Sunday in a crowded market in northwestern Pakistan, killing an anti-Taliban mayor who had formed a militia to fight the militants and 11 other [...]
Video Source: Al Jazeera
By ASHRAF KHAN and SEBASTIAN ABBOT (Associated Press)
Source: Google
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — A suicide bomb killed 35 people near Pakistan’s military headquarters Monday while a second blast wounded several police, continuing a wave of terrorism that prompted the [...]
Tue Oct 27, 11:07 pm ET
Source: Yahoo News
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – US drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan could be breaking international laws against summary executions, the UN’s top investigator of such crimes said.
“The problem with the [...]
Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:38am ED
* Strategic town has changed hands three times
* Army meeting resistance as offensive continues
* At least 8 militants killed in fighting
By Hafiz Wazir
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan, Oct 24 (Reuters) – Pakistani forces backed by helicopter [...]
Source: Google
By CHRIS BRUMMITT (AP) – 46 minutes ago
ISLAMABAD — A suicide bomber on a bicycle attacked a major Pakistani air base on Friday, killing seven people in an escalating campaign that strikes at the heart of this nuclear-armed nation’s [...]
• Pakistani forces accused of hitting civilians
• Up to 260,000 people may flee battle against Taliban
Declan Walsh in Dera, and Ismail Khan
guardian.co.uk, Monday 19 October 2009 20.40 BST
The war in South Waziristan started early for Ghufran. As Pakistani warplanes pounded [...]
A suicide bomber killed five senior commanders of the elite Revolutionary Guard and at least 26 others in an area of southeastern Iran that has been at the center of a simmering Sunni insurgency, state media reported. (Oct. 18)
Source: Associated [...]
By Sean Maroney
Islamabad
17 October 2009
VOA News.com
Pakistani officials say the military has launched its much anticipated ground offensive against the Taliban in the South Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan.
Pakistani ground troops moved out of their bases in and around [...]
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