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2 blasts target military vehicles at Pakistan bazaar, killing at least 43

Police take notes from a victim of the suicide bomb attacks in Lahore. (Rahat Dar, EPA / March 12, 2010)

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 [...]

5 killed in U.S. drone attack in Pakistan

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 [...]

Pakistan captures two senior Taleban leaders

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 [...]

AF budget request calls for 48 new Reapers

STAFF SGT. BRIAN FERGUSON / AIR FORCE The Air Force's FY 2011 budget request calls for the purchase of 48 MQ-9A Reapers. Above, a Reaper prepares to land after a mission in Afghanistan.

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 [...]

US soldiers and teenage girls killed in bombing near Pakistan school

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 [...]

Officials: Suspected U.S. drone kills 20

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 [...]

Lockheed Martin Delivers First Two Upgraded P-3C Maritime Surveillance Aircraft for Pakistan

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 [...]

Pakistan: Strike kills FBI ‘most wanted’ militant

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 [...]

Analysis: Hard reality as U.S. pushes Pakistan

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 [...]

Secretary Gates Conducts Town Hall Meeting at Forward Operating Base Warrior, Kirkuk, Iraq

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 [...]

Pakistani militants rebuffed U.S. volunteers

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Official says al-Qaida-linked group wary of Americans’ lack of references

NBC News and news services
updated 59 [...]

Twin Suicide Bombings Hit Northwest Pakistan

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 [...]

Homicide Bomb Kills Anti-Taliban Mayor, 11 Others in Pakistan

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 [...]

Suicide bomber kills 35 near Pakistan’s capital

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 [...]

US drone strikes may break international law: UN

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 [...]

Pakistan troops retake Taliban stronghold in Waziristan

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 [...]

Pakistan militants hit air force base

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 [...]

Refugee flood reveals human cost of South Waziristan’s invisible war

• 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 [...]

Revolutionary Guard Commanders Killed in Bombing

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 [...]

Pakistani Military Launches Ground Offensive into South Waziristan

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 [...]