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Kabul, Jan 7 (IANS/AKI) The suicide bombing that killed seven CIA agents at a US base in Afghanistan was ‘revenge’ for deadly US drone strikes in Pakistan, Al Qaeda said Thursday.
A Jordanian identified as Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, who has since been identified as a double agent, blew himself up at the base in Khost [...]
Islamabad, Jan. 1 (ANI): At least four suspected extremists were killed in a US Drone in North Waziristan, security officials said.
“A US drone fired two missiles, which hit a compound of a local tribesman, Karim Khan, killing four people and injuring two others,” The Daily Times quoted Karim Khan, a senior security official, as saying.
The [...]
Peshawar, Dec.31 (ANI) : Refusing to release the abducted journalist Mohammad Rashid, who is associated with the Associated Press (AP), the North Waziristan Taliban has said that Rashid is being interrogated to ascertain his motives behind coming to Miramshah.
Rashid was [...]
Islamabad, Dec 28 (DPA) The Pakistani military said Monday that 15 militants were killed as troops repelled an attack at a checkpoint in the South Waziristan tribal district on the Afghan border.
Government forces have been battling Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters in the region since Oct 17, gaining control of key towns and securing main [...]
Miranshah, Dec.27 (ANI): At least three extremists were killed and two others injured in a US drone attack on a suspected militant hideout in North Waziristan, late on Saturday evening.
According to The Daily Times, two missiles were fired from an unmanned aircraft, [...]
Islamabad, Dec. 23 (ANI) : In what may further deepen the divide between Islamabad and Washington, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has clarified that his government would neither allow America to expand drone attacks nor permit ‘hot pursuit’ of [...]
London, Dec. 22 (ANI): Special US forces have reportedly carried out multiple secret raids on the Al-Qaeda leadership in Pakistan’s lawless tribal regions along the Afghan border, a former NATO officials has disclosed.
According to the official, the covert raids, only one of which has been previously reported, occurred between 2003 and 2008.
He said the [...]
Washington, Dec. 19 (ANI): The Pakistan Army might have been claiming that it has forced the militants to flee their dens in the tribal regions along the Afghan border, but fears have arisen that the extremists have infiltrated into the heart of [...]
Islamabad, Dec. 18 (ANI) : At least 17 suspected militants, including a key Al-Qaeda commander were killed in two separate drone attacks in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan.
According to reports, in the first attack, five US drones fired at least 10 missiles at two houses in the Ambarshaga area killing at least 15 [...]
Washington, Dec 15 (IANS) Demands by the US for Pakistan to crack down on the strongest Taliban warrior in Afghanistan Siraj Haqqani, whose fighters pose the biggest threat to American forces, have been rebuffed by the Pakistani military, according to the New York Times.
The Obama administration wants Pakistan to turn on Haqqani, a longtime asset [...]
Islamabad, Dec. 8 (ANI) : At least three alleged extremists were killed and three others injured in a suspected US drone attack in Miranshah, one of the main cities of North Waziristan, early Tuesday morning.
Confirming the attack, security officials said the missiles targeted a vehicle in Aspalga village, which is situated 12 kilometres [...]
Islamabad, Nov 22 (DPA) The Pakistani armed forces said Sunday that troops killed five militants in the ongoing anti-Taliban offensive in the tribal region near the Afghan border.
Around 30,000 soldiers launched the operation, codenamed ‘Path to Deliverance’, Oct 17 in the South Waziristan district, which was described by the US as the most dangerous place [...]
Islamabad, Nov 21 (DPA) At least 14 militants and six soldiers were killed Saturday in the latest fighting in the ongoing military operation in Pakistan’s restive northwestern tribal region, the army said.
Nearly 30,000 troops supported by air power and long-range artillery moved into South Waziristan, a known Taliban stronghold near Afghan border, in mid-October to [...]
Islamabad, Nov.20 (ANI): At least eight persons were killed in a suspected US drone attack in North Waziristan on Friday.
According to reports, two missiles were fired from an unmanned Predator aircraft targeting a vehicle near the Mir Ali town, which is considered a den of Al-Qaeda and [...]
Islamabad, Nov 20 (IANS) Eight people were killed in a suspected US drone strike in northwestern Pakistan’s tribal area, officials said Friday.
The unmanned aircraft fired two missiles on a house at Mir Ali tehsil in North Waziristan tribal agency near the Afghan border, officials said.
On Thursday, another drone attack killed at least four people [...]
Islamabad, Nov.19 (ANI): A US drone attack has reportedly claimed the lives of four people, believed to be extremists, in North Waziristan late on Wednesday night.
According to officials, the unmanned aircraft targeted a suspect militant hideout in Shanakhora village.
“It was a US drone attack which targeted a militant compound, killing four militants and wounding five [...]
Washington, Nov.11 (ANI): US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said the Pakistan military should acknowledge that it must carry out its offensive against extremists until they are completely flushed out.
“They understand too that you can’t just play Whack-A-Mole. You can’t just knock down the Taliban somewhere and expect you’re done,” The Dawn quoted Clinton, [...]
Lahore, Nov.6 (ANI): Pakistan Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar has said that once it flushes out the extremists from South Waziristan, the military may launch an offensive in North Waziristan too.
Speaking on a private television channel [...]
Islamabad, Nov.5 (ANI): At least four persons were killed and four others wounded in a missile attack carried out by unmanned US aircrafts in Norok tehsil of Mir Ali in North Waziristan late on Wednesday night.
According to sources, the identity of people killed and injured in the attack in yet to be ascertained, but unconfirmed [...]
London, Oct.25 (ANI): The Pakistan Army has been claiming huge success in the ongoing ‘mother of all battles’ in South Waziristan and has announced that the troops have captured Kotkai, the hometown of Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud, however analysts believe that all important extremist leaders have already escaped from the region and that the army [...]
Islamabad, Oct. 24 (ANI): The Taliban in Pakistan’s Waziristan Agency has banned non-local journalists from entering and covering the military offensive in South Waziristan.
“We respect journalists, but wish to warn them in advance against coming to North Waziristan for coverage of the displaced people or the operation in South Waziristan,” The News quoted Taliban spokesman [...]
Washington, Oct 19 (ANI): The Pakistan Army’s offensive against the Taliban in South Waziristan is not going to help US forces in Afghanistan, as none of the three terror groups singled out as the greatest threat to American troops are based in the region.
Pakistan’s offensive into South Waziristan is targeting the terrorists who have wreaked [...]
Washington, Oct 19 (ANI): The Pakistan Army’s offensive against the Taliban in South Waziristan is not going to help US forces in Afghanistan, as none of the three terror groups singled out as the greatest threat to American troops are based in the region.
Pakistan’s offensive into South Waziristan is targeting the terrorists who have wreaked [...]
Islamabad, Oct.18 (ANI): The Pakistan Army has kick started, what is being seen as the ‘mother of all battles’, against the Taliban in South Warisitan, the region believed to be the stronghold of the extremists.
Announcing the launch of Operation Rah-e-Nijat (Path of Salvation), military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said the ground troops have [...]
London, Oct.17 (ANI): The Pakistan Army is facing stiff resistance from the Taliban as it advanced deeper into their stronghold in South Waziristan following the government’s nod for an all out offensive in the region.
According to reports, the extremists were using ‘heavy weapons’ against the advancing security personnel, who are moving in from three different [...]
Peshawar, Oct. 13 (ANI): Before launching a full-scale military operation in South Waziristan, the Pakistan Government has initiated back-channel negotiations with Taliban commanders in North Waziristan in order to isolate insurgents of the Baitullah group.
As part of the initiative, a jirga comprising [...]
Islamabad, Oct 8 (IANS) The bullet-riddled bodies of 15 suspected Taliban militants were found Thursday in Pakistan’s Swat region, an official said.
‘I can confirm that 15 bodies were found today (Thursday) and our information is that they are militants,’ Geo TV quoted army spokesman Major Mushtaq Khan as saying.
‘They might have been the victims [...]
Islamabad, Sep 29 (DPA) At least 13 Taliban militants were killed in two suspected US drone attacks in Pakistan’s lawless region near the Afghan border Tuesday, intelligence officials said.
The first attack took place at around 9.30 a.m. (0330 GMT) in the South Waziristan tribal district, a known hotbed of Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters.
‘One missile [...]
Islamabad, Sep 27 (IANS) Nearly 100 people have been killed in Pakistan so far this month in different incidents of suicide as well as US drone attacks, the Online news agency reported Sunday.
Between Sep 1 and Sep 26, at least 95 people have lost their lives in diffent attacks in Paksitan, particularly in the Federally [...]
Islamabad, Sep 25 (DPA) A suspected US unmanned aircraft fired two missiles at a militant hideout in Pakistan’s ungoverned tribal region on the border with Afghanistan, killing at least 12 people, intelligence officials said Friday.
The attack took place Thursday just before midnight in Dandy Darpa Khel village near Mir Ali town of the North Waziristan [...]
