There is widespread panic undergoing in the borders areas of Pakistan after heavy deployment of NATO forces. Now local tribesmen are terrified for military actions against them. "After deployment along the...
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Rockets believed to have been fired from an unmanned US drone, has killed sixteen people, in Pakistan's tribal area, seven of whom were militants. The US considers Pakistan an ally in the "war on terror", but also launches attacks on its territory from within neighboring...
What's interesting about this development is that it happened on the "Afghanistan-Pakistan border." Now, we all know that Pakistan has refused letting foreign militaries (i.e. our military) operate within their borders. The problem with that is that it creates a safe zone for...
A series of attacks between militants and Pakistani security forces ended in the deaths of up to 90 militants, said military officials. The attacks are thought to be the work of al Qaeda-linked militant leader Baitullah Mehsud. "Pakistani forces killed up to 90 militants in...
The widow of Hayatullah Khan, a Pakistani journalist whose bullet-riddled body was found in June 2006 nearly seven months after his abduction in December 2005, died Saturday in a bomb blast outside her residence at...
Pakistan is in a world of trouble right now. Thanks to the dual
forces of Islamic extremism and Pyrrhic democratic reform in the form
of resurgent exiled leader Benazir Bhutto Pakistan has been pushed into
a corner...
If the President of Pakistan were on a different helicopter today the world may have been a different place. One of the helicopters in the president's envoy suffered a "technical" malfunction and crashed. Here's the...
"Military spokesman major general Waheed Arshad said security forces had clashed with "miscreants" in the area, but was unable to give further details as communication links had collapsed.
"We had 12 to 16 men at the...
"Pakistani authorities today sent tribal elders and clerics to negotiate with militants who are believed to have captured more than 100 soldiers in a northwestern region on the Afghan border.
The soldiers disappeared...
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Pakistan crosses a dangerous boundary
By Syed Saleem Shahzad
KARACHI - Even as the administration of President General Pervez Musharraf faces one of its biggest political challenges in seven years, the Pakistan Army has made the potentially explosive decision to intervene...
"CIA Evidence Used to Confront Musharraf; Showdown in Pakistan
February 26, 2007 6:13 PM
Brian Ross Reports:
Ap_cheney_070226_nr In a highly unusual move, the deputy director of the CIA, Stephen R. Kappes, was flown to Pakistan to personally present President Pervez Musharraf...
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"Urgency In PakistanTaliban-al-Qaeda Alliance Grows Beyond 200,000 Men With Eyes On IslamabadBy Steve Schippert
With the Taliban-al-Qaeda alliance fortified, well-established and growing in North and South Waziristan, the North West Frontier Province and several other...
"A roadside bomb hit a tractor in Pakistan restive tribal region on Friday, killing one person and injuring five others, witnesses said.
The victims were taking construction materials in tractor when it was hit by the device at Shakai, 30 kilometers from Wana, the...