Nato build-up gives tribesmen the jitters in Pakistan

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...

16 Killed in Pakistan Air Strike

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...

Top al Qaeda Leader Eliminated

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...

Pakistani Forces Kill 90 Militants, CIA Blames Mehsud

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...

Blast kills widow of slain Pakistani journalist

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...

Mistakistan

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...

Musharraf gets on the Right Helicopter

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...

Up to 18 Pakistani soldiers killed in clashes with militants

"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...

Pakistan in bid to free captured troops

"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...

Pakistan crosses a dangerous boundary

" 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, ABC News

"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...

Smoke on the horizon

"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...

Roadside bomb kills one in Pakistan tribal region

"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...

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