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Posts tagged Militants
34 police, 45 Taliban killed in Dir attack
Jun 2nd
PESHAWAR: Hundreds of heavily armed Taliban besieged a Pakistani checkpost on the Afghan border for a second day Thursday, killing 28 police and six civilians in the deadliest fighting for months.
A senior police official told AFP that 500 militan…
Saleem Shahzad: Murder most foul
Jun 2nd
http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/6198/saleem-shahzad-murder-most-foul/
Pak-US forming joint intelligence team: report
Jun 2nd
WASHINGTON Pakistan and US are building a joint intelligence team to go after top terrorist suspects inside Pakistan, US and Pakistani officials said, a fledgling step to restoring trust blown on both sides by the killing of Osama bin Laden by US force…
37 killed in fighting in Yemen capital
Jun 1st
SANAA: Thirty-seven people were killed in overnight clashes between opposition tribesmen and security forces after a truce, that had ended four days of fighting in the Yemeni capital, collapsed, a medic said on Wednesday.
Most of the dead were combata…
WSJ reports on Pakistan preparatory moves for attack on NWA Taliban
Jun 1st
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan appears to be making preparatory moves for an attack on North Waziristan, a tribal region that has become a base for Afghan Taliban militants, amid pressure from the U.S. Such an invasion, one …
Mideast peace process: Hampered throughout history
Jun 1st
http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/6181/mideast-peace-process-hampered-throughout-history/
Saleem Shahzad: When journalists bite the dust
Jun 1st
http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/6177/saleem-shehzad-when-journalists-bite-the-dust/
Death of a Journalist. Warning to a Nation.
Jun 1st
Adil Najam Pakistanis have gotten used to feeling unsafe and afraid. Today they are feeling even more unsafe and afraid. And that is no accident. Afraid and unsafe is exactly how the butchers who tortured and then murdered Syed Saleem Shahzad want us to feel. Those who brutally murdered journalist, and author of the recent [...]
Saleem Shahzad: the price of truth
May 31st
card of saleem shahzad The body of Syed Saleem Shahzad, one of Pakistan’s best investigative journalists, was found yesterday from Mandi Bahauddin. Mr Shahzad was Pakistan bureau chief of Asia Times Online. He went missing on May 29, 2011 from Islamabad when he was on his way to a local television channel to participate in [...]
State Department cable cited ISI links with militants
May 31st
New Delhi: A diplomatic cable sent under the name of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton states that despite public disavowals, “some officials of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) continue to maintain ties with a …
