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Pakistan: Tension grips town over Koran burning
The Pakistani Army launched an operation against the Taliban in Hangu. The Taliban captured two policemen in Swat. The former Pakistan ambassador to Afghanistan who was kidnapped in Khyber in February was taken to South Waziristan for captivity. A senior minister for the Northwest Frontier Province asked the Taliban to lay down their weapons for peace.
US returns fire on Taliban inside Pakistan
Artillery and helicopters pound a Taliban position across the border after US troops take rocket fire from inside Pakistan. Pakistan fears US is massing for a strike into the tribal areas.Pakistan terms Karzai™s allegations as 'baseless™
Western troop build-up sows alarm in Pakistan
Pakistanis are fearful that NATO is building up forces across the border in Khost to attack in North Waziristan; the tribesmen vowed to defend their territory. Security forces captured a Tanzanian al Qaeda operative and two members of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in Multan. Seven were killed in clashes in Khyber between Lashkar-e-Islam and Ansar-ul-Islam. Five soldiers were wounded in a Taliban rocket attack in Dir.
Afghans suspend meetings with Pakistan after attacks
Pakistani Taliban destroy paramilitary fort in Hangu
More than 250 Taliban fighters surround Frontier Constabulary fort, order personnel to leave, loot then destroy the outpost.Joint al Qaeda and Taliban force behind Nuristan base attack
Al Qaeda, Taliban, and Pakistani terror groups united to conduct the complex attack on a joint US and Afghan outpost that resulted in the death of nine US soldiers and more than 40 Taliban fighters.
Prime Minister Gilani admitted al Qaeda is in the tribal areas and fears another 9/11 style attack will be launched from there. The Taliban destroyed a Frontier Corps checkpoint in Hangu. Two Hangu tribes formed a lashkar to oppose the Taliban. The wife of Red Mosque cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz is training girls to become suicide bombers.
Pakistan fears over US air raids
Fear choking Peshawar despite deal with militants
The co-leader of the ruling political party said the US should avoid talk of hot pursuit into the tribal areas. The Taliban beheaded a "US spy" in North Waziristan. A suicide bomber wounded three Pakistanis after detonating at a Shia gathering in Dera Ismail Khan. The Taliban said a jirga would decide the fate of 29 captured soldiers.
Pakistan militants focus on Afghanistan
The Taliban killed 22 Pakistanis in Hangu, including 15 soldiers, after ambushing a convoy. The Taliban threatened to kill 29 hostages taken in Hangu if their leader is not freed; the government said it would hold the Taliban accountable if they were killed. Four members of a polio vaccination team were released by the Taliban in Mohmand agency.
Pakistan involved in Kabul embassy attack: India
US can't hunt for bin Laden on our turf: Pakistan
Taliban kill Pakistani soldiers in ambush in Hangu
Taliban killed 15 Pakistani soldiers and took dozens of hostages in the settled district of Hangu. The Taliban threatened to kill the hostages if their commander is not released.Taliban attempts to spark Afghan-Pakistan border incident
The Taliban simultaneously fire at an Afghan police outpost in Paktika and a Pakistani military unit in South Waziristan.
The Taliban said it would kill hostages if a Hangu Taliban leader is not released. Taliban fighters destroyed three police checkpoints in Charsadda. Lashkar-e-Islam and the Ansar-ul-Islam have declared a cease-fire. Supporters of the Lal Masjid threatened the Daily Aaj newspaper for mocking extremists.
