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Pakistan
President Bush says he would strike at bin Laden if he was in Pakistan. President Musharraf disagrees. Six American helicopter gunships have allegedly violated Pakistan’s air space by intruding into North Waziristan. The Taliban killed a government worker and two others in South Waziristan. Ten tribals were arrested in North Waziristan for helping the Taliban. Hizb-ul-Mujahideen rejects peace talks on Kashmir
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Pakistan’s Safe Haven
We are watching the slow-motion disintegration of Pakistan as a sovereign state The federally Administered Tribal Areas and North West Frontier Province. Click to enlrage. Pakistani officials and government friendly news outlets continue to spin the Waziristan Accord as a successfully strategy in dealing the the Taliban. The Pak Tribune’s Akbar Jan Marwat echoes the government position. “The recent accord, which took place between the government authorities and the tribal militants is indeed, to be welcomed by all,” says Marwat. Taliban military commander Mullah Dadullah has certainly welcomed the Waziristan Accord. In the spring of this year, I warned that…
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Pakistan
“We believe [Osama bin Laden] is somewhere between Bajaur, Pakistan, and the province of Kunar in Afghanistan,” said President Musharraf at the United Nations. Zawahiri was the target of U.S. strikes in Damadola, Bajaur, and the agency is believed to be an al Qaeda command hub.
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Pakistan
Azzam the American al Qaeda was spotted in South Waziristan last month. The Taliban violated the truce yet again and attacked a Pakistani Army outpost in South Waziristan. Two soldiers were “seriously wounded.” The Taliban also executed a tribesman.. A car bomb explodes near a police station in Peshawar. A roadside bomb injures 4, including 2 female government workers, in Bajaur.
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Pakistan
Some Pakistani forces sympathetic to Taliban, Downer says
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Pakistan
“I will clear up misperceptions about Waziristan,” says President Musharraf. ‘There are no Taliban in Pakistan,’ says Maj Gen Shaukat Sultan. Taliban military commander Mullah Dadullah disagrees: “At the behest of the US, [Musharraf] waged war against the Taliban in Waziristan.”
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Endorsing the Waziristan Accord
Taliban military commander Mullah Dadullah, U.S. State Department endorse the Waziristan Accord Mullah Dadullah on a tape aired by Al Jazeera. Taliban military commander Mullah Dadullah has spoken out about the “Waziristan Accord.” Dadullah, who was thought to have been captured this summer, explains that the Taliban in Waziristan should be focusing their energy outwards towards Coalition forces in Afghanistan, and pushed for a peace accord with the Pakistani government. President Musharraf is seen as an enemy, however one who can be negotiated with in order to continue the fight in Afghanistan. Dadullah openly threatens violence if Pakistan violates the…
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IAEA clears Pakistan of Nuclear material trafficking
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Pakistan
NATO backs down on ultimatum to Pakistan
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Pakistan
State Department Endorses Pakistan’s Retreat
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India and Pakistan to resume talks
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Pakistan
President Bush said American troops can™t enter Pakistan to hunt Osama bin Laden without an ‘invitation.’ Ashfaq Yusufzai looks at the jihadi suicide factory in Pakistan and the Waziristan agencies.
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Abbas intelligence aide shot dead
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Pakistan
Pakistan™s jehadi card harms it more than it hurts India
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Pakistan Releases over 2,500 Taliban, al Qaeda
Pakistan follows the truce to the letter and releases thousands of Taliban and al Qaeda members captured since 2001 Maulana Sufi Mohammad, head of the Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e- Shariat-e-Mohammed, freed from Pakistani prison. The Pakistani government is living up to its commitments on the “Waziristan Accord,” and has emptied the prisons of Taliban and al Qaeda who have been captured since the fall of 2001. The “Waziristan Accord” calls for the Pakistani government to “release prisoners held in military action and would not arrest them again,” and that is exactly what is happening. The Daily Telegraph discloses that Pakistan has released over…
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Pakistan
A low level government official is kidnapped in North Waziristan by “masked gunmen.” A journalist was shot and killed in Dera Ismail Khan.
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Pakistan
Fourteen Taliban were arrested in raid on a hospital in Quetta. A Pakistani official says the ‘Waziristan pact won™t stop surgical strikes™ against al Qaeda. Alexis Debat discusses the powerful Al Qaeda-Taliban network in Waziristan.
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Pakistan
14 Taliban arrested in raid on Quetta hospital
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The Fall of Northwestern Pakistan: An Online History
Documenting the Taliban’s rise to power in Waziristan and beyond over the course of 2006 and 2007
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Pakistan
Taliban could spark Pashtun ‘national war’
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Correction: Report of Hekmatyar’s Capture Incorrect
Initial report of Hekmatyar’s capture was a case of mistaken identity On 9-11, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported “the commander of the Hizb-i-Islami militia in Hafezan in the eastern province of Nangarhar, Gulbuddin Hikmatyar, was arrested after credible intelligence led Afghan and coalition forces to his compound.” An independent intelligence source confirmed the initial report, which led to my post on this matter, however a subsequent identification by fingerprinting indicates the person in question is not Hekmatyar. The captured suspect is a high level commander in Hezb-i-Islami, and is said to be a dead ringer for Hekmatyar. The misidentification of terrorist commanders…
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Pakistan
President Musharraf says the West responsible for extremism, and the “centre of gravity of terrorism has shifted from Al Qaeda to the Taliban.” NWFP Governor Orakzai, the man who orchestrated the Waziristan surrender, says the US military is not needed to track Osama bin Laden. Security around US diplomatic missions has been increased.
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Pakistan
The Taliban violates the ‘truce’ yet again. A headless body was discovered in South Waziristan and another tribal elder who “maintained good relations with Afghan officials” was killed. The pro-Taliban and al Qaeda MMA party denounces claims Osama bin Laden is in the tribal areas. Pakistan’s Foreign Office claims the deal in Waziristan was between the government and tribal elders, not the Taliban.
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The Black Guard
al Qaeda’s praetorian guards and al Qaeda high command the target of the March 2006 strike at Danda Saidgai Osama bin Laden escorted by the Black Guard. Click image to view. Task Force 145, the special operations group responsible for the hunt for al Qaeda in Iraq leadership and the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has been active in Pakistan’s tribal belts. The recent capture of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar is very likely a TF-145 operation. Two incidents earlier in the year, the strike against high level al Qaeda and Taliban leaders at a dinner in Damadola, and the assault on al…
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Pakistan
Pak stance hampering Osama hunt: Afghan envoy
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The Taliban breaks the “Waziristan Accord”
The Taliban take retribution against pro-American “spies” and “collaborators” The federally Administered Tribal Areas and North West Frontier Province. Click to enlrage. The purge of anti-Taliban tribal elements has begun in the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan, formerly as the Pakistani tribal agency of North Waziristan. The “Waziristan accord” specifically prohibits the extra judicial killings of tribesman. “There will be no target[ed] killing and no parallel administration in the agency. The writ of the state will prevail in the area”, according to a copy of the truce obtained be Dawn. The Taliban and al Qaeda have violated the agreement less than…
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Taliban in Panjwaii on verge of collapse: NATO
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Pakistan
The Taliban has broken the truce in Waziristan by killing “a 70-year-old tribesman… for allegedly spying for the Americans.” British Diplomats claim the Waziristan truce is a “model” solution for Afghanistan. The Pakistani government is refuting the latest claim that Mullah Omar is in Quetta. Mohammad Rizwan, a member of Jaish-e-Mohammad, was arrested.
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Pakistan’s Government Denies Latest Report About Taliban Leader in Pakistan
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Taliban leader said to be in Pakistan
