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Pakistan’s New War Games

Posted by Christopher Allbritton on April 21, 2010 at 10:25 pm +0000 · Leave a Comment 

Note: The fol­low­ing is a par­tial repost of my story that ran on Reuters India. TAME­WALI KHARIPUR, Pak­istan (Reuters) — Pak­istan army troops backed by fighter planes con­ducted a mock bat­tle with India in the largest mil­i­tary exer­cise in 21 years, sig­nalling that the old rival remained its biggest secu­rity threat. In a dusty yet impres­sive dis­play of conventional […]

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Three U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan - Los Angeles Times

Posted by Google Inc. on August 11, 2009 at 11:25 pm +0000 · Leave a Comment 

FOXNew­sThree U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan­Los Ange­les Times­Re­port­ing from Kabul, Afghanistan — Tal­iban mil­i­tants killed three Amer­i­can troops in volatile south­ern Afghanistan, US mil­i­tary author­i­ties …‘Spe­cial Report’ Panel on Fight­ing T…

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Afghanistan Commander Walks Back Comments on Taliban Successes - NewsHour

Posted by Google Inc. on August 10, 2009 at 11:26 pm +0000 · Leave a Comment 


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Afghanistan Com­man­der Walks Back Com­ments on Tal­iban Suc­cesses
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He said in Monday’s call that the Pak­istan Tal­iban remain united despite gov­ern­ment reports that there is infight­ing. He also insists that Pak­istani Tal­iban …
Mr. Pres­i­dent, about your war …Min­neapo­lis Star Tribune


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Baitullah Mehsud Rival Gunned Down

Posted by Christopher Allbritton on June 23, 2009 at 1:21 am +0000 · 1 Comment 

ISLAM­ABAD — Hoo, boy, talk about Pro­pa­ganda of the Deed. Early this morn­ing, Qar’i Zain­ud­din Mehsud, who just days ago spoke out pub­licly against Tehrik-i-Taliban Pak­istan (TTP) leader, Bait­ul­lah Mehsud, was shot dead by his own body­guard. AfPax Insider had a scoop in wait, with a 14-minute inter­view with the old jihadist, who had decided that his […]

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Taking the Eyes Off the Ball

Posted by Christopher Allbritton on June 16, 2009 at 7:11 am +0000 · 1 Comment 

Both Nicholas Schmi­dle, author of “To Live or to Per­ish For­ever: Two Tumul­tuous Years in Pak­istan,” and Andrew Exum (Abu Muqawama, yo) are warn­ing that expand­ing the Pak­istan mil­i­tary oper­a­tion, cur­rently push­ing back the Tal­iban from the Swat Val­ley, to Waziris­tan right now is likely a big mis­take. Schmidle’s con­cerns are logis­ti­cal and prac­ti­cal: … it […]

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From the Dept. of It's About Time...

Posted by Christopher Allbritton on June 9, 2009 at 10:46 am +0000 · Leave a Comment 

Finally! The mil­i­tary sent heli­copter gun­ships to a north­west region Tues­day to sup­port armed vil­lagers who have risen up against Tal­iban to avenge a deadly mosque blast, an offi­cial said. One of the rea­sons the Tal­iban were able to make such gains in Dir and Swat was that local mili­tias saw no sup­port from the gov­ern­ment and watched […]

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Operation Rahi-i-Rast: One Month On

Posted by Christopher Allbritton on May 27, 2009 at 12:27 am +0000 · 2 Comments 

Yes­ter­day marked the one-month mark for the Pak­istani military’s offen­sive against the Tal­iban in the Swat region. How are things going? Let’s assess: This week­end saw the begin­ning of the bat­tle for Min­gora, the valley’s admin­is­tra­tive seat. The mil­i­tary is reported to be in con­trol of about half of the city, but some Tal­iban fighters […]

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Taliban Giving Up? Not Likely.

Posted by Christopher Allbritton on May 26, 2009 at 6:02 am +0000 · Leave a Comment 

Hm. This is inter­est­ing: The Tal­iban on Mon­day urged civil­ians to return to the Swat Valley’s main city, promis­ing they would not attack secu­rity forces bat­tling for con­trol out of con­cern for the safety of trapped res­i­dents. The order allegedly comes from Maulana Fazlul­lah, the Swat Tal­iban leader, who has ordered his men to stop fighting […]

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Pakistan Claims 700 Taliban Dead? Yeah, right.

Posted by Christopher Allbritton on May 12, 2009 at 5:06 am +0000 · 2 Comments 

Color me skep­ti­cal, but Pak­istani Inte­rior Min­is­ter Rehman Malik is claim­ing Pakistan’s offen­sive in the NWFP has killed 700 Tal­iban fight­ers. “More than 700 mil­i­tants have been killed dur­ing the last four days. Fifty-two Tal­iban fight­ers were killed in Swat in the last 24 hours,” he said. He said the oper­a­tion would con­tinue till the last […]

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Fighting intensifies in Pakistan

Posted by Christopher Allbritton on May 8, 2009 at 5:39 am +0000 · Leave a Comment 

An inter­est­ing report from Al Jazeera Eng­lish on con­di­tions on the ground in Malakand as of yes­ter­day. The sound­bytes from the men of Buner are wor­ri­some: the gov­ern­ment and the mil­i­tary have very lit­tle sup­port among the peo­ple they’re allegedly sav­ing, indi­cat­ing the army may attain short-term tac­ti­cal gains, but con­tinue to fail in its […]

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