Pakistan’s Civil War Heating Up

In the after­math of this weekend’s assault on the Pak­istani Gen­eral Head­quar­ters in Rawalpindi, the Tal­iban hit again in Alpuri, in the Shangla dis­trict east of Min­gora in Swat.
Accord­ing to mil­i­tary sources who asked to remain anony­mous because they weren’t autho­rized to talk to the press, a 13– or 14-year-old boy walked up to an Army con­voy in […]

Mingora Shrugs Over Rumors of Fazlullah Capture

MIN­GORA, Pak­istan – The Swat Valley’s belea­guered cap­i­tal was tak­ing a wait-and-see atti­tude to the rumors that Maulana Fazlul­lah, head of the Swat Tal­iban which had ter­ror­ized the pic­turesque val­ley for five years, had been cap­tured or killed by secu­rity forces this week­end.
The rumors first began appear­ing on Sat­ur­day night, when the NWFP gov­er­nor, Owais Ghani, […]

Pakistan's New Drones

Hm. Inter­est­ing. Pak­istan is now fly­ing its own drones as it maybe, maybe not ramps up its fight against the Tal­iban. The drone, designed by the Ital­ian com­pany Galileo Avion­ica, is “a medium alti­tude Endurance & tac­ti­cal UAV designed for optronic and elec­tronic sur­veil­lance roles,” accord­ing to World Wide Mil­i­tary. (What appears to be a sales […]

Why Pakistan's Delaying its Waziristan Push

Well, not to say I told you so, but …
Pak­istan will need months to pre­pare for a ground offen­sive against the Tal­iban in their South Waziris­tan strong­hold on the Afghan bor­der, a senior army com­man­der said on Tues­day, cit­ing equip­ment short­ages.

“It’s going to take months,” and pos­si­bly beyond the com­ing win­ter, [Lt. Gen. Nadeem] Ahmed said, when asked how long […]

Drug Lords Tied to Taliban on US Hit List

KABUL (PAN): As many as 50 Afghan drug traf­fick­ers with proven links to Tal­iban have been placed on a Pen­ta­gon tar­get list to be cap­tured or killed, a lead­ing US news­pa­per reported on Mon­day.
The New York Times, refer­ring to a Con­gres­sional report due to be released this week, said big drugs traf­fick­ers with ties to the mil­i­tants would […]

Two AP journalists wounded in Afghanistan

Two AP visual jour­nal­ists were seri­ously wounded in Afghanistan ear­lier today when the con­voy they were trav­el­ing with was hit by an IED.

Pho­tog­ra­pher Emilio More­natti and AP Tele­vi­sion News video­g­ra­pher Andi Jat­miko were trav­el­ing with the mil­i­tary when their vehi­cle was struck by the bomb Tues­day.
Both were imme­di­ately taken to a mil­i­tary hos­pi­tal in Kan­da­har. Jat­miko suffered […]

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

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…

Four NATO troops killed in Afghanistan - CNN International

BBC News­Four NATO troops killed in AfghanistanCNN Inter­na­tion­alK­A­BUL, Afghanistan (CNN) — Four NATO troops have been killed in sep­a­rate inci­dents in Afghanistan since the week­end, mil­i­tary offi­cials said Tues­day. …FACTBOX-Military deaths in Afghanis…

US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 699 - Washington Post

KY3US mil­i­tary deaths in Afghanistan region at 699Washington Post10, 2009, at least 699 mem­bers of the US mil­i­tary had died in Afghanistan, Pak­istan and Uzbek­istan as a result of the US inva­sion of Afghanistan in late …Three Camp Leje­une Marines kill…

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