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Posted by Christopher Allbritton on October 15, 2009 at 12:45 pm +0000 · Leave a Comment
ISLAMABAD—Militants launched simultaneous attacks across Pakistan Thursday morning, hitting at least three police installations in Lahore, ramming a suicide car bomb into a police station in Kohat in the NWFP and attacking a school in Peshawar. At least 37 people were killed in the combined attacks. The scene in Lahore was one of mayhem, where the Federal Investigation […]
Posted by Christopher Allbritton on October 5, 2009 at 6:11 pm +0000 · Leave a Comment
The bomb that blasted through the World Food Program’s lobby at its heavily fortified office in Islamabad on Monday, killing at least three five, and wounding at least six five, was a stark reminder that the Pakistani Taliban are still a force to be reckoned with. The explosion occurred at approximately 12:15 p.m., on a leafy street in one […]
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Posted by Christopher Allbritton on September 2, 2009 at 11:28 am +0000 · Leave a Comment
ISLAMABAD — Gunmen hidden behind trees on motorcycles ambushed the Federal Minister of Religious Affairs Hamid Saeed Kazmi as he was being driven outside his office here today earlier this afternoon. His driver has been killed and his guard is in critical condition. Kazmi was wounded in the leg, and doctors have successfully removed the […]
Posted by Christopher Allbritton on September 1, 2009 at 10:42 am +0000 · Leave a Comment
Now this is just weird. A Pakistan News is reporting that newly named leader of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is also dead, and that an interview given to BBC earlier was actually his brother. The report goes on to suggest that Hakimullah was killed in in the infighting after the death of Baitullah Mehsud in early August. […]
Posted by Christopher Allbritton on August 7, 2009 at 12:26 pm +0000 · 1 Comment
ISLAMABAD — If confirmed, this would be a huge victory in the fight against takfiri militants in Pakistan: U.S. and Pakistani authorities were investigating whether Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who has led a violent campaign of suicide attacks and assassinations against Pakistan’s government, was killed in a CIA missile strike. A Pakistani official said Friday that reports of […]
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Posted by Christopher Allbritton on May 6, 2009 at 10:32 am +0000 · Leave a Comment
I’m on deadline for a project today, so the blogging will be light. In the meantime, don’t miss these stories: Pakistani Army Poised for New Push Into Swat — New York Times: PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Residents flooded out of the Swat Valley by the thousands on Tuesday as the government prepared to mount a new military campaign against […]
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Posted by Christopher Allbritton on April 24, 2009 at 8:14 pm +0000 · Leave a Comment
I’ve been feeling a bit on the uninspired side of things over the past two days, especially after I wrote about the Taliban push into Buner. The magnitude of the problems facing Pakistan and the danger it causes to the world are enough to make anyone a bit moody. But then it seemed the militants were pulling back […]
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'Are We Winning?' Um, Not Really.
Posted by Christopher Allbritton on April 30, 2009 at 5:00 pm +0000 · 2 Comments
Sheesh. The State Department released a report today (big PDF) today that shows that terror attacks in Pakistan alone quadrupled between 2006 and 2008. Interestingly, the growth in Islamist terror attacks — 10 times more than there were in the 1990s — is in part a product of the success in Iraq. Would-be jihadists are staying at home […]
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