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News Source: Pak Tribune
| 5 months ago
The decision to launch a military operation against Baitullah Mehsud, the powerful leader of the Pakistani Taliban, comes as no surprise. The announcement to extend the war to South Waziristan on the back of an effective two-month old military...
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News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| 5 months ago
Pakistan's army chief vowed to defend Pakistan "at all costs" on Monday, after an official announced an all-out assault on a Taliban chief and his rebels in the lawless Afghan border region. Security forces are already locked in a seven-week campaign...
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News Source: Financial Times
| 5 months ago
As Pakistan mounts a new offensive amid promises to target Mr Mehsud’s lair in the country’s unruly South Waziristan region along the Afghan border, questions abound over the man, the myth surrounding him and his likely future.
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News Source: The News
| 5 months ago
After the Al-Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam Shaheed Brigade and the Baitullah Mehsud-led central Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Orakzai Agency chapter of the TTP has claimed responsibility for the series of terrorist attacks across the country.
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News Source: India Abroad
| 5 months ago
As the Pakistan Army [ Images ] expanded their operations against terrorists in the South Waziristan, the military said on Sunday that 31 militants, including some foreign fighters, were killed in retaliatory air strikes. The bomb blast occurred in...
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News Source: NewKerala
| 5 months ago
The suspect, identified as Muhammad Ilyas, was held from the Nasirabad area of Balochistan's Loralai district, some 100 km east of capital Quetta, Geo TV said. The cleric, Sarfraz Ahmad Naeemi, was in his office adjacent to a mosque here when a...
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News Source: Press TV
| 5 months ago
The explosive-laden vehicale exploded near a busy market in the town of Dera Ismail Khan, about 300 kilometers (186 miles) south of the provincial capital Peshawar, on Sunday. The death toll is expected to rise as some of the wounded are said to be...
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News Source: Al Jazeera
| 5 months ago
An explosion has ripped through a market in the Pakistani city of Dera Ismail Khan in the North West Frontier Province, killing at least eight people and wounding about 50, a government official has said. Shortly after the blast on Sunday, one...
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News Source: Indian Express
| 5 months ago
At least eight persons were killed and over 20 injured on Sunday when a bomb went off in a busy market in the restive northwestern Pakistani city of Dera Islamil Khan. The blast occurred at Pir Market, which is located near a bus station.
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News Source: Denver Post
| 5 months ago
Supporters of a popular moderate cleric mourned his assassination in one of several suicide bombings for which the Taliban claimed responsibility Saturday to retaliate for a Pakistani military offensive against extremists. But instead of sowing fear...