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News Source: NewKerala
| 5 months ago
The open disagreement came two days after Pakistan's armed forces announced they were preparing a decisive offensive against Mehsud and his network, which is centred around the South Waziristan tribal region on the Afghan border. Mehsud has been...
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News Source: NewKerala
| 5 months ago
Mehsud said he was not in favour of carrying out attacks inside Pakistan, as it was against Islam. Mehsud told a private television channe,l that he and many other insurgents had sided with the TTP chief against non-Muslims, and not for carrying out...
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News Source: Pak Tribune
| 5 months ago
Qari Zainuddin, a rival commander of Baitullah Mehsud, on Wednesday accused the TTP chief of having links with India and Israel. He acted against Islam as well as the country and if not eliminated now, militancy would surge and problems for the...
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News Source: The Frontier Post
| 5 months ago
A key challenger to President Hamid Karzai, Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, has said providing jobs to one million people and construction of a million residential houses were his top priorities. In an exclusive interview with Pajhwok Afghan News, the...
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News Source: Time of India
| 5 months ago
Move back of IDPs (internally displaced persons) to Kalam (in Swat) is progressing well. Today (Wednesday), 12 families comprising 69 members reached Besham Camp for further move to Kalam. Earlier, 300 families were transported back from Besham to...
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News Source: Press TV
| 5 months ago
South Waziristan, in the lawless border region with Afghanistan, has been hit by air raids and military shelling in recent days. Military and government officials insisted Tuesday in Islamabad that this was not the formal start of the campaign. "The...
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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: Gulf News
| 5 months ago
Habib Khan said the attack occurred Tuesday in the village of Kharki, on the edge of the Mardan district in the Mlakand region, which includes Swat. The attack came a day after Pakistan's military chief denounced terrorists as enemies of the country...
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News Source: The independent
| 5 months ago
Sunni activists protest against the Taliban at a rally in Karachi yesterday. The Pakistani army is to start hunting for Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud Baitullah Mehsud, a former body-builder who has emerged as the deadliest and most feared militant...
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News Source: Times of India
| 5 months ago
Even as Pakistan ordered its defence forces to go after country’s top Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud, jet fighters and gunship helicopters pounded militant hideouts in Mohmand and Bajaur tribal agencies on Monday killing 40 militants, security...