News Source: Dawn
| 2 months ago
Pakistan said security forces killed 10 militants, including a local Taliban commander, on Thursday in a pre-dawn exchange of fire near a river in the northwest Swat valley. Pakistan launched a blistering offensive against the Taliban in Swat after...
News Source: CNN
| 2 months ago
Authorities arrested a commander of a terror cell in Pakistan and captured dozens of suspected militants as part of an ongoing offensive in the country, military officials said Wednesday. Security forces arrested Cmdr. Sher Muhammad Qasab during a...
News Source: Sify News
| 2 months ago
Pakistan security forces have arrested one of the most wanted and dreaded Taliban commanders, Sher Mohammad Qasab, along with 16 other extremists from the Swat Valley. Qasab, who is said to have been running a slaughter house, was nabbed after a...
News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| 2 months ago
A U.S. counterterrorism official said last week Kashmiri was in charge of al-Qaida's paramilitary operations in Pakistan...Pakistan killed 10 insurgents and arrested a militant commander accused of beheading troops in the northwestern Swat Valley ,...
News Source: Al Jazeera
| 2 months ago
The fighting displaced nearly two million people and left more than 1,800 Taliban fighters dead, according to the military. But analysts said that many of the fighters simply melted away into other areas in the face of the military onslaught.
News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| 2 months ago
Pakistan says it has arrested a militant commander acccused in the beheadings of troops in the Swat Valley...Akhtar Abbas said Thursday that Sher Muhammad Qasab was detained this week from an undisclosed location in the valley. Qasab had a bounty of...