News Source: Chicago Tribune
| about 1 month ago
Two suspected militants on a motorbike fired shots on Tuesday at a Pakistan army brigadier in the capital, Islamabad, but missed, police said. The attack was the second on a senior army officer in less than a week and comes as the military is...
News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| about 1 month ago
AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini) Police officers stand in front of the house of a senior army officer and his mother who were attacked with gun while leaving home in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009. Gunmen attacked a high-ranking Pakistani...
News Source: United Press International
| about 1 month ago
Pakistani security forces killed at least 22 militants Tuesday in clashes with insurgents in the South Waziristan and Mohmand tribal areas, the military said. In the Mohmand fighting, 11 militants and two security personnel died in a gun battle which...
News Source: Press TV
| about 1 month ago
Two gunmen on a motorcycle sprayed bullets on the car of Brigadier Waqar Ahmed Tuesday morning in a busy neighborhood in Islamabad, which left no injuries. The attack comes a few days after Thursday's assassination of a brigadier on leave from a UN...
News Source: Al Jazeera
| about 1 month ago
The army said it is making progress, claiming a major victory on Saturday with the capture of Kotqai, the hometown of Hakimullah Mehsud, the Taliban leader. But many of the six thousand people who live in Kotkai have been left picking through the...
News Source: Sify News
| about 1 month ago
A Pakistani brigadier escaped assassination Tuesday in the capital's second shooting targeting a senior officer in less than a week, as the military pursued a major anti-Taliban offensive. No one was hurt in the Islamabad attack but tensions are high...