ISI Involved in Mumbai Terrorist Attacks: Report
18 October 2010
Pakistan Intelligence Services "Aided Mumbai Terror Attacks", The Guardian, 18 October 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistan's powerful intelligence services were heavily involved in preparations for the Mumbai terrorist attacks of November 2008, according to classified Indian government documents obtained by the Guardian. A 109-page report into the interrogation of key suspect David Headley, a Pakistani-American militant arrested last...
Read the post »
Bin Laden, Deputy Hiding in NW Pakistan: NATO Official
18 October 2010
NATO Official: Bin Laden, Deputy Hiding in Northwest Pakistan, CNN, 18 October 2010
EXCERPT: "Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri are believed to be hiding close to each other in houses in northwest Pakistan, but are not together, a senior NATO official said. 'Nobody in al Qaeda is living in a cave,' said the official, who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the intelligence matters involved. ...
Read the post »
Conflicting Reports Suggest Death of Senior Taliban Leader Qari Hussain Unlikely
18 October 2010
Conflicting Reports Mean the Death of Senior Pakistani Taliban Leader Unlikely [blog], The Long War Journal, 16 October 2010
EXCERPT: "Unconfirmed reports from Pakistan claim that Qari Hussain Mehsud, the Taliban's deputy leader and notorious trainer of suicide bombers, including children, was killed in a US Predator airstrike this month. But the reports are conflicting, and US intelligence officials will not confirm his death....
Read the post »
Prime Minister Pledges Support of Country's Courts, Condemns Media Reports
18 October 2010
, The Washington Post, 17 October 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani sought Sunday to preempt a clash between the country's executive and its judiciary, pledging in a public address that his government respected the courts and condemning media reports that suggested otherwise. The speech followed a television report Thursday that the struggling...
Read the post »
More than 40 Killed as Elections Held in Karachi
18 October 2010
Karachi Death Toll Rises to 43, The Express Tribune, 18 October 2010
EXCERPT: "Death toll from the latest spate of target killings in Karachi climbed to 43 on Monday, while over 70 were injured. Police have so far arrested 61 suspects from various parts of the city. [...] In a related development, President Asif Zardari rejected the resignation of Sindh Governor Dr Ishrat ul Ebad, who had earlier flown in to Islamabad to hand in his...
Read the post »