18 April 2011

The Pakistani military high command may not have yet made a decision about strike against the Taliban in North Waziristan, but the militant groups based there are taking no chances, preparing contingency plans for a counter-assault if necessary. An interior ministry report states that a secret meeting of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Masjlis e Shura, recently held in South Waziristan was attended by the leaders of the Haqqani group, the Al Haq...

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18 April 2011

Six more people, including a worker each of the Awami National Party, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and the Mohajir Qaumi Movement (Haqiqi), were shot dead in the ongoing killing spree in the city on Saturday, police said. The fresh wave of violence began with the targeted killing of a senior leader of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement (Haqiqi) and his aides and in less than a week more than 25 people, mostly political activists, lost their lives. The scourge...

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18 April 2011

India-Pakistan tensions will likely be inflamed by a trial that’s slated to begin in the United States next month: New court documents reveal that two terrorist operatives accused in the 2008 Mumbai massacre conspiracy are preparing to say they believed themselves to be working for Pakistani spies. [...] Lashkar-e-Taiba, or LeT, is blamed for the Mumbai massacre, though Indian officials suspect the jihadists did not operate alone. Pakistan’s...

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18 April 2011

Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed on Saturday to add top military and intelligence officials to a joint commission seeking peace with the Taliban, a measure they said would improve cooperation and bring peace closer. Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said he and former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani, who heads Afghanistan's efforts to reach out to the Taliban, would bring security chiefs into the joint commission. The commission was...

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