01 June 2011

About 200 militants crossed into Pakistan's rugged northwest from Afghanistan on Wednesday and attacked a security checkpost, killing one policeman, police said, and a television station put the death toll at seven. It was not clear whether the militants were Afghans or Pakistanis. The border area is a global hub for militants, including al Qaeda and allies such as the Pakistani Taliban, who seek to topple the U.S.-backed Islamabad government. The...

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01 June 2011

Two Russian diplomats arrived in Quetta on Tuesday to take the bodies of the victims killed in Kharotabad area when security forces had gunned down five foreigners on May 17. The Russian officials said that four of the deceased are suspected to be Russians; however, no official statement has been given yet. They said that they are waiting for the identification of the bodies to take place, adding that the bodies were decomposed due to the poor air-conditioning...

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01 June 2011

Pakistan's government on Tuesday named the members of a commission tasked with probing the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, including how it come about that the al-Qaida chief was living in a Pakistani garrison city. Parliament passed a resolution earlier this month demanding that an independent commission — as opposed to one led by the military — investigate the May 2 incursion, which deeply humiliated Pakistani leaders. Its creation...

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01 June 2011

Pakistan's army will soon launch an attack on militants in Kurram tribal region as part of a campaign to stamp out Taliban safe havens on its borders with Afghanistan, a Pakistani general said Wednesday. Pakistan's military has come under severe criticism in the U.S., heightened since the death of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan last month, for doing too little to shut down Taliban operational bases on its territory. U.S. officials want Pakistan to attack...

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