Bombs Strike Police in Two Cities, Kill Dozens as Taliban Threaten More Attacks
07 September 2010
, AFP, 7 September 2010
EXCERPT: "At least 20 people including women and children were killed and more than 50 wounded Tuesday in a car bomb attack targeting a police headquarters in Pakistan's northwestern city of Kohat. Militants have launched a series of brazen assaults in the past week as Muslims mark the final days of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. Six policemen were among...
Read the post »
Flooding Worsens Situation for Conflict IDPs: Report
07 September 2010
, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 6 September 2010
EXCERPT: "Internal displacement in Pakistan's north-western Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Khyber-Pukhtunkhwa (KP) has continued for at least six years, but reached a massive scale from 2008 to 2009. As of the end of July 2010, there were around two million internally displaced people...
Read the post »
Al-Qaeda, Taliban Threat Exaggerated: Report
07 September 2010
Al-Qaida and Taliban Threat is Exaggerated, Says Security Think-tank, The Guardian, 7 September 2010
EXCERPT: "The threat posed by al-Qaida and the Taliban is exaggerated and the western-led counter-insurgency campaign in Afghanistan risks becoming a 'long, drawn-out disaster', one of the world's leading security thinktanks warned today. According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), the west's...
Read the post »
The Ghazi Force: A Threat to Pakistan's Urban Centers
07 September 2010
[pdf], CTC Sentinel // Combating Terrorism Center // West Point, July 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistan is increasingly under siege from militant factions that are primarily based in the country's northwest tribal region. Most attacks are blamed on Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an umbrella group of multiple Pakistani Taliban factions led by Hakimullah Mehsud. Disaggregating the various...
Read the post »
Orakzai Cleared of Militants: Army
07 September 2010
Orakzai Cleared of Militants, Says Army, DAWN, 7 September 2010
EXCERPT: "The army operation against militants in the Orakzai tribal region has now comes to an end, claimed a military official. Operation incharge Brigadier Pervez, while addressing a press briefing, said that 90 per cent of the agency area has been cleared of militants during the operation, which was lasted for five and a half months. [...] The agency was a stronghold...
Read the post »