KP Petitions NATO, Pakistan, and Afghanistan for Future Security after Fourth Day of Taliban Attack in Upper Dir
06 June 2011
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Saturday condemned the ‘infiltration’ of militants from Afghanistan into Dir Upper and asked both the Pakistan and Afghan governments to take measures for preventing occurrence of such events in future. The provincial government made the demand in a special meeting chaired by Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti here on Saturday. The meeting was convened to discuss aftermaths of a militants’...
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At Least 24 Killed in Attacks in Nowshera, Peshawar
06 June 2011
At least 18 people were killed in a bomb blast at a bakery in Nowshera, while six others were killed and seven injured when a timed device went off at a crowded bus stand on the outskirts of Peshawar on Sunday, police and government officials said. “It was a remote-controlled bomb planted in a dustbin at the entrance of the bakery on the main Mall Road in Nowshera,” Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the provincial information minister, told AFP....
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Al Qaeda Commander Kashmiri Allegedly Killed in One of Weekend's Three Drone Strikes
06 June 2011
US missiles killed 18 militants in Pakistan’s tribal district of South Waziristan on Monday, destroying compounds and a vehicle in the deadliest drone strikes for months, officials said. Three strikes were reported just days after Pakistani officials said they believed senior al Qaeda commander Ilyas Kashmiri had died in a similar attack late Friday, also in South Waziristan which borders Afghanistan. Washington has called Pakistan’s...
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