More than 100 Taliban Attack Pakistan Checkpoint near Afghan Border
09 June 2011
More than 100 Taliban armed with rocket launchers attacked a Pakistani checkpost near the Afghan border in South Waziristan on Thursday, triggering gunbattles that killed eight soldiers. It was the second time in a week that scores of militants besieged a checkpost in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt, underscoring the scale of the threat that Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked extremists pose to security forces. Washington has called Pakistan's semi-autonomous...
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Pakistan Arrests Five Soldiers Following Extrajudicial Killing
09 June 2011
Pakistan on Thursday arrested five soldiers for shooting dead a young man at point blank range in a park after the killing was filmed live and broadcast on television, shocking human rights activists. Five members of the Rangers paramilitary rounded on unarmed 22-year-old Sarfaraz Shah in Karachi's most exclusive neighbourhood of Clifton on Wednesday, claiming he had tried to rob a policeman's family. The Rangers chief for Sindh province said an...
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Tehrik-i-Taliban Leaders Threaten Attacks on US Targets Abroad
09 June 2011
A senior commander from Pakistan's Taliban, an ideological ally of al-Qaida, has said the movement plans to attack US targets abroad to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden. The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), or Taliban Movement of Pakistan, first threatened to avenge Bin Laden immediately after the raid by US special forces in the northern Pakistani town of Abbottabad on 2 May in which the al-Qaida leader was killed. Since Bin Laden's death, militants...
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