Pakistan commandos raid kills Arab and Sudan fighters

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan — Pakistan commandos raided a private hospital before dawn in a Taliban stronghold near the Afghan border Thursday, killing four foreign militants and a woman, officials said.
Troops laid siege to the private clinic in Wana, the main town of South Waziristan, at 2:00am (2100 GMT) sparking gun battles until around 7:00am (0200 GMT), [...]

Pakistani army kill 15 militants in Taliban base

ISLAMABAD,  – Pakistani security forces killed 15 militants in the Taliban stronghold of South Waziristan tribal agency bordering Afghanistan during the last 24 hours, the army said in a press release Monday.
The army said the miscreants raided the Boya Narai check post in South Waziristan on Sunday night and as the security forces effectively responded, [...]

At least 30 dead in Pakistan mosque attack

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan – Militants hurled hand grenades then fired on a mosque near Pakistan’s military headquarters after Friday prayers, killing at least 39 people, rescue services said.

The mosque is frequented by military officials in the garrison town of Rawalpindi. A helicopter hovered over the scene, apparently searching for militants who may have fled after [...]

Pakistan army kill 14 militants in tribal area operation

ISLAMABAD, — At least 14 militants were killed while six soldiers lost their lives during the military operation in Pakistan’s tribal area in the last 24 hours, an army statement said Saturday.

A Pakistani Army helicopter flies as soldiers patrol in Sararogha town, which was the stronghold of Taliban militants in troubled South Waziristan, November 17, [...]

Pakistan police arrest 7 of Tehreek-e-Taliban members

KARACHI – Pakistani police have arrested seven suspected militants planning to attack security agency offices and officials in the commercial hub of Karachi, police said on Thursday.

Pakistani policemen escort two cloth-covered suspected militants of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP) to present them to media at a police station in Karachi, November 11, 2009 (Getty Images)
The militants belonged [...]

Pakistani Taliban vow tough guerrilla war

PESHAWAR, Pakistan  – Pakistani Taliban have started a guerrilla war against the army and will wage a tough, protracted fight in the insurgents’ South Waziristan stronghold, a Taliban spokesman said on Tuesday.
The army went on the offensive in South Waziristan, a lawless ethnic Pashtun region on the Afghan border, on October 17, aiming to root [...]

Pakistan troops capture key Taliban town

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s military spokesman said Monday that troops had taken full control of Kanigurram, one of the biggest towns in South Waziristan and formerly a key Taliban operational centre.

Pakistani chief military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas. (Getty Images)
“Kanigurram area has been completely cleared of terrorists,” Major General Athar Abbas told a news conference in [...]

Roadside blast kills 7 Pakistan soldiers

LANDIKOTAL, Pakistan,  - A roadside bomb killed seven Pakistani soldiers in the northwestern Khyber region on the Afghan border on Saturday, hours after warplanes struck suspected Taliban positions in a neighbouring tribal area, officials said.

The rough and rugged tribal territory separating Pakistan and Afghanistan is a stronghold for Taliban insurgents from both countries as well [...]

Pakistan bomb kills 105 as Clinton visits

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Northwest Pakistan plunged into mourning on Thursday after one of the bloodiest attacks in the nation killed 105 people, eclipsing a peace mission by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The carnage caps a month of escalating bloodshed in the nuclear-armed Muslim nation where a full security alert was unable to stop a [...]

Pakistan forces bomb Taliban in South Waziristan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan,  - Pakistani aircraft attacked Taliban in the South Waziristan region on Sunday a day after the army said it had captured a strategic town on an approach to main militant base area.

Separately, gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead the minister of education in the provincial government in Baluchistan, a gas-rich southwestern province where [...]