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(AP) - A suicide bomber apparently targeting an anti-Taliban mayor struck a crowded market near Peshawar today, killing the mayor and 11 other people and wounding dozens, police said. The market was crowded with shoppers and goats being sold to celebrate the upcoming Muslim festival of Eid. The mayor, Abdul Malik, who... More »

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 Clinton: 
 Taliban 
 Threat to 
 Pakistan 
 Is Rising 


But secretary, on European tour, sees no danger of nukes falling into terrorist hands

Oct 11, 09 10:35 AM CDT
(AP) - An audacious Taliban attack on Pakistan's army headquarters shows there is a growing terrorist threat to the nuclear-armed US ally, Hillary Clinton said today. The secretary of state, speaking at a joint news conference with British counterpart David Miliband, added that while extremists were "increasingly threatening the authority of... More »

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 Taliban Takes Hostages 
 After Bold Pakistan Attack 

Move follows assault on military headquarters

Oct 10, 09 10:30 AM CDT
(AP) - Militants were holding several security officers hostage inside an intelligence wing of Pakistan's army headquarters today after staging an audacious assault on the nation's most powerful institution. At least four militants have between 10 and 15 hostages, says a military spokesman. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack in... More »

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(Newser) - Pakistani officials have confirmed the death of Baitullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban leader, in an American drone strike early Wednesday. While there is still no concrete evidence of his death, the country's foreign minister said today that "he has been taken out." One security official told the New ... More »

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(Newser) - Pakistan’s defense secretary says the army will crush Taliban militants in the Swat Valley within days, the BBC reports. Just "5% to 10% of the job" is left, Syed Athar Ali told an Asian forum, though an army spokesman declined to give an actual timeline. Meanwhile, 40 rebels... More »

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 Pakistan: 1000 Taliban 
 Dead in Swat Offensive 

Move could signal
a shift to bloody
urban battles

May 17, 09 12:35 PM CDT
(AP) - Pakistani security forces fought Taliban militants in the northwest's Swat Valley and entered two Taliban-held towns there, the army said today, foreshadowing what could become bloody urban battles. A top government official said the offensive had already killed more than 1000 Taliban fighters, while a group of pro-government religious leaders... More »

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 Pakistan PM Claims 
 700 Taliban Killed 

Army has already killed 700 militants: minister

May 11, 09 11:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - With more than a million of its citizens fleeing violence within its borders, Pakistan's prime minister said today the army has killed more than 700 militants in the last two weeks, in an operation in which "the very existence of the country was at stake.” Syed Yousaf Raza... More »

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Stakes Massive Ahead of Obama Af-Pak Summit

Zardari, Karzai in DC
 as Taliban surge in crumbling Pakistan

May 6, 09 6:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama begins two days of talks with the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan today as his administration faces what may be its first foreign policy crisis: rising militancy in the Swat Valley that threatens to spread across the nuclear-armed nation. Obama and his team are expected to pressure Asif... More »

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 Pakistanis Flee Swat 
 Ahead of Taliban Clash 

Militants take control of main city in strategic valley

May 5, 09 7:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistani authorities have warned residents of the country's troubled Swat Valley to leave their homes ahead of an expected military operation in the Taliban-controlled area. The February peace deal between Pakistan and the Taliban, which included the introduction of Sharia law, has effectively collapsed, reports Reuters. Militants have infiltrated several... More »

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(Newser) - Pakistan’s education system is so dysfunctional that for many rural children, Islamic schools are the only option, the New York Times reports. The growth of madrasas, which teach little besides Koran memorization, is especially pronounced in places like southern Punjab, home to half of the country's at least 12,... More »

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US Worries Grow Over Weakened Pakistan's Nukes

But Pakistani officials call concerns 'overblown rhetoric'

May 4, 09 8:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - The growing insurgency in Pakistan has heightened US worries about the security of the country’s nuclear arsenal, the New York Times reports. Some fear militants could steal weapons in transport or get access to nuclear facilities. President Obama says he’s “confident” that the stock is “secure,... More »

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US Reaches Out to Pakistani Opposition

Administration presses bitter rivals to unite against Taliban threat

May 2, 09 5:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration is seeking closer ties with the Pakistani president's biggest—and most bitter—rival, the New York Times reports. The US previously shunned Nawaz Sharif because of his links to Islamists, but diplomats now believe Sharif's popularity among that group could help bolster Asif Ali Zardari's embattled government... More »

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 Pakistan Launches 
 Strikes Against Taliban 

Militant presence in Buner violates peace agreement, says military

Apr 28, 09 11:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistan has deployed troops and begun airstrikes against suspected Taliban sites in the Buner district, uncomfortably close to the capital. A military spokesman said some 500 militants are in the district, just over 60 miles from Islamabad, violating a peace agreement, the BBC reports. Meanwhile, tens of thousands have fled... More »

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 US Missiles Kill 8 
 Militants in Pakistan 

Islamabad complains that drone strikes help Taliban

Mar 1, 09 2:02 PM CST
(Newser) - An American drone attack today killed at least eight militants in a Pakistani tribal area, Reuters reports. "There are 'guests' among the dead," an anonymous intelligence official says, referring to non-Pakistani militants. The missile assault struck either a house or a bunker in South Waziristan, a Pakistani Taliban... More »

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Mumbai Thugs Aimed to Squeeze Press With Hostages

Gunman reveals how plans to force media demands went awry

Dec 14, 08 6:14 AM CST
(Newser) - Mumbai terrorists originally planned to take hostages and use them to make demands of the media, a captured gunmen has revealed. Mohammed Ajmal Kasab and his partner, responsible for a massacre at the train station, intended to take hostages to a rooftop, but couldn't find a suitable building, reports AP.... More »

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 Pakistan Feared 
 Indian Air Strikes 

India was preparing to hits areas identified as militant camps, says official

Dec 7, 08 6:56 AM CST
(Newser) - Pakistan feared a retaliatory attack by India after the Mumbai terrorist siege, a Pakistani official told the BBC. Evidence indicated that India was planning an air raid on suspected militant training camps, he said. Despite worries that India planned "to teach Pakistan a lesson, we wouldn't have gone—and... More »

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Pakistani Vigilantes
Strike at Taliban

Desperate police encourage citizens to take actions

Nov 2, 08 11:30 AM CST
(Newser) - As Pakistan’s overtaxed military and police forces wage a desperate battle against the Taliban, vigilantes are striking back at the militants on their own, the New York Times reports. Last August, citizens in a quiet farming valley hunted down and killed the Taliban fighters who murdered six policemen, lining... More »

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 Red Cross: 
 Pakistan Now a War Zone 

Tribal areas become war zone as government steps up assault on militants

Oct 3, 08 6:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistan's escalating confrontation with the Taliban has plunged the country into full-scale war, the New York Times reports. A quarter of a million people have fled the fighting as the Pakistani army attacks the militants in tribal areas on at least three fronts, and 20,000 have flooded in desperation... More »

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 Pakistani Troops Fire 
 on US Helicopters 

US forced back across border to Afghanistan

Sep 22, 08 3:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistani troops fired on two US helicopters crossing the border apparently to attack militants last night and drove them back into Afghanistan, Reuters reports. The aircraft crossed the border in the restive North Waziristan tribal region, according to Pakistani sources. US officials refused to confirm the report. Pakistani officials have... More »

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 Strike Kills at Least 9 in 
 Pakistan Militant Stronghold 

US missiles thought to have hit both terrorists and children

Sep 8, 08 7:54 AM CDT
(AP) - Explosions reportedly caused by missiles fired from drone aircraft hit a house and seminary linked to a key Taliban commander in northwest Pakistan today, killing at least nine people, officials and witnesses said. The blasts took place in a militant stronghold in Pakistan's wild tribal belt, a possible hiding place... More »

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