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Video shows Taliban welcome for man who escaped jail

5/13/2012

Islamabad, April 20 (IANS) A high-profile prisoner, who escaped the Bannu jail following an audacious Taliban attack, has been welcomed back into the Taliban fold, shows a dramatic video telecast on DawnNews.

400 inmates escape as rebels storm Pakistani jail

5/5/2012

ISLAMABAD (PAN ): More than 100 militants stormed a high-security prison in Pakistan’s troubled northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday, freeing at least 400 inmates, officials said.

Ex-Taliban Ambassador Flees to UAE Fearing For His Life

5/5/2012

Former Taliban Ambassador Abdul Sallam Zaeef has fled Afghanistan to the United Arab Emirates, fearing for his life after US forces attempted to search his home, Al Jazeera reported.

Hafiz Saeed calls for jihad against America

5/5/2012

MUZAFFARABAD / LAHORE: In a fiery Friday sermon, Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed called on the people to wage jihad against America in order to save Pakistan and Islam. “Come to us. We will teach you the meaning of jihad… The time to fight has come.”

Pakistan chief heads to India for low-profile trip

4/6/2012

Officially, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is just having a quick lunch with India's leader on his way to visit a Muslim shrine. But Zardari's trip to New Delhi on Sunday marks a milestone in the warming relations between the two neighbors.

Afghan, Pakistan Talks Reflect U.S. Postwar Security Concerns

4/5/2012

More than two years after it embraced a revised strategy to end the war in Afghanistan, the Obama administration is still wrangling with its Afghan and Pakistani allies over two of the most important elements of the war plan.

Ilyas Kashmiri is dead, Qaeda spokesman suggests

3/18/2012

WASHINGTON - A recent statement released by al Qaeda’s spokesman for Pakistan indicated that Ilyas Kashmiri was indeed killed, most likely last year in a US drone strike in South Waziristan Agency (SWA).

Pakistan parliament to discuss US ties next week

3/15/2012

Pakistan's parliament will debate new terms of engagement with the United States next week, a process expected to pave the way for the reopening of NATO and U.S. supply routes into Afghanistan, lawmakers and government officials said.

With Pakistan supply route still shut, Russia offers NATO life line

3/15/2012

MOSCOW: Russia’s foreign minister on Wednesday endorsed a proposal to allow NATO use of a southern Russian air base as a hub for transport of supplies to Afghanistan and suggested it was premature to withdraw troops from the war-torn country.

US drones kill 8 in Pakistan

3/13/2012

A US drone strike in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt on Tuesday killed eight fighters supporting the Taliban in Afghanistan but not hostile to Pakistani authorities, local officials said.

Pakistan's Iran pipeline plan further strains ties with U.S.

3/11/2012

The U.S. says the proposed Pakistan-Iran natural gas pipeline could trigger sanctions, but it risks severing ties with a difficult but key ally.

Pak, China, Afghanistan hold trilateral meeting

3/6/2012

_ISLAMABAD: In a conspicuous international development, Pakistan, China and Afghanistan held a formal trilateral dialogue in the Chinese capital of Beijing and covered various aspects of mutual cooperation.

Pakistan Battles Militants, in Worst Fighting in Months

3/3/2012

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The government here cemented its grip on power on Friday with strong gains in Senate elections that represented a psychological victory for the beleaguered president, Asif Ali Zardari, and should ensure his party’s influence for another three years.

Arrested LeT terrorists were trained in Pakistan: Police

2/29/2012

The Delhi police on Wednesday said that the alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists were trained in Pakistan.

Files reveal bin Laden ties to Pakistan agency

2/28/2012

LONDON: Osama bin Laden was in routine contact with several senior figures from Pakistan's military intelligence agency while in hiding in the country, according to a large cache of secret intelligence files.

Secret U.S. cable warned about Pakistani havens

2/26/2012

The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan sent a top-secret cable to Washington last month warning that the persistence of enemy havens in Pakistan was placing the success of the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan in jeopardy, U.S. officials said.

Suicide attackers target Pakistan police

2/25/2012

Suicide bombers armed with guns and grenades have attacked a Pakistani police station in the northwest of the country, killing four officers, officials say. The three attackers opened fire with machine guns, and then used hand grenades to attack the building, before detonating their suicide vests, Yameen Khan, a senior police official, said.

US lawmakers want Balochistan self-determination

2/18/2012

Three US lawmakers have introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives, calling for self-determination in Pakistan's restive southern Balochistan province. Republican representative Dana Rohrabacher and two other lawmakers moved the resolution saying Balochis - now divided among Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan - should "have the right to self-determination and to their own sovereign country; and they should be afforded the opportunity to choose their own status."

Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan vow to jointly counter terrorism

2/18/2012

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari Friday said Pakistan along with Afghanistan and Iran was committed to jointly work to rid the region of the "menace" of terrorism.

American Touted as a Leader of GIMF Killed in Pakistan

12/23/2011

_"Abd al-Moeed bin Abd al-Salam," an American citizen killed during a raid by Pakistani security forces in Karachi in November 2011, was named by the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) as one of the group's commanders. GIMF, one of the oldest and most influential jihadist propaganda groups with members from all over the world, eulogized Salam with the same flowery praise usually afforded to military commanders and suicide bombers, reflecting how the jihadist community recognizes that engaging and producing propaganda is as integral a part of their jihad as carrying out attacks against their enemies.

Pakistan's Other War

12/22/2011

__Baluchistan may be Pakistan's largest province, covering nearly half the country's land area, but the raging separatist violence in the region -- sometimes called Pakistan's secret war -- gets only a fraction of the attention that the country's other crises receive.

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