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Pakistani officials: 5 army officers detained

Five Pakistani army officers have been detained for questioning over possible links to two U.S. terror suspects accused of plotting an armed attack on a Danish newspaper, intelligence officials said Tuesday. The detentions underscore ...

From ASHRAF KHAN, Taiwan News,  24 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Lashkar-e-Taiba,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  David Coleman Headley,  Tahawwur Hussain Rana,  Al-Qaeda

Police: Suicide attack kills 7 in NW Pakistan

Police say a suicide car bombing targeting a security force checkpoint has killed seven people in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. Government official Sahibzada Muhammad Anis says the suicide bomber blew up the explosive-laden car on ...

From ASHRAF KHAN, TheNewsTribune.com,  14 Nov 2009

Police: Car bomb kills 7 in NW Pakistan

Displaced Pakistani tribal people, who fled the tribal area of Waziristan along the Afghanistan border due to fighting between security forces and militants, are checked by security personal prior to receiving relief supplies in Dera Ismail Khan, ...

From ASHRAF KHAN, Boston Globe,  14 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Ismail Khan

Pakistan's army kills 8 militants in Swat Valley

ISLAMABAD - Pakistani troops killed eight insurgents Saturday in gunbattles in the Swat Valley, the military said, underscoring that the Taliban threat in the region persists more than three months after a government offensive to expel the militants. ...

From ASHRAF KHAN, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  14 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Taliban,  Ismail Khan

Suicide bomber kills 35 in Pakistan

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - A suicide bomb killed 35 people near Pakistan’s military headquarters yesterday while a second blast wounded several police officers, continuing a wave of terrorism that prompted the United Nations to suspend long-term ...

From ASHRAF KHAN, Boston Globe,  3 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Taliban,  United Nations,  World Food Programme

Pakistani army takes Taliban chief's hometown

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani soldiers captured the hometown of the country's Taliban chief Saturday, a strategic and symbolic initial prize as the army pushes deeper into a militant stronghold along the Afghan border. An army spokesman said the Taliban ...

From ASIF SHAHZAD AND ASHRAF KHAN, NevadaAppeal.com,  25 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Taliban,  Al-Qaeda,  Qari Hussain,  Ismail Khan,  United Nations

Army officer, soldier killed in Pakistan capital

A pair of gunmen on a motorbike killed a soldier and a high-ranking army officer in the Pakistani capital Thursday morning, officials said, the latest strike against security forces as the military wages a major anti-Taliban offensive in the ...

From ASHRAF KHAN, Taiwan News,  22 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Taliban,  Al-Qaeda,  Osama bin Laden,  Qari Hussain

Officials: Attack on Pakistan oil facility stopped

Burqa-clad assailants armed with Kalashnikov rifles and hand grenades attempted to attack an oil terminal in southern Pakistan but were thwarted by a security guard who was gunned down as the suspects escaped, officials said Tuesday. The three ...

From ASHRAF KHAN, eTaiwan News,  15 Sep 2009

18 Pakistani women die in stampede for free flour

At least 18 women and girls died when a crowd waiting for handouts of flour swelled and panicked in an impoverished city in southern Pakistan, officials said. The stampede in Karachi came during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a traditional ...

From ASHRAF KHAN, Taiwan News,  15 Sep 2009

Official: 20 women die in Pakistan stampede

A hospital official says 20 women waiting to get free flour in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi died when the crowd around them swelled and a stampede began. Mohammad Amin Khan of Karachi Civil Hospital says the death toll from Monday's ...

From ASHRAF KHAN, Taiwan News,  14 Sep 2009

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