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Pakistani Taliban Spokesman Denies Peace Talks
A Pakistani Taliban spokesman and another commander have denied the group is in peace talks with the government. They contacted The Associated Press by telephone Sunday, a day after Maulvi Faqir Mohammed, recognized by many as the Pakistani (...)

11 - 12 - 2011
Pakistan Taliban Commander Confirms Peace Talks
The Pakistani Taliban is in peace talks with the Pakistani government, a senior commander in the group said Saturday. He said negotiations were "progressing well" and could soon end in a formal agreement. The statement by Maulvi Faqir Mohammad is (...)

10 - 12 - 2011
Official Says Bomb Kills 6 In Northwest Pakistan
AlHijjah 17, 1432, Nov 13, 2011, SPA - A local government official says a bomb blast has killed six people in a remote town in northwest Pakistan. The official, Ahmed Jan, says two members of an anti-Taliban militia are among those killed in the (...)

13 - 11 - 2011
Bomb Hits Police Checkpoint in Pakistan, One killed
AlHijjah 16, 1432, Nov 12, 2011, SPA - Police say a bomb has exploded at a police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan, killing one officer and wounding two others. Local police officer Zahir Shah says the bomb went off at a barricade outside a (...)

12 - 11 - 2011
Four Killed in Drone Attack in Pakistan
A US drone attack on Friday killed four people in Pakistan's north-western region, along the Afghan border, officials said. The unmanned aircraft fired two missiles into a car and a house in the Khaisoor area of North Waziristan, one of the seven (...)

24 - 09 - 2011
Clashes Kill 15 in Pakistan's Tribal Region
At least fifteen people were killed when militants attacked a check post in the Khyber tribal region in northwest Pakistan, officials said. Four tribesmen and a paramilitary soldier were killed in the attack on Saturday night. Members of a tribal (...)

18 - 09 - 2011
Taliban Claim Kidnapping Up to 25 Boys
Taliban on Saturday claimed responsibility for holding up to 25 boys hostage. Pakistani officials said on Friday militants in Afghanistan kidnapped the boys after they mistakenly crossed the border while on an outing in the border tribal region of (...)

03 - 09 - 2011
Drone Strike Kills 20 Militants in NW Pakistan
American-fired missiles killed 20 militants in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, most of them members of an insurgent network, Pakistani officials said. Two missiles slammed into a house close to the town of Miran Shah in North Waziristan, according (...)

10 - 08 - 2011
Pakistani police: Militants attack border village
Pakistani police say hundreds of militants have crossed into Pakistan from Afghanistan and are attacking a border village, AP reported. It's the latest in a spate of such cross-border attacks, which have raised tensions between Kabul and (...)

06 - 07 - 2011
Roadside bomb kills 1 Pakistani soldier
Pakistani intelligence officials say a roadside bomb hit an army vehicle near the Afghan border, killing one soldier and wounding 14 others, according to AP. The officials say the attack happened Tuesday morning in Miran Shah, the main town in the (...)

05 - 07 - 2011
Blasts Kills 34 in Pakistan
Two explosions went off minutes apart in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing 34 people and injuring more than 100, officials said. The blasts, one of which was caused by a suicide bomber, occurred just after midnight Sunday in an area (...)

12 - 06 - 2011
Officials: Missiles Kill 4 in Pakistan
Pakistani officials say suspected U.S. missiles hit a vehicle in a tribal region near the Afghan border, killing at least four alleged militants. Wednesday's strike occurred in the Shawal area of North Waziristan, a tribal region across the border (...)

08 - 06 - 2011
Official: Clash in NW Pakistan leaves 7 dead
A Pakistani security official says militants ambushed paramilitary soldiers patrolling a tribal area along the Afghan border, triggering a shootout that left two troops and five insurgents dead. The official said Wednesday the clash happened (...)

08 - 06 - 2011
Car Bomb Destroys Police Station in Peshawar, Seven Dead
Suspected militants drove a car packed with explosives into a police station in Peshawar on Wednesday. The Criminal Investigation Department of police station, which also investigates militancy, was destroyed in the blast, a Reuters witness (...)

25 - 05 - 2011
Taliban Attacks US Vehicles in Pakistan
The Taliban detonated a car bomb next to two U.S. consulate cars carrying Americans in northwest Pakistan on Friday, wounding some of them, as AP reported. One Pakistani passer-by was killed and at least 10 people were believed to have been (...)

20 - 05 - 2011
Roadside Bomb Kills 1 Civilian in NW Pakistan
Police say a roadside bomb targeting a police vehicle has killed a passer-by and wounded two police officers in northwest Pakistan, as AP reported. Senior police official Liaquat Ali Khan said the attack happened on Thursday in a commercial area of (...)

19 - 05 - 2011
Pakistani Officials: US Drone Strike Kills 5
Pakistani officials say a U.S. drone strike has killed at least five alleged militants near the Afghan border, as AP reported. Two Pakistani intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with agency policy, say two missiles (...)

12 - 05 - 2011
US Drone Strike Kills 25 in Pakistan's N.Waziristan
Awwal 18, 1432 H / April 22, 2011, SPA -- Four missiles fired by two suspected U.S. pilotless aircraft hit a house in Pakistan's tribal region of North Waziristan on the Afghan border on Friday, killing 25 militants, Pakistani intelligence officials (...)

22 - 04 - 2011
Bomb Kills 10 in Attack on Convoy in Pakistan
Akhir 26, 1432, March 31, 2011, SPA-- Police say a roadside bomb has struck a convoy carrying a prominent hardline Islamist politician in northwestern Pakistan, killing 10 people. According to AP, Thursday's attack in Charsadda town seemed to be (...)

31 - 03 - 2011
Suicide Bomber Kills 31 at Funeral in NW Pakistan
Akhir 04, 1432, March 09, 2011, SPA -- A hospital administrator says the death toll in a suicide bombing at a funeral in northwestern Pakistan has now risen to 31. The blast Wednesday took place at the funeral for the wife of a militia commander (...)

09 - 03 - 2011
Blast outside Police Post kills 4 in NW Pakistan
Awwal 28, 1432 H/March 3, 2011, SPA -- A powerful explosion near a small police building in a residential area of Pakistan's troubled northwest killed at least four people and wounded 30 on Thursday, police said. According to AP, the attack (...)

03 - 03 - 2011
Suicide bomber kills 31 soldiers in NW Pakistan
Awwal 07, 1432, Feb 10, 2011, SPA - A suicide bomber linked to the Pakistani Taliban attacked soldiers during morning exercises at an army training camp in the northwest Thursday, killing 31 troops and wounding 42 others, AP reported. There were (...)

10 - 02 - 2011
Bomb Near Cattle Market Kills One in NW Pakistan
Awwal 06, Feb 09, 2011, SPA -- Police say a remote-controlled bomb exploded next to a cattle market in northwest Pakistan, killing one person and wounding three others. Police official Liaquat Ali Khan confirmed the bombing in the northwest (...)

09 - 02 - 2011
Bomb Kills 9 in NW Pakistan
A car bomb killed nine people close to the main northwestern city of Peshawar on Wednesday. Twenty others were wounded in the blast on a main road leading to Pakistan's border area with Afghanistan, said government official Siraj Ahmed Khan. Three (...)

02 - 02 - 2011
Explosion On Bus in NW Pakistan Kills 18
An explosion ripped through a minibus traveling in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing 18 people, police said. The explosion tore apart the vehicle, killing all 17 people on board, and tipped over a second bus nearby, said Hangu police chief (...)

17 - 01 - 2011
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