Obama holds talks with Zardari, Karzai

By Ashish Kumar Sen from The Tribune
US President Barack Obama met Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the White House on Wednesday and urged them to jointly tackle the threat posed by the Taliban in their countries. Neither Zardari nor Karzai are seen likely to be able to deliver on [...]

LeT, JeM, LeJ join hands under ‘Muslim United Army’

From Daily excelsior
Banned terrorist groups in Pakistan’s Punjab province are gaining strength after joining hands on a new platform – Muslim United Army – and have become a serious challenge for the Government which lacks resources to effectively counter their activities.
The banned groups-Lashkar-e-Toiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi – have a common cause under the banner of [...]

Pakistani forces enter cleric Sufi Mohammad’s village

From Sindhtoday.net
Pakistani security forces Saturday entered Kalpani, the ancestral village of Taliban-backed radical cleric Sufi Mohammad in the northwest but the move was apparently not linked to his threat to impose Sharia laws across the country.
Security forces have started consolidating their positions and military gunships were flying over the area, Geo TV reported, quoting well-placed [...]

Mehsud threat to White House

By Shafqat Ali From The Asian Age
March 31: Pakistan Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, claiming responsibility for Monday’s terror attack on the police academy in Lahore, on Tuesday threatened to launch an “amazing” strike on Washington, and to blow up the White House, in retaliation for a series of attacks by US military drones in Pakistan’s [...]

Wagah put on alert

From Deccan chronicle
March 30: The Border Security Force is maintaining high vigil along the Wagah border after heavily armed gunmen on Monday stormed a police academy in Lahore, killing at least 22 policemen.
Sources in the home ministry said that an alert has been issued along the Indo-Pakistan border, especially along Wagah. “The troops have been [...]

Attack on police academy leaves 11 dead, over 90 injured

From Dawn.com
LAHORE: Terrorists used machine guns and grenades to launch a savage attack on a police training academy in Manawan, leaving at least 11 policemen dead and over 90 wounded, Dawn News reported. Two militants have also been killed, Rangers personnel said.
‘The number of killed is at least 11,’ a police official outside the police [...]

Suicide blast in Pakistan mosque, 70 feared killed

From Merinew.com
AT LEAST 70 people are feared killed and several injured after a bomb exploded in a mosque in Jamrud town in Khyber agency in North west Pakistan, on Friday (March 27). So powerful was the suicide blast that the mosque in which hundreds of people were offering Friday prayers collapsed.
Officials said that this [...]

U.S. drone kills at least 7 in Pakistan tribal area

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – A missile strike believed to have been launched by a U.S. drone aircraft killed at least seven militants, including foreigners, in a tribal region of northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, intelligence officials and Taliban sources said.
The strike occurred in Makeen, an area of South Waziristan known as a stronghold of Pakistan Taliban [...]

UK faces threat of dirty bombs amidst new Pak concerns

By Prasun Sonwalkar
London, Mar 24 (PTI) Amidst reports that over 20 Britons trained by militant organisations in Pakistan had returned to the UK, the government today warned that there was a “severe” threat of Britain being attacked by dirty bombs.
Home secretary Jacqui Smith released a 174-page comprehensive counter-terrorism strategy titled ‘Contest Two’, which detailed the [...]

Kasab accepts govt lawyer

By Jigna Vora From The Asian Age
March 23: Looking straight into the camera and at times smiling and showing no signs of remorse, the lone surviving 26/11 terrorist, Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, on Monday admitted to the special judge that he was from Faridkot in Pakistan. Notably, he responded in English when Judge M.L. Thahiliyani [...]