KALAM, Pakistan (AP) — U.S. Army choppers flew their first relief missions in Pakistan’s flood-ravaged northwest Thursday, airlifting hundreds of stranded people to safety from a devastated tourist town and distributing emergency aid. (more)
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — The ruling party in Pakistan’s largest city accused its main political rival of supporting Islamist militants suspected of assassinating a party leader, further stoking tensions Tuesday after 45 people died in a night of revenge attacks and arson. (more)
Despite whodunit headlines and a couple wild guesses, there is mounting evidence that the Times Square bomber had one intention the night he dropped his Pathfinder in the path of thousands of New York City tourists: a deadly Jihad. (more)
The news may be reminiscent of this Onion piece from way back in 2006 to some armchair counter-terror historians, but the arrest of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in a joint CIA-Pakistani operation in Pakistan is widely seen among experts and officials as a major victory as U.S. troops continue their push into southern Afghanistan. (It’s worth noting that a Taliban spokesman in Afghanistan pulled a Baghdad Bob and told The Associated Press that Baradar was still free, though he provided no evidence.” (more)
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban’s top military commander has been arrested in a joint CIA-Pakistani operation in Pakistan in a major victory against the insurgents as U.S. troops push into their heartland in southern Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday. (more)
India has decided to go ahead with next week’s planned talks with Pakistan despite indications that a bomb attack in the West of the country was carried out by Karachi-based terrorists. (more)
