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  • Posts Tagged ‘Pakistan’

    Talks on impeachment of Pakistan head

    Monday, August 11th, 2008

    Pakistan’s governing coalition meet to finalise a plan to impeach the country’s President Pervez Musharraf.

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    ‘Dozens die’ in Pakistan clashes

    Sunday, August 10th, 2008

    More than 100 pro-Taleban militants die in four days of heavy fighting near Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, officials say.

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    Eleven climbers feared dead on K2

    Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

    Eleven climbers have died in north Pakistan trying to scale the world’s second-highest peak, K2, reports say.

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    Al-Qaida admits death of four leaders

    Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

    Abu Khabab al-Masri, 54, had a $5 million bounty on his head when he was killed.Al-Qaida confirmed in a Web statement the death of a senior commander known as a top explosives and poisons expert who is believed to have been killed in an airstrike in Pakistan last week.

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    Pakistani Taliban deny Zawahri death report

    Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

    A Pakistani Taliban spokesman denied on Saturday a U.S. media report that al-Qaida number two, Ayman al Zawahri, might have been killed or wounded in a U.S. missile strike.

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    Pakistan vows to ‘week out’ pro-Taliban

    Friday, August 1st, 2008

    A woman walks past the damaged entrance to the Indian Embassy in Kabul on July 8 after a bomb attack killed dozens.A Pakistani spokeswoman conceded Friday that the government needs to root out Taliban sympathizers from its main intelligence agency.

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    Report: CIA cites Pakistan agency’s ties to militants

    Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

    A published report says the CIA has confronted senior Pakistani officials with evidence that members of the country’s spy service have deepened their ties with militant groups.

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    Al-Qaida chemical expert killed?

    Monday, July 28th, 2008

    Midhat Mursi al-Sayid Umar, shown in a wanted poster in Islamabad, was killed by missiles fired from an unmanned U.S. Predator aircraft, according to unconfirmed reports.
Missiles hit a building in a Pakistani village on the border with Afghanistan on Monday, and intelligence officials said they were investigating reports that a senior al-Qaida figure was among six people killed.

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    String of blasts hit Pakistan’s Karachi

    Monday, July 7th, 2008

    Pakistani residents gather at a bomb blast site in Karachi on July 7, 2008. One person was killed and 30 others injured in a string of six bomb blasts in Pakistan's volatile southern port city of Karachi, police told AFP.  AFP PHOTO/Rizwan TABASSUM (Photo credit should read RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images)A string of small explosions wounded at least 25 people Monday in the southern port city of Karachi, rattling Pakistan the day after a deadly suicide attack in the capital.

     

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    Suicide blast targets Pakistani police

    Sunday, July 6th, 2008

    Pakistani policemen help injured colleagues after a suicide attack in Islamabad on July 6, 2008, near the Red Mosque. At least five policemen were killed in an apparent suicide bombing targeting a police contingent deployed at the security of a religious gathering in the Pakistani capital, police said.   AFP PHOTO/Farooq NAEEM (Photo credit should read FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/Getty Images)A suicide attacker detonated explosives near a police station in Pakistan’s capital on Sunday, killing at least 15 people, mostly police officers, and wounding dozens more, officials said.


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