MINGORA, Pakistan – Corpses lay exposed in the Swat Valley’s main town on Sunday, and residents rushed to mostly empty markets in search of food a day after the military claimed to have retaken the city from the Taliban.
Elsewhere in the northwest, officials said scores of militants were killed in fighting with soldiers that could [...]
Written on May 31, 2009 | Posted in
Talibans
ISLAMABAD – Pakistani troops have retaken the largest town in the Swat Valley from the Taliban as the army presses its offensive against militants in the country’s northwest, the army spokesman said Saturday.
Government forces had full control of Mingora, though they were still meeting pockets of resistance from fighters on the outskirts of the town, [...]
Written on May 30, 2009 | Posted in
Talibans
If any of you don’t know then this news will be very concerning to every pakistani if i tell you that indian agencies and amercian army are working day nights in afghanistan to train afghan talibans for war in pakistan. Specially indian agencies are training these militants , providing them with arms and ammunition and [...]
Written on May 23, 2009 | Posted in
Politics,
Talibans
Thousands of Pakistanis skirted burning military trucks Thursday as they fled clashes between Taliban militants and the army in the northwest, adding a humanitarian emergency to the nation’s daunting challenges.
Refugees overwhelmed camps and hospitals to the south of the fighting, leading Pakistan’s prime minister to make a late-night appeal Thursday for international assistance. The International [...]
Written on May 7, 2009 | Posted in
Talibans
WASHINGTON: Admiral Michael Mullen says the US military thinks Pakistan’s nuclear weapons are safe.
However he is very alarmed by the growing extremist threat in Pakistan and remains frustrated particularly by the political leadership’s inability to confront that threat.According to an American news channel, the spokesman for the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff [...]
Written on April 28, 2009 | Posted in
Pakistan Nuclear Weapons