Pakistan army enters Taliban stronghold
ISLAMABAD (AP) Pakistani soldiers battled Taliban fighters today in the streets of a key militant stronghold, officials said, as government forces pressed ahead with their offensive in the tribal region of South Waziristan. The soldiers were fighti...
 3.6K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 278.0 Pakistan Taliban: 'We are prepared for a long war'
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) A Taliban spokesman denied today that Pakistan has won a series of battlefield victories in its offensive in tribal South Waziristan, saying the militants are drawing government soldiers into a trap. We are prepared for a lo...
2.0K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 139.0 Suicide bomber kills 30 near Pakistan's capital; UN suspends work
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) A suicide bomber killed 30 people outside a bank near Pakistan s capital today, as the U.N. said spreading violence had forced it to pull out some expatriate staff and suspend long-term development work in areas along the ...
1.3K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 139.0 Pakistanis voice frustrations
ISLAMABAD (AP) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton came face-to-face today with Pakistani anger over U.S. aerial drone attacks in tribal areas along the Afghan border, a strategy that U.S. officials say has succeeded in killing key terro...
5.1K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 139.0 Bomb tears through Pakistan market
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) A car bomb tore through a crowded market in northwestern Pakistan today, killing 57 people hours after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in the country to show American support for its campaign against I...
0.7K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 139.0 Blasts at Pakistan air base, wedding bus kill 24
ISLAMABAD (AP) A suicide bomber killed seven people near a major air force complex in northwest Pakistan today, while an explosion killed 17 on a bus heading to wedding elsewhere in the region, the latest in a surge of militant attacks this month....
3.8K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 278.0 Army brigadier, soldier killed in Pakistan capital
ISLAMABAD (AP) Suspected militants on a motorbike shot and killed a senior army officer and a soldier in the Pakistani capital today, striking at security forces as the military wages a major anti-Taliban offensive in the northwest. Civilians fleei...
4.1K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 278.0 Attacks kill 4 at college in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Two suicide attackers bombed an Islamic university in the Pakistani capital today, killing four people and wounding 18 as the army pressed ahead with a critical offensive on a Taliban stronghold near Afghan-istan, authorities s...
3.3K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 717.0 Gunmen kill 39 in five attacks in Pakistan's cultural capital
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) Teams of gunmen launched coordinated attacks on three law enforcement facilities in Pakistan s cultural capital of Lahore, and car bombs exploded in two cities near the Afghan border today, killing 39 people in an escalating ...
7.2K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 278.0 Pakistan bombs militant sites; thousands flee
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) Pakistani jets pounded suspected militant hide-outs along the Afghan border today as officials said hundreds of thousands of civilians have fled South Waziristan in anticipation of an expected military offensive. Gov...
4.3K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 219.0 Pakistani jets bomb militants near Afghan border
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) Pakistani jets bombed militant targets in the main insurgent stronghold along the Afghan border today ahead of an expected ground offensive there, while the army killed 26 insurgents elsewhere in the northwest, autho...
3.5K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 139.0 Bloody siege at Pakistan army HQ
Nahal Toosi and Zarar Khan, Associated Press Writers RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) Pakistani commandos freed dozens of hostages held by militants at the army's own headquarters Sunday, ending a bloody, 22-hour drama that embarrassed the nation's milita...
6.0K - Oct. 11, 2009; scored 391.0 War briefing might look at troop increases
WASHINGTON The latest in a series of top-level White House meetings about the war in Afghanistan could provide a venue for the first discussion of the troop request submitted by the U.S. commander there. The fourth of five sessions is scheduled thi...
5.3K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 139.0 Suicide car bomb kills 41, wounds 100s in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle near a crowded market in Pakistan s northwest city of Peshawar on Friday, killing 41 people. The government responded by saying it had no other option but to launch an offensive in th...
1.7K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 139.0 U.S. aid bill concerns Pakistan military
ISLAMABAD (AP) Pakistan s powerful military, preparing for a new offensive against Taliban and al-Qaida militants, expressed serious concern today about a proposed multibillion-dollar U.S. aid package some consider an avenue to American meddling....
7.0K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 1000.0 Taliban claim responsibility for deadly U.N. blast
ISLAMABAD (AP) Taliban militants claimed responsibility today for the deadly suicide bombing at the U.N. food agency s heavily fortified compound in Islamabad, saying international relief work in Pakistan was not in the interest of Muslims. The at...
5.0K - Oct. 6, 2009; scored 360.0 Girls school attacked in troubled NW Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) Suspected Islamist militants blew up a girls school close to the main city in northwestern Pakistan today, police said. The school was empty at the time of the blast and no one was injured. A timed explosive device is believ...
3.2K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 219.0 Taliban spokesman arrested in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (AP) Pakistani soldiers arrested the spokesman for the Taliban in the Swat Valley and four other commanders, the military announced today, striking its first major blow against the leadership of the insurgency in the one-time tourist reso...
1.6K - Sep. 11, 2009; scored 139.0 Pakistani Taliban spokesman caught
ISLAMABAD Security forces captured the Pakistani Taliban s top spokesman, and he acknowledged the death of the group s leader in a recent U.S. missile strike, officials said today further signs the militants are in disarray since the American att...
4.5K - Aug. 18, 2009; scored 391.0 Taliban leader is killed in airstrike
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) Pakistan s Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who led a violent campaign of suicide attacks and assassinations against the Pakistani government, has been killed in a U.S. missile strike, a militant commander and aide to...
7.4K - Aug. 7, 2009; scored 219.0 | 
