US Drone Strike Kills Six in North Waziristan

A US drone fired missiles at what was described by local officials as "the houses of a suspected Taliban militant" near Mir Ali, in North Waziristan Agency, killing six people and injuring an unknown number of others. A local intelligence official said Taliban...

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US Accuses Retired ISI Officials in Mumbai Attack

The United States has reportedly submitted a list of four former high-ranking officials in Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Agency to the United Nations to be added to the UN Security Council's list of international terrorists. The move comes after claims...

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Pakistan Again Snubs India Demands for Suspects

After failing to get the Pakistani government to hand over 20 people in connection with last week's Mumbai attacks, the Indian government has tried a more targeted request of only three major suspects they believe to be involved in the attacks. The three are Tiger...

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Pakistan Considers Shooting Down US Drones

It seems unlikely that President-elect Barack Obama as a long-time advocate of strikes into Pakistan's tribal areas would consider reversing the Bush Administration's relatively recent policy of unilateral air strikes. Yet the Pakistani government is hoping to...

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War With India Would Unite Taliban, Pakistan

The Pakistani military has engaged in a long, bitter conflict with the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), but has made it clear since last week's Mumbai attacks that in the event of war with India those troops would be shifted from the tribal areas to the eastern...

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