Posts Tagged ‘Baitullah Mehsud’

Pakistan Taliban Asks Devout Muslims To Take Arms Against Security Forces

Thursday, November 5, 2009 21:07 By Rajeev Saxena

Pakistan Taliban, that has become the bane of Pakistan’s peace and has been carrying out relentless terror attacks all across the country, has urged the its followers and fighters to fight ferociously against the military of Pakistan, that is currently conducting massive offensive campaign to root out the Taliban and other foreign fighters from the [...]

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Another Suicide Attack Devastates Pakistan

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 10:12 By Rajeev Saxena

In yet another spate of suicide bomb attacks, terrorists yesterday struck outside a bank killing 35 people and injuring scores more. The attack took place in the populated region of Rawalpindi in Pakistan. The attack was carried outside a bank, where eager account holders had lined up to get their salaries. The suicide bomb attack [...]

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Crushing the Mehsuds of South Waziristan: the other (and fiercest) Taliban

Saturday, October 17, 2009 9:24 By GSerrano

The Mehsud tribes are some of the fiercest militant fighters and Islamist gangs in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province (NWFP). The Pakistani army has vowed to attack the lairs of the Mehsud militants and crush them. At the behest of the United States and the West who have held Pakistan primarily responsible in solving its insurgency [...]

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Simultaneous Terror Strikes Bring Pakistan To A Standstill.

Thursday, October 15, 2009 9:55 By Rajeev Saxena

The exponential growth of international terrorism is quite evident with the currently escalating terror strikes in Pakistan for about two weeks. First was the Pakistani Army HQ siege, where well trained and heavily armed insurgents gained control of one of the buildings inside the complex. Then came the deadly suicide bomb attack, that killed 45 [...]

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Fresh New Taliban Attacks Rock Pakistan

Monday, October 12, 2009 15:27 By Rajeev Saxena

The death of Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, head of Taliban operations in Pakistan in August this year, has rocked Pakistan with a violent backlash from Taliban and other insurgent and militant forces. The volatile region of South Waziristan, along with major Pakistani cities have erupted in a string of violent attacks, in the last one [...]

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Baitullah Mehsud‘s death: not crucial to counterinsurgency

Tuesday, August 18, 2009 2:21 By GSerrano

Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) which is dubbed as the Pakistani Taliban group, has reportedly been killed. His death, however, is not fundamentally crucial to the counterinsurgency campaign in the region. For starters, other deputies and heirs apparent are waiting in the wings. Such is always the case with syndicated armed groups.
Right [...]

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Taliban: Baitullah Mehsud is Alive

Saturday, August 8, 2009 10:46 By Rajeev Saxena

Just 24 hours ago, U.S intelligence agency CIA, along with U.S special forces launched a missile strike that reportedly killed the primary target, Baitullah Mehsud, who is the most man in Pakistan and the head of Taliban operating in Pakistan’s FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Area) region.
Now, one of the highest ranking member of Taliban and [...]

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U.S Drone Attack Kills Taliban Militants

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 9:49 By Rajeev Saxena

A U.S attack drone carried out missile strikes today against suspected Taliban militants near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border killing six militants according to intelligence sources. The attack took place at pre-dawn in the South Waziristan region of FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Regions) of Pakistan. This region is known to be a stronghold of the Taliban militia [...]

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Taliban Operating In Fear Amidst U.S Drone Attacks

Saturday, July 4, 2009 9:59 By Rajeev Saxena

With the continuing offensive against he Taliban, it has been a chaotic scene in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas or FATA in Pakistan. Pakistani armed forces and U.S drone attacks have been wreaking havoc on the Taliban militia.

Last week, an unmanned drone of the U.S Air Force attacked the funeral of a Taliban fighter, barely [...]

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Taliban Vows To Attack & Kill Pakistani Soldiers

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:36 By Rajeev Saxena

A group of Taliban fighters in a tribal region on the border of Afghanistan have claimed that, they no longer consider the ‘peace deal’ with the Pakistani government a viable one. This clearly indicates that the uneasy truce in much of the FATA or Federally Administered Tribal Areas is coming to end and could result [...]

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