In a recent development in Pakistan’s ravaged and terror infested Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), a suspected U.S missile attack killed two militants. The attack came at the time of fierce fighting between the Pakistani security forces and the Taliban in the Northwest Pakistan.
The missile is believed to have been fired from a U.S unmanned [...]

While the terrain is, indeed, extremely rugged, the area along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border is heavily populated, contrary to popular belief. The area of the FATA has millions of Pakistani residents, and most of them are ‘extremely conservative and hostile toward the Pakistani government.’ In 1998, South Waziristan had a population of nearly half a million [...]

Pakistan Army in conjunction with heavy artillery support, today intensified its attacks on the militant strongholds in the Dera Ismail Khan region of South Waziristan, near the Afghanistan border. Today’s attack is part of a large scale campaign initiated by the Pakistani government to eradicate the terror outfits operating out of the Federally Administered Tribal [...]

Today, the Pakistani military initiated the much anticipated cleaning operation in the South Waziristan region, close to the Afghanistan border, in an effort to root out the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and other foreign militant fighters, that have made the Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA), their home base and the platform from which, the militant factions have [...]

Based on credible intelligence, United States military and the CIA, launched a pre-emptive strike at the house of Baitullah Mehsud’s father-in-law, in the South Waziristan region of Pakistan, which is a Federally Administered Tribal Area, a rugged and largely lawless region, where tribes dominate the governance of the region.
According to initial reports from Pakistan and [...]

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 [...]

To add to the woes of the Taliban, they not only have to defend themselves against a major Pakistani offensive and U.S drone attacks, Taliban is also under heavy fire from the pro-government tribal militias in the northwest region of Pakistan, also known as FATA or Federally Administered Areas, a large barren areas with almost [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Experts believe that, with the ongoing military offensive by Pakistani armed forces against Al-Qaeda’s trusted allies, the Taliban, Osama Bin Laden might be looking for another safe haven for his militia. With the current military operations by Pakistan in its Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), many are speculating that Yemen or Somalia might be the [...]