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Upon assessing the remaining terrorist threat from Afghanistan, the US president’s national security adviser former Marine Gen. James Jones said, “The al-Qaida presence is very diminished. The maximum estimate is less than 100 operating in the country, no bases, no ability to launch attacks on either us or our allies.” If the US were to go by [...]

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 problem, [...]

Pakistan has sealed its fate, to the tune of millions of dollars. It finally got what it wanted, or what it said it needed. Zardari just has to deliver now. Pakistan’s proxy mission for the West: to take on the Taliban and al-Qaeda inside Pakistan in a struggle in which there are no guarantees of success. The US Senate has unanimously passed the [...]

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 [...]

More than 4,000 US marines and 650 Afghan soldiers have launched a major offensive against Taliban strongholds in the southern province of Helmand, according to military sources. The Afghan and US troops descended on the region in helicopters and armored vehicles. NATO planes add strategic support. ‘Operation Khanjar’ (Sword Strike) is the first [...]

The considerations have now become political. Today, the production is safer in the deep offshore. The ‘new frontier’ of Nigeria’s oil which is near the coast or in the Delta is a veritable war zone for oil where militants declared war against major oil players and foreign authorities. Several facilities of major oil companies have been under [...]

US and Afghan troops recently destroyed a stronghold of the drug trade in southern Afghanistan. The offensive launched in the city of Marjah was a vast military operation to gain control of a stronghold of Taliban insurgents that is also used as a hub for storage and processing of drugs. “The four-day operation has seriously disrupted one of the [...]

One of these fraudulent schools had 3 small classrooms and 3 teachers. The total admissions on ‘record’ was 1,797 students. Another sham college officially had 150 students but secretly admitted 1,178 enrollees with upcoming 1,575 more overseas applicants of which 906 are from Pakistan. The scam took advantage of a loophole in Britain’s immigration [...]

It was a black day for NATO-led forces in Afghanistan. Four British soldiers were killed on a single day. The troops were attacked at different places. The stand-off between militants and NATO forces is going from bad to worse. The conflicts are escalating and casualties are going up on both the sides. It is feared that nearly hundred civilians have [...]

Peace has eluded beautiful Swat valley for past two years. The once buzzing tourist spot became bloodied after two years of constant fighting between Taliban militants and Pakistani troops. Taliban even bombed the famous mountainous international resort at the valley to stamp out all “un-Islamic activities”. Finally rebels have agreed to ceasefire. [...]