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Report:2009
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January - 2 
Latest data has indicated that year 2008 witnessed an increase in terrorist activities, as 120 bomb blasts, 208 rocket attacks, 141 landmine explosions and 32 hand grenade attacks were recorded in the province, which killed more than 150 people and injured an estimated 200.
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Latest data has indicated that year 2008 witnessed an increase in terrorist activities, as 120 bomb blasts, 208 rocket attacks, 141 landmine explosions and 32 hand grenade attacks were recorded in the province, which killed more than 150 people and injured an estimated 200.
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January - 12 
At least 127 people were killed and 205 injured in 51 cases of sectarian violence across the NWFP during the first 11 months of the year 2008, The News reported. Official statistics disclosed that 26 people were killed and 20 injured in 23 incidents of sectarian strife in 2007. The figures do not in
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At least 127 people were killed and 205 injured in 51 cases of sectarian violence across the NWFP during the first 11 months of the year 2008, The News reported. Official statistics disclosed that 26 people were killed and 20 injured in 23 incidents of sectarian strife in 2007. The figures do not include the mass killing in sectarian clashes from both sides in Kurram and other tribal agencies. Two persons were killed in a single sectarian incident in 2003 while another was killed in one such incident the subsequent year. Five people died in seven sectarian clashes in 2005 while 13 were killed in 11 incidents in 2006.
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February - 3 
The Takhtaband village on the bypass was deserted with residents having left their homes and moved to other areas fearing retaliatory attack by the army. Thousands of people of Aligrama, Koza and Bara Bandai, Kanju and Akhund Kalley have also reportedly left their homes and are reported to be going
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The Takhtaband village on the bypass was deserted with residents having left their homes and moved to other areas fearing retaliatory attack by the army. Thousands of people of Aligrama, Koza and Bara Bandai, Kanju and Akhund Kalley have also reportedly left their homes and are reported to be going to Mardan, Nowshera, Peshawar and other places. An exodus of about 45,000 people has been reported from Charbagh and adjoining areas. According to official sources, about 300,000 people have left the Swat valley so far and many of them have taken refuge in camps set up by the authorities in different areas.
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February - 16 
The centre has released PKR 623 million to the NWFP and FATA administration to provide compensation to the victims of militancy, an official announcement said, Dawn reported. President Asif Zardari is reported to have termed the victims of militancy as national heroes and advised the NWFP Government
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The centre has released PKR 623 million to the NWFP and FATA administration to provide compensation to the victims of militancy, an official announcement said, Dawn reported. President Asif Zardari is reported to have termed the victims of militancy as national heroes and advised the NWFP Government to immediately undertake payment of compensation to their families. PKR 283 million have been released for the FATA and another PKR 340 million for the NWFP Government to compensate the families of the victims of suicide bombings and acts of terror. Under the compensation programme, PKR 300,000 will be paid for every fatality and PKR 100,000 for the injured.
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February - 18 
More than 300,000 people in the northwest region of the country have been displaced over the last six months because of fighting between Taliban and Security Forces, officials said on February 18, The News reported. A total of 55,729 displaced families, or 337,772 individuals, have been registered b
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More than 300,000 people in the northwest region of the country have been displaced over the last six months because of fighting between Taliban and Security Forces, officials said on February 18, The News reported. A total of 55,729 displaced families, or 337,772 individuals, have been registered by the authorities, Shaukat Tahir, a senior official from the National Disaster Management Authority, told a press conference in Islamabad. Around 70 per cent of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) were from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) on the border with Afghanistan, Tahir said, stressing that people were now beginning to return. He said people had left their homes because of an “ongoing operation in tribal areas”. They were now returning “because roads have mostly been reopened and the military authorities have cleared the mines,” he said. Amnesty International has estimated that 200,000-500,000 people have been displaced from the Swat valley over the past year. However, Tahir put the number for the past six months at 2,085 people. “International agencies threw around controversial figures about IDPs which were picked up by the media. Our figures are documented and came after a proper registration mechanism which can be verified,” he said. In terms of aid, some 67,756 individuals were provided with shelter in 12 camps in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), while 269,836 individuals were moved elsewhere, Tahir added. Nine emergency camps were set up in Swat alone, he claimed. Tahir said 13 UN aid agencies, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Pakistani Red Crescent were participating in relief efforts.
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February - 22 
The NWFP Government would arm 30,000 civilians in an attempt to counter criminal gangs operating across the province as authorities formally approved the setting up of an Elite Police Force (EPF) by sanctioning 2,657 vacancies, The News reported. The Government would give 30,000 rifles to civilians
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The NWFP Government would arm 30,000 civilians in an attempt to counter criminal gangs operating across the province as authorities formally approved the setting up of an Elite Police Force (EPF) by sanctioning 2,657 vacancies, The News reported. The Government would give 30,000 rifles to civilians after proper scrutiny by a committee, headed by respective district co-ordination officers. The respective station house officer would recommend the names of civilians for the village defence committees (VDCs), which would assist law-enforcement agencies in maintaining law and order in their respective areas. “After going through a thorough process, the government will provide rifles and permits to 30,000 members of the VDCs to counter criminal gangs in the area with the help of the public,” said an official. In addition, the Government has formally approved the establishment of the EPF by creating 2,657 vacancies. The force has already been launched and over 1,000 policemen have been assigned duties. Initially, the Chief Minister has directed officials to release PKR 200 million for the EPF that would cost the state exchequer PKR 3.27 billion. Around 1,022 of these police commandos had passed out from the Punjab Regimental Centre in Mardan while a batch of over 521 others had been trained in Karachi recently. The rest would be passed out in June 2009. The newly-trained EPF commandos would be deputed in various towns of the Frontier to cope with the extraordinary law and order situation. Around 600 commandos of the EPF had refused to be posted in the Swat Valley when they were given their first assignment in January 2009.
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March - 1 
The Taliban network can strike the financial and shipping hub of Karachi, according to a report prepared by the city's CID Special Branch, Times of India reported on March 1. The Taliban "could take the city hostage at any point", according to Police in the report submitted to the Sindh Government a
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The Taliban network can strike the financial and shipping hub of Karachi, according to a report prepared by the city's CID Special Branch, Times of India reported on March 1. The Taliban "could take the city hostage at any point", according to Police in the report submitted to the Sindh Government and provincial police chief. The Taliban, which has already attacked Islamabad and Rawalpindi, has established hideouts in Karachi, the report said. It said Taliban militants have "huge caches" of weapons and ammunition and could strike, possibly in a manner similar to the Mumbai attacks of November 26, 2008. Police said that the Taliban had systematically infiltrated Karachi. The Police report provides details about secret Taliban hideouts and their presence in areas like Sohrab Goth and Quaidabad. Besides living in small motels in these areas, the militants are hiding in the hills of Manghopir and Orangi town and in other low-income areas and slums, the Daily Times quoted the Police report as saying. It also quoted sources as saying that the deputy chief of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, Hasan Mahmood, was hiding in Karachi.
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March - 5 
The Government has accepted the demands of the Balochistan Liberation United Front (BLUF) in exchange for the recovery of John Solecki, head of the United Nations refugee agency in Quetta, Daily Times reported. However, no confirmation was made at the official level about the acceptance of the deman
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The Government has accepted the demands of the Balochistan Liberation United Front (BLUF) in exchange for the recovery of John Solecki, head of the United Nations refugee agency in Quetta, Daily Times reported. However, no confirmation was made at the official level about the acceptance of the demands, a private TV channel quoted its sources as saying on March 5. According to the channel, seven of the 141 missing women had been identified and a high-powered committee would submit a report in a few days. Separately, according to another news channel, the Balochistan Government said in a statement that the list of 1,109 alleged missing persons provided by the BLUF was being ‘intensively’ scrutinised. According to the statement, 45 persons had already been traced, a few of whom were at their houses while a few were in judicial custody for their alleged involvement in criminal cases. The Balochistan Chief Minister Aslam Raisani has reportedly announced a top-level committee to investigate the captors’ demands. "We have set up a high-level committee, including high-ranking officials and politicians, to locate the whereabouts of the alleged missing persons listed by the Balochistan Liberation United Front," the provincial Government said in a statement, AFP reported. The Balochistan Home Secretary will work as secretary of the committee. The committee, headed by the Balochistan chief minister, invited the female members of the provincial assembly to assist in identifying and locating the allegedly missing women in the province, the statement said. Solecki was abducted at gunpoint from Quetta while traveling to work on February 2. His driver was killed during the abduction.
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March - 18 
According to The News, President Barack Obama and his top aides are considering expanding covert operations against the Taliban leaders in Pakistan to the Balochistan province, the New York Times (NYT) reported on March 18. Two reports sent to the White House call for broadening the target area to i
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According to The News, President Barack Obama and his top aides are considering expanding covert operations against the Taliban leaders in Pakistan to the Balochistan province, the New York Times (NYT) reported on March 18. Two reports sent to the White House call for broadening the target area to include the region in and around Quetta, the Times reported, citing unnamed senior administration officials.
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March - 18 
In the NWFP, militants’ threats have forced hundreds of compact disc (CDs) dealers in Mardan District to close their business. A survey conducted by The News revealed that so far over 100 music and CD shops had been blown up in various areas of the District. Six shops were destroyed while 20 were da
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In the NWFP, militants’ threats have forced hundreds of compact disc (CDs) dealers in Mardan District to close their business. A survey conducted by The News revealed that so far over 100 music and CD shops had been blown up in various areas of the District. Six shops were destroyed while 20 were damaged near the Punjab Regimental Centre, 15 shops were blown up in Chato Chowk, 10 destroyed in Mir Afzal Khan Market, 10 at Hoti Chowk, six in Bakhshali, two at Ghari Chowk, nine on Gaju Khan Road in the City Police Station limits, while 25 shops were blown up in Takhtbhai bazaar and five were recently bombed in Sherghar.
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March - 22 
The intelligence agencies probing the March 3 attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore have named the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) as the group behind the incident, The News reported. A detailed report of the findings has been submitted to the Government. A senior official involved in the p
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The intelligence agencies probing the March 3 attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore have named the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) as the group behind the incident, The News reported. A detailed report of the findings has been submitted to the Government. A senior official involved in the probe revealed that certain important arrests had been made in Karachi and other parts of the country in connection with the attack which killed eight persons. The unnamed officer maintained that during the course of investigations, it has emerged that Matiur Rehman of the LeJ was the mastermind of the terrorist attack, while Mohsin (who was involved in the Rawalpindi attack on General Pervez Musharraf, also attributed to the LeJ) was present during the Lahore attack. The senior official believes that the attack was planned with the coordination of the Baitullah Mehsud group.
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March - 24 
Pakistan has informed the British Government about more than 20 Britons believed to have spent time with radical militant groups and then returned to the UK, according to Daily Times. A Sky TV report said the tracked men may have trained with extremist outfits. A dossier is likely to be handed over
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Pakistan has informed the British Government about more than 20 Britons believed to have spent time with radical militant groups and then returned to the UK, according to Daily Times. A Sky TV report said the tracked men may have trained with extremist outfits. A dossier is likely to be handed over to British anti-terrorist teams ‘soon’. The suspects – aged between 17 and 23 – have created “sufficient suspicion” for the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to believe they pose a ‘potential danger’ to Britain. At least four are thought to have been fighting in Afghanistan, and intelligence officials say they have heard ‘English accents’ while listening to satellite and mobile phone chatter between the UK and the Tribal Areas.
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April - 17 
The National Assembly was informed on April 17 that there were 1,842 terrorist attacks from January 2008 to March 2009 that killed at least 1,395 people, Daily Times reported. Replying to two identical questions by Members of National Assembly Marvi Memon and Nighat Parveen, the Interior Ministry to
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The National Assembly was informed on April 17 that there were 1,842 terrorist attacks from January 2008 to March 2009 that killed at least 1,395 people, Daily Times reported. Replying to two identical questions by Members of National Assembly Marvi Memon and Nighat Parveen, the Interior Ministry told the Lower House that Balochistan was the worst-hit by terrorism – with a total of 1,122 terrorist attacks that killed 436 people, followed by NWFP with 692 attacks that killed 732 people, Punjab with 12 attacks that killed 119 people, Sindh with nine attacks that killed 21 people and Islamabad with seven attacks that killed 87 people. The ministry provided estimated losses to private properties, but said that losses to public properties, possibly amounted to billions of rupees, had not been calculated yet. The ministry estimated that losses in NWFP amounted to PKR 2,680 million, PKR 25 million in Balochistan and PKR 5 million in Sindh. The ministry also said the loss of property and vehicles in the terrorist attack on the embassy of Denmark amounted to PKR 12.121 million. The ministry told the House that in Balochistan, compensation cheques handed out to families of Police amounted to PKR 99.5 million, while civilian victims of terrorism had been compensated with PKR 40 million. The administration of Islamabad had paid PKR 27.95 million as compensation, Punjab Government PKR 102.92 million, while another PKR 4.45 million had been sanctioned for disbursement to remaining victims in the province, the House was told. The Sindh Government paid PKR 0.67 million to victims of bomb blasts and eight other cases of compensation were being processed. In NWFP, PKR 99.5 million has been paid as compensation to affected Policemen and PKR 40 million to civilians.
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April - 27 
Daily Times quoting a survey conducted by Community Appraisal and Motivation Programme (CAMP) with the help of the British High Commission in Islamabad reports that 56 percent respondents described Afghanistan’s Taliban as “Islamic heroes fighting western occupation”. A paltry 12.1 percent called th
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Daily Times quoting a survey conducted by Community Appraisal and Motivation Programme (CAMP) with the help of the British High Commission in Islamabad reports that 56 percent respondents described Afghanistan’s Taliban as “Islamic heroes fighting western occupation”. A paltry 12.1 percent called them “a terrorist group”. More than 54 percent respondents said they were “dissatisfied with life” in FATA in general. The number of satisfied people stood at 18.15 percent, according to the survey, and 17.5 percent said they were neither satisfied nor dissatisfied. Some 73.25 percent tribesmen referred to provision of justice as “the most important service” that the Government should provide in their areas followed by 64.6 percent voting for education, 52.1 percent for health and 47 percent for tackling terrorism. Just 2.95 percent respondents referred to the United States as a “very favourable” country, compared with 66.2 percent who called it “very unfavourable”.
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May - 3 
238 Policemen along with 126 soldiers of the Army and 67 personnel of the paramilitary Frontier Constabulary (FC) have been killed in 1,240 terrorist attacks in the NWFP since January 2004, according to official statistics, The News reported. In addition, 526 Policemen, 204 FC personnel and 324 sold
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238 Policemen along with 126 soldiers of the Army and 67 personnel of the paramilitary Frontier Constabulary (FC) have been killed in 1,240 terrorist attacks in the NWFP since January 2004, according to official statistics, The News reported. In addition, 526 Policemen, 204 FC personnel and 324 soldiers were wounded in these attacks that also killed 806 civilians and injured 1993 others till April 15, 2009. Among those either killed or wounded during these attacks were a number of senior officers of the Frontier Police, the FC and the Army. The senior most of them was Deputy Inspector General Malik Mohammad Saad, who was heading the Peshawar Capital City Police when hit by a suicide bomber on January 27, 2007.
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May - 11 
Reports from Timergara indicated that approximately 31 persons, including three civilians, were killed in Lower Dir District in the ongoing military operations. Local sources said seven bodies of militants were found in one house and four in another in the Hayaserai area of Maidan. They said that ni
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Reports from Timergara indicated that approximately 31 persons, including three civilians, were killed in Lower Dir District in the ongoing military operations. Local sources said seven bodies of militants were found in one house and four in another in the Hayaserai area of Maidan. They said that nine bodies of suspected Taliban militants were lying in Badwa primary school while eight corpses were found on Warsak road. The sources said three civilians were killed and eight others injured in Chakdara area. Two persons were killed when a vegetable-laden vehicle was targeted. Another person identified as Sohail was killed when a mortar shell landed on his house in the same area. Eight persons were wounded when a shell hit a vehicle of the Al-Khidmat Foundation in Chakdara.
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May - 13 
The Jama’at-ud-Da’awa (JuD, the front for Lashkar-e-Toiba [LeT]), designated by the United Nations Security Council as a terrorist outfit in the wake of the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, has resurfaced as a charity organisation providing food and other relief to the thousands of people fle
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The Jama’at-ud-Da’awa (JuD, the front for Lashkar-e-Toiba [LeT]), designated by the United Nations Security Council as a terrorist outfit in the wake of the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, has resurfaced as a charity organisation providing food and other relief to the thousands of people fleeing the fighting in Swat District, The Hindu reported. Eyewitnesses said that the JuD is active in Mardan where most of the refugee camps are located. They are distributing food and medical care. One eyewitness who visited the area on May 9 said JuD workers were organised under a charity organisation called Falah-i-Insaniyat. They had set themselves up at a roundabout in Mardan town called College Chowk, where they were collecting food donations for the displaced. Despite the Government crackdown on the group after the U.N. designation, the canopied stall was openly flying the black-and-white flags of the JuD, with the insignia of the sword and the Kalma, the Islamic doctrine of faith. The organisation has also set up a relief distribution centre at a village called Rustam, on the outskirts of Buner.
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May - 18 
According to official figures, as many as 1,059 persons, including Security Force personnel and civilians, were killed in 671 terrorist incidents, which also included suicide attacks, in the NWFP from 2008 till March 25, 2009, The News reported. During 2008, a total 524 incidents, including 30 suici
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According to official figures, as many as 1,059 persons, including Security Force personnel and civilians, were killed in 671 terrorist incidents, which also included suicide attacks, in the NWFP from 2008 till March 25, 2009, The News reported. During 2008, a total 524 incidents, including 30 suicide attacks, were reported. In these attacks 146 Policemen, 32 Frontier Corps (FC) personnel, 76 Army/SF officials and 595 civilians were killed while 1,962 were injured. In the first four months of 2009, as many as 140 incidents of terrorism and seven suicide attacks were carried out. These incidents claimed 26 lives of Police officials, nine of FC personnel, 12 of Army/SFs and 126 civilian, while 771 people were injured.
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May - 19 
Reports from Chakdara indicated that three civilians, including two children, were killed and several others sustained injuries when jetfighters allegedly bombed houses in Kithiarai and other areas of Adenzai in Dir Lower District, according to The News. Residents said jetfighters hit a house owned
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Reports from Chakdara indicated that three civilians, including two children, were killed and several others sustained injuries when jetfighters allegedly bombed houses in Kithiarai and other areas of Adenzai in Dir Lower District, according to The News. Residents said jetfighters hit a house owned by one Yar Mulla, killing his wife and two children. Three persons were also injured in the attack in the area. In Landi Shagi area of Ouch, gunship helicopters carried out shelling in which, according to the residents, four persons, including a woman, were injured.
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May - 19 
The military is reported to have stated that approximately 15,000 troops are confronting about 4,000 well-armed militants in Swat. Authorities said more than 1,030 Taliban militants and at least 53 troops have been killed in a three-pronged onslaught launched in the districts of Lower Dir on April 2
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The military is reported to have stated that approximately 15,000 troops are confronting about 4,000 well-armed militants in Swat. Authorities said more than 1,030 Taliban militants and at least 53 troops have been killed in a three-pronged onslaught launched in the districts of Lower Dir on April 26, Buner on April 28 and Swat on May 8.
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May - 20 
The Government has directed law-enforcement agencies to arrest seven “highly trained militants and Al Qaeda masterminds in Iraq” who - according to reports by intelligence agencies - have entered Pakistan, reported Daily Times reported. According to an official document BBC Urdu claimed it had recei
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The Government has directed law-enforcement agencies to arrest seven “highly trained militants and Al Qaeda masterminds in Iraq” who - according to reports by intelligence agencies - have entered Pakistan, reported Daily Times reported. According to an official document BBC Urdu claimed it had received, those who have entered Pakistan are planning to train ‘like-minded people’ and target key Government officials, including President Asif Ali Zardari, the chief ministers of the four provinces and intelligence agencies’ officers and commanders. The group could also target embassies of non-Muslim and pro-US Muslim countries in Islamabad. The intelligence report also said that Al Qaeda commanders met in Afghanistan’s Paktia province on May 3 and decided they would continue supporting the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.
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May - 24 
In South Waziristan, reports stated that two security officials were killed in a Taliban attack on a security convoy.
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In South Waziristan, reports stated that two security officials were killed in a Taliban attack on a security convoy.
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May - 25 
Reports from Daggar indicated that fighting has broken out in the Pacha and Pir Baba villages of Buner District following an advance by the Pakistan Army ground troops. Sources in the area said the troops after consolidating their positions were now marching on Pacha and Pir Baba and facing resistan
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Reports from Daggar indicated that fighting has broken out in the Pacha and Pir Baba villages of Buner District following an advance by the Pakistan Army ground troops. Sources in the area said the troops after consolidating their positions were now marching on Pacha and Pir Baba and facing resistance from well-entrenched Taliban militants who had taken up positions in roadside houses and in the streets. The troops had earlier taken control of Jokhela Chowk and advanced on the road to Pir Baba. They had also seized Sultanwas, which was the Taliban headquarters in Buner, and Ghazi Khanay village. Sources said militants were still present in some strength in the Gokand Valley, Salarzai sub-division, Hissar, Bhagra, Bhatay and Malikpur areas.
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June - 1 
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said 18 militants were killed and 12 others were arrested during the ongoing Operation Rah-e-Rast in Swat Valley. The ISPR said normalcy was returning to Mingora. The ISPR also said food items and medicines were being supplied to the city, while hospital st
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The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said 18 militants were killed and 12 others were arrested during the ongoing Operation Rah-e-Rast in Swat Valley. The ISPR said normalcy was returning to Mingora. The ISPR also said food items and medicines were being supplied to the city, while hospital staff and technicians had already been flown in. Meanwhile, troops launched an operation in Charbagh to purge it of militants. Heavy clashes reportedly broke out for the control of the Jangle Jerki village. SFs faced stiff resistance from the militants during their operation to link Kabal to Sarsenai. The ISPR said an exchange of fire took place in Fatehpur, in which one militant was killed. In Qalagai, a Taliban hideout was attacked and three of the militants were killed, while seven others were arrested. A check-post at Ronial in the Matta sub-division also came under attack by the militants, in which three soldiers and four civilians were injured. The ISPR, however, said five militants were arrested.
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June - 10 
In Frontier Region (FR) Bannu, according to the ISPR update, the troops secured Kotka Saifullah and Sara Bangal areas. During search operations in Sara Bangal, 34 militants were killed, while three others were arrested. The ISPR said about 400 militants attacked the Siplatoi and Jandola Fort late on
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In Frontier Region (FR) Bannu, according to the ISPR update, the troops secured Kotka Saifullah and Sara Bangal areas. During search operations in Sara Bangal, 34 militants were killed, while three others were arrested. The ISPR said about 400 militants attacked the Siplatoi and Jandola Fort late on June 10-night, killing three soldiers. In retaliatory firing by the SFs, 22 militants were killed and scores of others sustained injuries.
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June - 11 
The number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) has crossed the figure of 3.8 million as approximately 540127 families have moved to safer places due to military operations against the Taliban in Malakand Division, according to The News. According to a press release issued in Peshawar by the NWFP i
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The number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) has crossed the figure of 3.8 million as approximately 540127 families have moved to safer places due to military operations against the Taliban in Malakand Division, according to The News. According to a press release issued in Peshawar by the NWFP information department, the number of IDPs is 3870500, both in camps and off camps. The number of the IDPs living in camps in different areas of the province is 26145 families which constitutes 149701 individuals. The number of families living off camps is 513982 which constitute a figure of 3720800 individuals.
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June - 18 
According to the Army, more than 1,400 militants and 120 soldiers have been killed during the 54-day operation in Swat and the nearby Dir Lower and Buner districts.
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According to the Army, more than 1,400 militants and 120 soldiers have been killed during the 54-day operation in Swat and the nearby Dir Lower and Buner districts.
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June - 22 
More than 45,000 people are reportedly leaving their homes before the start of a military operation in South Waziristan, officials said on June 22, according to Daily Times. Colonel Waseem Ahmed, spokesman for a Government unit overseeing humanitarian affairs, said he expected the number to rise to
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More than 45,000 people are reportedly leaving their homes before the start of a military operation in South Waziristan, officials said on June 22, according to Daily Times. Colonel Waseem Ahmed, spokesman for a Government unit overseeing humanitarian affairs, said he expected the number to rise to at least 60,000. About 37,000 people had already left their homes in South Waziristan, said Manuel Bessler, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, citing military figures. Bessler said Pakistan presented a unique problem for humanitarian officials because 80 percent of the displaced were not in UN camps, but were staying with family and friends in ‘host’ communities, Reuters reported.
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June - 24 
57 personnel of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) ranging from chief technicians to officers were arrested over their alleged contacts with terrorists and involvement in anti-state activities, according to The News. The arrests were reportedly made during the last one and a half to two years after conduc
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57 personnel of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) ranging from chief technicians to officers were arrested over their alleged contacts with terrorists and involvement in anti-state activities, according to The News. The arrests were reportedly made during the last one and a half to two years after conducting an inquiry. Sources disclosed that six officials were sentenced to death. Among them were Khalid Mehmood, Senior Technician Karam Din, Technician Nawazish, Niaz and Nasrullah while 24 were arrested and dismissed from service for opposing the policies of then President Pervez Musharraf. The PAF personnel, allegedly found involved in having contacts with terrorists, were given strict punishment.
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June - 29 
Police in Pakistan occupied- Kashmir (PoK) has revealed that groups like the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) are shifting bases to PoK following clampdown on their activities in the wake of the Mumbai terrorist attacks of November 26, 2008, according to Daily Excelsior. In a confide
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Police in Pakistan occupied- Kashmir (PoK) has revealed that groups like the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) are shifting bases to PoK following clampdown on their activities in the wake of the Mumbai terrorist attacks of November 26, 2008, according to Daily Excelsior. In a confidential report submitted to the Government of Pakistan, PoK Police has said these groups have acquired large pieces of land in and around PoK capital of Muzaffarabad and are pursuing a "jehadi" agenda under the garb of religious activities, BBC reported. "After the ban imposed on the Jamaat-ud-Dawa ([JuD], the front of Lashkar-e-Toiba) by the UNSC, Pakistan forces had taken control of their offices... The activities of the outfit had gone underground for some months, but have again become active," the BBC quoted the report as saying. The report said that the JuD has constructed a mosque, a school and a dispensary on the land acquired by them in Dulasi and further construction is on. The PoK Police report also mentions the activities of other jihadi groups like the JeM and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen which have also constructed madrassas (seminaries) near Muzaffarabad, BBC Urdu service said. The JeM has also set up an office and seminary near Muzaffarabad. Police has noted that most of the activities of the militant groups have been observed in Neelam Valley, near the Line of Control. Extremist organisations have also reportedly set up offices in Kandil Shahi.
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June - 30 
The Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) Police have stated that the banned Jama’at-ud-Da’awa (JuD, the Lashkar-e-Toiba [LeT] front) is expanding its operations and recruitment in the region, Daily Times reported. A confidential report submitted to the Pakistan Government has revealed that the group had
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The Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) Police have stated that the banned Jama’at-ud-Da’awa (JuD, the Lashkar-e-Toiba [LeT] front) is expanding its operations and recruitment in the region, Daily Times reported. A confidential report submitted to the Pakistan Government has revealed that the group had purchased 65 kanals of land in the Dulai area of Muzaffarabad, the PoK capital, to construct a mosque, a school and a dispensary, a private TV channel reported. The PoK Inspector General of Police Javed Iqbal told the channel his force was closely monitoring the group’s activities. Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira, however, denied that banned Pakistani groups were expanding their activities. “No such report has come before the government claiming these organisations have revived their activities,” he told the BBC. However, he added, it was a different matter if it was submitted by an intelligence agency.
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July - 1 
Militancy in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) has cost Pakistan around $2,146 million while the fighting has so far killed over 3,000 civilians, a Government report said on July 1, Daily Times reported. The report – “Cost of Conflict in FATA” – prepared by the Planning and Development
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Militancy in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) has cost Pakistan around $2,146 million while the fighting has so far killed over 3,000 civilians, a Government report said on July 1, Daily Times reported. The report – “Cost of Conflict in FATA” – prepared by the Planning and Development Wing of the FATA Secretariat said the social cost of the militancy was far greater than the cost of infrastructure, economic and the subsequent environmental loss. However, it said the cost of the military operation “is beyond the scope of this report and would be worked out separately by the concerned agencies”. The report put the social cost of the conflict at $1,109 million, the cost to security and internal displacement at $572 million, the environmental cost at $188 million, the economic cost at $119 million and infrastructure losses at $103 million. “Pakistan is suffering a series of overlapping crises due to the conflict in FATA... and is need of immediate humanitarian assistance,” the report said.
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July - 5 
A UK-based fundamentalist group has hatched a plot to overthrow Pakistan’s Government through a “bloodless coup” and establish a “caliphate” in which Islamic laws will be rigorously enforced, a media report said, according to The News. Followers of the Hizb-ut-Tahrir, which is banned in Pakistan, ai
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A UK-based fundamentalist group has hatched a plot to overthrow Pakistan’s Government through a “bloodless coup” and establish a “caliphate” in which Islamic laws will be rigorously enforced, a media report said, according to The News. Followers of the Hizb-ut-Tahrir, which is banned in Pakistan, aim for a “bloodless military coup” and creation of the caliphate in Islamabad, The Sunday Times reported. Members of the group, which describes itself as “the Liberation Party in Britain”, claim they had targeted the UK as a base from which to spread Islamic rule across the world. The report said a dozen British Hizb-ut-Tahrir activists are currently based in Lahore and Karachi, or keep traveling between the UK and Pakistan, and there are many more. Tayyib Muqeem, an English teacher from Stoke-on Trent, told the newspaper that he had moved to Lahore to convert Pakistanis to the movement. At Lahore’s Superior College, where Muqeem has set up a Hizb-ut-Tahrir student group, he said the organisation’s aim was to subject Muslim and western countries to Islamic rule under Shariah (Islamic law), “by force” if necessary. He said the Islamic rule would be spread through “indoctrination” and by “military means” if non-Muslim countries refused to bow to it and “waging war” would be part of the caliphate’s foreign policy. Muqeem said one of Hizb-ut-Tahrir’s strategies in Pakistan was to influence military officers. Shahzad Sheikh, a Pakistani recruit and the group’s official spokesman in Karachi, spoke about persuading the Army to instigate a “bloodless coup” against the present Government who, he said, were worse than the Taliban. “It is the military who hold the power (in Pakistan) and we are asking them to give their allegiance to Hizb-ut-Tahrir,” he said. “I can’t explain to you in detail how we are trying to influence the military. We never disclose our methodology of change. You may say it’s a coup,” Sheikh said.
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July - 5 
Criminals in Dera Ismail Khan are getting support from Taliban in kidnappings for ransom, an intelligence report said, according to Daily Times. Sources told Aaj Kal that after receiving the reports, the Punjab Home Department issued a circular to regional, city and District police officials across
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Criminals in Dera Ismail Khan are getting support from Taliban in kidnappings for ransom, an intelligence report said, according to Daily Times. Sources told Aaj Kal that after receiving the reports, the Punjab Home Department issued a circular to regional, city and District police officials across the province to initiate action against these criminals. According to the circular, kidnappings for ransom, especially in the DG Khan and Rajanpur Districts were an alarming phenomenon and law enforcement agencies have been directed to start a major operation against criminals linked to the Taliban.
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July - 8 
Intelligence agencies have warned the Government that the Taliban may attempt to hijack commercial airliners, a private TV channel quoted an intelligence report as saying on July 8, according to Daily Times. According to the channel, the agencies suggested fundamental changes in the security procedu
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Intelligence agencies have warned the Government that the Taliban may attempt to hijack commercial airliners, a private TV channel quoted an intelligence report as saying on July 8, according to Daily Times. According to the channel, the agencies suggested fundamental changes in the security procedures for commercial airliners to avert the risk of hijacking. According to the report, detained Taliban militants have disclosed that the Taliban frequently use commercial airlines to travel.
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August - 1 
A Police source told PTI that activists of the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) and Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP) were involved in the violence. “Their armed activists from other parts of Punjab gathered in Koriaan village,” the source said. Violence erupted in the village, part of Gojra sub-d
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A Police source told PTI that activists of the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) and Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP) were involved in the violence. “Their armed activists from other parts of Punjab gathered in Koriaan village,” the source said. Violence erupted in the village, part of Gojra sub-division of Toba Tek Singh District and located 160 km from Lahore, when a group of Muslims alleged three Christians burnt pages of the Koran during a wedding last week. At least seven Christians, including four women and two children, were burnt alive. Three others were killed in Police firing on August 1. The Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti and provincial minister Sanaullah, however, said no Christian was involved in desecrating the Koran.
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August - 2 
A report by the Foreign Affairs Committee quoted a former CIA chief as saying the Pakistan-based LeT had reached a “merge point” with the Al Qaeda. “It was from the tribal areas in Pakistan that the bomb plots in London, Madrid, Bali, Islamabad, and later Germany and Denmark were planned,” said the
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A report by the Foreign Affairs Committee quoted a former CIA chief as saying the Pakistan-based LeT had reached a “merge point” with the Al Qaeda. “It was from the tribal areas in Pakistan that the bomb plots in London, Madrid, Bali, Islamabad, and later Germany and Denmark were planned,” said the report on ‘Global Security: Afghanistan and Pakistan,’ headed by lawmaker Mike Gapes. The report said the LeT, which was responsible for the November 2008 Mumbai attacks that targeted Westerners, in particular U.S. and U.K, nationals, also operates from these tribal areas. It added that a section within the Pakistani Army and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) still feels that “India, rather than the Islamic terrorists,” was the main threat to it. “We welcome the increasing recognition at senior levels within the Pakistani military of the need for a recalibrated approach to militancy, but we remain concerned that this may not necessarily be replicated elsewhere within the Army and the ISI,” the report said. It welcomed Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari’s remark that terrorism, not India, was the real threat to his country. However, the report raised doubts over “whether the underlying fundamentals of Pakistani security policy have changed sufficiently to realise the goals of long-term security and stability in Afghanistan.”
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August - 2 
Holding the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) responsible for the November 26, 2008 Mumbai attacks, a British parliamentary committee on August 2, 2009 said several major terrorist attacks across the world, including those in London, Madrid, and Bali, had their origins in the tribal areas of Pakistan, The Hindu
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Holding the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) responsible for the November 26, 2008 Mumbai attacks, a British parliamentary committee on August 2, 2009 said several major terrorist attacks across the world, including those in London, Madrid, and Bali, had their origins in the tribal areas of Pakistan, The Hindu reported.
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September - 20 
Pakistan’s law enforcement agencies are searching for 83 high profile terrorists wanted for various crimes, ranging from the attack on former President Pervez Musharraf to fanning the separatist movement in Balochistan, reports Daily Times. According to a list maintained by the Interior Ministry, 41
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Pakistan’s law enforcement agencies are searching for 83 high profile terrorists wanted for various crimes, ranging from the attack on former President Pervez Musharraf to fanning the separatist movement in Balochistan, reports Daily Times. According to a list maintained by the Interior Ministry, 41 of the most wanted terrorists belong to Punjab, 21 to Sindh, 13 to Balochistan and eight to the NWFP. Of the 83 terrorists, Bramdagh Bugti tops the list with 31 information reports registered against him. The available data shows the majority of the terrorists belong to various sectarian and terrorist organisations, including the Harkat-ul-Jehad-al-Islami (HUJI), Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) and Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP). The majority of the “most wanted” belong to the LJ and the SMP and are wanted in various high profile cases, including assassination attempts targeting Musharraf, former premier Shaukat Aziz and the Karachi Corps commander; the blasts at the Sheraton hotel and foreign embassies; arms smuggling; target killings of rival groups, doctors, Police and intelligence officials and personnel; kidnapping for ransom; and attacks on imambargahs (Shia places of worship) and mosques, the report adds.
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September - 20 
The law and order situation has hampered the exploration of gas and production activity in Balochistan over the last few years, the recently-released ‘Balochistan Economic Report’ stated, according to Daily Times. The report said over three-fifths of the 657 terrorist attacks in 2006, nearly one-thi
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The law and order situation has hampered the exploration of gas and production activity in Balochistan over the last few years, the recently-released ‘Balochistan Economic Report’ stated, according to Daily Times. The report said over three-fifths of the 657 terrorist attacks in 2006, nearly one-third of deaths in such attacks and almost half the injuries were reported in Balochistan. The report said the security situation in Balochistan worsened in 2006 compared to the 2005. It said the number of terrorist attacks in 2006 was almost twice as high as the period between 2002 and 2005. According to the report, the gas fields of Sui, Uch, Pirkoh and Loti are all located in Dera Bugti, which is at the heart of a violent conflict. The report identifies the principal reason for the deteriorating security situation as “a violent conflict between security forces and the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and Bugti tribesmen”. It said the BLA, the Balochistan Liberation Front and Bugti militiamen launched 403 terrorist attacks in the province during 2006, killing 277 people and injuring 676 others. It said gas pipelines, security checkpoints and camps, government offices, rail tracks and bridges were targeted in these attacks. According to statistics compiled by the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS), Dera Bugti accounted for two-fifths of the 136 terrorist attacks reported in Balochistan between January 2006 and July 2006. The attacks killed 137 people and injured 315 others. According to the Balochistan Economic Report, Kohlu District – a stronghold of the BLA—along with Quetta and Sibi represent over a quarter of the terrorist attacks. The report said Balochistan accounted for three-fifths of all terrorist attacks in Pakistan during 2006, and most of them took place in or around Dera Bugti. It said the precarious security situation in Dera Bugti was the main reason behind the decline in gas output – with the financial impact felt throughout the province. According to the study, the security situation in Balochistan was “highly unsatisfactory” during 2007, as terrorists continued attacking state installations and security apparatus. The report said with gas fields exhausting, security worsening, fiscal receipts declining and community support in doubt, Balochistan’s gas economy was in urgent need of reforms.
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September - 29 
Pakistan-based militant outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) is 'largely intact' and 'determined to strike India again', a United States' media report said, quoting former and current members of the group and intelligence officials, according to Rediff.com. Despite pledges from Pakistan to dismantle milita
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Pakistan-based militant outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) is 'largely intact' and 'determined to strike India again', a United States' media report said, quoting former and current members of the group and intelligence officials, according to Rediff.com. Despite pledges from Pakistan to dismantle militant outfits operating on its soil, and the arrest of a handful of operatives, the LeT has persisted and even flourished, since 10 recruits killed over 180 people in Mumbai mayhem on November 26, 2008, The New York Times reported. Indian and Pakistani dossiers on the Mumbai investigations, copies of which were obtained by the US daily, offer a detailed picture of the operations of Lashkar network that spans through Pakistan. It included four houses and two training camps in Karachi that were used to prepare the attacks. In fact, Lashkar's broader network endures, and can be mobilised quickly for elaborate attacks with relatively few resources, the daily quoted Lashkar members and intelligence officials from the US, Europe and Pakistan as saying. But by all accounts Lashkar's network, though dormant, remains alive, and the possibility that it could strike India again makes Lashkar a wild card in one of the most volatile regions of the world, the report said. One ‘highly placed’ Lashkar militant said the Mumbai attackers were part of some groups trained by former Pakistani military and intelligence officials at Lashkar camps, adding, "Some people of the ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) knew about the plan and closed their eyes." Even as new details emerge about the Mumbai attacks, senior American military, intelligence and counterterrorism officials have expressed grim certainty that the LeT is plotting new attacks. The United States warned Indian officials this year about a Mumbai-style attack by Lashkar against multiple sites in India, according to a senior US counterterrorism official. The unnamed counterterrorism official said that the information, gleaned from electronic intercepts and other sources, was not specific but it was significant enough for American officials to alert their Indian counterparts. "There were indications of possible terrorist activity in the run-up to the Indian elections," in May, "and that information was shared promptly with Indian officials," the US daily quoted the counterterrorism official as saying. Pakistani officials, however, say they've been kept in the dark. But, if there is one thing on which the intelligence agencies agree, it is that the consequences of a new attack by Lashkar could be devastating, the daily said. "We do fear that if something like Mumbai happens in India again there might be a military reaction from the Indian side and it could trigger into a war. Right now we cannot guarantee that it'll not happen again because we do not have any control over it," a Pakistani official said.
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October - 8 
Reports from Laddah stated that five militants were killed and several others injured when troops mounted a ground and air assault on suspected positions of the Taliban in South Waziristan. Sources said that three militants were killed in the Kalkala area and two in Shawal. An unnamed official sourc
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Reports from Laddah stated that five militants were killed and several others injured when troops mounted a ground and air assault on suspected positions of the Taliban in South Waziristan. Sources said that three militants were killed in the Kalkala area and two in Shawal. An unnamed official source said that militants fired 10 missiles from Makeen at the Razmak fort and Scouts fort in Jandola. Helicopter gunships are reported to have shelled Taliban positions in Speenkai Raghzai.
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October - 18 
Reports suggested that the SFs started advancing from three directions. However, Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq claimed it was from four directions. He said the Taliban attacked and inflicted casualties on the troops in Kund and Kalkala during their advance towards Spinkai Raghzai. The troops were als
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Reports suggested that the SFs started advancing from three directions. However, Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq claimed it was from four directions. He said the Taliban attacked and inflicted casualties on the troops in Kund and Kalkala during their advance towards Spinkai Raghzai. The troops were also targeted near Razmak, Faridullah Mela in Shakai, Zawar Mela and Khaisoor, claimed the Taliban spokesman. “We are determined to fight back as this war has been imposed on us,” he added.
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October - 27 
US investigating agencies have neutralised a plot by the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) to use an American national for terrorist attacks in Denmark and India, Times of India reported. The man, identified as David Coleman Headley, was one of two suspects arrested early in October 2009 by FBI's
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US investigating agencies have neutralised a plot by the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) to use an American national for terrorist attacks in Denmark and India, Times of India reported. The man, identified as David Coleman Headley, was one of two suspects arrested early in October 2009 by FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport before he boarded a flight to Philadelphia, from where he was intending to travel to Pakistan to meet Pakistani terrorist handlers, including the fugitive Ilyas Kashmiri. Headley's partner in the terror plot, which included plans to attack the Danish newspaper that published cartoons of Prophet Mohammed, was a Pakistani-Canadian named Tahawwur Hussain Rana, also a resident of Chicago who was arrested by the FBI on October 18. According to the FBI affidavit filed in a Chicago court, Headley was in close contact with Ilyas Kashmiri and several unidentified leaders of LeT, two of whom are identified as "LeT member A" and "Individual A." He had visited Pakistan before to meet LeT handlers and was returning there ostensibly to finalize plans for strikes. "In July and August 2009, Headley exchanged a series of e-mails with LeT Member A, including an exchange in which Headley asked if the Denmark project was on hold, and whether a visit to India that LeT member A had asked him to undertake was for the purpose of surveilling targets for a new terrorist attack," the FBI said in its affidavit. "These e-mails reflect that LeT Member A was placing a higher priority on using Headley to assist in planning a new attack in India than on completing the planned attack in Denmark," it said. Although the affidavit named Kashmiri, it did not identify others involved in the plot, referring to them as LeT member A and Individual A. It said LeT member A "has substantial influence and responsibility within the organization" and his "identity is known to the government." "In July and August 2009, Headley exchanged a series of e-mails with LeT Member A, including an exchange in which Headley asked if the Denmark project was on hold, and whether a visit to India that LeT member A had asked him to undertake was for the purpose of surveilling targets for a new terrorist attack," the FBI said in its affidavit. Although the affidavit named Kashmiri, it did not identify others involved in the plot, referring to them as LeT member A and Individual A. It said LeT member A "has substantial influence and responsibility within the organization" and his "identity is known to the government."
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November - 15 
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the USA has funnelled hundreds of millions of dollars to Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) since the 9/11 attacks, accounting for as much as one-third of the CIA’s annual budget – reported an American newspaper, citing current and former US officia
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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the USA has funnelled hundreds of millions of dollars to Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) since the 9/11 attacks, accounting for as much as one-third of the CIA’s annual budget – reported an American newspaper, citing current and former US officials, according to Daily Times. The Los Angeles Times quoted officials as saying that the ISI had also “collected tens of millions of dollars through a classified CIA programme that pays for the capture or killing of wanted militants, a clandestine counterpart to the rewards publicly offered by the State Department.” The officials said the payments have triggered intense debate within the US Government, because of “long-standing suspicions that the ISI continues to help Taliban who undermine US efforts in Afghanistan and provide sanctuary to Al Qaeda members in Pakistan.” But US officials have continued the funding because the ISI’s assistance is considered crucial: “almost every major terrorist plot this decade has originated in Pakistan’s tribal belt, where ISI informant networks are a primary source of intelligence”, said the newspaper.
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December - 2 
According to the Inter-Services Public Relations, six militants were arrested in Peer Pati and Qambar. The SFs also arrested 20 suspects from Mingora while eight militants surrendered in the Bar Sor, Charbagh and Garga areas of Matta.
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According to the Inter-Services Public Relations, six militants were arrested in Peer Pati and Qambar. The SFs also arrested 20 suspects from Mingora while eight militants surrendered in the Bar Sor, Charbagh and Garga areas of Matta.
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December - 7 
Daily Times quoting an intelligence reports warned on December 8 that the al Qaeda and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are planning to carry out attacks at the Karachi’s hospitals and the airport to “avenge Operation Rah-e-Nijat”. The reports stated that the Taliban could strike in the guise of
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Daily Times quoting an intelligence reports warned on December 8 that the al Qaeda and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are planning to carry out attacks at the Karachi’s hospitals and the airport to “avenge Operation Rah-e-Nijat”. The reports stated that the Taliban could strike in the guise of patients or Haj pilgrims. A communiqué sent by the Interior Ministry’s National Crisis Management Cell to provincial authorities warned that Taliban could also use improvised explosive devices (IED) and suicide attacks against foreigners in Karachi. A letter issued by Sindh Special Home Secretary Collin Kamran Dost to Inspector General of Police Sallahuddin Khattak quoted intelligence sources as saying that the Taliban’s possible targets could be US citizens, people associated with American projects and guests staying at hotels, and US diplomats and employees working for foreign non-governmental organisations. According to another communiqué, the TTP plans to target hospitals and airports, while posing as patients in wheelchairs and as pilgrims arriving in the city after Haj. Moreover, the Taliban are likely to use vehicles covered with garlands – such as the ones used in wedding processions – to carry suicide bombers and explosives to the areas they seek to target.
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December - 8 
The United Sates intelligence personnel stationed in Pakistan are trying to ascertain whether Abdur Rehman alias Pasha, a retired major of the Pakistan Army, who has recently been named by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as a key link between the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack suspect David He
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The United Sates intelligence personnel stationed in Pakistan are trying to ascertain whether Abdur Rehman alias Pasha, a retired major of the Pakistan Army, who has recently been named by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as a key link between the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack suspect David Headley and his Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) handlers, is the brother-in-law of Qari Saifullah Akhtar, the absconding Ameer of the pro-Taliban Pakistani Jehadi outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI), reports The News. Rehman has been charged in a Chicago court by the FBI on allegations of conspiring terrorist attacks in association with Headley, a US national of Pakistani-origin, who is already in the FBI’s custody. According to diplomatic circles in Islamabad, the United Sates intelligence personnel are trying to determine if Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed is the same person who had filed a petition in the Supreme Court on October 12, 2004, challenging the arrest of Qari Saifullah Akhtar and seeking his production in the apex court. The petitioner had also sought a court order to prevent possible deportation of Qari Saifullah, his brother-in-law, to another country. The petition was thrown out on January 18, 2005. Qari Saifullah Akhtar, the Ameer (chief) of the Pakistan chapter of the HUJI, who had been arrested in 1995 for conspiring to topple the second Government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, had been named by the slain PPP leader in her posthumous book -- Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West - as a principal suspect in the October 18, 2007 attempt on her life in Karachi.
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December - 9 
The SFs sources said that 589 Taliban militants have so far been killed in Operation Rah-e-Nijat in South Waziristan, while 79 of their personnel died. According to a statement by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), a large cache of arms and ammunition had also been recovered from different
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The SFs sources said that 589 Taliban militants have so far been killed in Operation Rah-e-Nijat in South Waziristan, while 79 of their personnel died. According to a statement by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), a large cache of arms and ammunition had also been recovered from different terrorist hideouts since the operation began.
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December - 17 
Times of India quoting the report of Geopolitical intelligence group Stratfor said that the investigation into the David Headley case has conclusively proved that Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami (HuJI) continue to enjoy great deal of operational freedom in Pakistan because of the
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Times of India quoting the report of Geopolitical intelligence group Stratfor said that the investigation into the David Headley case has conclusively proved that Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami (HuJI) continue to enjoy great deal of operational freedom in Pakistan because of their links with its Government and military officials even as al-Qaeda barely manages to survive. This is one of the conclusions drawn by Geopolitical intelligence group Stratfor in its latest report on US investigations into Headley which further authenticates India’s stand that Islamabad is not doing enough to dismantle the terror infrastructure. According to Stratfor, the case shows that LeT and HuJI operatives were able to travel, raise funds, communicate, train and plan operations in Pakistan with seemingly little interference. ‘‘This is a stark contrast to al-Qaeda, which is hunted, on the run and experiencing a great deal of difficulty moving operatives, communicating, raising funds and conducting operations. The links between Headley and his associates to current and former Pakistani military officers and Government officials are likely what is affording LeT and HUJI their operational freedom,’’ said the report, adding that even while having to drift out from under the wings of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the two groups have developed an advanced central planning apparatus. The report goes on to say that HuJI leader Ilyas Kashmiri’s links with al-Qaida and the plans for Denmark attack are an indication that HuJI has become more closely aligned with the transnational jihadis targeting philosophy as a result of Kashmiri’s contacts with Osama bin Laden and company. ‘‘It appears that LeT, on the other hand, has retained more of a focus on India. So, while the two organisations continue to cooperate, they do have some differences in targeting philosophy, and it would seem that HuJI is creeping further into the al-Qaida orbit than LeT,’’ states the report.
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December - 23 
Daily Times quoting a Senior Police Official on December 23 reported that several militants of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), who were hiding and fighting in the tribal areas of the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), have reached Karachi to carry out terrorist activities during Muharramul Haram. A senio
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Daily Times quoting a Senior Police Official on December 23 reported that several militants of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), who were hiding and fighting in the tribal areas of the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), have reached Karachi to carry out terrorist activities during Muharramul Haram. A senior police official, on condition of anonymity, told Daily Times that militants affiliated with LeJ, who were fighting against Security Forces in Dera Ismail Khan, Hangu and Waziristan, have come to Karachi to evoke sectarian violence in the city. “They plan to carry out suicide bombings and target killings,” the officer said. “These militants want to show their strength to the law enforcers and intelligence agencies, and they also want to take revenge of the killings of their leaders and workers in the last couple of months in the city.” A source said as many as 13 high-profile militants of LeJ had been killed in different acts of violence, which resulted in them taking revenge. It is believed that the prime target of the militants would be the main processions and Majalis-e-Azza held in various parts of the city during the first ten days of Muharram, the source added.
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December - 30 
The year 2009 proved to be another bloody year of the decade for media in Pakistan in which 10 journalists, in 163 cases of direct attacks on media, paid the ultimate price of practicing a difficult trade in the backdrop of rising terrorism and militancy and were killed in the line of duty, accordin
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The year 2009 proved to be another bloody year of the decade for media in Pakistan in which 10 journalists, in 163 cases of direct attacks on media, paid the ultimate price of practicing a difficult trade in the backdrop of rising terrorism and militancy and were killed in the line of duty, according to Dawn. Of these 10 journalists, four were killed in Punjab, three in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and one each in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), Balochistan and Islamabad, according to the annual research on the state of media in Pakistan, released on December 30 by Intermedia, a Pakistani media development organisation that focuses on media research, advocacy and training. The total 163 cases included murders, assaults, abductions, explicit threats, censorship cases and attacks on media properties and establishments. Punjab bore the brunt of these attacks with 54 cases and the NWFP a close behind with 52, while Islamabad was the surprise third biggest victim of attacks on media with 28 cases. Sindh recorded 12 attacks, six attacks each were recorded in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and FATA, and three in Balochistan. Ten journalists were kidnapped in 2009, four in NWFP, two in Islamabad and one each in Balochistan, FATA, Punjab and Sindh. The report also documented at least 24 cases of assaults on working journalists across the country, in which 70 journalists were injured — 36 in Punjab, 12 in Islamabad, 10 in the NWFP, seven in Sindh and five in PoK. At least 28 journalists received threats in person or over the phone. Of these, nine journalists were in Islamabad, eight in the NWFP, seven in Sindh, and one in FATA. The Intermedia report also documented at least 35 cases of official gag orders, censorship or restrictions on publication or broadcast in 2009. Of these, the highest number of cases, 23, was in the NWFP, four in Punjab, three in Islamabad and one each in Sindh, Balochistan, FATA and PoK. Ten cases of physical and armed attacks were reported on media property and establishments, exemplified by the suicide attack on the Peshawar Press Club on December 22, 2009. Of these attacks, four were in the NWFP, two each in Fata and Punjab and one each in Islamabad and PoK. “At least 45 journalists have been killed in Pakistan in the last five years, several by suspected militants, but this is the first time that suicide squads of terrorists have targeted media persons as a specific, overt target, indicating a dramatic increase in the level of threats facing the media in the country,” Adnan Rehmat, executive director of Intermedia, said.
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