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Al Qaeda and its affiliated militant outfits based in tribal belts of Pakistan are grooming alternative leaders and splitting into small cells to confuse counter-terror agencies and to survive in the face of sudden fatalities, The Express Tribune quo
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Al Qaeda and its affiliated militant outfits based in tribal belts of Pakistan are grooming alternative leaders and splitting into small cells to confuse counter-terror agencies and to survive in the face of sudden fatalities, The Express Tribune quoting intelligence officials in Islamabad and associates of the outfit in South and North Waziristan Agencies reported on April 5. The outfits, including the Haqqani network, have been following this pattern for some time and "unusual changes" are expected in months to come. The Afghan Taliban led by Maulana Sirajuddin Haqqani and his father Maulana Jalaluddin Haqqani, supposedly the strongest of al-Qaida’s partners, might be promoting a new leader to undertake the outfit's operational and organisational activities, the report added.
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April - 4 
Al Qaeda-affiliated outfit based in the same region and led by veteran militant leader Ilyas Kashmiri too is in the process of creating several small cells to cause confusion and for the division of labour. The Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) was co
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Al Qaeda-affiliated outfit based in the same region and led by veteran militant leader Ilyas Kashmiri too is in the process of creating several small cells to cause confusion and for the division of labour. The Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) was converted to al Qaeda’s 313 Brigade and then renamed as Lashkar-e-Zil.
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April - 5 
A new White House Report warned on April 5 that Pakistan still has no clear path to triumph over insurgents, and said Afghanistan’s Taliban was turning more and more to soft civilian targets, reports Dawn. The semi-annual White House Report to Congre
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A new White House Report warned on April 5 that Pakistan still has no clear path to triumph over insurgents, and said Afghanistan’s Taliban was turning more and more to soft civilian targets, reports Dawn. The semi-annual White House Report to Congress is designed to judge progress or otherwise towards key objectives of the war in Afghanistan and operations against al Qaeda in Pakistan, now nearly a decade old. The report noted a deterioration of the situation in inhospitable Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in northwest Pakistan alongside the Afghanistan border between January and March of 2011. It details an operation in Mohmand Agency and Bajaur Agency in the areas that started in January to clear insurgent strongholds —the third time in two years that the Pakistani army has attempted to complete the task. “What remains vexing is the lack of any indication of ‘hold’ and ‘build’ planning or staging efforts to complement ongoing clearing operations,” the report said. “As such there remains no clear path to defeating the insurgency in Pakistan, despite the unprecedented and sustained deployment of over 147,000 forces.” The report also however noted the “tremendous human sacrifices” made by Pakistani forces in the region.
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April - 7 
Pakistan on April 7 rejected the highly critical US White House report of its efforts to defeat Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, saying it would not be held accountable for US-led failures in Afghanistan, reports Daily Times. “I would like to categoric
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Pakistan on April 7 rejected the highly critical US White House report of its efforts to defeat Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, saying it would not be held accountable for US-led failures in Afghanistan, reports Daily Times. “I would like to categorically state that we do not share the assessment of the US,” Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman Tehmina Janjua told reporters at a weekly briefing in response to a question on the White House document. “The references to Pakistan are unwarranted,” she said. “Pakistan should not be held accountable for the failings of coalition strategy in Afghanistan. Pakistan has a clear strategy in dealing with this and other issues and solely be guided by its own national interest,” added the spokesperson.
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April - 11 
A Pakistan-born computer engineer, Farooque Ahmed (35), sentenced to 23 years in prison by a US court on April 11 after he pleaded guilty to charges that he tried to assist suspected members of al Qaeda in planning bombings at Metro rail stations in
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A Pakistan-born computer engineer, Farooque Ahmed (35), sentenced to 23 years in prison by a US court on April 11 after he pleaded guilty to charges that he tried to assist suspected members of al Qaeda in planning bombings at Metro rail stations in the Washington area, reports Indian Express. A resident of Virginia, Farooque Ahmed pleaded guilty to the charges of attempting to provide material support to a designated terrorist organisation and collecting information to assist in planning an attack on a transit facility. He was arrested by the FBI on October 27, 2010.
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April - 14 
Two suspected militants from France have been arrested in Pakistan after meeting a man accused of having ties to al Qaeda, officials said on April 14, reports Dawn. The French men, who have not been identified publicly, were arrested at a bus stop in
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Two suspected militants from France have been arrested in Pakistan after meeting a man accused of having ties to al Qaeda, officials said on April 14, reports Dawn. The French men, who have not been identified publicly, were arrested at a bus stop in Lahore (Punjab) in January 25 after going there from the airport with a man identified as Tahir Shehzad, a Pakistani intelligence official said. Information from Shehzad led authorities to Umar Patek, an Indonesian al Qaeda-linked suspect detained on January 25, the official said. The French men had intended to travel with Patek to North Waziristan Agency in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) where al Qaeda’s top command is based, he said on condition of anonymity. It was not immediately clear if the men were suspected of plotting a terror attack. One of the French citizens is of Pakistani origin and the other is a convert to Islam, the Pakistani official said. France is home to Western Europe’s largest Muslim population, estimated to be at least 5 million.
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April - 21 
Pakistan’s Army Chief Ashfaq Kayani in response to the top US military officer’s accusation of April 20 that Pakistan’s main intelligence agency maintains ties with terrorists rejected as ‘negative propaganda’ the suggestion that it was not doing eno
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Pakistan’s Army Chief Ashfaq Kayani in response to the top US military officer’s accusation of April 20 that Pakistan’s main intelligence agency maintains ties with terrorists rejected as ‘negative propaganda’ the suggestion that it was not doing enough to combat al Qaeda and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), reported Daily Times on April 22.
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April - 23 
The Army had broken the back of militants linked to al Qaeda and Taliban and the nation will soon prevail over this menace, the Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) General Ashfaq Kayani said in a speech on April 23 that followed criticism from the United Stat
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The Army had broken the back of militants linked to al Qaeda and Taliban and the nation will soon prevail over this menace, the Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) General Ashfaq Kayani said in a speech on April 23 that followed criticism from the United States that it wasn’t doing enough to fight militancy, reports Daily Times. “In war against terrorism, our officers and soldiers have made great sacrifices and have achieved tremendous success,” he said in a speech to army cadets at Kakul military academy, north of Islamabad. “The terrorists’ backbone has been broken and (God willing) we will soon prevail”. Washington, struggling to put down a 10-year insurgency in Afghanistan, said this month that Pakistan lacked a robust plan to defeat militants, and its intelligence agents were maintaining links with Afghan Taliban militants.
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April - 24 
Times of India on April 25 quoted Army Major General Athar Abbas saying "There is no evidence that the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) has global aspirations or was involved in the 2009 attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul,” adding, “The LeT is a banned group
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Times of India on April 25 quoted Army Major General Athar Abbas saying "There is no evidence that the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) has global aspirations or was involved in the 2009 attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul,” adding, “The LeT is a banned group that is being contained, and there is also no evidence with Pakistani authorities linking the LeT to militant groups operating in Pakistan's tribal areas. At the same time, Abbas said, “militant commander Ilyas Kashmiri, described by Indian and US officials as a key suspect in the Mumbai terror attacks, had played an "instrumental" role in planning an attack on the Pakistan Army's General Headquarters in Rawalpindi in October 2009. Kashmiri was also involved in two attempts to assassinate former President and Army Chief General Pervez Musharraf in late 2003,” adding, “Kashmiri, who led a "splinter" group or breakaway faction of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), was working with the local Taliban. Earlier this month, the US announced a reward of five million dollars for anyone who provides information and helps in the arrest of Kashmiri, the commander of Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI) terror group that supports al Qaeda. Speaking on the issue of 2008 Mumbai attack in India, Abbas said, "A splinter group was involved and we have collected the maximum evidence, LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi was heading the splinter group responsible for the terrorist assault in November 2008.”
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April - 25 
Another blow to already tense relations between the United Sates and Pakistan was dealt on April 25 when leaked official documents of Guantánamo cables showed that the US administration had placed the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) on a list of te
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Another blow to already tense relations between the United Sates and Pakistan was dealt on April 25 when leaked official documents of Guantánamo cables showed that the US administration had placed the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) on a list of terrorist outfits, reports Dawn. In the documents, leaked by the whistle-blowing WikiLeaks website, US officials rank the ISI alongside groups like Hezbollah, al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood. The Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the brainchild of al Qaeda No. 2 Ayman Al-Zawahiri, is also on the list of 70 terrorist entities. In a so-called threat indicator matrix used to determine which of the inmates at Guantánamo Bay can be released, a detainee’s link to the ISI is seen as confirming his association with terrorism. The 17-page threat matrix is the first official US documents to have emerged that ranks the ISI among terrorist groups.
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April - 26 
At least one Guantánamo Bay detainee discovered to be involved in a plot to attack the US Consulate in Peshawar and believed to have carried out a string of bombings in Pakistan in 2002, was also on the payroll for British and Canadian intelligence s
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At least one Guantánamo Bay detainee discovered to be involved in a plot to attack the US Consulate in Peshawar and believed to have carried out a string of bombings in Pakistan in 2002, was also on the payroll for British and Canadian intelligence services, according to secret files on detainees at the Guantánamo Bay prison camp, The express Tribune quoting WikiLeaks reported on April 27. Algerian detainee Adil Hadi al Jazairi bin Hamili, linked with the Algerian Armed Islamic Group and the Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin, confessed that he had worked for the Taliban’s foreign ministry and intelligence services as well. Hamili was captured in a raid in Peshawar in 2003. According to Pakistan’s Intelligence Bureau, Hamili was an Algerian terrorist, hired assassin, kidnapper, and member of Osama bin Laden’s “umbrella organisation.” However, the Central Intelligence Agency found that not only was Hamili a source for the British and Canadian intelligence services who had withheld information from the two, but he was also running a terrorist cell. According to US assessment, Hamili was actually Abu Adil, who Khalid Shaikh Mohammad had confessed to meeting in early 2002. Mohammad had given PKR 300,000 to support Abu Adil’s cell in Punjab and an assassination plot against the then President General Pervez Musharraf. According to Mohammad, Abu Adil was responsible for attacks on two churches in Islamabad and Sialkot, and possibly involved in the May 2002 attack on Karachi’s Sheraton Hotel in which 11 French engineers and three Pakistanis were killed. Hamili was recruited by foreign intelligence “because of his connections to members of various al Qaeda linked terrorist groups that operated in Afghanistan and Pakistan.” Hamili was not the only spy in custody. Iraqi detainee Bisher al-Rawi also said he had links with MI5 and was providing information to the agency on Abu Qatada, the ‘spiritual leader of the Armed Islamic Group’. The document states that the intelligence service owned up to this. “When visiting Guantánamo Bay, a member of an allied intelligence service admitted a relationship with the detainee.”
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April - 26 
Osama bin Laden escaped US and British forces, closing in on his cave-haven hacked into the mountainside, with the help of a Pakistani warlord who provided guides to take him to safety in north-eastern Afghanistan, Indian Express reported on April 27
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Osama bin Laden escaped US and British forces, closing in on his cave-haven hacked into the mountainside, with the help of a Pakistani warlord who provided guides to take him to safety in north-eastern Afghanistan, Indian Express reported on April 27. The al Qaeda supremo’s successful flight from Tora Bora mountains in Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan has been seen as an early lapse by the international military. New details about the escape emerged from interrogation reports of the Guantánamo Bay detainees and one account claims that local Pakistani militant ‘commander’ Maulvi Noor Mohammad aided Osama’s escape. The Guardian said that in documents obtained by it, Mohammad provided 40-50 fighters to escort a trapped Osama and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri to safety following intervention of al Qaeda ‘commander’ known as Abu Torab in mid-December 2001. Previously, it was said that Osama escaped south from Tora Bora into Pakistan. However, in two accounts from Guantánamo Bay detainees, Osama and Zawahiri headed north to a safe house of an Afghan sympathiser called Awal Malim Gul near Jalalabad. The duo rested there before travelling further on horse back into the remote province of Kunar, where they were to remain for 10 months.
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April - 27 
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on April 27 rejected the claims that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had ventured into any project without the Government’s knowledge, and that the country’s intelligence agencies were subservient to the Govern
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Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on April 27 rejected the claims that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had ventured into any project without the Government’s knowledge, and that the country’s intelligence agencies were subservient to the Government and were not involved in any act that was against national interests, reports Daily Times. Gilani’s defence of the ISI came in response to April 26 Western media reports of Guantanamo Bay files ranking ISI as a terrorist organisation along with al Qaeda and other such terrorist outfits, adds The Hindu. “If the ISI has taken some step, it has been done with our backing,” said Gilani.
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On April 27, quoting United States (US) military documents posted by WikiLeaks, Times of India reported that the mastermind of 9/11 attacks Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was warned by a senior al Qaeda military commander to not to kill Wall Street Journal r
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On April 27, quoting United States (US) military documents posted by WikiLeaks, Times of India reported that the mastermind of 9/11 attacks Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was warned by a senior al Qaeda military commander to not to kill Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in February 2002 and that he should be “returned back to one of the previous groups who held him” or "freed". However, Shaikh Mohammed during his interrogation told the US interrogators at Guantánamo Bay that he cut off Pearl's head anyway.
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Quoting from the secret files of WikiLeaks, Dawn on April 29 (today) reported that Abdul Rabbani Abu Rahman aka Abdul Rahim Ghulam Rabbani admitted to United States (US) investigators that he had been directly working for Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, one
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Quoting from the secret files of WikiLeaks, Dawn on April 29 (today) reported that Abdul Rabbani Abu Rahman aka Abdul Rahim Ghulam Rabbani admitted to United States (US) investigators that he had been directly working for Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, one of the masterminds of the 9/11 attacks, and that one of the sons of Osama bin Laden, Saaed Bin Laden, had been living in Karachi with his wife and son in 2002. According to revealed files, Rabbani had been in detention at the Guantánamo Bay camp since September 19, 2004, two years after his arrest in Karachi. Rabbani, according to the report, admitted that he was an al Qaeda facilitator from early 2002 to September 2002. During this period he managed a number of safe houses in Karachi and had direct link to many senior al Qaeda cadres, including Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri. These safe houses provided logistical support to most of the September 11, 2001, hijackers, the investigation report said. He was directly involved with terrorist plans and operations. Rabbani further said that Osama’s son, Saaed Bin Laden, lived in Karachi with his wife and son, from January 2002 through at least June 2002. Umar Sheikh provided a safe haven for Saaed in Karachi. While Saaed was there, he would occasionally come with Sheikh to one of the detainee’s safe houses at house number D-255, Block 13 D, Gulshan-i-Iqbal area of Karachi.
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