Pak Militancy

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  Pakistan Bans 2 Militant Outfits

  Pakistan government has banned two more militant outfits for their involvement in terrorist activities across the country, an official said.

• Pakistan security forces kill 15 militants

  At least 15 militants have been killed in north western Pakistan's Dir and Orakzai areas, a media report said. Six militants were killed in the mountain region of upper Dir area at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and another nine died in Orakzai agency after their hideouts were air-bombed by Pakistani security forces on Thursday.

• Pakistani militants deny links with 'CIA doctor'

  The militants accused in a Pakistan court of conspiring with a doctor recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to find Osama bin Laden said on Thursday that they had nothing to do with him and would kill him if they had the chance.Shakeel Afridi was on May 24 sentenced to 33 years in jail after he was found guilty of treason under Pakista...

• Pakistan militants vow holy war for Osama bin Laden

  Masked militants armed with assault rifles handed out copies of the pamphlet from pick-up vehicles in Miranshah, the main town of the tribal district that has become known as Pakistan's premier Al Qaeda and Taliban hub.

• Mossad agents posed as CIA to recruit Pak militants: report

  Agents with Israel's Mossad agency posed as American CIA agents in operations to recruit members of the Pakistani militant group Jundallah, a report in Foreign Policy magazine has said.

• Five senior Taliban militants killed in drone attack in Pak

  Five senior Taliban militants, including a brother and another relative of commander Mullah Nazir, were today killed in a US drone strike in the restive South Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan.

• Ceasefire violation in Jammu and Kashmir

  A ceasefire violation was reported from the Samba sector of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday morning. The Border Security Force (BSF) post of Ballad came under fire and the firing continued for 10 minutes.No one was hurt in the incident. The BSF sources say that it could have been cover fire given by the Rangers to the infiltrating militants. Infiltr...

• Hostage crisis in Pak military compound after militant attack

  Captured militants, who were being interrogated at a Pakistani military intelligence compound near the US consulate in Peshawar, overpowered their guards today, sparking a hostage crisis in the northwestern city.     The militants overpowered guards at the army detention centre located within Peshawar cantonment and took two sen...

• Strategic plans spawned bitter end for a lonely outpost

  Nothing in the documents made public on Sunday offers as vivid a miniature of the Afghan war so far -- from hope to heartbreak -- as the field reports from one lonely base: Combat Outpost Keating.The outpost was opened in 2006 in the Kamdesh district of Nuristan Province, an area of mountain escarpments, thick forests and deep canyons with a popula...