29 April 2011

Pakistan Navy’s Commander in Karachi had advised over the internal wire that no large navy vehicles should be used for transporting personnel following the Tuesday’s twin bombings on the force’s buses. Despite the precautionary advice, the buses were used on Thursday morning, sources within the navy say. And terror struck – for the third time in 48 hours. At least five people, including four sailors, were killed and seven...

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29 April 2011

Militants ambushed Pakistani police before dawn on Friday, sparking a gunfight that killed two policemen and two militants in the country’s troubled southwest, officials said. One policeman and a militant were also wounded during the shootout in Balochistan province, which borders Afghanistan and Iran, police said. A group of militants attacked a police vehicle in the town of Mir Hasan, about 360 kilometres southeast of Quetta. Impoverished...

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29 April 2011

At least 33 militants, two pro-government tribesmen and one soldier were killed in military actions and clashes in Kurram, Orakzai and Mohmand agencies on Thursday. Officials said helicopter gunships pounded three militant hideouts in Mirandi, Sangraba and Chinarak areas of central Kurram, killing 20 militants and injuring several others....

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29 April 2011

The appointment of Gen. David H. Petraeus as director of the Central Intelligence Agency puts him more squarely than ever in conflict with Pakistan, whose military leadership does not regard him as a friend and where he will now have direct control over the armed drone campaign that the Pakistani military says it wants stopped. Pakistani and American officials said that General Petraeus’s selection could...

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