northwestern pakistan

Intel: Strikes continue amid border tension (AP)

October 2nd, 2010

A Pakistani border guard stands near Afghanistan-bound NATO trucks parked on the roadside in Pakistani tribal area of Khyber on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010.  Pakistan closed the Khyber Pass supply route for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan on Thursday after a coalition helicopter attack mistakenly killed three Pakistani soldiers at a border post, raising tensions in a vital relationship for both Islamabad and Washington. (AP Photo/Qazi Rauf)AP - Two suspected American missile strikes killed 12 alleged militants in a northwestern Pakistan tribal region Saturday, intelligence officials said, a sign the U.S. is unwilling to stop using…

Intel: 2 US missile strikes kill 12 in NW Pakistan (AP)

October 2nd, 2010

A Pakistani border guard stands near Afghanistan-bound NATO trucks parked on the roadside in Pakistani tribal area of Khyber on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010.  Pakistan closed the Khyber Pass supply route for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan on Thursday after a coalition helicopter attack mistakenly killed three Pakistani soldiers at a border post, raising tensions in a vital relationship for both Islamabad and Washington. (AP Photo/Qazi Rauf)AP - Two suspected American missile strikes killed 12 alleged militants in a northwestern Pakistan tribal region Saturday, intelligence officials said, a sign the U.S. is unwilling to stop using…

Intel: 2nd alleged US missile strike hits Pakistan (AP)

October 2nd, 2010

Pakistani men carry their belongings on their heads as they cross a flooded area in Johi village, Dadu district in Pakistan's Sindh province Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - Intelligence officials say a second suspected U.S. missile strike has killed four people in a northwestern Pakistan tribal area.


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Missile strike kills 4 militants in NW Pakistan (AP)

September 25th, 2010

A group of Pakistani students hold a rally to condemn the verdict against alleged al-Qaida suspect Aafia Siddique, in Bannu, Pakistan, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010. Siddique, a U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist convicted of trying to kill U.S. agents and military officers in Afghanistan, was sentenced Thursday to 86 years in prison. (AP Photo/Ijaz Muhammmad)AP - Intelligence officials say a suspected U.S. missile strike has killed four alleged militants in northwestern Pakistan.


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4th US missile in 24 hrs in Pakistan kills 5 (AP)

September 9th, 2010

File photo of a US Predator unmanned drone armed with a missile on the tarmac of Kandahar military airport. A US missile strike on a militant compound in Pakistan's tribal district on the Afghan border killed 10 rebels on Wednesday, local security officials said.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)AP - A suspected American missile strike killed five alleged militants in northwestern Pakistan early Thursday, an intelligence official said, the fourth such attack in 24 hours.


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Suspected US missile strike kills 6 in Pakistan (AP)

September 8th, 2010

A man injured in a car bomb attack in Kohat, Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province is treated at Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar September 7, 2010. At least 16 people were killed in a car bomb attack at a police residential complex in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, officials said, yet another tragedy for a country still grappling with devastating floods. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz     (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)AP - A suspected U.S. drone killed at least six militants in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday when it fired a missile at a house linked to a group that often…

Militants attack army intel office in NW Pakistan (AP)

August 28th, 2010

Flood victims use a part of a damaged railway track to cross the floodwaters toward a village in Sultan Kot, about 51 km (31 miles) from Sukkur in Pakistan's Sindh province August 28, 2010. Flood waters threatened to engulf two towns in southern Pakistan on Saturday, a month after the disaster began, as the United Nations warned that tens of thousands of children risked death from malnutrition. REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT)AP - Suspected Islamist militants attacked an army intelligence office Saturday in northwestern Pakistan, officials said, setting off a gunbattle that paralyzed parts of the city.


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Pakistan: Taliban kills paramilitary police chief (AP)

August 4th, 2010

Pakistani paramilitary soldiers look at the burning car of their Chief Sifwat Ghayur after a suicide bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. A suicide bomber attacked a vehicle carrying the head of a paramilitary police force in northwestern Pakistan, ending a period of relative calm in the city of Peshawar which has been a favorite target of the Pakistani Taliban. Sifwat Ghayur, the head of the 25,000-strong Frontier Constabulary, is one of the most senior security officials to be killed by militants in the country. (AP Photo/Mohammad Iqbal)AP - A Taliban suicide bomber killed the head of a U.S.-backed paramilitary police force battling militants in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, one of the highest-ranking security officers ever assassinated…

Flood victims’ anger with Pakistani gov’t grows (AP)

August 2nd, 2010

Pakistani villagers collect their belongings from their houses collapsed by heavy flooding in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010. The death toll from massive floods in northwestern Pakistan rose to 1,100 Sunday as rescue workers struggled to save more than 27,000 people still trapped by the raging water.(AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud)AP - As Monday dawned, Faisal Islam sat on a highway median in northwestern Pakistan — the only dry ground he could find — and railed against the government for…

US missiles kill 5 militants in NW Pakistan (AP)

July 25th, 2010

** RETRANSMISSION TO PROVIDE BETTER QUALITY ** In this photo taken on July 19, 2010, U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses a news conference at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad, Pakistan When Hillary offered Pakistan help this week in exporting mangos to the US for the first time in a bid to dampen anti-American sentiment, it marked the latest chapter in the fruits' curious history of diplomacy and intrigue in the region. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)AP - Unmanned U.S. aircraft fired four missiles at a house in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing five suspected militants in the second drone strike in as many days, intelligence…