200 Al Qaeda dead, leaves a lull in the fighting. Seems Musharraf is serious about cleansing the region. Plus more on that arrest in Pakistan, which apparently stopped another Bali-style bombing.

Something is definitely brewing in Pakistan it seems. More and more activity in the northern provinces: Karachi, 10 March (AKI) – US surveillance aircraft have begun flights across the tribal belt of North Waziristan which lies on the Afghan-Pakistan border. Tribal sources told Adnkronos International (AKI) that the flights have been taking place over the […]

There is a lot of action in Pakistan these days. The press is focused on the rumor mongering and supposed tensions between Afghanistand and Pakistan, and no doubt this is one element in what is going on. I wrote recently about the military activities in the Taliban friendly norther provinces and the possible emergence of […]

It is always interesting to look at the timing of news and wonder whether it is serendipity, coincidence or something else that causes two events to coincide. The first event was President Bush’s amazing trip to Pakistan, where the Pakistan government wanted more than they ended up receiving in terms of recognition and agreements. The […]

Turns out we did get at least one high valued prize in that air strike in Pakistan: ABC News has learned that al Qaeda’s master bomb maker and chemical weapons expert was one of the men killed in last week’s U.S. missile attack in eastern Pakistan. Midhat Mursi, 52, also known as Abu Khabab al-Masri, […]

Pakistan has had a sustained house cleaning effort going on in the region near their northern border with Afghanistan to clear out Taliban and Al Qaeda: Militants clashed with Pakistani forces in a troubled tribal zone bordering Afghanistan early Tuesday, leaving seven paramilitary troops and 14 suspected insurgents dead, officials said. The firefight was one […]

The capture of the spokesman of Taliban has interesting implications: Pakistani interrogators on Wednesday were questioning the shadowy chief spokesman of Afghanistan’s hardline Islamic Taleban militia a day after his arrest, officials said. Security forces seized Abdul Latif Hakimi, who often spoke to international media to claim responsibility for attacks on US and Afghan forces, […]