Baluchistan blasts target pipeline, NATO

Militants in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province attacked a NATO supply truck transporting fuel for US-led forces in Afghanistan, one day after blowing up a gas pipeline.

Pakistan: thousands flee new offensive

A new anti-Taliban offensive by the Pakistani military in the tribal region of Mohmand bordering Afghanistan has forced some 25,000 residents to flee, according to the UNHCR.

2010 deadliest year for Afghan civilians

The Afghanistan Rights Monitor finds that 2010 was the deadliest year for civilians in the country since the US-led invasion of 2001, with more than 2,400 non-combatants killed.

Pakistan: thousands march against US drone strikes

More than 10,000 marched in the northwest Pakistan city of Peshawar to protest US drone attacks, one day after at least 13 were killed in three drone strikes in North Waziristan.

US to stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014: Biden

Vice President Joe Biden, reversing his recent position, said the US could stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014—as Hamid Karzai signed a long-term pact with NATO in Lisbon.

Afghanistan: president orders tribunal to hear election fraud complaints

Afghan President Hamid Karzai issued a decree allowing the country’s Supreme Court to go forward with a tribunal to hear complaints of fraud during the parliamentary elections.

The other “Afghanistan Report”

Veterans for Peace protested in front of the White House following the release of the administration’s rosy-scenario’d report on the war in Afghanistan.

Photo: War Resisters League

US soldier held in fatal shooting of Afghanistan detainee

A US soldier is currently being held in connection with the fatal shooting of a Taliban detainee, who was found dead in a holding cell in Kandahar province.

NATO attacks Pakistan

Pakistan’s foreign ministry strongly protested two NATO air-raids in North Waziristan over the weekend, in which some 30 fighters apparently belonging to the Haqqani network were killed.

Afghanistan: protests against Christian fundi Koran-burning

The so-called “Burn a Koran Day” announced by a Gainesville preacher ignited protests for a second day in a row by hundreds of Afghans, who burned US flags and shouted “Death to America.”

Pakistan: jihadi terror targets mosque —again

Suicide bombers struck an Ahmadiyya mosque during Friday prayers in the western Pakistan town of Mardan—and a march by Shi’ites in solidarity with the Palestinians in Quetta.

Pakistan: jihadi terror targets mosque —again

Thousands of Shi’ites marched in mourning in Lahore a day after three suicide bombers blew themselves up amid a procession outside a mosque—the latest in a series of jihadist attacks on Muslims.