Pakistan’s government is blaming al-Qaeda operatives for the deadly Sept. 21 blast at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad. The attacker failed to get through a secondary barrier when he crashed his explosive-laden truck into the hotel’s security gates, killing 53… Read morePakistan blames al-Qaeda in Marriott blast
Pakistan’s army chief harshly criticized the US military for making unilateral cross-border raids from Afghanistan Sept. 12. Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, Chief of Army Staff, said there was “no agreement or understanding with the coalition forces whereby they are allowed to… Read morePakistan army chief blasts US border raids
At least 25 civilians were killed and 50 injured in an armed attack on a Sunni mosque Sept. 10 in the Maskanai area of lower Dir (NWFP), Pakistan. Unidentified militants threw grenades in the mosque in Banai village, less than… Read morePakistan: Sunni civil war?
A NATO air-strike in Afghanistan’s Khost province missed its target Sept. 9, striking a house, killing two civilians and wounding 10. NATO said their forces were targeting an insurgent position when a weapon accidentally misfired, veering one and a half… Read moreAfghanistan: NATO air-strike wipes out more civilians
From Human Rights Watch, Sept. 8: Afghanistan: Civilian Deaths From Airstrikes on the Rise Airstrikes Cause Public Backlash, Undermine Protection Efforts New York – Civilian deaths in Afghanistan from US and NATO airstrikes nearly tripled from 2006 to 2007, with… Read moreAfghanistan: Human Rights Watch blasts civilian casualties
NATO-led forces killed three Afghan children and injured seven in artillery fire Sept. 1 after a patrol came under fire from presumed Taliban insurgents in Gayan district, Paktika province. The rounds fell close to a house where the children were… Read moreAfghanistan: children killed by NATO fire
The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) reported that an investigation by its human rights team found that some 90 civilians were killed, including 60 children, during operations carried out by international and Afghan military forces on Aug. 21 in… Read moreUN: air-strike in Afghanistan killed 90 civilians
At least 20 people were injured in a bomb blast at a pro-autonomy rally in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province Aug. 26. Officials said a bomb rigged to a parked motorcycle detonated near the rally’s stage in the town of Jaaferabad, leaving… Read moreWho is behind Baluchistan terror?
Afghanistan’s interior ministry says US-led forces killed 76 civilians in an Aug. 20 operation—directly contradicting the US military, which said 30 suspected Taliban died. “Seventy-six people, all civilians and most of them women and children, were martyred during the operation… Read moreAfghanistan: “scores” dead in US raid
A Los Angeles Times report, “US debates going after militants in Pakistan,” mostly quotes unnamed US officials as saying direct intervention in Pakistan is being viewed with greater seriousness as the country spins out of control. One attributed quote is… Read morePakistan: US mulls intervention, terror escalates
A suicide blast outside the emergency ward of a hospital crowded with Shi’ite Muslim mourners in Pakistan’s volatile northwest killed at least 27 people, including two police. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast in Dera Ismail Khan, NWFP…. Read morePakistan: more sectarian terror
Pakistani warplanes and helicopters bombed Lowi Sam and other areas of the Bajaur Tribal Agency near the Afghan border Aug. 10, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes. Witnesses said seven people were killed and dozens of houses were… Read morePakistan: thousands flee Bajaur fighting
