Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - November 06, 2009

Suppiah · Post by **Suppiah** » 13 Nov 2009 08:37

Why is Peshawar being singled out for these expressions of purity? After all Lahore and Islamabad are equally pure and they deserve some attention too..it would be the ultimate joke of the century if the Talibunnies manage to take out ISI HQ!..

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 13 Nov 2009 09:02

Suppiah wrote:Why is Peshawar being singled out for these expressions of purity? After all Lahore and Islamabad are equally pure and they deserve some attention too..it would be the ultimate joke of the century if the Talibunnies manage to take out ISI HQ!..

Its a proxy fight between Iran and TSP. Most likely retaliation for the Iranian official's killing.

vishal · Post by **vishal** » 13 Nov 2009 09:10

China gave Pakistan enough enriched uranium to make 2 atomic bombs

Extract: In 1982, a Pakistani military C-130 left the western Chinese city of Urumqi with a highly unusual cargo: enough weapons-grade uranium for two atomic bombs, according to accounts written by the father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, Abdul Qadeer Khan, and provided to The Washington Post.

The uranium transfer in five stainless-steel boxes was part of a broad-ranging, secret nuclear deal approved years earlier by Mao Zedong and Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto that culminated in an exceptional, deliberate act of proliferation by a nuclear power, according to the accounts by Khan, who is under house arrest in Pakistan.

U.S. officials say they have known about the transfer for decades and once privately confronted the Chinese -- who denied it -- but have never raised the issue in public or sought to impose direct sanctions on China for it.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 13 Nov 2009 09:11

If this happened in 1982, then it explains Mrs G's decision to test.

Sanjay M · Post by **Sanjay M** » 13 Nov 2009 09:22

Why? Pokhran-1 was in 1974

The fact that China proliferated shows how hollow NPT is.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 13 Nov 2009 09:27

so its friday and the vacuum bulb failure was right on cue.

mcgrath-ish consistency.

Muppalla · Post by **Muppalla** » 13 Nov 2009 09:30

It happened on Wednesday and again on Friday. The only day with no bums was wednesday during this whole week.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 13 Nov 2009 09:37

About the Peshawar IED. And so early in the day too giving hope therefore that one or two more before nightfall could be added bonuses.

Avinash R · Post by **Avinash R** » 13 Nov 2009 09:47

Pureland Spy who helped Hawara gets 2-year term
TNN 13 November 2009, 02:24am IST

CHANDIGARH: The UT district court on Thursday sentenced two-year imprisonment to Pakistani national, Abid Mahmood, for his involvement in Burail
jail break in which Jagtar Singh Hawara and other accused involved in Beant Singh assassination case managed to escape after digging a tunnel.

Mahmood is currently serving a term for espionage. The chief judicial magistrate handed down the prison term to Mahmood after the accused’s reported confession about his involvement in the crime. He has been sentenced under sections 224 (obstruction by a person to his lawful apprehension) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC.

A native of Liakatpur district of Pakistan, Mahmood is said to have facilitated Hawara and others flee Burail jail and also reportedly helped them cross the border.

According to the prosecution, the prime accused in the Beant Singh assassination case, Hawara, had a long meeting with Mahmood during the afternoon of January 21, 2004, the day of the escape, in the jail dispensary. The spy is stated to have given some code words to Hawara that helped him cross the border.

Mahmood, 27, was arrested in February 2003 from Sector 34 for espionage. He was sentenced to seven-year imprisonment by the district courts in March this year and is currently undergoing his sentence in Burail jail.

We need more such people to people contact with pureland, Is PM listening?

Mort Walker · Post by **Mort Walker** » 13 Nov 2009 09:59

Here is the link to the New Yorker's story about TSP's arsenal by Seymore Hersh
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009 ... fact_hersh

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 13 Nov 2009 10:13

Thanks! for posting this now shows RAHUL Bhatt son of Mahesh Bhatt has links to L-E-T. Look behind any of these super seculars and they all have links with persons or agencies enimecial to India.

shravan · Post by **shravan** » 13 Nov 2009 10:17

10 dead, 30 hurt in Peshawar suicide blast

PESHAWAR: Bombs tore through security offices in Peshawar on Friday, killing at least 10 people and injuring more then 30.

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 13 Nov 2009 10:26

Pakistan is such a lamp which burns every Jumma but give no "roshni". Its better if some one just puff it off for good and put its Butt Puttars our of misery .
10 dead, 30 hurt in Peshawar suicide blast

shravan · Post by **shravan** » 13 Nov 2009 10:37

^ They targeted the ISI Building.
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Bomb hits spy agency in Pakistan city of Peshawar

svinayak · Post by **svinayak** » 13 Nov 2009 10:37

http://pakhistorian.com/

Current Pakistan Now Step one: Current day Pakistan

Step two: Take control of Pashtun areas

Step 3: Confederation of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Step 4: Work with the Muslim world

Step 5: Grow the Muslim world

amdavadi · Post by **amdavadi** » 13 Nov 2009 10:44

I am getting tired of keeping houri counts. Can we just have the houris all for once? This small damaka once every few days
is making me loose track of all counts. It is too much to ask abdul for a one big one once a week rather than small once every 2-3 days.

anishns · Post by **anishns** » 13 Nov 2009 10:55

Amdavadi bhaya....
Amongst this Abdul frenzy lets hope that the one big one doesn't happen on our side of the border!

amdavadi wrote:I am getting tired of keeping houri counts. Can we just have the houris all for once? This small damaka once every few days
is making me loose track of all counts. It is too much to ask abdul for a one big one once a week rather than small once every 2-3 days.

Suppiah · Post by **Suppiah** » 13 Nov 2009 10:56

There is another worrying news from Peshawar - a man rammed his car into three cops killing them...are they running out of bombs and have to resort to Indian-road style killing or is that bombs did not go off? Perhaps they should have waited for local ISI office to train them properly before bombing the building down..

amdavadi · Post by **amdavadi** » 13 Nov 2009 11:04

Anish san,

We are taking cra* from pakis since early 90's. Now they are getting what they sow.We all know who is responsible
for killing in India. But in dumpistan pious is going after whiskey drinking jernail & ISI who train those pious to kill kaafir
Indians.

Umrao Das · Post by **Umrao Das** » 13 Nov 2009 11:28

BBC reproting Yet another IEDmubarak 8 Police persons killed.

VikramS · Post by **VikramS** » 13 Nov 2009 11:40

The ISI building bombing destroyed the building but all the casualties where hired security guards. The timing of the bombing, Friday (holiday) dawn is was designed to create maximum visual damage (gutted building) with no personnel loss to the ISI. Being a security guard at government buildings in the TSP is sure a high-risk job these days.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 13 Nov 2009 11:54

BBC

UK 'backs Taliban reintegration'
By Gordon Corera
Security correspondent, BBC News

The UK believes success against the Taliban requires a political component

UK officials have proposed a strategic reconciliation between the Afghan government and Taliban leaders, according to a memo seen by the BBC.

Reconciliation calls are not new but, as well as Taliban foot-soldiers and local commanders, this would include the so-called Quetta Shura leadership.

Proposed steps put forward in the memo include removing "reconciled Talibs" from the UN sanctions list.

The Foreign Office said it would not comment on allegedly leaked documents.

Several governments are thought to have recommended policies to President Hamid Karzai ahead of his second term.

The memo was first reported by the German magazine Stern and by Hasht-e Sobh, a newspaper in Kabul.

Two sections of the memo have been passed to the BBC - one looking at regional relations and the other at peace and reintegration.

The sections do not include the author or recipient or the exact date, but it is believed to have been passed to the Afghan government within recent weeks.

'Carrot and stick'

"We must weaken and divide the Taliban if we are to reduce the insurgency to a level that can be managed and contained by the Afghan Security Forces," begins a section headed "Agenda Items 3".

"This can be achieved by a combination of military pressure and clear signals that the option of an honourable exit from the fight exists.

"Putting in place the right combination of carrot and stick, at the right moment, will be critical to changing the calculations of individual commanders and their men."

The memo then calls for an Afghan-led, internationally backed process that works on three levels.

Firstly "tactical", involving reintegrating foot soldiers and their immediate commanders.

Secondly "operational", involving the reintegration of the Taliban's "shadow governors", senior commanders and their forces.

Finally, what is called "strategic". The latter is described as "reconciliation - a settlement with (most of) the Quetta Shura."

'Action plan'

This is a reference to the council based in the Pakistani city of Quetta, over the border from southern Afghanistan, which is believed to direct a considerable portion of Taliban activity.

In a report by the US general commanding Nato troops in Afghanistan, Gen Stanley McChrystal, he described the Quetta Shura as the most threatening of a number of insurgent groups operating in Afghanistan.

Negotiating with the Taliban is a challenge because the organisation is far from monolithic

The memo details a series of "action plan priorities" with time-frames attached.

Within three months it calls for a "tactical reintegration programme" with a "reintegration tsar", along with international support and funding for the process.

Within six months, it calls for alternative political voices to be available to Taliban supporters, for instance through moderate Islamist parties.

It also calls for "reconciled Talibs" to be removed from the sanctions list established under UN Security Council Resolution 1267.

Within two years, the document calls for a loya jirga - or national assembly - to be held in Kabul, reopening the Afghan constitution and the Bonn agreement of late 2001 which established the current political parameters for the country (a process from which the Taliban was excluded having just been defeated).

Karzai suspicions

It also calls for a UN Security Council resolution welcoming the loya jirga and removing the reconciles from the 1267 resolution list, a demand that figures close to the Taliban have been calling for.

In July, UK Foreign Secretary David Milliband gave a speech at Nato in which he called the insurgency a "wide but shallow coalition of convenience" and called for a "long-term inclusive political settlement in Afghanistan" involving the drawing away of conservative Pashtun nationalists from those signed up to the ideology of global jihad.

But there was no reference in this speech or in recent British government statements to a wider strategic reconciliation between the Afghan government and the Quetta Shura.
President Hamid Karzai
Mr Karzai's election victory was tainted with accusations of corruption

President Karzai has spoken out about the need for talks with the Taliban but he is also known to be suspicious about Britain's intentions.

That suspicion was evident when two diplomats, one British and one Irish working for the UN and EU, were expelled in late 2007 for allegedly talking to Taliban groups, talks the men believed were taking place with the full knowledge of the Karzai government.

Negotiating with the Taliban is also a challenge because the organisation is far from monolithic.

There are significant differences between its operations and alliances in the south and the east of the country.

While some parts are under the control of the Quetta Shura and motivated largely by nationalist resistance to foreign forces, other parts are believed to be closer to al-Qaeda and may have been influenced by its global jihadist ideology.

The exact balance of power and ideology within the Taliban is crucial to understanding not just whether talks will work but whether the Taliban would be likely to allow al-Qaeda back into any Afghan territory where it regains contro

amol.p · Post by **amol.p** » 13 Nov 2009 12:05

Taliban hit back at Pak army, kill 40 soldiers

The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, led by Hakimullah Mehsud, has intensified its assaults on Pakistani security forces in the Taliban stronghold of South Waziristan.

The Taliban claims to have killed more than 40 soldiers and destroyed two tanks on Thursday.

Speaking to this correspondent via a satellite phone from an undisclosed location in South Waziristan, Taliban commander Mufti Waliur Rehman claimed, "The mujahideen have killed more than 40 soldiers, destroyed two tanks and three vehicles of the security force in Ladha. We were waiting for the army to come into our areas. It is the time to attack -- there will be more attacks in the days ahead."

"The videos of the slain soldiers, destroyed tanks, military vehicles and other achievements of the Taliban during the three-week operation will be released soon," Rehman added.

Earlier, the Pakistan army [ Images ] claimed that five soldiers and 22 militants were killed in Taliban attacks, but a security official later told a local reporter that over 15 security personnel had been killed in the clashes.

Taliban sources told rediff.com that Taliban leaders reviewed their strategy at a meeting in Ladha on November 8. Hakimullah Mehsud, Wali-ur Rehman Mehsud, Qari Husain, the head of the Fidayeen Islam Pakistan, and Shamim Mehsud, the amir of Ladha, participated in the meeting which decided upon a new phase of guerilla warfare

http://news.rediff.com/report/2009/nov/ ... ldiers.htm

krishnan · Post by **krishnan** » 13 Nov 2009 12:06

They started taking videos as well

. Good

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 13 Nov 2009 12:13

Foreign diplomats gauging security measures with 'dummy bombs'

After a foreign diplomat’s car was found carrying a “dummy bomb” on board, the Interior Ministry has warned that vehicles of foreign missions carrying illegal weapons and suspicious material on board will be impounded in the future. . . The Interior Ministry has written a letter to the Foreign Office to inform it about a recent incident involving a Danish embassy vehicle that had been fitted with a “dummy bomb”. The letter said the vehicle, bearing registration APC-718, with Danish embassy contractor Mehboob and the embassy’s Senior Security Adviser Chris John on board, was stopped for routine checking outside embassy premises. Security personnel found an “unidentified object” attached to the vehicle and engaged the Bomb Disposal Squad immediately to examine it. “The object was checked and dismantled and declared a dummy bomb. On inquiry, Chris John told the police that it was a mock exercise to determine the efficiency and alertness of police officials deployed on duty.

Hari Seldon · Post by **Hari Seldon** » 13 Nov 2009 12:18

“The object was checked and dismantled and declared a dummy bomb. On inquiry, Chris John told the police that it was a mock exercise to determine the efficiency and alertness of police officials deployed on duty.

If the yindus try this stunt, the security personals will likely quietly replace the dummy bum with a live and tickin' one only.

Heck, wouldn't put it past the holy beards to 'plant' bums on any yindia related vehicular activity in Fak-Ap on the guise of security checking.

P.S. edited as requested. Thank you.

Umrao Das · Post by **Umrao Das** » 13 Nov 2009 12:30

The fact is TSP COAS has Ombaba by balls dangling.

Notice how ombaba is chanting the KKK mantra?

Kabul Karzai Kashmir.

He wants Kabul to accomodate TSP

He wants Karzai to quit ( Irony is that ombaba says Karzai is corrupt while TSP is embodiment of Terror and corruption, he wants to GUBO for them)

He wanst India to give Kashmir (atleast part of it) to TSP.

Now in the intercine fight Ombaba court intrigues
Hillary Blasts TSO govermand (bad cop)
Then appoints Robin Raphel to play good cop in Islam aint bad
Billary makes money from NRIs only to stab in the back...

Rahul M · Post by **Rahul M** » 13 Nov 2009 12:42

that's no reason to give up the field without a fight.

sunnyP · Post by **sunnyP** » 13 Nov 2009 13:06

A suicide car bomb attack on Pakistan's main intelligence agency in the city of Peshawar has killed at least 12 people and injured 40, officials say.

Another five people died in a separate suicide car bomb attack at a police station in the Baka Khel area in the North West Frontier Province.

The Peshawar blast destroyed the three-storey building of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8358109.stm

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 13 Nov 2009 13:10

US Embassy condemns killing of the Iranian embassy official

The killed person is a Pakistani working in the Iranian consulate in Peshawar. Why is the US condemning that post haste ? Something looks fishy.

. . . the US embassy said that Jaffery’s killing was part of extremists’ strategy to “isolate Pakistan” and deprive the country of the international community’s support.

a_bharat · Post by **a_bharat** » 13 Nov 2009 13:15

Passport confirms Headley’s 9 visits to India

There are also reports that Headley, while in Mumbai, had checked into The Taj and The Oberoi – later attacked on 26/11.

kumarn · Post by **kumarn** » 13 Nov 2009 14:42

Pakistan: A write-off?

Suppiah · Post by **Suppiah** » 13 Nov 2009 15:19

Nirvana is when list of vacuums starts from October, not 'from 2008' or 'in last 1 year'...

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/art ... QD9BUI3R00
Major militant attacks in Pakistan since October

Moksha is when they start listing 'attacks since this Monday'....hope TSP gets there soon...

krishnan · Post by **krishnan** » 13 Nov 2009 15:33

http://news.rediff.com/report/2009/nov/ ... vealed.htm

China provided Pakistan with a 'do-it-yourself' kit and weapons grade uranium for making two nuclear bombs in 1982, a leading American daily said on Friday quoting notes made by disgraced Pakistani scientist A Q Khan.

The Washington Post said the deliberate act of proliferation was part of a secret nuclear deal struck in 1976 between Chinese leader Mao Zedong and Pakistan's then Prime Minister Zulfiquar Ali Bhutto.

'Upon my personal request, the Chinese minister had gifted us 50 kg weapon-grade enriched uranium, enough for two weapons,' Khan wrote in a previously undisclosed 11-page narrative of the Pakistani bomb programme.

Khan prepared the notes for Pakistan's intelligence after his January 2004 detention for unauthorised nuclear commerce, the daily said.

The Post said it obtained Khan's detailed accounts from Simon Henderson, a former Financial Times journalist who is now a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and who has maintained correspondence with Khan.

In a first-person account about his contacts with Khan in the September 20 edition of the Sunday Times, Henderson disclosed several excerpts from one of the documents.

According to Khan, the daily said, the uranium cargo came with a blueprint for a simple weapon that China had already tested, supplying a virtual do-it-yourself kit that significantly speeded Pakistan's bomb effort.

The transfer also started a chain of proliferation: US officials worry that Khan later shared related Chinese design information with Iran, in 2003, Libya confirmed obtaining it from Khan's clandestine network.

'The Chinese gave us drawings of the nuclear weapon, gave us 50 kg enriched uranium,' Khan said in a separate account sent to his wife several months earlier.

Khan said he and two other Pakistani officials -- including then-Foreign Secretary Agha Shahi, since deceased -- worked out the details when they traveled to Beijing [ Images ] later that year for Mao's funeral, the daily said.

'Over several days, Khan said, he briefed three top Chinese nuclear weapons officials -- Liu Wei, Li Jue and Jiang Shengjie -- on how the European-designed centrifuges could swiftly aid China's lagging uranium-enrichment programme. China's Foreign Ministry did not respond to questions about the officials' roles,' it said.

'Chinese experts started coming regularly to learn the whole technology' from Pakistan, Khan states, staying in a guesthouse built for them at his centrifuge research centre.

Pakistani experts were dispatched to Hanzhong in central China, where they helped 'put up a centrifuge plant', Khan said in an account he gave to his wife after coming under government pressure, the newspaper said.

'We sent 135 C-130 plane loads of machines, inverters, valves, flow meters, pressure gauges,' Khan wrote, according to the documents accessed by The Post.

'Our teams stayed there for weeks to help and their teams stayed here for weeks at a time,' he said.

In return, The Post said, China sent Pakistan 15 tons of uranium hexafluoride (UF6), a feedstock for Pakistan's centrifuges that Khan's colleagues were having difficulty producing on their own.
Khan said the gas enabled the laboratory to begin producing bomb-grade uranium in 1982.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 13 Nov 2009 18:14

Umrao Das wrote:BBC reproting Yet another IEDmubarak 8 Police persons killed.

As I said, an IED/suicide explosion early in the day eases the pressure a little bit on the suicide bombers and kindles hope of one or two more later in the day.

And, a run off the last ball too to keep the strike (pun unintended).
NATO Convoy Attacked in Bolan

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 13 Nov 2009 18:25

Hussain Haqqani's uvacha

He said Pakistan had lost more lives to terrorism than any other country in the world. Still there were people around the world who did not recognise the sacrifices rendered by Pakistan, he said. They did not understand the complexity of this war for the Pakistanis, he added. “No one has the right to question the commitment of Pakistan in the war against terror,” he added.

Earlier, speaking at a gathering of Congressman at the Capital Hill, Haqqani said the US should not ignore Pakistan’s concerns about its sovereignty or about threats from its neighbouring countries.

Haqqani noted that India was perhaps the biggest elephant in the room. “Pakistan is wary of the Indo-US relationship, which is robust and multifaceted,” and the US would have to treat Pakistan at par to win over Pakistan’s trust. He mentioned that India was Boeing’s largest customer, and also that 26 members of the Obama administration were Indian-American. “Facts like these naturally make the Pakistan nervous,” the envoy said.

Haqqani said that as much as it was concerned with India, Pakistan was also anxious to see how its ties with the US evolved. He noted that the Pakistanis wanted to receive credit for their counter-terrorism efforts, as Pakistan killed or captured more al-Qaeda leaders than any other country. “The US won’t truly be able to win the hearts and minds there until it adopts a more comprehensive engagement strategy — one that has a political element and a socio-economic element.”

Haqqani said: “Although, Pakistan’s economy is back on track, insecurity limits its ability to achieve sustained economic growth. It shares a border with a hostile neighbour (India), with a desperately poor country in which the Taliban are re-asserting its influence (Afghanistan), and with a nation that is in the midst of tremendous domestic upheaval (Iran). Being in a near constant struggle against internal and external threats has its consequences.” {As though Pakistan would have been in an excellent shape had these not been there}

He said the visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Pakistan was significant to the extent that the Americans saw a different side of Pakistan. In attending town halls and visiting colleges and universities, she tried to demonstrate that the US was genuinely concerned about Pakistan’s welfare. But Haqqani pointed out that one high-profile visit was unlikely to do much, because many of Pakistan’s difficulties were historically rooted.

saip · Post by **saip** » 13 Nov 2009 18:31

Six terrorists killed, 12 soldiers martyred in SWA

http://thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=91340

What is happening to the pious land? No 1 to 10 any more. More pious are slaughtering the less pious!

R Vaidya · Post by **R Vaidya** » 13 Nov 2009 18:53

I think India should focus on five things for now
1. How to safe-guard the TSP nuclear arsenal from the Pakistan army in the emerging civil war situation-- since PA =ISI=Taliban =AQ is the factual position.

2. If some fanatics of PA[ plenty are around] decide to nuke say Delhi or Mumbai --how to proactively prevent it by firmly indicating that the response will be 100 times more
3. Plan to manage thousands of refugees [ common people] expected to flow from the otherside .Since the current TV experts and acedamicians etc supporting Taliban mindset will all fly to USA or UK if they get visa.

4 Managing transition /and facilitating the emerging small countries like Balochistan/Paktoonistan etc to stabilise the region.
5. If Taliban mentality elements take over the remaining portions of Pakistan --how to calibrate our response/relationship to the new/energised Islamic republic next door. That is peace-- by bribe or by threat!!

I think strategising on these issues should be the highest priority now.
This has to be done by India without outsourcing it to Washington
R Vaidya

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 13 Nov 2009 20:13

Ghosts that won't go away

My telephone number in Islamabad in those distant days was 826611 while the number of the Prime Minister's house was 816611. And since telephone lines then were not what they are now -- Pakistan not having quite entered the digital or optic fibre age -- it was not uncommon for calls to slip from one line to the other. So it was that sometimes to my amusement, at other times to my great annoyance, I used to receive calls meant for the Prime Minister's house.

Once, cross my heart, I got a call from Geneva from a Mr Schlegelmilch (I hope I have got his name right) who wanted to be put through to Mr Zardari. I pretended to be someone associated with Mr Zardari and said that he could tell me whatever he had to say in the fullest confidence. But Mr Schlegelmilch was too smart to fall for this. It later transpired that he was the go-between in the Cotecna affair and received a handsome cut for his pains. (I am not making this up. I wrote about it at the time.)

muraliravi · Post by **muraliravi** » 13 Nov 2009 21:05

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/ ... arge_3.php

This guy has a nice list of blasts from Oct 5 along with location.

Major Taliban attacks in Pakistan since Oct. 5:

Nov. 13, 2009: A suicide bomber killed 10 people in an attack on the headquarters of the Inter-Service Intelligence agency in Peshawar.

Nov. 13, 2009: A suicide bomber wounded 10 people in an attack on a police station in Bannu.

Nov. 10, 2009: A suicide bomber killed 24 people in a market in Charsadda.

Nov. 9, 2009: A suicide bomber killed four people during an attack at a police checkpoint outside Peshawar.

Nov. 8, 2009: A suicide bomber killed an anti-Taliban leader and 12 others in an attack at a market in the town of Matni near Peshawar.

Nov. 5, 2009: An Army brigadier and a soldier were wounded in an ambush in Islamabad.

Nov. 2, 2009: A Taliban suicide bomber killed 34 Pakistanis and wounded scores more in an attack in Rawalpindi.

Nov. 2, 2009: A pair of suicide bombers killed one policeman and wounded 25 security officers and civilians after the pair detonated their vests at a security checkpoint.

Oct. 28, 2009: A Taliban suicide bomber killed 119 Pakistanis and wounded hundreds more in an attack on a bazaar in Peshawar.

Oct. 27, 2009: A brigadier general who served as the director of defense services guards at the Army General Headquarters escaped an assassination attempt in Islamabad.

Oct. 23, 2009: The Taliban detonated an anti-tank mine and hit a bus transporting a wedding party in Mohmand. The explosion killed 15 of the passengers and wounded six more.

Oct. 23, 2009: The Taliban detonated a car bomb outside a popular restaurant in the residential Hayatabad area in Peshawar. The attack wounded 13 civilians; nine are said to be in critical condition.

Oct. 23, 2009: A Taliban suicide bomber killed seven people during an attack at a security checkpoint near the Kamra Air Weapon Complex in the district of Attock in Punjab province.

Oct. 21, 2009: The Taliban assassinated a brigadier general and his driver during an ambush in Islamabad.

Oct. 20, 2009: A pair of suicide bombers detonated their vests at Islamabad's International Islamic University, killing five.

Oct. 16, 2009: A pair of suicide bombers, including a female, attacked a police station and a building housing an intelligence service in Peshawar, killing 11.

Oct. 15, 2009: Terrorist assault teams attacked the Federal Investigation Agency building, the Manawan police training centre, and the Elite Force Headquarters in Lahore. Twenty-six people, including nine terrorists and 12 policemen, were killed.

Oct. 15, 2009: A suicide bomber rammed a car into a police station in Kohat, killing 11 people, including policemen and children.

Oct. 12, 2009: A suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives as a military convoy passed through a checkpoint in a market in Alpuri in Shangla. The attack killed 41 people, including six security personnel.

Oct. 10, 2009: An assault team attacked the Army General Headquarters and took 42 security personnel captive. Eleven soldiers were killed, including a brigadier general and a lieutenant colonel, along with nine members of the assault team; and 39 hostages were freed.

Oct. 9, 2009: A suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives in a bazaar in Peshawar, killing 49 civilians.

Oct. 5, 2009: A suicide bomber entered the World Food Program office in Islamabad and detonated his vest, killing five UN workers, including an Iraqi.

Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/ ... z0WkrxQR8d