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People’s Uprising Against Militants In Pakistan

Abdulhadi Hairan — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:29:13 +0000

A tribal lashkar, an army organized by common people, was formed in Bajaur tribal area close to Afghanistan to oust the Taliban militants, somewhat that the government was failed to do. There was a one month long military operation in the area...

Pakistan police: 8 militants killed in northwest

AP — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:19:30 +0000

A Pakistani official says security forces have killed eight militants in a restive region near the Afghan border.

ULFA money in Bangladesh newspaper

Deepak — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:30:21 +0000

The militants from Assam are not only taking shelter in Bangladesh, but they had also invested money in the local media. It is suspected that the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has taken stakes in a popular English daily...

Attack on Pakistani lawmaker's home kills 8

AP — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:19:32 +0000

Militants used rockets and a bomb to attack the family home of a lawmaker in Pakistan’s volatile northwest early Monday, killing eight people including the politician’s brother, police...

Police: 8 killed in Pakistan lawmaker's home

AP — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:51:02 +0000

Militants used rockets and a bomb to attack the family home of a lawmaker in Pakistan’s volatile northwest early Monday, killing eight people including the politician’s brother, police...

Militant attack on Pakistan lawmaker kills 8

AP — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:11:53 +0000

Militants used rockets and a bomb to attack the home of a lawmaker in Pakistan’s volatile northwest early Monday, killing eight people including the politician’s brother, police...

2 NATO troops are killed in eastern Afghanistan

AP — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:09:00 +0000

Militants attacked a NATO patrol with a roadside bomb and small arms fire in eastern Afghanistan Friday, killing two troops, the alliance said in a statement.

Ambush in Afghanistan kills 3 Western aid workers

AP — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:00:21 +0000

Militants brandishing assault rifles ambushed a U.S. relief organization’s vehicle south of Kabul Wednesday, killing an American aid worker, two of her colleagues and their Afghan driver and leaving their white SUV riddled with hundreds of...

NIGER-DELTA YOUTH MILITANTS AND ABDUCTION CASES

Mustapha — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:09:45 +0000

In the past three years, Nigeria has recorded its highest cases of abduction in the Niger Delta region by the Militant Youths of the Nigeria Delta, though most of the abductions were on expatriates foreigners working in Nigeria which results to so...

Militants in Pakistan behead 2 accused spies

AP — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:17:46 +0000

Militants beheaded two men in a Pakistani tribal area near the border with Afghanistan, accusing them of spying for the U.S. and Pakistan, a witness said Monday.