Zitat:Wahrscheinlich zehn Tote bei Raketenangriff in Pakistan

Peshawar (Reuters) - Beim Einschlag einer vermutlich von einer US-Drohne abgefeuerte Rakete sind im Nordwesten Pakistans zehn Menschen ums Leben gekommen.

Die Rakete sei in einem Haus im Grenzgebiet zu Afghanistan eingeschlagen, teilten Vertreter von Militär und Geheimdienst mit. Das genaue Ausmaß des Schadens werde sich erst später feststellen lassen. Die Region gilt als Ruheraum für Al-Kaida- und Taliban-Kämpfer.

Zitat:Pakistanis Mired in Brutal Battle to Oust Taliban

LOE SAM, Pakistan — When Pakistan’s army retook this strategic stronghold from the Taliban last month, it discovered how deeply Islamic militants had encroached on — and literally dug into — Pakistani territory.
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After three months of sometimes fierce fighting, the Pakistani Army controls a small slice of Bajaur. But what was initially portrayed as a paramilitary action to restore order in the area has become the most sustained military campaign by the Pakistani Army against the Taliban and its backers in Al Qaeda since Pakistan allied itself with the United States in 2001.
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The Pakistanis have also resorted to scorched-earth tactics to push the Taliban out, an approach that risks pushing more of their own citizens into the Taliban’s embrace.

After the Frontier Corps failed to dislodge the Taliban from Loe Sam in early August, the army sent in 2,400 troops in early September to take on a Taliban force that has drawn militants from across the tribal region, as well as a flow of fighters from Afghanistan.

Like all Pakistani soldiers, the troops sent here had been trained and indoctrinated to fight in conventional warfare against India, considered the nation’s permanent enemy, but had barely been trained in counterinsurgency strategy and tactics.
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Zitat:BERICHT ÜBER DEAL

Pakistan erlaubt USA Angriffe auf Extremisten

Es ist eine der umstrittensten Praktiken des US-Militärs - jetzt hat offenbar Pakistans Regierung ihr Einverständnis gegeben. In einem Geheimdeal genehmigte sie laut "Washington Post", dass die US-Luftwaffe auf ihrem Territorium Terroristen jagt. Öffentlich will man sich aber weiter empören.

Zitat:Pakistan and U.S. Have Tacit Deal On Airstrikes

By Karen DeYoung and Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, November 16, 2008; Page A01

The United States and Pakistan reached tacit agreement in September on a don't-ask-don't-tell policy that allows unmanned Predator aircraft to attack suspected terrorist targets in rugged western Pakistan, according to senior officials in both countries. In recent months, the U.S. drones have fired missiles at Pakistani soil at an average rate of once every four or five days.

The officials described the deal as one in which the U.S. government refuses to publicly acknowledge the attacks while Pakistan's government continues to complain noisily about the politically sensitive strikes.

The arrangement coincided with a suspension of ground assaults into Pakistan by helicopter-borne U.S. commandos. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said in an interview last week that he was aware of no ground attacks since one on Sept. 3 that his government vigorously protested.
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Zitat:Pakistan backed raid, says Nato
Nato-led troops in Afghanistan say they carried out an attack on an "enemy position" in Pakistan on Sunday with the help of Pakistani security forces.

The International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said in a statement that it carried out the attack after one of its Afghan bases came under attack.

Isaf said there were no casualties in the attack on its base.
Correspondents say it is rare for Isaf to acknowledge such co-operation. There was no immediate Pakistani response.
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Zitat:Interview zu den Anschlägen in Indien
"Pakistans Geheimdienst ist außer Kontrolle"
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Zitat:Terrorserie in Mumbai
Pakistan gesteht Mitverantwortung ein

Spätes Eingeständnis: Zweieinhalb Monate nach der Terrorserie in der indischen Finanzmetropole Mumbai räumt Islamabad ein, dass die Angriffe größtenteils in Pakistan geplant wurden. Einige Spuren führten aber auch nach Europa.
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FTD.de, 14:37 Uhr

Zitat:13 Tote bei Zusammenstößen in pakistanischer Hafenstadt Karachi

Islamabad (Reuters) - Bei Zusammenstößen rivalisierender Gruppen sind in der pakistanischen Hafenstadt Karachi 13 Menschen getötet und rund 50 weitere verletzt worden.

Urdu-sprachige Bewohner und Paschtunen seien aufeinander los gegangen, sagte der Polizeichef der Stadt, Wasim Ahmed, am Sonntag der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters. Zudem seien zahlreiche Läden angegriffen und mehrere Autos in Brand gesteckt worden.

Zitat:Pakistan: Dschundallah-Terroristen ermorden 13 iranische Polizisten

12:37 | 04/ 12/ 2008

TEHERAN, 04. Dezember (RIA Novosti). In Pakistan hat die Extremistenorganisation Dschundallah 13 iranische Polizisten hingerichtet, die Mitte Juni als Geiseln genommen worden waren.
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Zitat:Rice fordert "robuste Antwort" von Pakistan
Zardari sagt Verfolgung von Extremisten zu

US-Außenministerin Condoleezza Rice hat Pakistan bei einem Kurz-Besuch in Islamabad zu einem harten Vorgehen gegen Terrorismus aufgefordert. Eine Woche nach den Anschlägen auf Hotels in Bombay mahnte Rice, "die globale Bedrohung durch Extremismus und Terrorismus" müsse von allen Ländern entschlossen beantwortet werden.

Der pakistanische Präsident Asif Ali Zardari sagte eine Verfolgung der Hintermänner zu, sollten diese aus seinem Land stammen. ....

Stand: 04.12.2008 11:46 Uhr

Zitat:PAKISTAN

Mehrere Tote bei Explosion nahe Schiiten-Zentrum

Bei einer schweren Explosion im pakistanischen Peschawar sind mindestens zehn Menschen getötet worden. Dutzende weitere wurden verletzt.

Zitat:PAKISTAN

Islamisten setzen über hundert Militärfahrzeuge in Brand

Im Norden Pakistans haben Dutzende Männer einen Anschlag auf ein Depot verübt, das der Versorgung der Nato-Truppen in Afghanistan dient. Sie zündeten über hundert Lkws an, ein Mensch wurde getötet.

Zitat:Pakistan raids camp over Mumbai attacks

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan is continuing to conduct raids on targets linked to the outlawed group that India blames for last month's massacre in Mumbai, a Pakistani security official told CNN on Monday. Raids took place Sunday near Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, the sources said.

A Pakistani military official said 15 people were arrested in the raid but he would not identify any of the suspects until the preliminary investigation has concluded.

Zitat:Festnahmen wegen Terrorangriffen von Bombay

Pakistan will mutmaßliche Drahtzieher nicht ausliefern

Die pakistanische Regierung hat die von Indien geforderte Auslieferung mutmaßlicher Drahtzieher der Terrorserie von Bombay abgelehnt. Die pakistanischen Behörden hatten seit Samstag insgesamt 16 Menschen aus dem Umfeld der islamistischen Organisation Laschkar-e-Taiba festgenommen, die von Indien der Anschlagsplanung beschuldigt wird.

Zitat:Pakistan snubs India over arrests

Pakistan has arrested leading militants following the Mumbai attacks but says it will not hand them over to India.

Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar said Jaish-e-Mohammad founder Masood Azhar and Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi had been held.

His comments came as Pakistan's foreign minister said his country did not want war but was "fully prepared".

Delhi says the Mumbai gunmen are linked to Pakistan, which is under intense Indian and US pressure to take action.

Meanwhile, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari says peace talks with India must proceed to "foil the designs of the terrorists".
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Zitat:'Rot' at heart of Indian intelligence
By Soutik Biswas
BBC News, Mumbai
The blame game over who was responsible for bloody terror attacks in the western Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) has a sense of déjà vu about it.
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Zitat:Pakistanis wary of Mumbai claims
By Barbara Plett
BBC News, Islamabad
Indian media reports detailing Pakistani links to the audacious Mumbai attacks have been met with deep scepticism in Pakistan.
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Zitat:Pakistan Arrests 40 in Terror Crackdown

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan intensified its crackdown on the terror outfit alleged to have orchestrated November's three-day siege of Mumbai, arresting about 40 people in raids on militant camps and offices across northwestern and central parts of the country.

But a senior Pakistani official made it clear that no suspect arrested by Pakistan would be handed over to India.

There is immense pressure on Pakistan to dismantle Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group accused of carrying out the attacks that killed 171 people. Tuesday's raids saw an expansion of the crackdown beyond Pakistan's part of Kashmir, where officials said one of the outfit's founders, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, was grabbed this week by soldiers, along with 11 others.
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