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US Had Secret Talks With Haqqani Network

Meeting was set up by Pakistan's ISI

(Newser) - The US held at least one secret peace negotiation this summer with the Haqqani Network, the militant group at the center of its current public spat with Pakistan, senior officials tell the Wall Street Journal . The meeting was set up by Pakistani intelligence, which the US says confirms its suspicions...

Haqqani Denies Link With Pakistan

And insists it didn't assassinate peace envoy Burhanuddin Rabbani

(Newser) - The Haqqani network has no ties to Pakistan’s ISI and isn’t responsible for the assassination of former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani , Siraj Haqqani tells the BBC . Siraj is the son of Haqqani network founder and namesake Jalaluddin Haqqani, and is a major leader within the group. “We’...

'Blood Money' CIA Operative Raymond Davis Busted in Colorado in Parking Spot Fight
Troubled CIA Op Busted in Fight Over Parking Spot
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Oct 2, 2011 10:03 AM CDT

Troubled CIA Op Busted in Fight Over Parking Spot

Raymond Davis was recently freed in 'blood money' deal after Pakistan killings

(Newser) - You might want to cross the street to avoid Raymond Davis: The CIA operative—who last made headlines after causing a diplomatic furor between the US and Pakistan after he killed two Pakistanis he said were trying to rob him —is in trouble again, this time in Colorado. Seems...

NATO Nabs Haqqani Leader in Afghanistan

'Revered elder' in Taliban-affiliated group is captured

(Newser) - NATO says it captured a leader of the Haqqani network, the militant group that has emerged as major anti-American player in Afghanistan and Pakistan. ("The Sopranos of the Afghanistan war," as the New York Times described the clan in a previous profile .) Haji Mali Khan reportedly oversaw...

Afghanistan Ditches 3-Way Peace Talks

Won't attend US-Pakistan meetings after ex-president's assassination

(Newser) - Fuming at Pakistan over its alleged role in the assassination of a former Afghan president , Kabul is abandoning a trilateral attempt at peace in the region. A meeting between US, Afghan, and Pakistani officials had been scheduled for Oct. 8, with the three intending to work toward bringing the Taliban...

China May Suspend Some Military Exchanges With US

Beijing unhappy with Taiwan arms deal

(Newser) - China is making its displeasure known over the US’ recent arms deal with Taiwan , with officials indicating that they’ll be cancelling some agreed upon military exchanges with the US, reports the Wall Street Journal . While China hasn’t fully outlined what it will do, “I think they have...

Pakistanis Double-Crossed Americans in '07 Ambush

One American killed in attack covered up by both governments

(Newser) - With US-Pakistani tensions on the verge of boiling over , the New York Times today has a shocking account of a 2007 incident in which the Pakistanis allegedly opened fire on American and Afghan military officials after a meeting to discuss a disputed border post. As the officers were getting into...

Pakistan Makes US Look Like Fools

 Pakistan Makes US 
 Look Like Chumps 
Christopher Hitchens
Sep 26, 2011 1:59 PM CDT

Pakistan Makes US Look Like Chumps

Christopher Hitchens thinks it's time to call Pakistan what it is: an enemy

(Newser) - Last week, Admiral Mike Mullen called out Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence agency “as the most adroit double-dealing profiteer from terrorism in the entire region,” Christopher Hitchens writes for Slate . Mullen accused Pakistan of orchestrating the attack on the US embassy in Kabul, and Hitchens believes him; after all,...

Pakistan to US: No, We Won't Attack Haqqani

Pakistan 'cannot go beyond what it has already done': official

(Newser) - Following a "special" meeting of Pakistan's military leaders, the country has decided not to heed US calls to attack Haqqani , a local paper says. “We have already conveyed to the US that Pakistan cannot go beyond what it has already done,” a military official told the...

Pakistan to US: 'No Boots on Ground'

And denies any link to the Haqqani network

(Newser) - Pakistan is shoving back against US accusations and ultimatums over its connection with the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network, denying any involvement and warning the US against crossing the border to deal with the insurgents unilaterally. “The Pakistan nation will not allow the boots on our ground, never,” Interior Minister...

US to Pakistan: Take Out Haqqani

Or we will; rhetoric increasing in wake of embassy attack

(Newser) - US officials have been sending Pakistan an increasingly sharp message in recent days: Take out the Haqqani Taliban network, or we will. Pakistan’s intelligence service has a longstanding relationship with the Haqqani network—Adm. Mike Mullen described it as a “proxy connection”—but after a series of...

Polio Outbreak Hits China
 Polio Outbreak Hits China 
Sep 21, 2011 11:18 AM CDT

Polio Outbreak Hits China

Strain is tied to one found in Pakistan

(Newser) - If you thought polio had been eradicated, you're at least 50% right: The highly infectious virus was "virtually eliminated" from the Western hemisphere in the last century, but remains endemic in Pakistan, among other places, reports the BBC —and a strain circulating there has been genetically tied...

Pakistanis, Taliban Battle for Downed Drone

China, Iran could gain access to drone parts

(Newser) - Pakistani troops battled Taliban fighters over a downed CIA drone today, raising fears that America's enemies may gain access to its military technology. Taliban militants reportedly surrounded the Predator in a tribal region of Pakistan, but were fought off by Pakistani soldiers in a 4-hour battle that left three...

Pakistan Captures Top al-Qaeda Figure

...with the CIA's help

(Newser) - A new significant blow for al-Qaeda: Pakistani agents working with the CIA have arrested Younis al-Mauritani, a senior leader believed to have been tasked by Osama bin Laden with targeting American economic interests across the globe, Pakistan announced today. The Pakistani military said the arrest of Mauritani and two other...

Taliban Claims Kidnapping of 25 Pakistani Boys

It's punishment for their parents' support of the government

(Newser) - The Taliban says it has kidnapped about 25 Pakistani boys as punishment for their parents' support of the government, reports Reuters . Militants reportedly captured the youths when they mistakenly crossed the border into Afghanistan during an outing. A spokesman said militants have yet to decide the boys' fate. "We...

US Drone Strike Kills al-Qaeda's No. 2: Official

Atiyah Adb al-Rahman reportedly died in Pakistan on Monday

(Newser) - A CIA drone strike killed al-Qaeda's new second-in-command in a Pakistani tribal region on Monday, a US official says. The New York Times reports that Atiyah Adb al-Rahman, a Lybian national, became al-Qaeda's top operational planner this year and was part of a new generation of leaders poised...

Afghan Militants Kill 12 in Pakistan

Latest in series of raids that has increased tension

(Newser) - Hundreds of militants crossed the Afghan border today and attacked three security checkpoints in northwestern Pakistan, killing 10 paramilitary soldiers and two policemen, officials said. It was the latest of a series of attacks that Pakistani officials say have been launched from an area of eastern Afghanistan where the US...

40 Dead in Pakistan Suicide Attack

Suicide bomber hits mosque during Friday prayers

(Newser) - A suicide bomber struck a mosque in a Pakistani tribal region during Friday prayers, officials said, killing at least 40 people and wounding 85 others in the deadliest attack in the country in recent weeks. Some 300 people had gathered for prayers this afternoon in the Sunni mosque, and many...

American Warren Weinstein Kidnapped in Pakistan
 American Kidnapped in Pakistan 
Aug 13, 2011 6:03 AM CDT

American Kidnapped in Pakistan

Warren Weinstein worked as a development contractor

(Newser) - Gunmen abducted an American after breaking into his house in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore today, officials said, an unusually brazen raid that illustrated the threat to foreigners living in the militancy-wracked country. The US Embassy identified the victim as Warren Weinstein. A man by that name serves as...

Drone Strike Kills 20 in Pakistan

Latest strike kills militants belonging to the Haqqani network

(Newser) - American-fired missiles killed 20 Islamist militants in northwest Pakistan today, most of them members of a powerful insurgent network fighting the US presence in Afghanistan, say Pakistani intelligence officials. Two missiles slammed into a house in North Waziristan, a militant hotspot that lies just across the border from Afghanistan. Unnamed...

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