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Taliban: We're Still After Malala

Teen education advocate invited to Buckingham Palace

(Newser) - It's been a year since Malala Yousufzai was shot by Pakistani Taliban —and new threats aren't stopping the 16-year-old in her fight for girls' education. Traveling to her native Swat Valley, the BBC offers a new window into Malala's background and life story. The region launched...

Deadliest Attack on Pakistan Christians Kills 75

Taliban wing says it will keep targeting non-Muslims

(Newser) - A pair of suicide bombers detonated their explosives outside a historic church in Peshawar today, killing 75 people in the deadliest-ever attack on Pakistan's Christian minority, officials said. The Jundullah wing of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility, with a spokesman saying, "All non-Muslims in Pakistan are our target,...

Taliban Busts Out 250 Pakistan Inmates

'Dangerous terrorists' freed in latest mass jailbreak

(Newser) - More than 250 inmates—including 25 classed as "dangerous terrorists"—were freed by a 100-strong group of Taliban militants in a raid on a prison in northwest Pakistan. Authorities say the attackers, armed with bombs and rocket-propelled grenades, destroyed the century-old prison's walls and killed six policemen,...

Weather Saved Climbers From Taliban Massacre

More details of Pakistan attack emerge

(Newser) - The death toll in the Pakistani Taliban's massacre of mountain climbers would have been a lot higher if the weather had been worse, the Wall Street Journal finds. Two parties of climbers had already departed the base camp at the edge of the Himalayas before the Taliban attacked, killing...

At Pakistan Tourist Attraction, Taliban Slays 10 Climbers
American Was Among 10 Climbers Slain By Taliban
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American Was Among 10 Climbers Slain By Taliban

Assault at Nanga Parbat in retribution for drone strikes

(Newser) - At least a dozen Islamic militants wearing police uniforms shot to death overnight a Pakistani and 10 foreign tourists, including an American, who were visiting one of the world's highest mountains in a remote area of northern Pakistan that has been largely peaceful, officials said today. The 10 foreigners...

Meet the Pakistani Taliban's New No. 2

Kahn Said takes over for slain Waliur Rehman

(Newser) - The Pakistani Taliban has already filled the vacuum left by yesterday's drone assassination of Waliur Rehman . After burying Rehman in what Reuters describes as a "low-key ceremony" the Taliban committee named a new second-in-command: Kahn Said. (Yes, feel free to make your Star Trek jokes in the comments....

Taliban No. 2 Killed in Drone Strike: Pakistan

Officials condemn North Waziristan attack

(Newser) - A suspected US drone strike assassinated the Pakistani Taliban's No. 2 commander today, according to multiple reports sourced to Pakistani intelligence. Officials tell the AP that their informants on the ground saw Waliur Rehman 's body firsthand, while others say intercepted Taliban communications confirmed the kill. But a...

Taliban Bombs Own Allies at Pakistan Rally

Protection racket suspected after blast kills 20

(Newser) - A bomb tore through an election rally in Pakistan's tribal belt yesterday, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens more in the deadliest incident yet in the violence-plagued run-up to this Saturday's election. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast, but while other attacks have targeted liberal,...

Taliban Denies Role in Boston Bombing

Investigators search apartment complex, question injured Saudi

(Newser) - As investigators hunt for clues in the Boston Marathon bombing , the Pakistani Taliban is denying involvement, CNN reports. "Wherever we find Americans we will kill them, but we don't have any connection with the Boston explosion," said a spokesman for the group, which claimed responsibility for the...

Target of Pakistan Blast That Killed 10 Only Scratched

Police commander emerges from attack OK: official

(Newser) - A Pakistan suicide bomber killed at least 10 people near the US consulate in Peshawar today; the attacker was reportedly targeting a police commander who received "only scratches," an official says. Some 28 were wounded in the attack, AFP reports. The bomber detonated his explosives when the commander'...

Malala's Story Worth $3M: Report

15-year-old's memoir to come out this fall

(Newser) - Malala Yousufzai has done a lot of living in her 15 years, and a publisher agrees. Weidenfeld & Nicolson yesterday announced that it would release the teen's memoir in the UK this fall (Little, Brown will do the same in the US, notes the AP ). The Pakistani...

Malala Thanks Supporters: 'I Can See You'

Pakistani teen activist will keep working for education

(Newser) - Malala Yousufzai has released a video expressing her appreciation for prayers directed her way from around the world after she was shot by the Taliban. Following multiple surgeries , "today you can see that I am alive," she says in the clip, via NPR . "I can speak, I...

Malala's Last Surgery a Success

London doctors put titanium plate in her head

(Newser) - Malala Yousafzai is resting comfortably after London doctors successfully completed her final surgery , attaching a titanium plate to her skull and giving her a cochlear implant. The Pakistani 15-year-old, who was shot point-blank in the head by the Taliban, is in stable condition and talking and her medical team says...

Months Later, Malala Released From Hospital

Reconstructive surgery needed in coming weeks

(Newser) - Malala Yousufzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban, still needs reconstructive surgery on her skull in the coming weeks, but for now her doctors say she is healthy enough to be discharged and spend time with her family, reports Reuters . Malala left Queen Elizabeth Hospital...

5 Female Teachers Killed in Pakistan Attack

2 health workers also killed in ambush

(Newser) - Gunmen killed five female teachers and two other people today in an ambush on a van carrying workers home from their jobs at a community center in northwest Pakistan, officials said. The van was transporting teachers and aid workers from the center in conservative Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Two health workers,...

Pakistan Taliban: We'll Talk, but Won't Stop Fighting

Hakimullah Mehsud's comments come after string of attacks in Peshawar

(Newser) - Pakistan's Taliban is willing to continue negotiating with the government, but it is not about to stop its attacks, its leader said via a video given to Reuters today. This month has seen the group carry out a series of big attacks—including suicide bombings at the Peshawar airport,...

Malala: Take My Name Off Pakistan College

Students fear attacks over school's link to teen activist

(Newser) - The 15-year-old Pakistani girl who was shot by the Taliban for promoting girls' education has urged Pakistan to reverse a decision to rename a college in her honor. Malala Yousufzai wants to avert militant attacks on students, an official said today. The teen, who became a symbol of youth resistance...

Taliban to India: Return Gunman's Body or Face 'Revenge'

Spokesman: We'll continue Mumbai attacker's 'mission'

(Newser) - The Taliban threatened revenge today unless India returns the body of a Pakistani man executed for his role in the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people. A Pakistani Taliban spokesman demanded that Mohammed Ajmal Kasab's body be given back to his family or handed over to the Taliban....

Malala's Father: I'm Taking Her Back Home

Pakistani girl 'manages a big smile' in tearful family reunion

(Newser) - Malala Yousufzai had an emotional reunion with her parents last night by her hospital bed in England, the Guardian reports. "When we met her there were tears in our eyes out of happiness," said her father, Ziauddin. "For some time we all cried a bit." Talking...

Arrests Made in Malala's Shooting

Atta Ullah ID'd as main suspect in shooting of Pakistani schoolgirl

(Newser) - Pakistani police say they have arrested a group of people in connection with the shooting of 15-year-old activist Malala Yousufzai. A 23-year-old chemistry student, Atta Ullah, is suspected to be either the ringleader in the attempted murder or the shooter himself, CNN reports. His fiancé, mother, and brother have also...

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