News Guru- Growing Terror

Growing Terror

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In Pakistan's tribal areas, they train suicide bombers, create roadside-bomb factories and have doubled the number of high-quality Taliban fund-raising and recruiting videos posted online- NYT

 

 

Foreigners are also increasingly financing younger Taliban leaders in Pakistan's tribal areas who have closer ties to Al Qaeda, like Sirajuddin Haqqani and Anwar ul-Haq Mujahed- NYT

 

Pakistani security officials say the Islamic Jihad Union, a terrorist group led by militants from Uzbekistan, operates a training camp in Mir Ali.

 

Bomb went off at a checkpoint in Rawalpindi, just a half-kilometer from Army House

 

President Pervez Musharraf was safely inside at the time

 

Lone bomber walked up to the checkpoint guarding the road leading to Musharraf's office

 

Residence gate of Gen. Tariq Majid commander scarred with shrapnel and spattered with blood

 

Swat operations leaves 100 people dead

 

Extremists are trying hard to secure a big catch- Sheikh Rashid Ahmed

 

Ceasefire between Maulana Fazlullah and government forces

 

Pakistan has deployed troops to flush out militants

 

Growing instability has shaken authority of President Musharraf

 

Thousands flee scenic Swat valley

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nawaz Sharif Return

 

 

Supporters of Pakistan Ex-PM Sharif Rally at Supreme Court

 

President Gen. Pervez Musharraf ousted Nawaz Sharif in a 1999 coup

 

Sharif attempted to return from a seven-year exile on September 10 but was deported

 

Sharif still hopes to return before polls

 

Newsweek

Pakistani sources say Saudi King Abdullah urged Musharraf to let Sharif back out of respect for the wishes of the Pakistani people and a ruling by Pakistan's Supreme Court. Musharraf is refusing, but he may permit Sharif's wife, Kulsoom, to return.

 

 

 

 

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