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December 2014 - Pakistan Special Weapons News

  • Defense Attorneys Challenge Arrest of Mumbai Attacks Suspect VOA 31 Dec 2014 -- Defense attorneys in Pakistan have alleged the government rearrested the suspected leader of the 2008 Mumbai attacks on "fake" charges to appease India. Authorities in Pakistan appear to have a problem because the release of the man could further raise tensions with India and attempting to influence the judiciary could draw massive criticism at home.
  • Pakistan Re-arrests Suspected Mastermind of Mumbai Attacks VOA 30 Dec 2014 -- Police in Pakistan have arrested the alleged mastermind of the 2008 militant attacks on Mumbai, hours after he won an appeal against his temporary detention.
  • India, Pakistan forces exchange fire in disputed Kashmir Iran Press TV 28 Dec 2014 -- Troops from India and Pakistan have exchanged fire along the de facto border in Kashmir during the latest flare-up of cross-border violence between the two countries.
  • US, Pakistani Strikes Kill 62 Islamic Militants VOA 27 Dec 2014 -- Pakistan's military says security forces ambushed 'a large assembly of terrorists' near the border with Afghanistan, killing at least 16 of them and wounding 20 others.
  • Relations Between Pakistan, Afghanistan Key to Fighting Taliban VOA 27 Dec 2014 -- Pakistan says its anti-terrorism campaign is focused on all militant outfits operating in the country, without distinguishing between "good" and "bad" Taliban. Adviser on national security and foreign policy, Sartaj Aziz, in an interview tells VOA the policy has resulted in improved counter-terrorism cooperation with neighboring Afghanistan.
  • Pakistan security forces kill 'facilitator' of Peshawar massacre Iran Press TV 26 Dec 2014 -- A Taliban commander who allegedly facilitated the December 16 Peshawar school massacre has been killed by Pakistani security forces.
  • US Drone Strikes Kill 7 Militants in Pakistan VOA 26 Dec 2014 -- Pakistani intelligence officials say suspected U.S. drone strikes have killed at least seven militants.
  • Pakistan Broadens Anti-Militancy Drive VOA 24 Dec 2014 -- Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has announced wide-ranging measures to counter religious extremism and terrorism in the country, a week after a Taliban assault on a school killed 150 people, almost all of them children.
  • Former Radio Preacher Now Leads Violent Pakistani Taliban VOA 23 Dec 2014 -- Mullah Fazlullah, leader of the Pakistani Taliban, has seen his Islamist ideology change profoundly. From a fiery village preacher, Fazlullah has morphed into heading a faction that has added one brutality after another to its list of attacks.
  • Pakistan to free leader of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi terror group Iran Press TV 23 Dec 2014 -- Pakistan is set to release the leader of outlawed terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi after the Punjab provincial government removed an appeal to extend his detention under public order laws.
  • Pakistan to execute 500 militants after school massacre Iran Press TV 22 Dec 2014 -- Pakistan is due to execute around 500 militants in coming weeks, following Premier Nawaz Sharif's move to end a six-year moratorium on the death penalty in terror cases.
  • Pakistan To Execute About 500 Terrorism Convicts RFE/RL 22 Dec 2014 -- Pakistan says it will begin executing nearly 500 prisoners convicted on terrorism-related charges in the coming weeks.
  • Pakistan Set to Execute 500 Convicted Terrorists in Coming Weeks Sputnik 22 Dec 2014 -- Five hundred convicted terrorists are set to be executed in Pakistan within the next few weeks, according to an announcement which was made by the country's Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan.
  • Pakistan Makes Arrests in Peshawar Massacre VOA 22 Dec 2014 -- Authorities in Pakistan have arrested several people in connection with a school massacre last week in which nearly 150 students and teachers were killed.
  • Pakistan executes 4 more militants after school carnage Iran Press TV 21 Dec 2014 -- Pakistani authorities have executed four more suspected Taliban militants, ending the country's six-year moratorium on the death penalty after a Taliban school massacre.
  • Pakistani Official Warns of Possible New Terrorist Massacre VOA 21 Dec 2014 -- Pakistan's Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan says the government has information that terrorists may be planning another attack like last week's horror-filled bloodbath at a military school.
  • Pakistan to Expel Afghan Refugees in Border Province After Taliban Attack Sputnik 20 Dec 2014 -- The Pakistani government has decided to expel all Afghan refugees from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa border province, following a recent Pakistani Taliban attack on a military school in it's capital Peshawar, the provincial minister for information said.
  • Pakistan Kills Scores of Militants After School Massacre VOA 19 Dec 2014 -- Pakistan has intensified counterterrorism security operations near the border with Afghanistan, killing scores of Islamist militants since Tuesday's school massacre that left 149 people dead, most of them children.
  • Pakistan Executes Two Militants After Reinstating Death Penalty RFE/RL 19 Dec 2014 -- Pakistan has executed two militants after it reinstated the death penalty in the wake of an attack on a school that killed more than 140 people, most of them children.
  • Dozens of Taliban Killed in Pakistan After Peshawar Massacre Sputnik 19 Dec 2014 -- Pakistan's military says it has killed dozens of militants in the tribal area of the country. Air strikes and ground operations were carried out in the aftermath of this week's Peshawar school massacre, reports AFP.
  • Who Are the Pakistani Taliban? VOA 18 Dec 2014 -- The Pakistani Taliban, formally known as the Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, is an umbrella group of militant organizations. Baitullah Mehsud, a leading militant leader from Waziristan in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt, formed a coalition of 13 groups in 2007. At its peak, the group claimed 30 or more groups as members. Since then, the group has divided into several factions, often clashing with each other. The U.S. State Department declared it a foreign terrorist organization in September 2010.
  • No Difference Between Good and Bad Taliban: Pakistani Prime Minister Sputnik 17 Dec 2014 -- Addressing lawmakers at the Governor House in Peshawar, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan read out decisions to be undertaken during the APC conference, reports The Express Tribune.
  • 141 killed, 133 injured in Pakistan's Peshawar school attack People's Daily 17 Dec 2014 -- At least 141 people including 132 children were killed and 133 others injured on Tuesday in a terrorist attack at the army-run public school at the Pakistan's northwestern provincial capital of Peshawar, said a spokesman of the Pakistani army.
  • Pakistan Lifts Moratorium On Death Penalty After School Massacre RFE/RL 17 Dec 2014 -- Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has lifted a moratorium on the death penalty in terrorism-related cases, a day after Taliban gunmen massacred 132 schoolchildren and nine teachers in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
  • Pakistan to Respond to School Attack VOA 17 Dec 2014 -- Pakistani officials are taking steps to respond to Tuesday's Taliban assault on a school in Peshawar while the nation begins three days of mourning for the 132 children and nine staff members who died.
  • Funerals Begin for 141 Slain in Taliban Attack on Pakistan School VOA 16 Dec 2014 -- The first funerals are being held for the victims of a Taliban school massacre in Pakistan on Tuesday that left at least 141 people dead, most of them young students.
  • Death Toll in Pakistan School Attack Rises to at Least 141 Sputnik 16 Dec 2014 -- The death toll in Tuesday's attack on a northwest Pakistan school where up to 400 students and teachers had been taken hostage by militants has risen to 141 students and teachers, with 7 militants dead, the BBC reports, citing the Pakistani army.
  • Taliban attack on Pakistan school an act of 'horror and rank cowardice', says UN chief UN News Centre 16 Dec 2014 -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today strongly condemned the "blood-curdling attack" on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, which has cost the lives of at least 130 people, the vast majority of whom were children.
  • Death toll from Taliban attack on Pakistani school rises to about 130 Iran Press TV 16 Dec 2014 -- The death toll from a militant attack on an army-run school in Pakistan's northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has risen to around 130 including 126 children, officials say.
  • More Than 130 Dead, Mostly Children, In Pakistan School Attack RFE/RL 16 Dec 2014 -- Islamist militants have killed more than 130 people at a military-run school in Peshawar, most of them children, in a devastating assault Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif called a 'national tragedy unleashed by savages.'
  • 500 Students Taken Hostage in Taliban Attack on Pakistani School Sputnik 16 Dec 2014 -- At least 126 people have been confirmed killed, more than 100 of them students and up to 122 have been wounded in a Taliban attack on a Pakistani school where 500 students and teachers have been taken hostage in the city of Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan, Reuters quotes one provincial official as saying.
  • Taliban Attack on Pakistan School Kills at Least 130, Mostly Students VOA 16 Dec 2014 -- The siege of a school in Pakistan by Taliban militants left at least 130 people dead, most of them students.
  • Pakistan arrests al-Qaeda commander in Karachi Iran Press TV 12 Dec 2014 -- Pakistani authorities have arrested a regional al-Qaeda commander during a raid in the southern port city of Karachi.
  • Pakistan Pushes Back Against IS Supporters VOA 04 Dec 2014 -- Pakistan on Thursday confirmed that police have arrested several individuals from major cities for their alleged links to Daish, the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group or IS. The revelation comes amid reports the extremist outfit, operating in Syria and Iraq, is seeking to extend its influence in a region plagued by Islamic militancy.
  • Two dozen killed in Pakistan military raids Iran Press TV 02 Dec 2014 -- At least two dozen militants have been killed in two separate military attacks in Pakistan's northwestern tribal regions, the army says.
  • Dassault Mirage 5 military aircraft crashes in Pakistan Iran Press TV 01 Dec 2014 -- A Dassault Mirage 5 supersonic attack aircraft operated by the Pakistani air force has crashed in Pakistan's eastern province of Punjab.
  • Kerry Meets With Pakistan's Top Military Commander RFE/RL 01 Dec 2014 -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has said that he had a 'productive meeting' in Washington with Pakistan's visiting Chief of Army Staff, General Raheel Sharif.



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