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Wana, 2 January 2014. The Taliban has celebrated the first death anniversary of the Mullah Nazir, Taliban commander in Wana Bazaar, South Waziristan on Thursday. More than 30 thousand people including local commanders of the Mullah Nazir Group attend the ceremony in South Waziristan. According to the local commander Zahid Wazir, whose near to Mullah Nazir, on the first death anniversary of the Mullah Nazir people from different areas attend the ceremony. On his death ceremony Wana Bazaar was close and they put the black banners on shops and vehicles. Religious leaders, Taliban commanders of Mullah Nazir Group including Molana...

A US drone strike in north-west Pakistan has killed two top commanders of one of Pakistan's most influential Taliban groups, officials say. They say that among the four people killed is the brother of top Taliban leader Maulvi Nazir. Maulvi Nazir's Taliban faction is based in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal region where the drone attack on Thursday took place. His forces are blamed for attacks on Nato troops in nearby Afghanistan. The militants were killed when four missiles were fired at a pick-up truck they were driving in Azam Warsak, 20km (13 miles) west of Wana, the main town in...

MIRAMSHAH: A US missile strike targeting a militant compound killed five rebels in Pakistan’s tribal badlands near the Afghan border on Friday, security officials said. The strike took place in Ghwakhwa area, 10 kilometres (six miles) west of Wana, the main town of South Waziristan tribal region, where the military launched an operation two years ago. “A US drone fired three missiles on a militant compound, killing five rebels,” a senior security official in the area told AFP. Another security official confirmed the strike and casualties but said the “identities of those killed in the attack were not immediately known”....

WANA: A missile attack at a house in Wana area of South Waziristan tribal region Sunday killed 16 persons, sources said. Several also wounded in the missile attack at the house of a tribal leader. A barrage of seven missiles were fired at the house of a tribesman Noorullah and adjarent area killed 16 and injured several persons, eyewitnesses said. The injured being transferred to a nearby hospital.

AFP via translation - Engagements between islamist in Pakistani tribal zone: at least 106 dead WANA (Pakistan) - the engagements between Uzbek and islamist militants islamist local who have lasted for Monday in the Pakistani tribal zone made at least 106 died, indicated Wednesday to the AFP of the persons in charge for the local services of safety. Among the victims 78 Uzbek militants and 28 buildings appear, and half of them were killed since Tuesday evening, added under cover of anonymity. The engagements began after a leader local taliban, mollah Nazir, rejoined with the authorities to expel the foreign...

WANA, Pakistan - About 1,000 Pakistani soldiers backed by helicopter gunships, mortars and artillery Wednesday pounded a mountainous region near the Afghan border where a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who masterminded the kidnapping of two Chinese engineers is believed to be hiding. The assault targeted the village of Spinkai Raghzai in South Waziristan, a tribal region where the Pakistani army has been hunting Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) and his al-Qaida associates. But the top military commander in the region said Tuesday it was unlikely bin Laden was hiding in the area, as U.S. authorities suspect. Abdullah Mehsud,...

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New Waziristan Offensive Starts Pakistani security forces backed by helicopter gun ships have launched a fresh offensive in the South Waziristan region, officials say. Military and transport helicopters are reported to be accompanied by jet fighters west of the town of Wana. Witnesses say that they heard the helicopters fire rockets at suspected militant hideouts. An earlier offensive ended on Sunday after attacks using artillery, helicopter gun ships and jet fighters. Since Sunday there have been at least two incidents of fighting - in one dozens of militants attacked a border security post. The army has been trying to persuade...

<p>SHAKAI, Pakistan (AP) -- Some 50 men arrested last month in an operation aimed at rounding up pro-al Qaeda tribesman were expected to be freed by Pakistan's army on Sunday, a day after five prominent leaders were also granted amnesty.</p>

WANA, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan has agreed to an amnesty for five renegade tribesmen accused of sheltering al-Qaida fugitives in return for their promise not to work against Pakistan's interests, a lawmaker said Friday. Addressing a gathering of tribesmen in Wana, a town near the Afghan border, Maulana Abdul Malik, a member of Parliament's lower house, said the pardon for the five men would be announced by government and military officials on Saturday. The men were to formally surrender on Saturday at a jirga, or tribal council, in the village of Shakai, 15 miles north of Wana, he said. "They...

WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani tribe whose members are accused of harbouring al Qaeda fighters is preparing to launch a hunt for the militants, after those sheltering them refused to surrender, tribal elders said on Friday. The decision came after five men said to be sheltering al Qaeda rebels near the Afghan border rejected demands by a traditional tribal assembly either to surrender, leave the area or promise not to protect foreign militants. Tribal elder Malik Shireen Jan said the hunt by a force of tribesmen numbering nearly 2,000 men for al Qaeda militants and their Pakistani allies would...

BANNU, Pakistan - A Pakistani army cordon tightening around their mud-brick compounds, leaders of a tribe along the Pakistan-Afghanistan (news - web sites) border say they are desperate to avoid bloodshed as a deadline to turn over al-Qaida suspects rapidly draws near. Four elders of the Jani Khel tribe told The Associated Press they are ready to negotiate with the military, although the leaders insist they aren't harboring foreign terrorists and their mountainous land is too forbidding for the likes of Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) and his men. The elders descended the rugged peaks of Shawal, in...

WANA: The tribesmen wanted by the government on the charges of harbouring foreign militants have offered to surrender them to political administration if the tribal jirga declares them culprits. A jirga comprising tribal elders, Ulema and representatives of seven agencies and one representative of FR held talks with the wanted persons at some unknown place. The group of wanted tribesmen comprised 200 persons including Nek Muhammad, Noor Islam and Muhammad Sharif. In case the government is found at fault, it should not only tender apology but also compensate the loss caused to tribesmen during the military operation, they added. The...

KARACHI, 4 April 2004. Most Arab Al-Qaeda terrorists fled Wana before the military operation began, buying their exit, highly placed sources told Arab News. Officials said two low-ranking intelligence officers were taken into custody on suspicion of helping Al-Qaeda's No. 2 Ayman Al-Zawahiri escape. The sources also said that Shakai village near Wana would be the next target of a military operation for reportedly sheltering Al-Qaeda, Taleban and rebel tribal leaders. Hundreds of Al-Qaeda and Taleban fighters crossed into Pakistan from Afghanistan after heavy bombardment by US coalition forces of their main hideouts in Tora Bora. Around 1,600 with their...

PESHAWAR: Gloom and panic again gripped the Azam Warsak area of South Waziristan after huge explosions, forcing the people to ran for cover and close their businesses. A number of shops were reported to have been destroyed in the explosions on Saturday, with no causes immediately known. Neither officials from the political administration were available for comments nor access to the remote area was possible after the telephone lines went dead following the huge blasts. Journalists based in Wana disclosed that as many as seven shops had been confirmed by locals to have been razed to the ground as a...

WANA, Pakistan (AP) - A Pakistan army helicopter dropped leaflets in a remote tribal region near the border with Afghanistan, urging tribesmen to help capture suspected al-Qaida fugitives, residents and officials said on Saturday. The leaflets, in both Urdu and Pashto language, were dropped Friday in South Waziristan, the scene of a major military operation last month against al-Qaida holdouts and tribal sympathizers that left more than 120 people dead. "Tribesmen are great friends of the Pakistan army," read the leaflet. "These foreigners are misusing your hospitality. They are not your friends ... they are terrorists. You should help your...

The Pakistani government has stepped up its campaign to drive out al-Qaeda fighters and their supporters in South Waziristan on the Afghan border. Helicopters have dropped leaflets urging tribesmen to convince the supporters to leave the area. The government has also renewed an amnesty offer to foreigners associated with al-Qaeda who give themselves up. A two-week army offensive against al-Qaeda that ended on Sunday left around 100 dead, the military says. One ambush of an army convoy on 22 March near Saroki left 19 soldiers dead, eight of whom were shot after being taken hostage. The hunt for their killers...

KARACHI - As the Pakistan military establishment's pro-United States policies continue to receive harsh criticism domestically, Washington is now pressuring Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf to undertake yet another operation against foreign militants and their proteges in Pakistan's tribal regions of South and North Waziristan near the Afghanistan border. The most recent operation in South Waziristan kicked off two weeks ago and failed miserably, with the official figure listing about 50 of the Pakistan Army's officers and soldiers killed and no "prize targets" captured. Asia Times Online sources maintain the casualty figure is actually much higher. Now, Musharraf has been...

PESHAWAR, March 30: An inter-tribal jirga on Tuesday gave 10 days to the Zalikhel tribe in the South Waziristan tribal region to produce people suspected of involvement in the cold-blooded murder of two naib tehsildars. The deadline was given to the tribe after civil and military officials attended the funeral of the two naib tehsildars at Camp Colony in the agency's headquarters, Wana. "We all mourn the death of our two officers who went down in the line of duty. They were civilian non-combatants killed in cold blood. No religion condones such dastardly acts. This is against Islam and Pukhtunwali,"...

Pakistan Claims to Kill al-Qaida Official 16 minutes ago Add Top Stories - AP to My Yahoo! By AHSANULLAH WAZIR, Associated Press Writer WANA, Pakistan - An al-Qaida intelligence chief was killed in Pakistan's massive military sweep through western tribal areas to root out members of Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s terror network and the Taliban, a military official said Sunday. Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan identified the intelligence chief only as Abdullah. When pressed for details, including Abdullah's full name and nationality, Sultan said he had no more information. The military declared the operation in South...