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Imran Khan talks with Taliban: Why it's a dud peace plan for Pak
by Praveen Swami
May 18, 2013

signed a peace deal with Baitullah Mehsud, the chief of the Taliban operating in the Srarogha area of South Waziristan. This deal didnt make it incumbent #United States # Pakistan # Taliban # TheLongView # Afghanistan # Imran Khan # peace talks # Nek Muhammad Wazir
Rising from Sarabjit's funeral pyre, questions about peace
by Praveen Swami
May 03, 2013

jihadist leaders Baitullah Mehsud and Mullah Fazlullahthe first alleged to be Prime Minister Benazir Bhuttos assassination, the second the killer of hundreds #Pakistan # WhatNext # Pakistan Army # Ashfaq Parvez Kayani # Sarabjit Singh # Jihadists
US drone strike kills 5 suspected militants in Pakistan
Jan 10, 2013

of the Pakistani Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, in South Waziristan in August 2009.Islamabad has been understandably less opposed to strikes that target the Pakistani #Pakistan # NewsTracker # USA # US drone attacks in Pakistan
Pakistani Taliban preparing for leadership change
Dec 06, 2012

after a weeks-long succession battle with Rehman following the death of Baitullah Mehsud in a drone strike. The two Mehsuds were not related.Reuters #Taliban # NewsTracker # Nato # Hakimullah Mehsud
'Taliban attackers had contacts with security personnel at Kamra base'
Sep 05, 2012

for the attack, saying it was carried out to avenge the killing of militant commander Baitullah Mehsud and Osama bin Laden.Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said #Pakistan # Taliban # NewsTracker # Kamra airbase
Surveillance plane damaged in airbase attack: Qamar
Aug 17, 2012

to avenge the killing of Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud and al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. According to media reports, over three dozen aircraft were #NewsTracker # Naveed Qamar # Saab-2000 # PAF
Taliban attack on air base: How secure are Pak's nuclear weapons?
Aug 17, 2012

, Ahsanullah Ahsan, said they carried out Thursday's pre-dawn attack as revenge for the death of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud in a US drone strike #HowThisWorks # Terrorism # Pakistan # Taliban # War/Conflict # Nuclear weapons
Pak Taliban plots to prevent reopening of NATO supply routes
Apr 19, 2012

#Taliban # NewsTracker # Pashtun people # 3rd millennium # Abdullah Mehsud # Jundallah # Baitullah Mehsud
Pakistan said to have started peace talks with Taliban
Nov 21, 2011

countries.Its founder, Baitullah Mehsud, was killed by a US drone aircraft missile strike in northwest Pakistan in 2009.The group has staged audacious attacks #United States # Osama bin Laden # Pakistan # Terrorism in Pakistan # Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan # Pakistan's military
Pak anti terrorism court orders seizure of Musharraf's property
Aug 28, 2011

Baitullah Mehsud for the killing. Mehsud was killed in a U.S. drone strike near the Afghan border in 2009.A report by a U.N. commission of inquiry released #Pakistan # NewsTracker # Pervez Musharraf # Benazir Bhutto # Asif Ali Zardari

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