Monday, January 26, 2009

Pakistan War News Updates -- January 26, 2009

Has Swat Fallen to the Taliban? -- Captain's Journal

The Captain’s Journal has kept close watch over the Talibanization of the FATA. Amir Mir gives us reason to believe that Taliban control over the FATA and NWFP is almost complete.

Fifteen months after the launching of a military operation in the lush-green picturesque valley of Swat by the Pakistan army to dismantle the militant network of Maulana Fazalullah, a major part of the mountainous region seems to have fallen to the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan and Swat apparently lives under the Sharia of Fazalullah.

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More News On The War In Pakistan

U.S. missile strikes on Pakistan : more of the same under Obama or worse to come? -- Reuters
US will strike al-Qaeda targets inside Pakistan: Biden -- CNN-IBN
Pakistan Urges Obama to Halt Drones -- ABC News
Blast strikes school in northwest Pakistan -- CNN
Four civilians killed as military battles Taliban in Pakistan -- AFP
New clashes 'kill 12' in Pakistan -- BBC News
Police: Bicycle bomb kills 5 in northwest Pakistan -- Yahoo News/AP
Swat: Pakistan's lost paradise -- Al Jazeera opinion
Swat Taliban summon government officials to sharia courts -- Long War Journal
Rough Justice -- Neptunus Lex
Radio Spreads Taliban’s Terror in Pakistani Region -- New York Times
Taliban not to be allowed to set up parallel courts: PM -- The News
Government takes control of Dawa headquarters -- Daily Times
Protest against overseer for Pakistan's Mumbai-linked charity -- AFP
A War on Pakistan's Schoolgirls -- Washington Post opinion

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