Articles tagged with: Baitullah Mehsud
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The current showboating between Pakistan and the US will not bring any solution to the table.
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Suhail Waraich’s Qatil Kaun will take you as close to Bhutto’s assassins, their facilitators and shielders as you’re ever likely to get.
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Some stories and interviews from our archives on this remarkable person.
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The Scorpion’s Tail is a well-argued plea for a critical appraisal of the current efforts to defeat and eliminate Al-Qaeda and Taliban forces.
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Multiple investigations and millions of dollars later, Pakistanis still are no closer to determining who really conceived and ordered the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
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The decentralised networks of militant groups have many sources of generating funds, including local and foreign Islamic charities, bank robberies and kidnappings for ransom, mainly in Karachi.
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Most analysts had assumed that the killing of Baitullah Mehsud and the subsequent confusion over the leadership of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan would lead to a “phony war”. The last week has proved us all wrong.
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Will the Pakistan army’s expected operation in Waziristan spell the death-knell of the TTP?
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Maulana Waliur Rahman couldn’t become the amir, or head, of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) following the death of Baitullah Mehsud, but he did manage to grab arguably the most powerful job in the banned organisation. As the amir of the TTP in South Waziristan, he controls the resources and fighters in the organisation’s birthplace and stronghold. In a way, the new TTP leader Hakimullah Mehsud would be dependent on him for money and manpower.
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