p Officials Trying To Undermine Biden's Foreign Policy. • US Sanctions Two More Of Burma's Military Leaders. • Four Pakistani Aid Workers Killed In North Waziristan. • China's FM Rejects International Condemnation Of Muslim Uighurs' Treatment. • China Plans Changes To Committee That Selects Hong Kong's Chief Ex

refused physical presence on Yemen soil. Re. military aircraft, Saudis asked Pak to use its most advanced combat aircraft "JF-17 Thunder" (used in North Waziristan for precision-bombing, Pak-made using Chinese avionics — as good as the US, but the weapons & delivery sytems are not as as good as the US), Pak has

io Eradication Campaigns (M): Carried out in those areas of FATA where the Pak Army gives the go-ahead, except in South Waziristan Agency (SWA) and North Waziristan gency (NWA). In SWA, the PC is carried out in those few areas only under Pak Army control, where IDPs have returned. In the rest of SWA, the Mullah

a lethal brew of Al Qaeda operatives, both Afghan and Pakistani Taliban, and other jihadi groups fighting on both sides of the border. Meanwhile, North Waziristan, the biggest of the seven tribal territories, has turned into a base for the Haqqani network, the most powerful Afghan Taliban faction fighting the

strikes against Taliban and al Qaeda targets in Pakistan's tribal areas and drastically scale back CIA operations. This followed a drone attack in North Waziristan that killed more than 40 civilians on the very day that Pakistan released contracted CIA operative Raymond Davis, who had been arrested for killin

explore if the Pak Army and JUI-F, a religion-based Islamist party with a large following in FATA, can get the "good" Taliban leader Gul Bahadur in North Waziristan Agency to lift his ban (Gul Bahadur was earlier associated with JUI-F); thereafter the Mullah Nazir Group in South Waziristan Agency will automatic

explore if the Pak Army and JUI-F, a religion-based Islamist party with a large following in FATA, can get the "good" Taliban leader Gul Bahadur in North Waziristan Agency to lift his ban (Gul Bahadur was earlier associated with JUI-F); thereafter the Mullah Nazir Group in South Waziristan Agency will automatic

explore if the Pak Army and JUI-F, a religion-based Islamist party with a large following in FATA, can get the "good" Taliban leader Gul Bahadur in North Waziristan Agency to lift his ban (Gul Bahadur was earlier associated with JUI-F); thereafter the Mullah Nazir Group in South Waziristan Agency will automatic