Timeline Pakistan C 2011-2012

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2011        Jan 1, Pakistan’s Pres. Zardari signed the 19th amendment to the constitution giving judges a freer hand in making judicial appointments.
    (Econ, 2/12/11, p.47)(http://tinyurl.com/6zl4d9t)
2011        Jan 1, In Pakistan suspected US drone aircraft strikes killed 15 Muslim militants in North Waziristan, suggesting there will no letup this year in a campaign Washington says is hurting al Qaeda-linked groups.
    (Reuters, 1/1/10)

2011        Jan 3, Pakistani PM Yusuf Raza Gilani scrambled to save his ruling coalition after a key partner withdrew, plunging the country into a political crisis. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari threw his weight behind beleaguered PM Gilani.
    (AP, 1/3/11)(Reuters, 1/3/11)

2011        Jan 4, Pakistan's main opposition leader gave the government a three-day deadline to accept a list of demands if it wants to avert its possible collapse after the loss of its ruling majority in parliament. A gunman assassinated the governor of Punjab province, a senior member of the ruling party, in Islamabad. Salman Taseer was killed by Malik Mumtaz Qadri, one of his guards, because of Taseer’s opposition to Pakistan's controversial blasphemy law. On Oct 1 Qadri was convicted and sentenced to death.
    (AP, 1/4/11)(Reuters, 1/4/11)(Econ, 1/15/11, p.45)(AP, 10/1/11)

2011        Jan 6, Pakistan's PM Gilani agreed to reverse an unpopular increase in fuel prices under pressure from opposition parties, as he sought to save his shaky government following the defection of a key coalition partner.
    (Reuters, 1/6/11)

2011        Jan 7, Pakistan's ruling party avoided the collapse of its government after its reversal of unpopular economic reforms helped persuade a key ally not to defect to the opposition. But the economic concessions could cost Islamabad billions in international loans badly needed to stabilize its shaky economy.
    (AP, 1/7/11)

2011        Jan 9, Pakistan's PM Yousuf Raza Gilani bowed to a package of opposition demands to shore up his government after a week in which the ruling party briefly lost its majority in parliament. Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in Karachi to oppose any change to national blasphemy laws and to praise a man charged with murdering a provincial governor who had campaigned against the divisive legislation.
    (AFP, 1/9/11)(Reuters, 1/9/11)

2011        Jan 12, In Pakistan US VP Joe Biden tried to dispel what he called common anti-American misperceptions while urging the government to fight growing religious extremism. A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a mosque in northwest Pakistan, killing 17 paramilitary soldiers and policemen.
    (Reuters, 1/12/11)

2011        Jan 13, In northwest Pakistan suspected militants targeted a police vehicle and a security checkpoint with bombs, killing four officers and wounding nine others.
    (AP, 1/13/11)

2011        Jan 15, In southwest Pakistan gunmen attacked tankers carrying fuel for US and NATO forces in Afghanistan as they sat parked at a roadside restaurant, setting 14 of the vehicles ablaze.
    (AP, 1/15/11)

2011        Jan 17,  In northwestern Pakistan a bomb ripped apart a minibus, killing all 17 people on board and two others in a nearby vehicle.
    (AP, 1/17/11)

2011        Jan 18, Pakistani paramilitary troops went house to house rounding up dozens of men in a restive neighborhood of Karachi as part of a crackdown on soaring violence. A US drone attacked a compound in North Waziristan, killing five militants. Suspected militants in South Waziristan fired rockets at a military camp, killing three soldiers. A roadside bomb exploded near a car, killing two civilians in southwest Baluchistan province.
    (AFP, 1/18/11)(AP, 1/18/11)
2011        Jan 18, In Pakistan a 7.2 magnitude earthquake was centered in Baluchistan province.
    (SFC, 1/19/11, p.A3)

2011        Jan 21, In Pakistan some 2,000 people in a Taliban-controlled region of the northwest demonstrated against American missile attacks pounding the area, calling for an end to the strikes and the arrest of the US officials behind them. In the southwest gunmen torched two tankers carrying fuel for US and NATO forces, wounding two drivers.
    (AP, 1/21/11)

2011        Jan 23, In eastern Pakistan authorities arrested 21-year-old Saima Bibi's father and three of her uncles in a small village. Police a day earlier recovered Bibi's body, which had burn marks indicating she had been electrocuted. The woman had eloped with another villager a month ago and got married in the southern port city of Karachi.
    (AP, 1/23/11)
2011        Jan 23, In Pakistan Sultan Amir Tarar, a former Pakistani spy who helped the Taliban rise to power in Afghanistan, was reported to have died under captivity 10 months after he was seized in northwest Pakistan. Tarar, better known as Col. Imam, played a major role in funneling Pakistani support and training to Afghans fighting Soviet rule in the 1980s, a push in large part financed by the CIA. On Feb 19 the Pakistani Taliban claimed it had killed Tarar.
    (AP, 1/24/11)(AP, 2/19/11)
2011        Jan 23, In Pakistan a pair of suspected US drone strikes killed six alleged militants in Datta Khel, North Waziristan. A 3rd strike killed at least six militants in Mando Khel.
    (AP, 1/23/11)(AFP, 1/23/11)
2011        Jan 23, In southern Pakistan a bus slammed into an oil tanker before dawn, setting off a blazing inferno that gutted both vehicles and killed 32 people.
    (AP, 1/23/11)

2011        Jan 25, In Pakistan suicide bombers attacked police protecting marches by minority Shiite Muslims in Karachi and Lahore, killing 12 people and wounding dozens. Umar Patek (40), a suspected member of the al-Qaida-linked militant group Jemaah Islamiyah, was wounded and arrested by security forces. The senior Indonesian al-Qaida operative was wanted in the 2002 Bali bombings. Intelligence officials in Indonesia and Philippines made the arrest public on March 29. Pakistani authorities questioned Patek planned to hand him over to Indonesia.
    (AP, 1/25/11)(AP, 3/30/11)(AP, 3/31/11)

2011        Jan 27, In Pakistan, Raymond Davis, a US consular employee shot and killed two gunmen as they approached his vehicle in a congested street in Lahore. One man was shot once in front and 3 times in the back. The other man took 8 bullets, mostly in the chest. Davis was reportedly associated with Hyperion Protective Consultants, a Florida-based outfit. A pedestrian was also killed by a speeding American car trying to help. Police the next day took Davis to court and a judge ordered him held for 6 more days while investigators probe the case. On Feb 3 Davis’ detention was extended for 8 more days.
    (AP, 1/27/11)(SFC, 1/29/11, p.A2)(AP, 2/3/11)(Econ, 2/5/11, p.55)

2011        Jan 28, Pakistani fighter jets and helicopter gunships bombed militant hideouts in a tribal region near the Afghan border, killing 28 rebels.
    (AFP, 1/28/11)

2011        Jan 31, In Pakistan a pair of bombings targeting police in the northwestern city of Peshawar killed five people, including a senior police officer. In the northwest a suicide bomber struck a convoy carrying Maulana Fazlur Rehman, a prominent hardline Islamist leader, killing 12 people in Charsadda town. This was the second attack that targeted the politician in as many days.
    (AP, 1/31/11)
2011        Jan 31, Pakistan wildlife authorities said they have found the carcasses of six endangered river dolphins in Pakistan over the last month. Sindh Wildlife Department deputy head Ghulam Mohammad accused local fisherman, saying their poison and nets were to blame for the deaths of the blind Indus River Dolphin. A 2006 survey put the number left at 1,300.
    (AP, 1/31/11)
2011        Jan 31, India rejected Canada-based Research In Motion's (RIM) offer to allow it only partial access to its BlackBerry data services, while neighboring Pakistan reversed its earlier decision to restrict the popular smartphone's services.
    (Reuters, 1/31/11)

2011        Feb 1, In Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province gunmen killed four policemen and kidnapped four others, including a senior local official, in separate incidents.
    (AP, 2/2/11)

2011        Feb 2, In northwest Pakistan a car bomb killed nine people close to Peshawar. 3 children were among the dead. A group of militants attacked a security post in the Anarggi area of Mohmand tribal region, killing three paramilitary soldiers and wounding four. Troops returned fire and killed 16 insurgents. A roadside bomb hit a paramilitary vehicle in the Davezai area of Mohmand, killing one soldier and wounding three others. An artillery shell fired by the military hit a house in the area, killing two women. In the nearby Orakzai tribal region, fighter jets pounded suspected militant hideouts, killing 15 alleged militants and wounding 10 others. Several mortars fired from Afghanistan landed near an army checkpoint in the Ghulam Khan area of North Waziristan, killing one Pakistani soldier and wounding three others.
    (AP, 2/2/11)

2011        Feb 4, Pakistan's ruling party said it plans trim the bloated 50-plus-member Cabinet to help cut spending at a time of severe financial crisis.
    (AP, 2/4/11)

2011        Feb 5, In Pakistan militants killed four men accused of spying in the northwest. A car bomb exploded in a village in the Khyber tribal region. 3 people were killed and 2 pedestrians were wounded.
    (AP, 2/5/11)(AFP, 2/5/11)
2011        Feb 5, In Qatar an anti-corruption tribunal of the International Cricket Council banned former Pakistan captain Salman Butt for ten years, Mohammad Asif for seven years and Mohammad Aamer for five years for their role in a spot-fixing betting scam.
    (AFP, 2/5/11)

2011        Feb 6, In Bhutan the top diplomats of India and Pakistan held talks in Thimphu, the Bhutanese capital, in the first high-level meeting between the two rival countries since July.
    (AFP, 2/6/11)

2011        Feb 8, In Pakistan strike action forced ailing state carrier Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to cancel flights to Britain and Turkey, affecting some 1,500 passengers.
    (AFP, 2/8/11)

2011        Feb 9, Pakistan's federal cabinet resigned to allow PM Yusuf Raza Gilani to set up a new, smaller cabinet and reduce government expenditure.
    (Reuters, 2/9/11)
2011        Feb 9, In Pakistan a tribal elder and a government official said Sunni and Shiite communities in a region close to the Afghan border have agreed to end their four-year long conflict. The main road leading to Kurram from Peshawar was now open again and both Shiites and Sunnis were using it.
    (AP, 2/9/11)
2011        Feb 9, In Pakistan strike action forced Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to ground or delay all flights, affecting thousands of passengers and heaping further woes on the troubled state carrier.
    (AFP, 2/9/11)

2011        Feb 10, In Pakistan a teenage suicide bomber killed up to 31 army recruits at a parade ground. The Taliban said it was revenge for US drone strikes and local military offensives.
    (AFP, 2/10/11)

2011        Feb 11, Pakistan's Pres. Asif Ali Zardari swore 22 ministers into office in the first phase of a government reshuffle designed to reduce the size of the cabinet and curb public spending.
    (AFP, 2/11/11)
2011        Feb 11, Pakistani police baton charged Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) employees, detaining 20 of them, following violent protests as all of the carrier's flights remained grounded for a second day.
    (AFP, 2/11/11)
2011        Feb 11, Pakistani police alleged that Raymond Allen Davis, an American held in a pair of Jan 27 shootings, committed "cold-blooded murder." A judge ordered the man's detention extended for 14 days in a local jail and told the Pakistani government to clarify if he has diplomatic immunity.
    (AP, 2/11/11)

2011        Feb 12, A Pakistani court issued an arrest warrant for exiled former president Pervez Musharraf in connection with the 2007 assassination of Benazir Bhutto, officially implicating him for first time in the death of the former prime minister and rival.
    (Reuters, 2/12/11)
2011        Feb 12, Pakistani security forces captured a would-be suicide bomber and five handlers while another blew himself up in the northwestern Swat valley town of Batkhela.
    (AFP, 2/12/11)

2011        Feb 15, In Pakistan Mohmand tribal region official Amjad Ali Khan said that 120 militants have been killed in fighting that began Jan 27, including seven local Taliban commanders. Four Pakistani soldiers were killed.
    (AP, 2/15/11)

2011        Feb 18, In Pakistan a judge ordered the arrest of the driver of a US vehicle that struck and killed a Pakistani while rushing to help an American detained in a pair of fatal shootings on Jan 27 in Lahore.
    (AP, 2/18/11)

2011        Feb 21, In Pakistan Abu Zaid, an Iraqi al-Qaida operative was believed to be one of seven militants killed by a US missile strike in the South Waziristan tribal region along the Afghan border overnight. A 2nd suspected US missile strike killed at least five people in North Waziristan.
    (AP, 2/21/11)

2011        Feb 24, In northwest Pakistan suspected US missiles hit a house and car in a village close to the Afghan border, killing at least six people.
    (AP, 2/24/11)

2011        Feb 25, In northwest Pakistan militants blew up at least 11 tankers carrying fuel for NATO troops in neighboring Afghanistan and shot dead four people.
    (AFP, 2/25/11)

2011        Feb 27, In southwestern Pakistan gunmen torched two NATO oil tankers.
    (AP, 2/27/11)

2011        Mar 1, Pakistan hiked oil prices by 9.9%, a move that threatens the stability of the fragile, US-allied civilian government at a time of economic turmoil in the impoverished country.
    (AP, 3/1/11)

2011        Mar 2, In Pakistan assailants purportedly sent by al-Qaida and the Taliban killed Shahbaz Bhatti (42), the only Christian member of Pakistan's federal Cabinet, spraying his car with bullets outside his mother's home in Islamabad.
    (AP, 3/2/11)

2011        Mar 3, In northwestern Pakistan a suicide car bombing and an ambush by militants targeting police killed 10 people including nine officers in Hangu town. Gunmen killed six tribal policemen in the rugged Khyber tribal district bordering Afghanistan.
    (AFP, 3/3/11)(AP, 3/4/11)

2011        Mar 4, In Pakistan a bomb blast at a mosque in the northwest village of Akbar Pura killed at least 11 people.
    (AFP, 3/4/11)

2011        Mar 5, In south Pakistan a suspected militant died in a blast at his home on the outskirts of Karachi.
    (AP, 3/5/11)

2011        Mar 8, In Pakistan the Taliban detonated a car bomb in the Punjabi city of Faisalabad killing at least 24 people and wounding more than 132 people in an attack they said targeted the offices of the country's main intelligence agency. Missiles from an unmanned US drone killed five alleged militants in the South Waziristan region.
    (AP, 3/8/11)(SFC, 3/9/11, p.A2)

2011        Mar 9, In northwestern Pakistan a suicide bomber struck a funeral attended by anti-Taliban militiamen, killing at least 36 mourners and wounding more than 100 in the deadliest militant attack in the country this year. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility.
    (AP, 3/9/11)

2011        Mar 11, In Pakistan a pair of US missile strikes killed five suspected militants in a tribal region along the border with Afghanistan. The second strike apparently hit militants retrieving bodies from the first.
    (AP, 3/11/11)

2011        Mar 13, In Pakistan two suspected US missile strikes killed 7 militants in Spalgah village near Miran Shah, North Waziristan. The strikes also wounded five militants. Gunmen ambushed a van and killed 9 civilians in a stretch of the northwest covered by a new peace deal among tribes from rival Muslim sects. Security forces responding to the attack killed three alleged gunmen. A suspected US missile strike missed a target in Azam Warsak, South Waziristan.
    (AP, 3/13/11)

2011        Mar 14, In Pakistan an American missile killed two Arab militants and two local fighters as they traveled in a vehicle close to the Afghan border.
    (AP, 3/14/11)

2011        Mar 15, In Pakistan Qumar David (50), a Christian jailed for blasphemy, died of an alleged heart attack in Karachi Central Jail after complaining of chest pain. David was serving a 25-year prison term for blasphemy. His lawyer suspected the man had been murdered.
    (AP, 3/16/11)

2011        Mar 16, Pakistan freed CIA contractor Raymond Allen Davis, who had shot and killed two Pakistani men, after the US paid $2.34 million in "blood money" to the victims' families. Davis, who was acquitted in court, claimed he acted in self-defense when he killed the two men on the street in the eastern city of Lahore.
    (AP, 3/16/11)

2011        Mar 17, In Pakistan US drone aircraft fired four missiles at a building in a militant sanctuary in North Waziristan, killing 36 people in an unusually deadly strike. At least 24 were later said to be civilians were from tribes asking the Taliban to mediate a dispute. The most senior militant killed in the attack was Sharabat Khan, Hafiz Gul Bahadur’s top commander for the Datta Khel area.
    (AP, 3/17/11)(SFC, 3/18/11, p.A2)(SFC, 3/19/11, p.A4)(AP, 3/21/11)(AP, 4/13/11)

2011        Mar 20, In Pakistan explosions triggered a collapse in a coal mine in Baluchistan province. Officials feared all 52 miners underground at the time of the accident were dead.
    (AP, 3/20/11)(AP, 3/21/11)

2011        Mar 21, Pakistani intelligence officials said militants killed 4 men for allegedly providing the United States with information used in a March 17 drone attack that killed 12 Taliban and 24 innocent tribesmen. In the southwest gunmen attacked a camp for road construction workers killing 11 people near the port of Gwadar.
    (AP, 3/21/11)(SFC, 3/22/11, p.A2)

2011        Mar 23, In southwest Pakistan rocket attacks killed four people in Quetta City.
    (AP, 3/23/11)

2011        Mar 24, In northwestern Pakistan a Taliban suicide bomber rammed a car loaded with explosives into a police station, killing five and wounding more than two dozen people.
    (AP, 3/24/11)

2011        Mar 25, In northwestern Pakistan gunmen attacked a minibus carrying mostly Shiite Muslims and killed eight people in an area that has seen a recent peace deal between rival Sunni and Shiite tribes.
    (AP, 3/25/11)

2011        Mar 28, In Pakistan Islamist militants ambushed a troop convoy near Peshawar killing 11 soldiers.
    (SFC, 3/29/11, p.A2)

2011        Mar 30, In northwestern Pakistan a suicide bomber killed 10 people in the town of Swabi.
    (AFP, 4/1/11)

2011        Mar 31, In northwestern Pakistan a suicide bomber struck a convoy carrying Maulana Fazlur Rehman, a prominent hardline Islamist leader, killing 13 people in Charsadda town. This was the second attack that targeted the politician in as many days.
    (AP, 3/31/11)(AFP, 4/1/11)

2011        Apr 1, In northwestern Pakistan Islamist militants attacked a terminal used by trucks carrying supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan, killing three Pakistani guards at the site. A suicide bomber killed a boy (12) and wounded five other people after he was identified and shot at market in Darra Adam Khel, also in the northwest.
    (AP, 4/1/11)(AFP, 4/1/11)

2011        Apr 2, In the UAR Iftikhar Ahmed Khan was shot five times in the head in Ajman, an emirate east of Dubai where he was operating a construction company. Khan, a former mayor of Haripur town in northwestern Pakistan, was held in the 2008 slaying of a provincial official in the region. He was granted bail and left for the UAE.
    (AP, 4/4/11)

2011        Apr 3, In eastern Pakistan blasts at a Sufi shrine left at least 44 people dead and some 100 wounded. Police said the blasts in Dera Ghazi Khan were caused by 2 suicide bombers. An unrepentant boy (14) was captured after his explosives failed to detonate. The boy's arm was later amputated as a result of injuries he sustained after he was shot by a guard.
    (AFP, 4/3/11)(AP, 4/4/11)(AP, 4/8/11)

2011        Apr 4, In Pakistan a suicide bomber struck again, killing seven people at a bus station in the northwestern region of Lower Dir. The bullet-riddled body of Sardar Amanuddin, a Pakistani tribal elder was found near Wana, South Waziristan, six weeks after he was abducted.
    (AP, 4/4/11)

2011        Apr 6, In southwestern Pakistan gunmen torched two NATO oil tankers in southwestern Baluchistan province as they traveled to Afghanistan. 4 boys were killed by an abandoned explosive device that went off in northwest Pakistan.
    (AP, 4/6/11)

2011        Apr 7, Pakistani troops came under fire in the Pazai area of the Mohmand agency. Troops killed 10 militants and called for air support that left over 44 more dead.
    (SFC, 4/9/11, p.A2)  

2011        Apr 8, In Pakistan security forces killed 30 alleged Islamist militants in the Pazai area of Mohmand.
    (SFC, 4/9/11, p.A2)

2011        Apr 10, In Pakistan 7 suspected militants were killed in a clash with security forces in the Sardam area of the Swat Valley. In the Mohmand tribal region a paramilitary fighter was killed and two other wounded in a clash with militants during a search operation in Mitti area.
    (AP, 4/10/11)

2011        Apr 11, A group of 39 Pakistani prisoners held in India returned home, the second high-profile prisoner release in days that underscores an easing of tensions between the two rivals.
    (AFP, 4/11/11)

2011        Apr 13, In Pakistan 2 US missile strikes killed six alleged Afghan Taliban fighters in the South Waziristan tribal region, just days after Pakistani authorities asked for greater limits on such attacks.
    (AP, 4/13/11)
2011        Apr 13, The presidents of Turkey and Pakistan, meeting in Ankara, said they would support initiatives designed to end the war in Afghanistan, but they declined to confirm that a plan is under way to open a political office for Taliban in Turkey to promote peace talks.
    (AP, 4/13/11)

2011        Apr 14, Pakistan freed 89 Indian fishermen imprisoned for fishing and violating its territorial waters as the nuclear-armed rivals resume a fledgling peace process.
    (AFP, 4/14/11)
2011        Apr 14, A top French security official said two French citizens have been arrested in Pakistan, where authorities have linked them to a top suspected al-Qaida militant over the 2002 nightclub bombing in Bali.
    (AP, 4/14/11)

2011        Apr 16, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and visiting Pakistani PM Yusuf Raza Gilani agreed to boost joint peace efforts with Taliban insurgents. In eastern Laghman province a suicide bomber wearing an Afghan army uniform blew himself up inside a military base, killing five NATO soldiers and four Afghan soldiers. Two bomb blasts in the south killed three soldiers.
    (AFP, 4/16/11)(AP, 4/16/11)(AP, 4/17/11)

2011        Apr 17, In northwest Pakistan the bodies of eight young men were found dumped in a ditch in Attock.
    (AP, 4/17/11)

2011        Apr 22, In northwest Pakistan a US drone strike targeting Taliban killed 23 people including three civilians, after 16 security forces died in an insurgent attack.
    (AFP, 4/22/11)

2011        Apr 23, Pakistan’s army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said that his forces have broken the "backbone" of Islamist militants in the country. Hours later a suicide bomber on foot detonated his explosives alongside a convoy of soldiers and elders from an anti-Taliban militia in the town of Salarzai in the Bajur tribal region. The attack killed four of the militiamen and a paramilitary soldier. Pakistan suspended delivery of supplies to NATO troops in Afghanistan via its land border for three days as campaigners began a sit-in on the supply route over US drone attacks.
    (AP, 4/23/11)

2011        Apr 26, In Pakistan Islamist militants bombed two navy buses taking employees to work in Karachi, killing 4 people in the streets of the country's largest city.
    (AP, 4/26/11)

2011        Apr 28, In Pakistan a roadside bomb set by Taliban militants killed 4 people in a bus carrying navy personnel in Karachi.
    (SFC, 4/29/11, p.A4)

2011        Apr 30, In northwestern Pakistan a roadside bomb hit a minibus, killing two passengers and wounding nine others in the Kurram tribal region.
    (AP, 4/30/11)

2011        May 2, Osama bin Laden (b.1957), the face of global terrorism and architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was killed in an early morning firefight in Abbotabad, Pakistan, with elite American forces. Bin Laden was quickly buried at sea in a stunning finale to a furtive decade on the run. 3 adult males were also killed in the raid, including one of bin Laden's sons. One woman was killed when she was used as a shield by a male combatant. Courier Ibrahim Saeed Ahmed and his brother Abrar were among the dead.
    (AP, 5/2/11)(SFC, 6/2/11, p.A4)

2011        May 3, Pakistan's president acknowledged for the first time that his security forces were left out of a US operation to kill Osama bin Laden, but he did little to dispel questions over how the al Qaeda leader was able to live in comfort near Islamabad.
    (AP, 5/3/11)

2011        May 5, Pakistan detained Brigadier Ali Khan for links to a banned Islamist group, the highest-ranking serving officer arrested in a decade. He was detained over links to the banned Hizb-ul-Tahrir. The detention was not announced until June 21
    (Reuters, 6/21/11)(AP, 6/21/11)

2011        May 6, In Pakistan a US drone attack targeted a vehicle and a compound in North Waziristan killing at least 15 people, including Al-Qaeda members. Hundreds of Pakistanis took to the streets in Abbottabad, Quetta, Multan and Peshawar cheering Osama bin Laden and shouting "death to America" to condemn a unilateral US raid on their soil that killed bin Laden. Assailants using rockets and guns attacked a group of people exercising at an open soccer field on the outskirts of Quetta, killing six of them and wounding 13.
    (AFP, 5/6/11)(AP, 5/6/11)

2011        May 7, Prominent Pakistani lawmakers called for President Asif Ali Zardari and other senior government officials to resign after the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden and embarrassed the nation.
    (AP, 5/7/11)

2011        May 9, Pakistan met US demands for an inquiry into how Osama bin Laden lived for years under the noses of its military but refused to be blamed alone for Al-Qaeda or its mastermind. Pakistan’s spy agency gave the name of the CIA station chief to the Nation, a conservative daily newspaper.
    (AFP, 5/9/11)(SFC, 5/10/11, p.A3)

2011        May 10, Pakistani lawmakers adopted tougher penalties for acid attacks in a step towards eradicating a form of violence that can disfigure around 200 women a year. The lower house of parliament passed the amendment, but the legislation needs to be formally rubber stamped by the Senate.
    (AFP, 5/11/11)
2011        May 10, In Pakistan US missiles killed three alleged Arab militants in the Baghar area of South Waziristan.
    (AP, 5/10/11)
2011        May 10, Pakistan’s US envoy delivered a memo from Pres. Zardari to US Admiral Mullen, offering that a "new national security team" would end relations between Pakistani intelligence and Afghan militants, namely the Taliban and its Haqqani faction. On Oct 10 American businessman Mansoor Ijaz wrote that a "senior Pakistani diplomat" telephoned him in May soon after bin Laden's death, urging him to deliver a message to the White House bypassing Pakistan's military and intelligence chiefs.
    (AFP, 11/22/11)

2011        May 11, The United States designated Badruddin Haqqani, a North Waziristan-based leader of the Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network, to a list of people sanctioned for involvement or support of terrorist organizations.
    (AFP, 5/11/11)

2011        May 12, A Pakistani court ruled that President Asif Ali Zardari must relinquish his position as co-chairman of Pakistan's ruling party, a decision that could strip him of his main source of power and cause fresh political conflict in the country. A US drone aircraft fired missiles at militants, killing eight of them.
    (AP, 5/12/11)
2011        May 12, Russia and Pakistan pledged to boost economic ties and coordinate efforts to fight terror as the Kremlin welcomed the Pakistani president for a key visit after the killing of Osama bin Laden.
    (AFP, 5/12/11)

2011        May 13, Pakistan’s parliament passed a resolution declaring the US drone strikes were a violation of sovereignty. A pair of Taliban suicide bombers attacked paramilitary police recruits eagerly heading home for a break after months of training, killing 87 people, including 66 recruits, in the first act of retaliation for the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden. The bombers blew themselves up in Shabqadar at the main gate of the facility for the Frontier Constabulary. Four US missiles struck a vehicle in the Doga Madakhel village of North Waziristan tribal region killing 3 people. Two dozen vehicles, including 15 tankers carrying fuel for NATO in Afghanistan, were destroyed when a blast ripped through a parking lot close to the Torkham border crossing in the Khyber tribal region.
    (SSFC, 5/15/11, p.A6)(AP, 5/13/11)(AP, 5/14/11)

2011        May 14, In eastern Pakistan a roadside bomb hit a passenger bus near Kharian, killing at least three people and wounding several others.
    (AP, 5/14/11)
2011        May 14, US officials said 6 people in the United States and Pakistan have been charged with providing financing and material support to the Pakistani Taliban, a designated foreign terrorist organization. 3 were living in Pakistan and remained at large.
    (Reuters, 5/14/11)

2011        May 15, In Pakistan the bodies of two men, killed by Taliban militants, were found in North Waziristan. They were accusing them of spying for the United States.
    (AFP, 5/15/11)

2011        May 16, In Pakistan a Saudi diplomat was killed in a hail of bullets on his way to the country's consulate in Karachi, the second attack on Saudi interests in Pakistan's biggest city in less than a week.
    (AFP, 5/16/11)
2011        May 16, The US and Pakistan agreed to work together in any future actions against "high value targets" in Pakistan, even as US Sen. John Kerry defended Washington's decision not to tell Islamabad in advance about the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
    (AP, 5/16/11)

2011        May 17, Pakistan's PM Yousuf Raza Gilani declared China his country's best friend in an apparent dig at Washington as he began a visit to China. China is Pakistan’s main arms supplier. Pakistan last week opened a 330-megawatt nuclear power plant in central Punjab province with Chinese help and said Beijing had been contracted to construct two more reactors.
    (AFP, 5/17/11)
2011        May 17, Pakistani troops and a NATO helicopter that crossed into Pakistani territory exchanged fire, wounding two soldiers. The Pakistani army said it lodged a strong protest and demanded a meeting with NATO officials to discuss the incident. The army said a "senior al-Qaida operative" had been arrested in the port city of Karachi. A statement said Yemeni national Muhammad Ali Qasim Yaqub, alias Abu Sohaib Al Makki, had been working directly under al Qaida leaders along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
    (AP, 5/17/11)
2011        May 17, Pakistani security forces shot and killed 5 alleged suicide bombers, including three women, when they tried to attack an army checkpoint in the southwestern city of Quetta. A bomb disposal squad in its report released in Quetta on May 21 said the alleged attackers, one Tajik and 4 from Chechnya were unarmed. A post mortem report said one of the women was pregnant with 7-month baby. In October Pakistan sacked 2 police officers over the killings.
    (AFP, 5/21/11)(AFP, 10/26/11)

2011        May 18, In Pakistan more than 70 militants attacked a security checkpost on the outskirts of Peshawar, triggering a shootout that killed two security forces and wounded five. Police said at least 15 insurgents were killed.
    (Reuters, 5/18/11)
2011        May 18, China and Pakistan signed three agreements in Beijing on economic and technology cooperation, banking and mining.
    (AP, 5/18/11)

2011        May 20, Pakistani defense officials said China has agreed to provide Pakistan with 50 more fighter jets in a deal clinched during Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's trip to Beijing.
    (AP, 5/20/11) 
2011        May 20, Pakistan's Taliban attacked a US consulate convoy in Peshawar. Police said a car bomb was by remote control as the convoy passed, killing one Pakistani. Twelve people were wounded including 2 US security guards.
    (Reuters, 5/20/11)

2011        May 21, In the Khyber region of Pakistan a bomb attack on a NATO fuel tanker headed to Afghanistan sparked a huge fire that killed 15 people who had been scrambling to collect petrol leaking out from the bombed-out vehicle. 11 other NATO supply vehicles, "most of them oil tankers," were destroyed at a terminal in nearby Torkham town.
    (AFP, 5/21/11)

2011        May 22, In Pakistan as few as six Taliban gunmen launched a brazen attack on the PNS Mehran base in Karachi to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden. At least 10 military personnel were killed and 20 wounded in the assault. 2 US-made surveillance planes were destroyed.
    (AP, 5/23/11)(AFP, 5/23/11)

2011        May 23, Pakistani troops recaptured the PNS Mehran base in Karachi after a 16-hour battle with as few as six Taliban gunmen, who had launched their brazen attack to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden. 3 militants were killed in the gunbattle while the body of a fourth was believed to be buried under the rubble of a collapsed wall. Two suspects were believed to have fled the scene. At least 7 militants, including three Arab nationals, were killed in a missile strike by a US drone aircraft in North Waziristan. An Afghan television station reported Taliban leader Mullah Omar had been killed in Pakistan, but the group denied it, saying he was safe and in Afghanistan. 
    (Reuters, 5/23/11)
2011        May 23, In southern Afghanistan a NATO service member died in an explosion. NATO forces in southern Helmand province conducting a search shot and killed an Afghan who they said acted hostile and raised an object toward troops. The object was a flashlight. An unnamed intelligence source said Taliban leader Muhammad Omar was shot dead 2 days earlier as he moved from Quetta, Pakistan, to North Waziristan. There was no confirmation.
    (AP, 5/24/11)(SFC, 5/24/11, p.A3)

2011        May 25, In Pakistan a Taliban suicide bomber flattened a police station in Peshawar, killing nine people. A Taliban faction claimed responsibility for the bombing, saying it was their fourth reprisal for the May 2 death of bin Laden.
    (AP, 5/25/11)

2011        May 26, Hundreds of Pakistanis took to the streets to protest against rolling blackouts that paralyze industry and make life unbearable in the searing summer heat. In the northwest a suspected suicide bomber killed at least 32 people, including 2 policemen, in an attack outside a police station in Hangu.
    (AFP, 5/26/11)(Reuters, 5/26/11)(AP, 5/28/11)   

2011        May 27, Pakistani fighter jets pounded militant hide-outs in the country's northwest Orakzai and Kurram tribal regions, killing 23 suspected insurgents.
    (AP, 5/27/11)
2011        May 27, In northern Pakistan a bus slid off a mountain road and plunged 200 feet deep into a swollen river, and at least 25 people on board were believed to have died.
    (AP, 5/27/11)

2011        May 28, In Pakistan a suicide bomber targeted pro-government tribal elders in the northwestern frontier, killing eight men in the Bajur tribal region.
    (AP, 5/28/11)

2011        May 29, In Pakistan gunmen killed two Shiite policemen in Quetta city.
    (AP, 5/29/11)

2011        May 30, Humanitarian agencies active in Pakistan's northwest said they have been quietly told to prepare for up to 365,000 displaced people in advance of a military offensive against North Waziristan.
    (Reuters, 5/30/11)
2011        May 30, India and Pakistan worked to reduce tensions in the world's highest battlefield, as their defense secretaries discussed ways to demilitarize the Siachen Glacier.
    (AP, 5/30/11)

2011        May 31, Pakistani fighter jets attacked militant positions in the Orakzai tribal region close to the Afghan border, killing at least 18 suspected insurgents.
    (AP, 5/31/11)
2011        May 31, Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad (40), who investigated al-Qaida's alleged infiltration of the country's navy, was found dead. Police said there were signs he'd been tortured. He had told a rights activist he feared the country's intelligence agencies planned to retaliate against him over his story about the militant infiltration. Two days earlier he had written an investigative report in Asia Times Online saying Al-Qaeda carried out a recent attack on a naval air base to avenge the arrest of naval officials held on suspicion of Al-Qaeda links.
    (AP, 5/31/11)(AFP, 1/13/12)

2011        May, Pakistani Dr. Shakeel Afridi, who helped the CIA track Osama bin Laden, was arrested by the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate three weeks after the May 2 Abbotabad raid. In October a government inquiry recommended that Afridi be charged with treason.
    (SFC, 10/7/11, p.A4)

2011        Jun 1, A Taliban video was made showing Pakistani policemen being executed by firing squad after being captured in Upper Dir. A commander and his fighters opened fire on at least 15 men, who start crying and moaning. They later pump bullets at close-range into bodies still moving. The victims were policemen and paramilitary police captured on June 1.
    (AP, 7/18/11)

2011        Jun 2, In Pakistan Islamist militants, who flowed out of Afghanistan, fought a second day of fierce battles with Pakistani security forces in one of the deadliest clashes on the Pakistan side of the frontier in months. Authorities said as many as 45 militants, 28 soldiers and 3 civilians were killed in the fighting.
    (AP, 6/2/11)(SFC, 6/3/11, p.A3)

2011        Jun 3, Pakistani helicopters and artillery forced back militants who crossed over from Afghanistan this week and triggered battles that have killed scores of people. The government demanded that NATO and Afghan troops do more to control insurgents on their side of the long, porous border. Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri, a senior al Qaeda figure, was reportedly killed by a US drone following a tipoff from local intelligence. Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri, a senior al Qaeda figure, was reportedly killed by a US drone following a tipoff from local intelligence.
    (AP, 6/3/11)(Reuters, 6/4/11)

2011        Jun 5, In northwest Pakistan a suicide bomber attacked a bakery in Nowshera killing 18 people. Another bomb left 6 others dead.
    (SFC, 6/6/11, p.A2)

2011        Jun 6, In Pakistan US drone aircraft struck at least 3 attacks in South Waziristan killing at least 18 people.
    (SFC, 6/7/11, p.A2)

2011        Jun 8, In Pakistan Taliban fighters launched an attack at a security checkpoint in South Waziristan. 8 Pakistani soldiers and ten militants were killed in the clash. Sarfraz Shah (18), an unarmed teenager, was killed in Karachi by members of the  paramilitary Rangers. 6 Rangers were arrested in connection with the killing. On Aug 12 a court sentenced to death Shahid Zafar, the soldier who shot and killed the unarmed youth. Five other soldiers and a civilian who were present during the killing were convicted of murder and handed life sentences.
            (AP, 6/8/11)(SFC, 6/10/11, p.A5)(AP, 8/12/11)(SFC, 8/13/11, p.A2)

2011        Jun 11, In Peshawar, Pakistan, two bomb blasts severely damaged a supermarket and hotel, killing 34 people and injuring more nearly 100. Authorities suspected the Pakistani Taliban.
            (AFP, 6/11/11)(SSFC, 6/19/11, p.A4)

2011        Jun 14, Pakistan’s top military spy agency has reportedly arrested 5 Pakistani informants who fed information to the CIA in the months leading up to the raid that led to the death of bin Laden. Army Major Amir Aziz has not been seen since the May 2 raid. He had lived adjacent to bin laden’s compound fro several years. Some 35-40 people were said to have been arrested countrywide on suspicion of working for the CIA on the Abbottabad operation.
    (SFC, 6/15/11, p.A2)(SFC, 6/16/11, p.A2)

2011        Jun 16, More than 200 militants crossed into Pakistan from Afghanistan and attacked a border village with rockets, mortars and machine guns, killing five people and kidnapping more than 20. A bomb attack in southern Afghanistan killed a NATO coalition service member.
    (AP, 6/16/11)(AP, 6/17/11)

2011        Jun 17, A rocket fired during fighting in Pakistan's tribal region landed in eastern Afghanistan, killing four children in an area where militants launch attacks on US-led forces.
    (AP, 6/17/11)

2011        Jun 18, In Pakistan a roadside bomb targeting security forces killed a passer-by in the country's southwest. 4 security officers and 4 civilians were also wounded in the attack in the town of Panjgore. Pakistan’s army launched an air and ground assault against a militant stronghold in Mohmand tribal agency and killed 25, while the rest fled across the border into eastern Afghanistan.
    (AP, 6/18/11)(Reuters, 6/19/11)
2011        Jun 18, In Pakistan men wearing police uniforms beat Waqar Kiani (32), a Pakistani journalist working for the British Guardian newspaper, five days after he published an account of abduction and torture by suspected Pakistani intelligence agents. On June 16 the Guardian revealed that Kiani was abducted from Islamabad in July 2008, blindfolded and taken to a safe house where interrogators beat him and burned him with cigarettes. They released him 15 hours later and warned him they would rape his wife if he told anyone.
    (AP, 6/20/11)
2011        Jun 18, In Pakistan Sohana Jawed (9) was kidnapped near her home in Peshawar and forced to wear a suicide vest. She escaped at a checkpoint outside TimerGarah.
    (SFC, 6/21/11, p.A3)

2011        Jun 19, In northwest Pakistan at least 50 militants attacked a paramilitary checkpoint near the Afghan border, triggering intense fighting that killed four soldiers. A local government official put the number of militants dead at eight.
    (AP, 6/19/11)
2011        Jun 19, In Pakistan Muhammad Riaz chopped off his wife’s nose before turning himself over to the Khanpur police. Riaz, a resident of Choee village, said he believed his wife, Ansar Bibi (22), was having an affair. Bibi denied the allegation saying he did it because she is infertile. Police later arrested the alleged boyfriend, Ashiq Hussain, from Riaz’s house and registered separate cases against both men.
    (www.muslimwomennews.com/)(SSFC, 6/26/11, p.A4)

2011        Jun 20, In northwest Pakistan suspected US drones fired missiles at a vehicle and a house, killing 12 people in a rare attack in the Kurram tribal area, where some of NATO's fiercest enemies have reportedly traveled. A car bomb near women's school in southwestern Pakistan killed 2 and wounded 12.
    (AP, 6/20/11)

2011        Jun 23, India and Pakistan held talks on peace and security issues in Islamabad, part of efforts to stabilize South Asia.
    (AFP, 6/23/11)
2011        Jun 23, A special Afghan tribunal overturned nearly 25 percent of last year's legislative election results, alleging massive fraud and putting into question who will control the parliament, one of the few checks on President Hamid Karzai. The Afghan government said that ten Pakistani artillery shells landed in Sarkano district of Kunar province, killing four children.
    (AP, 6/23/11)(Reuters, 6/24/11)

2011        Jun 24, India and Pakistan wrapped up a fresh round of peace talks in Islamabad without any breakthrough other than an agreement to meet again in New Delhi ahead of ministerial talks next month. They did agree to work on new nuclear confidence-building measures and expanded trade and travel across the ceasefire line dividing disputed Kashmir.
    (AFP, 6/24/11)(Reuters, 6/24/11)
2011        Jun 24, Pakistani fighter jets bombed suspected militant hideouts in two areas of the  northwestern Kurram tribal region near the Afghan border, killing at least 10 alleged insurgents.
    (AP, 6/24/11)
2011        Jun 24, In Iran Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai held a three-way summit with Iran ahead of attending an anti-terrorism conference.
    (AFP, 6/24/11)

2011        Jun 25, In northwest Pakistan militants armed with guns and grenades attacked a police station killing 8 police officers and 2 civilians. Three explosions were heard at the scene. Husband and wife suicide bombers blew themselves up when an armored vehicle tried to enter the police compound in Kolachi, Dera Ismail Khan district. Earlier in the day 15 insurgents were killed in the northwest tribal region of Orakzai during a gunbattle between two factions of the Pakistani Taliban.
    (AP, 6/25/11)(AP, 6/26/11)
2011        Jun 25, In Iran Pakistani Pres. Asif Ali Zardari and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai attended an international anti-terrorism conference alongside Sudan's Pres. Omar al-Bashir, Iraqi Pres. Jalal Talabani and Tajik Pres. Emomali Rahmon. The presidents of Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan agreed to join forces in combating militancy.
    (AP, 6/25/11)(AFP, 6/25/11)

2011        Jun 26, In Pakistan a bomb planted in a motorcycle exploded near a police station in the central city of Multan wounding eight people, including four police officials.
    (AP, 6/26/11)
2011        Jun 26, Pakistan was reported to have ordered Britain to withdraw some of its military training teams from the country. The Guardian said Pakistan has expelled at least 18 British military advisers, deployed as part of a 15 million pound ($23.9 million) program to train the paramilitary Frontier Corps.
    (AP, 6/27/11)
2011        Jun 26, Afghan President Hamid Karzai accused Pakistan of firing 470 rockets into two of its eastern border provinces in a three-week barrage. Security forces said that 36 people have died in the barrages, which hit civilians in areas where NATO forces have withdrawn. Authorities said a girl (8) was killed when the Taliban detonated a bomb she was given to carry to a police vehicle. Two Spanish soldiers were killed, and another three were injured, when their armored vehicle hit an improvised explosive device. Two other NATO soldiers were killed in the east and south.
    (AP, 6/26/11)(AFP, 6/26/11)(SFC, 6/27/11, p.A3)

2011        Jun 27, In Pakistan gunmen riding in a car with tinted windows near the Afghan border shot and killed Shakirullah Shakir, a senior Pakistani Taliban commander who helped train and deploy the group's suicide bombers. A suspected US drone fired two missiles in the Dra Nishter area of South Waziristan, killing 12 suspected militants. The Muttahida Qaumi Movement, a member of Pakistan's ruling coalition, announced it was pulling out of the government at both the national level and in southern Sindh province because of disputes over legislative assembly elections held in Pakistan-held Kashmir a day earlier.
    (AP, 6/27/11)(SFC, 6/28/11, p.A3)

2011        Jun 28, In Pakistan federal and provincial ministers from an influential political party in Sindh resigned after their Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) quit the government in protest. The move left the PPP with a slender majority in the national government.
    (AFP, 6/28/11)

2011        Jun 30, A Pakistani military commander said troops backed by jets and helicopter gunships have killed 40 militants in the Mohmand tribal area bordering Afghanistan in the past three days.
    (AFP, 6/30/11)

2011        Jul 1, In Pakistan 2 Swiss tourists were kidnapped in southwest Baluchistan province.
    (AP, 7/2/11)

2011        Jul 2, In Pakistan militants attacked a checkpoint in the Karora area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province around midnight killing three police officers and wounding one.
    (AP, 7/3/11)

2011        Jul 4, In Pakistan some 28,000 people escaped Kurram in a mass exodus after the offensive was launched, with the army saying that artillery and fighter jets had swung into action to drive out "terrorists." Hundreds of Islamists held rallies in major cities to denounce a gay rights event hosted last month by the United States embassy.
    (AP, 7/5/11)(AFP, 7/4/11)
2011        Jul 4, Around 60 Afghan militants attacked a Pakistani paramilitary checkpoint in a cross-border raid, killing one soldier and sparking a gunbattle that lasted for more than two hours. Militants used mortar and rocket fire to cover their advance into the Bajur tribal area.
    (AP, 7/4/11)

2011        Jul 5, Nine Pakistani soldiers were killed in attacks targeting troops in the militant-infested tribal badlands near Afghanistan and further south on the border with Iran. A bomb attack in Miranshah killed three troops and wounded another 15.
    (AFP, 7/5/11)(AFP, 7/6/11)

2011        Jul 6, Pakistani troops backed by attack helicopters clashed with Taliban fighters in Miranshah, North Waziristan. A night of political violence left 24 people dead in Karachi. Hundreds of militants crossed from Afghanistan and attacked several Pakistani border villages, triggering shootouts with local militias that killed at least 5 people.
    (AFP, 7/6/11)(AP, 7/6/11)

2011        Jul 7, In Pakistan gunmen shot up a bus and opened fire in several neighborhoods of Karachi, killing at least 22 people. 49 other people were killed in the city in sporadic shootings over the last 3 days.
    (AP, 7/7/11)(SFC, 7/8/11, p.A2)

2011        Jul 8, Pakistan officials said that a four-day air and ground offensive against militants in a key tribal district had left 42 enemy fighters and eight soldiers dead on the Afghan border. The government ordered 1,000 extra troops to deploy in Karachi with instructions to shoot-to-kill. At least 80 people have been killed since July 6 in the deadliest six months of political violence since 1995. Security forces had already arrested 89 suspects over the killings.
    (AFP, 7/8/11)(AP, 7/8/11)

2011        Jul 9, Pakistani forces regained control over trouble spots in Karachi, the nation's largest city, where five days of political and ethnic violence killed at least 93 people and forced many to stay at home in fear. Many of the killings appeared linked to political and ethnic turf battles.
    (AP, 7/9/11)
2011        Jul 9, The Afghan defense ministry said military officials from Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to hold more high-level talks to defuse a row over a series of attacks across their porous border. Four Taliban fighters were killed in daylong fighting in Ghazni province. In central Uruzgan province, a raid on insurgents sparked fighting that left 10 militants and three Afghan police officers dead.
    (AFP, 7/9/11)(AP, 7/10/11)

2011        Jul 10, Pakistani called on the United States to share information about new al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri after US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said he believed that Osama bin Laden's successor was in Pakistan.
    (Reuters, 7/10/11)
2011        Jul 10, President Barack Obama's chief of staff, William Daley, said that the US was suspending $800 million in aid to the Pakistani military until the two countries can patch up their relationship.
    (AP, 7/11/11)

2011        Jul 11, In Pakistan suspected US missiles hit a house in Gorvak village in North Waziristan, killing at least 20 alleged militants. Other Pakistani intelligence officials put the death toll at 23.
    (AP, 7/12/11)

2011        Jul 12, In northwestern Pakistan suspected US missile strikes killed at least 18 alleged militants. A car was struck in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan killing 4 alleged militants.
    (AP, 7/12/11)(SFC, 7/13/11, p.A3)

2011        Jul 13, In Pakistan the city of Karachi reeled from fresh political violence that killed at least 14 people and added to the nation's instability after Zulfiqar Mirza, a senior member of the ruling Pakistan People's Party, called Altaf Hussain, chief of the city's powerful Muttahida Qaumi Movement, a murderer and an extortionist.
    (AP, 7/14/11)

2011        Jul 14, In Pakistan Malik Ishaq, an Islamist militant accused in dozens of killings and a 2009 attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team, was freed on bail after 14 years in custody because the Supreme Court decided there was not enough evidence to keep holding him.
    (AP, 7/14/11)

2011        Jul 16, In Pakistan gunmen ambushed a bus carrying Sunni Muslims and killed all 10 passengers in the northwestern Kurram tribal region.
    (AP, 7/16/11)

2011        Jul 19, Mortar shells from Afghanistan killed four Pakistani soldiers, the latest cross-border escalation as Afghan Pres. Karzai and his Pakistani counterpart called for peace. NATO handed over responsibility for the security of Mehterlam, the capital of eastern Laghman province, to Afghan forces.
    (AFP, 7/19/11)(AP, 7/19/11)

2011        Jul 23, In Pakistan an anti-Taliban militia killed 13 militants in 2 days of clashes in the northwestern Kurram tribal region. Gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot and killed five laborers at a construction site for a mosque in southwestern Baluchistan.
    (AP, 7/23/11)

2011        Jul 24, In northwest Pakistan a suicide bomber blew himself up at an army checkpoint in South Waziristan, killing one soldier and wounding two others.
    (AP, 7/24/11)

2011        Jul 25, Pakistani police said at least 16 people have died over the past 24 hours as renewed violence involving rival ethnic and sectarian groups continued to rock Karachi.
    (AFP, 7/25/11)

2011        Jul 27, India and Pakistan's foreign ministers insisted relations were back on track after peace talks that highlighted a "new era" of cooperation over the ruptures of the past. It was the first meeting of the arch-rivals' foreign ministers for a year.
    (AFP, 7/27/11)
2011        Jul 27, An Indian army officer was shot dead in a battle with rebels along the de facto Kashmir border. The latest fighting came after Indian foreign minister S.M. Krishna and his Pakistani counterpart, Hina Rabbani Khar, outlined in New Delhi the countries' commitment to fight militancy, boost trade and sustain the peace process.
    (AFP, 7/28/11)

2011        Jul 29, In southwestern Pakistan unidentified gunmen opened fire on a bus stand in Quetta, Baluchistan, killing seven Shiite pilgrims waiting to travel to neighboring Iran.
    (AFP, 7/29/11)

2011        Jul 30, In Pakistan gunmen opened fire on a commuter van and a rickshaw in Quetta, Baluchistan province, killing at least 11 Shiite Muslims.
    (SSFC, 7/31/11, p.A7)

2011        Aug 1, In Pakistan a US drone strike targeting a vehicle near the Afghan border killed at least four militants in South Waziristan. 23 people were reported gunned down in Karachi.
    (AFP, 8/1/11)(AP, 8/2/11)

2011        Aug 2, In Pakistan 11 people were reported gunned down in Karachi. In an attempt to contain the violence, authorities called in 1,000 paramilitary troops from the Frontier Corps and also police from the Frontier Constabulary.
    (AP, 8/2/11)

2011        Aug 3, In Pakistan the death toll in Karachi reached 58, after at least 35 people were killed in the space of 24 hours. Much of the fighting has been blamed on supporters of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) political party representing the Urdu-speaking majority, and the rival Awami National Party (ANP).
    (AFP, 8/3/11)

2011        Aug 6, In Pakistan a bomb attack near Peshawar destroyed 16 tankers carrying fuel for US-led forces in Afghanistan.
    (SSFC, 8/7/11, p.A5)

2011        Aug 10, In Pakistan two American-fired missiles hit a house in North Waziristan killing 20 Islamist militants. 14 of the dead belonged to the Haqqani network, a Taliban-linked faction.
    (SFC, 8/11/11, p.A2)

2011        Aug 11, In Pakistan a female suicide attacker and a handcart bomb targeted police in Peshawar, killing 7 people in the first deadly attacks to hit the northwest during Ramadan.
    (AFP, 8/11/11)
2011        Aug 11, Umar Patek (41), a key suspect in the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, was escorted home to Indonesia under tight security to stand trial, six months after he was captured in the same northwestern Pakistani town where Osama bin Laden was killed. The al-Qaida-linked militant, had a $1 million bounty on his head when authorities caught up with him on Jan. 25 in Abbottabad.
    (AP, 8/11/11)

2011        Aug 12, In Pakistan Taliban militants ambushed a police van taking two of their comrades back to jail after a trip to the dentist, freeing the captives. Three police guards were killed in the incident in Peshawar.
    (AP, 8/12/11)

2011        Aug 13, In Pakistan gunmen abducted Warren Weinstein, an American development expert, after breaking into his house in Lahore. The unusually brazen raid illustrated the threat to foreigners in this militancy-wracked country. By Aug 24 three arrests were made after officers tracked cell phone numbers. On Dec 2 Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri acknowledged that the terror group was holding Weinstein.
    (AP, 8/13/11)(AP, 8/24/11)(AFP, 12/2/11)

2011        Aug 14, In Pakistan a bomb attached to a timer ripped through a two-story hotel in Dera Allah Yar, Baluchistan province, reducing the building to rubble and killing 12 people. Elsewhere in Baluchistan, two gunmen riding a motorcycle killed a local journalist in the city of Khuzdar. Suspected militants fired rockets at a paramilitary base in Miran Shah, North Waziristan, during an independence day ceremony, killing 3 soldiers and wounding 23 others. A land mine killed 2 paramilitary soldiers and wounded 5 others on patrol in the Orakzai tribal area.
    (AP, 8/14/11)

2011        Aug 17, In Pakistan Islamist militants crossed over from Afghanistan and shot dead an anti-Taliban tribal elder and his son in the northwestern Bajur tribal region. Suspected gang members killed 17 mostly Urdu-speaking people in Karachi. Many of the victims were tortured, shot and stuffed in sacks that were dumped on the streets.
    (AP, 8/17/11)(AP, 8/18/11)

2011        Aug 18, In Pakistan suspected gang members killed 22 mostly Urdu-speaking people  in Karachi. Many of the victims were tortured, shot and stuffed in sacks that were dumped on the streets.
    (AP, 8/18/11)

2011        Aug 19, In Pakistan a suicide bomber struck a Sunni mosque in the Khyber tribal region during prayers, killing 48 people and wounding 85 others in the deadliest attack in the country in recent weeks. 2 US missiles struck a house in South Waziristan killing 4 people.
    (AP, 8/19/11)(AP, 8/20/11)

2011        Aug 20, In Pakistan suspected militants ambushed a security convoy in the Aka Khel area of Khyber tribal region, killing two soldiers and wounding eight. Gunmen ambushed a police bus in Karachi, killing four officers.
    (AP, 8/20/11)
2011        Aug 20, Indian troops in Kashmir fought a deadly gunbattle with suspected rebels crossing the military Line of Control from Pakistani-controlled territory. One soldier and 11 suspected rebels were reported killed.
    (AP, 8/20/11)

2011        Aug 22, In Pakistan gunmen killed four people in Karachi, taking the death toll to 18 in two days. At least 85 people have been killed in Karachi in the past week. A suspected US missile strike killed 4 alleged insurgents in North Waziristan.
    (AP, 8/22/11)(SFC, 8/23/11, p.A2)
2011        Aug 22, Atiyah abd al-Rahman, the Al-Qaeda second-in-command, was reportedly killed in the northwest tribal area of Waziristan. A senior US official announced his death on Aug 27. Pakistani security officials expressed doubt over the report.
    (AFP, 8/28/11) 

2011        Aug 23, Pakistani politicians, industrialists and citizens stepped up calls for the army to intervene to quell violence destabilizing Karachi, where more than 100 have been killed in a week. Karachi ground to a halt after a political party called a strike to protests the deaths.
    (AFP, 8/23/11)(SFC, 8/24/11, p.A2)

2011        Aug 24, In northwestern Pakistan flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains swept through a village in the remote Kundian Valley, killing 16 people and leaving several missing.
    (AP, 8/25/11)

2011        Aug 25, Pakistan officials said an American surveillance drone has crashed in the southwest near a paramilitary base close to the Afghan border.
    (AP, 8/25/11)

2011        Aug 27, In Pakistan some 200 to 300 "terrorists" based in Afghanistan attacked seven paramilitary Frontier Corps checkposts in the northwestern district of Chitral. Pakistani military said 25 troops and 20 militants were reported killed in the cross-border raid. Local police said 38 soldiers and 9 militants were killed.
    (AFP, 8/27/11)(SSFC, 8/28/11, p.A8)

2011        Aug 28, In southwestern Pakistan Gunmen ambushed a passenger train, killing three people and wounding 16 others in Mach, Baluchistan province.
    (AFP, 8/28/11)

2011        Aug 31, In southwestern Pakistan a suspected suicide car bomb attack killed 10 people in Quetta, Baluchistan province, as the country celebrated the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr.
    (Reuters, 8/31/11)
2011        Aug 31, Three Pakistani soldiers were killed and one Indian trooper was hurt in an exchange of fire by the rival militaries across their sensitive border in divided Kashmir.
    (AFP, 8/31/11)

2011        Sep 1, Pakistani Taliban in Afghanistan kidnapped more than 30 Pakistani boys who had mistakenly crossed the unmarked border from the country's lawless northwest. Gunmen killed 7 Shiite Muslims in the Kurram tribal region. Two people died in a suicide car bomb attack on a police station.
    (AFP, 9/2/11)(SFC, 9/2/11, p.A2)

2011        Sep 5, Pakistan military said intelligence officers working with the CIA in Quetta have arrested 3 members of al-Qaida including Younis al-Mauritani, a top operative believed to have been tasked by Osama bin Laden with targeting American economic interests around the world. It named the other two detainees as Abdul-Ghaffar al-Shami and Messara al-Shami.
    (AP, 9/5/11)
2011        Sep 5, A Pakistani relief official said monsoon rains have killed 136 people since Aug 12 and destroyed crops and houses in the flood-prone south of the country.
    (AP, 9/5/11)

2011        Sep 7, In Pakistan a pair of suicide bombers attacked a top army officer in the southwestern city of Quetta, missing him but killing his wife. At least 22 others died, including several guards, a senior officer and two children.
    (AP, 9/7/11)

2011        Sep 11, Pakistani intelligence officials said a suspected US missile strike has killed three people in an al-Qaida and Taliban safe haven in North Waziristan. A CIA drone killed Abu Hafs al-Shariri (33), a top Al-Qaida operative responsible for plotting terror attacks in Pakistan.
    (AP, 9/11/11)(SFC, 9/16/11, p.A5)

2011        Sep 13, In northwestern Pakistan Taliban gunmen attacked a school van on the outskirts of Peshawar, killing four children and the driver in an assault they said was carried out to punish local Matani tribesman for resisting the insurgent movement.
    (AP, 9/13/11)

2011        Sep 15, In Pakistan a suicide bomber attacked the funeral service of a tribesman opposed to the Taliban, killing 31 people in the Lower Dir region.
    (AP, 9/15/11)(SFC, 9/16/11, p.A5)

2011        Sep 17, In Pakistan US Ambassador Cameron Munter said in broadcast remarks that there is evidence linking the Haqqani insurgent network to the Pakistani government, a charge that could raise tensions in an already strained anti-terror alliance. An unmanned US drone crashed near Jangara village in the South Waziristan tribal area. Pakistani soldiers battled Taliban fighters in an attempt to seize precious debris. Three militants were killed.
    (AP, 9/17/11)(AP, 9/18/11)

2011        Sep 18, In Pakistan’s Khyber tribal area dozens of Taliban armed with rocket launchers stormed a police post in the triggering clashes that killed 10 militants and 5 anti-militant fighters.
    (AFP, 9/18/11)
2011        Sep 18, The UN made an emergency appeal for funding for Pakistan. Monsoon rains since early August have killed more than 220 people, damaged or destroyed some 665,000 homes and displaced more than 1.8 million people in the southern Sindh province.
    (AP, 9/19/11)

2011        Sep 19, In Pakistan a Taliban suicide bomber detonated a vehicle packed with explosives outside the home of a senior police officer tasked with cracking down on militants in Karachi. The blast killed at least eight people and left a crater 10 feet deep.
    (AP, 9/19/11)

2011        Sep 20, In Pakistan gunmen opened fire on minority Shiite Muslim pilgrims traveling through southwest, killing 26 people in an apparent sectarian attack.  The attack targeted the Shiite Hazara tribe.
    (AP, 9/20/11)(AP, 10/4/11)
2011        Sep 20, In Afghanistan a Taliban suicide bomber in Kabul, with concealed explosives in a turban, assassinated former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani (1992-1996), who was leading government peace efforts. In Feb, 2012, Pakistan arrested two people in connection with the assassination.
    (AFP, 9/20/11)(AP, 2/10/12)
2011        Sep 20, The World Health Organization warned countries that a dangerous strain of polio, WPV1, has spread to China from Pakistan.
    (SFC, 9/21/11, p.A2)

2011        Sep 21, The Pakistani government placed Malik Ishaq, a founder of the banned Sunni extremist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, under temporary house detention because of his attempts to stoke conflict between Sunni and Shiite Muslims since his release from prison 2 months ago.
    (AP, 9/22/11)

2011        Sep 30, In Pakistan a US missile strike killed three suspected militants in the South Waziristan tribal area.
    (AP, 9/30/11)

2011        Oct 1, Afghanistan's intelligence service said it has given Pakistan hard evidence that Rabbani's Sep 20 assassination was planned in the southern outskirts of Quetta where key Taliban leaders are based. 7 Afghan soldiers were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in eastern Paktia province. One NATO service member died in a bomb attack in the south.
    (AP, 10/1/11)(AP, 10/2/11)

2011        Oct 2, The Afghan government urged neighboring Pakistan to take concrete steps to help end the Taliban insurgency and use its influence to bring the militants to direct peace talks.
    (AP, 10/2/11)

2011        Oct 4, Pakistani protesters upset over severe electricity shortages clashed with police for a second day in Gujranwala, a major industrial city in Punjab province, as the country's main opposition leader used the issue to pressure the US-allied government.
    (AP, 10/4/11)
2011        Oct 4, In Pakistan suspected Sunni extremists shot 13 Shiite Muslims to death execution-style after ordering them off a bus as they headed to work at a vegetable market on the outskirts of Quetta. The attack targeted the Shiite Hazara tribe.
    (AP, 10/4/11)

2011        Oct 5, A prosecutor told a London court that 2 Pakistani cricketers took bribes to fix parts of a match against England in a case that exposes "rampant corruption" at the heart of the international game.
    (AFP, 10/5/11)

2011        Oct 8, Pakistani authorities detained the two suspects as they drove through the Shahzad neighborhood of Islamabad. The men had concealed more then a dozen rockets, 12 hand grenades and vests packed with explosives in their car and at an Islamabad home.
    (AP, 10/8/11)

2011        Oct 11, Pakistan PM Yousuf Raza Gilani pledged to create thousands of jobs in insurgency-wracked Baluchistan as he admitted past neglect of the region had fuelled its troubles. 2 people were killed in Baluchistan province when gunmen torched an oil tanker carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan.
    (AFP, 10/11/11)
2011        Oct 11, Washington acknowledged for the first time that it is waging "war" against militants in Pakistan.
    (AFP, 10/13/11)

2011        Oct 13, Pakistani and US diplomats vowed to strengthen their troubled alliance two days after Washington acknowledged for the first time that it is waging "war" against militants in Pakistan. US drone strikes killed 10 militants, including Janbaz Zadran, a commander in the Haqqani network that the US military has linked to Pakistani intelligence.
    (AFP, 10/13/11)(AP, 10/16/11)

2011        Oct 14, In northwestern Pakistan a US drone strike killed four militants, the third such attack in 48 hours. The strike killed three Egyptians linked to the Haqqani network, including one who played a key role in handling the militant group's finances.
    (AFP, 10/14/11)(AP, 10/16/11)

2011        Oct 15, In northwest Pakistan US missiles killed 6 suspected militants. The drone-fired missiles targeted fighters of Maulvi Nazir, a Pakistani militant commander.
    (SSFC, 10/16/11, p.A4)

2011        Oct 17, Pakistani paramilitary forces raided a militant hideout in the rugged Khyber tribal region near the Afghan border, sparking fighting that killed 9 soldiers and 10 insurgents.
    (AP, 10/17/11)

2011        Oct 20, In Pakistan 4 soldiers and 5 militants were killed in a gunbattle in the Khyber tribal district along the Afghan border. In the evening militants attacked a group of paramilitary soldiers conducting a search operation in the Khyber tribal area, sparking fighting that killed three soldiers and 34 militants.
    (AFP, 10/20/11)(AP, 10/21/11)

2011        Oct 21, In northwestern Pakistan more than 30 militants armed with rockets and machine guns attacked a prominent pro-government tribal elder's house, killing three members of his family in the Mohmand tribal area.
    (AP, 10/21/11)

2011        Oct 23, In central Pakistan Mohammad Afzal (19) shot dead his parents and six siblings because his father, a poor donkey cart owner, could not feed the family.
    (AFP, 10/23/11)

2011        Oct 24, In Pakistan Raja Khan (34), a jobless father of two, set himself alight in a suicide bid outside parliament and was rushed to hospital with serious injuries.
    (AFP, 10/24/11)

2011        Oct 27, Pakistani officials said two US drone strikes killed at least 10 militants in Waziristan, including the brother of a local Taliban commander who sends fighters across the border to fight Americans in Afghanistan.
    (AFP, 10/28/11)

2011        Oct 28, In Pakistan some 2,000 people demonstrated outside the country's parliament to demand an end to US drone strikes, claiming they kill more innocent civilians than Taliban and Al-Qaeda leaders.
    (AFP, 10/28/11)
2011        Oct 28, A Pakistani court issued an arrest warrant for former president Pervez Musharraf and former PM Shaukat Aziz over the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti, a Baluch rebel leader in August 2006. The operation also killed at least 7 soldiers and 17 tribal insurgents.
    (AFP, 10/28/11)

2011        Oct 30, In Pakistan Imran Khan led a huge rally in Lahore. The PTI chief warned politicians to declare their assets or his party would launch a civil disobedience movement against them.
    (http://tribune.com.pk/story/285058/pti-rally-in-lahore-live-updates/)
2011        Oct 30, In Pakistan a suspected US drone strike killed 6 alleged militants.
    (SFC, 10/31/11, p.A2)

2011        Oct, In Pakistan a university professor allegedly sent a packet containing anthrax to the Pakistani prime minister's office. This was not made public until Feb 1, 2012.
    (AP, 2/1/12)
2011        Oct, Pakistan reported its 115th case of polio. The current annual global number was down to about 1000.
    (Econ, 10/15/11, p.48)

2011        Nov 1, Turkey hosted the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan for a trilateral summit designed to reduce tensions and promote cooperation between the two neighbors amid stepped-up Taliban attacks.
    (AFP, 11/1/11)
2011        Nov 1, In London former Pakistan Test captain Salman Butt (27) and fast bowler Mohammad Asif (28) were found guilty of involvement in a "spot-fixing" betting scam during a match against England in August, 2010.
    (AP, 11/1/11)

2011        Nov 2, The Pakistani cabinet approved a proposal granting India the status of "most favored nation" in a move towards normalizing trade relations between the two nuclear-armed arch rivals. The decision reciprocates India's move to grant MFN status to Pakistan in 1996.
    (AFP, 11/2/11)
2011        Nov 2, In Pakistan a bomb attack wounded 13 people, targeting Malik Taj, an influential Khyber tribal elder, on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Peshawar.
    (AFP, 11/2/11)
2011        Nov 2, In Turkey regional leaders pledged to find ways to improve security and economic development in Afghanistan as international combat forces prepared to leave by the end of 2014. Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his Pakistani counterpart, Asif Ali Zardari, discussed a joint inquiry into the Sept. 20 killing by a suicide bomber of Burhanuddin Rabbani, a former Afghan president and peace council leader.
    (AP, 11/2/11)

2011        Nov 3, Pakistan cricket authorities said they were more determined to eradicate corruption from the game after three of their key players were sentenced in London to jail in a corruption case. Former Test captain Salman Butt received 30 months, fast bowler Mohammad Asif received one year in jail and Mohammad Aamer (19) was jailed for six months.
    (AFP, 11/3/11)

2011        Nov 5, A Pakistani government prosecutor said a court has indicted two more suspects in the 2007 killing of former PM Benazir Bhutto. 2 police officers were charged with failing to provide Bhutto with proper security and with destroying evidence. 5 alleged Taliban militants were also indicted. A suicide bomber targeting the country's Shiite minority killed himself in a premature explosion in the southwest.
    (AFP, 11/5/11)

2011        Nov 8, Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari promised to work with the United States to "eradicate" the militant Haqqani network, a pledge made during a meeting with visiting American congressmen, according to one of the lawmakers. It was unclear whether Zardari had the power to make good on his pledge, given the influence of the military in Pakistan.
    (AP, 11/9/11)

2011        Nov 10, The prime ministers of India and Pakistan said they expected to open a "new chapter" at future talks between the rival nations after they met at a regional summit in the Maldives.
    (AFP, 11/10/11)

2011        Nov 12, In Pakistan four intelligence officials were killed during a raid on a militant hideout in the country's east. Some militants were killed or captured in the raid in Jellum district. Hafiz Gul Bahadur, a Pakistani militant commander close to the Afghan border, threatened to abandon an unofficial peace deal with the government because of American missile strikes and shelling by the Pakistani army.
    (AP, 11/12/11)

2011        Nov 13, In northwest Pakistan a bomb blast killed six people in remote Mastak town. Two members of an anti-Taliban militia are among those killed.
    (AP, 11/13/11)

2011        Nov 14, Pakistan's telecommunications authority sent a letter ordering cell phone companies to block text messages containing what it perceives to be obscenities. It also sent a list of more than 1,500 English and Urdu words that were to be blocked. The order was part of the regulator's attempt to block spam messages.
    (AP, 11/18/11)
2011        Nov 14, Four Pakistani paramilitary soldiers were killed when militants attacked their convoy in the northwestern tribal district of Khyber. In neighboring Mohmand district, security forces said they killed four militants and wounded five others who were later arrested, as the group tried to enter Pakistan from across the unmarked border in Afghanistan.
    (AFP, 11/14/11)

2011        Nov 15, In northwestern Pakistan a suspected US drone fired missiles at a house in Miran Shah, North Waziristan, killing seven alleged militants. Also in the northwest, Pakistani forces pounded militant hideouts, killing 16 suspected insurgents in Orakzai's Dabori area. Militants attacked an army checkpoint in the Ladha area of South Waziristan with rockets, killing one soldier and wounding another. Just before midnight suspected US drones fired four missiles at two compounds in South Waziristan, killing 16 alleged militants.
    (AP, 11/15/11)(AP, 11/16/11)

2011        Nov 16, In Pakistan a roadside bomb hit a minibus in the northwestern Tirah valley, killing six passengers and wounding two others. Militants attacked a military checkpoint in the Murghan area of the Kurram tribal region, killing one officer and wounding a soldier.
    (AP, 11/16/11)

2011        Nov 17, In Pakistan suspected US drones fired four missiles at a compound in North Waziristan, killing eight alleged militants and wounding two others in the third such strike in as many days. Pakistani security forces pounded militant hideouts in the Orakzai tribal area, killing 25 suspected militants, and in the Kurram tribal area, killing 12 suspected militants. Saeed Abdul Salam, carrying a US and a Pakistani passport, detonated an explosive device when troops raided his apartment in Karachi.
    (AP, 11/17/11)(AP, 11/19/11)

2011        Nov 20, In Pakistani gunmen in Baluchistan province torched three trucks carrying supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan.
    (AFP, 11/20/11)

2011        Nov 21, In Pakistan senior commanders in the Pakistani Taliban claimed to be holding initial peace talks with the government that could end a wave of bombings that has killed thousands of people. Gunmen ambushed a paramilitary Frontier Corps convoy in Baluchistan province, killing 14 soldiers. The Baluchistan Liberation Army claimed responsibility.
    (AFP, 11/21/11)(AP, 11/21/11)

2011        Nov 22, Pakistan's government asked Hussain Haqqani, its US envoy, to resign and ordered a probe into claims that he sought American help against the country's powerful military. A memo from Pres. Zardari was delivered to US Admiral Mullen on May 10, offering that a "new national security team" would end relations between Pakistani intelligence and Afghan militants, namely the Taliban and its Haqqani faction.
    (AFP, 11/22/11)
2011        Nov 22, Pakistan rowed back from demands that text messages containing nearly 1,700 "obscene" words should be blocked, following outrage from users and campaigners. A Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) spokesman said the authority would consult civil society representatives and mobile phone operators on refining a much shorter list of words, giving no timeframe for any eventual ban.
    (AFP, 11/22/11)

2011        Nov 23, In Pakistan Islamist militants attacked security forces in the Dera Ismail Khan district, killing four officers in gunfights that underscore the potent rebel threat despite reported peace talks. In Kurram militants attacked paramilitary troops, killing two soldiers and injuring eight others.
    (AFP, 11/23/11)

2011        Nov 24, Pakistani police in Karachi arrested Zainab Bibi (32), a woman who had killed her husband and was attempting to cook his body parts after he planned to marry another woman without her permission.
    (AFP, 11/24/11)

2011        Nov 26, Pakistan accused NATO helicopters and fighter jets of firing on two army checkpoints in the country's northwest and killing 24 soldiers. Afghan troops, who came under fire while operating near the Pakistan border, called in the NATO airstrikes. Islamabad retaliated by closing the border crossings used by the international coalition to supply its troops in neighboring Afghanistan. The Pakistani government demanded the US vacate an air base within 15 days that the CIA is suspected of using for unmanned drones.
    (AP, 11/26/11)(AP, 11/27/11)

2011        Nov 29, Pakistan decided to boycott a key international conference on Afghanistan next month in Bonn, widening its protest over lethal cross-border NATO strikes and exacerbating a deep crisis in US ties. Islamabad communicated with the alliance to prevent an exchange of artillery fire from turning into another international incident.
    (AFP, 11/29/11)(AP, 11/30/11)

2011        Dec 3, Pakistani actress Veena Malik said a nude photo has been published in violation of her agreement with FHM India and she was considering legal action against the magazine. She had posed in the nude for the Indian magazine with the initials of Pakistan's feared and powerful intelligence agency on her arm and triggered fury across her conservative nation.
    (AP, 12/3/11)

2011        Dec 5, The US said it is vacating the Shamsi air base in Pakistan used by American drones that target Taliban and al-Qaida militants, complying with a key demand made by Islamabad in retaliation for the NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.
    (AP, 12/5/11)

2011        Dec 8, In Pakistan assailants torched more than 20 tankers carrying fuel for US and NATO troops in neighboring Afghanistan, in the first reported attack since Islamabad closed the border to protest coalition airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani troops last month.
    (AP, 12/8/11)

2011        Dec 10, The deputy chief of the Pakistani Taliban announced that the militant group was in peace talks with the government and an agreement to end its brutal four-year insurgency was within striking distance.
    (AP, 12/10/11)
2011        Dec 10,  In central Pakistan at least 13 people, including three children, were killed and another 15 injured when a road collision led to a gas cylinder explosion.
    (AFP, 12/10/11)

2011        Dec 11, Pakistan’s PM Yousuf Raza Gilani said President Asif Ali Zardari will likely need two weeks to rest in Dubai following medical treatment there before he returns home. Zardari flew to Dubai last week for treatment related to a heart condition.
    (AP, 12/12/11)
2011        Dec 11, A Pakistani Taliban spokesman denied an earlier announcement by the militant group's deputy chief that it was holding peace talks with the government. Prominent al-Qaida and Afghan Taliban fighters asked Pakistani militants to set aside their differences and step up support for the battle against US-led forces in Afghanistan: "For God's sake, forget all your differences and give us fighters to boost the battle against America in Afghanistan," senior al-Qaida commander Abu Yahya al-Libi told Pakistani fighters in South Waziristan. An earlier meeting was held on November 27 in North Waziristan.
    (AP, 12/11/11)(AP, 1/2/12)
2011        Dec 11, In Pakistan the US vacated Shamsi airbase following a deadline given by Islamabad in the wake of anger over NATO air strikes last month that killed 24 soldiers. US officials and intelligence analysts have said the covert drone war would not be affected by the closure of the base as Washington could fly Predator and Reaper drones out of air fields in neighboring Afghanistan.
    (AFP, 12/11/11)

2011        Dec 13, Pakistani police said they have rescued 53 students, including children as young as seven, who had been chained in the basement of a madrassa raided by security forces in the port city of Karachi.
    (AFP, 12/13/11)

2011        Dec 18, More than 30,000 Islamists rallied against the US in the Pakistani city of Lahore, demanding Islamabad cut off ties with Washington following NATO airstrikes last month that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.
    (AP, 12/18/11)

2011        Dec 19, Hundreds of furious Pakistanis blocked off the Islamabad airport highway, demonstrating against debilitating gas shortages and pelting police with stones. A second angry crowd torched tires in Islamabad and twin city Rawalpindi, throwing stones at police and private vehicles over gas rationing that has left thousands of homes without heat for hours at a time.
    (AFP, 12/19/11)
2011        Dec 19, A teenage Pakistani woman told of her terror as her husband chopped off her nose and lips in a furious marital row, and threatened to kill herself unless the police brought him to justice. Salma Bibi (17) said her husband, Ghulam Qadir (22), subjected her to a beating, then bound her hands and feet with rope and hacked into her face with a razor in a remote village in the southwestern province Baluchistan.
    (AFP, 12/19/11)

2011        Dec 22, Pakistan's PM Yousuf Raza Gilani claimed there was a conspiracy to oust the country's civilian government, a sign of growing tension with the army over a secret memo sent to Washington earlier this year asking for help in averting a supposed military coup.
    (AP, 12/22/11)
2011        Dec 22, In Pakistan nearly 3 dozen Taliban fighters attacked a paramilitary fort in the northwest, killing one soldier and kidnapping 15 others. They captured a significant amount of weapons. The bodies of the kidnapped were found on Jan 5.
    (SFC, 1/6/12, p.A4)
2011        Dec 22, Berlin-based Transparency International published a survey: "Daily Lives and Corruption: Public Opinion in South Asia," which found 62% of south Asians believed corruption had got worse over the past three years, with Indians and Pakistanis the most pessimistic.
    (AFP, 12/22/11)

2011        Dec 23, The Pakistani army rejected key findings from a US investigation into American airstrikes last month that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and said the report was unlikely to repair the severely damaged relationship between the two countries.
    (AP, 12/23/11)(AFP, 1/5/12)

2011        Dec 24, A Pakistani Taliban suicide bomber rammed a car filled with explosives into a paramilitary camp in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Bannu town killing six soldiers.
    (AP, 12/24/11)

2011        Dec 25, In Pakistan over 100,000 people rallied in support of  Imran Khan (59), a cricket hero turned politician, in the port city of Karachi, boosting his image as a rising political force.
    (AFP, 12/25/11)

2011        Dec 27, India and Pakistan tentatively agreed to renew an agreement designed to reduce the risk of an accidental nuclear war.
    (SFC, 12/28/11, p.A2)

2011        Dec 29, In southwestern Pakistan gunmen killed police Surgeon Baqir Shah in Quetta. He had received threats for his role in investigating the deaths of five foreigners at the hands of security forces earlier this year.
    (AP, 12/29/11)

2011        Dec 30, In Pakistan a car bomb killed eight people and injured at least 18 others in the southwestern city of Quetta, which is riven by ethic and sectarian violence. 7 more bodies were found in the rubble the next day bringing the death toll to 15.
    (AFP, 12/30/11)(AFP, 12/31/11)

2011        Dec 31, In Pakistan a remote-controlled bomb ripped through a military vehicle killing two Pakistani soldiers at Boya village in North Waziristan.
    (AFP, 12/31/11)

2011        M. J. Akbar authored “Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan.”
    (Econ, 1/22/11, p.98)
2011        Anatol Lieven authored “Pakistan: A Hard Country.”
    (Econ, 4/9/11, p.92)
2011        Bruce Riedel authored “Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, American, and the Future of Global Jihad.”
    (Econ, 4/9/11, p.92)
2011        The population of Pakistan was about 190 million.
    (Econ, 2/5/11, p.55)

2012        Jan 1, Pakistan and India exchanged lists of their nuclear sites under an accord which prohibits both sides from attacking these locations.
    (AFP, 1/1/12)
2012        Jan 1, In Pakistan 3 soldiers were killed in a bomb attack in Baluchistan province. An anti-Taliban fighter was killed in a bomb attack in the Bajaur tribal district.
    (AFP, 1/1/12)
2012        Jan 1, In Pakistan three Iranian border guards crossed the frontier in southwestern Baluchistan province and allegedly shot at a car, killing a Pakistani national. The border guards were arrested by Pakistan paramilitary Frontier Corps.
    (AFP, 1/3/12)

2012        Jan 2, Pakistani protesters clashed with police and major cities were paralyzed as thousands of people demonstrated over severe gas shortages and price hikes.
    (AFP, 1/2/12)
2012        Jan 2, Three Iranian border guards were arrested in southwestern Baluchistan province along after they allegedly crossed the frontier and shot at a car, killing a Pakistani national. On Jan 14 Pakistan deported the 3 guards after they were pardoned in court by the family of the man killed in the attack.
    (AFP, 1/15/12)

2012        Jan 3, Pakistanis angry at gas shortages blocked a major highway and clashed with police for the second day, adding pressure on a government bogged down by scandal, near economic collapse and militant violence.
    (AP, 1/3/12)

2012        Jan 5, In Pakistan unidentified gunmen kidnapped a British employee of the ICRC, the International Committee of the Red Cross, in the insurgency-hit province of Baluchistan. The bullet-scarred bodies of 15 members of the paramilitary Frontier Constabulary were found, almost two weeks after they were kidnapped on Dec 23 in the militant-infested northwest.
    (AFP, 1/5/12)

2012        Jan 7, Pakistani police killed Yaseen Shah, a local Taliban commander, and arrested his associate after a shootout in Karachi.
    (AP, 1/7/12)
2012        Jan 7, Pakistan freed 179 Indian fishermen who were imprisoned for violating territorial waters.
    (AFP, 1/7/12)

2012        Jan 10, In Pakistan a bomb targeting a militia opposed to the Taliban exploded in a Jamrud market in the Khyber region, killing 30 people in the deadliest blast in the country in several months. A drone piloted remotely from the United States fired a missile at a house in North Waziristan killing four people, including Aslam Awan, described as an "external operations planner" for al-Qaida.
    (AP, 1/10/12)(SFC, 1/11/12, p.A4)(AP, 1/22/12)

2012        Jan 11, Pakistan's army warned of "grievous consequences" for the country over criticism by the prime minister that has escalated tensions between the powerful military and the government. PM Yousuf Reza Gilani immediately fired the defense secretary in a dispute over a memo sent to Washington that has enraged the army, escalating a crisis pitting the civilian government against the powerful military leadership.
    (AFP, 1/11/12)(SFC, 1/12/12, p.A2)

2012        Jan 12, In Pakistan an American missile strike in North Waziristan killed four foreign Islamist militants. It was the second such drone strike in three days. Intercepted militant radio communications later indicated that Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud was among those killed.
    (AP, 1/12/12)(AP, 1/15/12)

2012        Jan 14, Pakistani security forces quelled a militant attack on a police station in which eight people were killed including four suicide bombers, one police and three civilians in Dera Ismail Khan city.
    (AFP, 1/14/12)

2012        Jan 15, In Pakistan a bomb ripped through a Shiite procession killing 21 marchers and wounding over 20 others in Punjab province as Shiites marked the 40th day of mourning the death of the Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussain.
    (AFP, 1/15/12)(Econ, 1/21/12, p.52)

2012        Jan 16, Pakistan's top court found PM Yousuf Raza Gilani in contempt for failing to re-open corruption cases, exacerbating a crisis likely to force early elections.
    (AFP, 1/16/12)

2012        Jan 17, In northwest Pakistan Mukarram Khan Aatif, a reporter for Voice of America, was shot dead by masked gunmen in Shabqadar. A day later the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility.
    (SFC, 1/19/12, p.A2)

2012        Jan 19, In Pakistan a German aid worker and his Italian colleague were kidnapped in Multan. Pakistan police on Jan 24 accused Islamist militants over the kidnapping.
    (SFC, 1/21/12, p.A2)(AFP, 1/24/12)

2012        Jan 21, Pakistan detained 31 Indian fishermen and seized their 14 boats for fishing in its territorial waters in the Arabian Sea.
    (AFP, 1/22/12)

2012        Jan 22, In Pakistan a Kenyan aid worker and his Pakistani driver working for CARE Int’l went missing in southern province of Sindh.
    (AFP, 1/22/12)

2012        Jan 23, In Pakistan a US drone fired two missiles into a vehicle, killing four militants at Degan village in North Waziristan.
    (AFP, 1/23/12)

2012        Jan 25, In Pakistan 3 lawyers were shot dead and a fourth wounded in a drive-by sectarian attack in Karachi. The victims were minority Shiite Muslims. Six Pakistani soldiers and 17 Taliban militants were killed in an overnight clash in Jogi village of central Kurram tribal district near the Afghan border.
    (AFP, 1/25/12)
2012        Jan 25, In northwest Pakistan nine phosphate miners were feared dead after they were buried by a large landslide in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
    (AP, 1/25/12)

2012        Jan 26, In Pakistan security forces killed at least 20 militants in the northwestern Kurram tribal region after coming under attack.
    (AP, 1/26/12)
2012        Jan 26, Pakistani government officials in Punjab said around 100 heart patients have died after taking faulty medicine made locally and dozens more are in a critical condition in hospitals in Lahore.
    (AFP, 1/26/12)
2012        Jan 26, Iranian security forces killed six Pakistani traders taking goats into Iran. Gunmen in Syria kidnapped 11 Iranian pilgrims traveling by road from Turkey to Damascus.
    (AP, 1/26/12)(AFP, 2/3/12)

2012        Jan 27, In Pakistan unidentified assailants rained 9 rockets on the elite military academy in Abbottabad.
    (SFC, 1/27/12, p.A2)

2012        Jan 28, In Pakistan a private TV station said it had fired Maya Khan, a popular morning show host, after she sparked outrage by running around a public park trying to expose young, unmarried couples hanging out, a taboo in this conservative Muslim country.
    (AP, 1/29/12)

2012        Jan 30, In northwest Pakistan a suicide bomber killed Haji Akhunzada, an Islamist militant commander, who had escaped two previous assassination attempts, and three other people on the outskirts of Peshawar.
    (AFP, 1/30/12)

2012        Jan 31, In Pakistan dozens of heavily armed Taliban militants attacked a military post, sparking clashes that killed eight soldiers and wounded another 15. A government official said fighting between soldiers and Taliban militants over a strategic mountaintop in the northwestern Kurram tribal area has killed more than 60 people. At least 10 people were gunned down in the past 24 hours in the southern city of Karachi.
    (AFP, 1/31/12)(AP, 1/31/12)

2012        Feb 2, Pakistan's top court summoned PM Yousuf Raza Gilani to appear February 13 to be indicted with contempt over his refusal to pursue corruption cases against the president.
    (AFP, 2/2/12)

2012        Feb 3, In Pakistan a large group of 18 Islamist militants attacked a Pakistani army checkpoint near the Afghan border, killing seven paramilitary soldiers and abducting four. Up to 18 insurgents were killed in retaliatory fire during the incident in the Kurram region.
    (AP, 2/3/12)

2012        Feb 6, In Pakistan rescue workers struggled to reach dozens of people trapped in the rubble of a factory that collapsed in Lahore, killing at least 21. At least 30 people were still believed to be trapped. The illegal factory was owned by a local politician, who used his influence to keep it open despite complaints from neighbors.
    (AP, 2/6/12)(AP, 2/7/12)(AP, 2/8/12)

2012        Feb 7, Pakistani PM Yousuf Raza Gilani held talks with Qatar's emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, on the 2nd day of an official visit expected to focus on Afghan peace efforts.
    (AFP, 2/7/12)

2012        Feb 8, The Pakistani army held talks with NATO and Afghan forces in an effort to improve coordination along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, a sign of thawing relations after American airstrikes accidentally killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last year. US drone-fired missiles hit a house in North Waziristan's Spalga village, killing nine people, including some domestic Taliban militants.
    (AP, 2/8/12)

2012        Feb 9, Pakistani officials said US missiles in Miranshah killed Badar Mansoor, the most senior Pakistani in Al-Qaeda, one of the Americans' main targets in the country and wanted for attacks that killed scores of people. 4 militants were reported killed in the pre-dawn drone strike.
    (AFP, 2/9/12)

2012        Feb 11, In Pakistan the 5-member Haqqani network leadership council distributed a pamphlet ordering militants not to stage rocket or bomb attacks in North Waziristan due to an agreement with the Pakistani government. The Pakistani military has never publicly acknowledged a peace agreement with militants in North Waziristan.
    (AP, 2/12/12)

2012        Feb 12, In northwest Pakistan a bomb hidden in a television set exploded in a house on the outskirts of Peshawar, killing at least seven people. Police believed the attack was part of a local feud.
    (AFP, 2/12/12)

2012        Feb 13, Pakistan's PM Yousuf Raza Gilani was charged with contempt by the country's highest court, pleading not guilty to charges over the government's two-year refusal to write to authorities in Switzerland asking them to re-open corruption cases against Pres. Zardari. The charges could see him jailed for six months and disqualified from office.
    (AFP, 2/13/12)
2012        Feb 13, In Pakistan 7 men, allegedly held by the feared intelligence services, appeared in court, an unprecedented development following orders from the country's highest court. The 7 men appeared frail, weak, unable to talk and unable to walk properly more than a year and a half after being allegedly arrested. A remote-controlled bomb targeting a police van exploded in Baluchistan province, killing two boys and wounding 17 others including a senior police official.
    (AFP, 2/13/12)

2012        Feb 14, Pakistan announced that it has temporarily allowed NATO to ship perishable food to its troops in Afghanistan, a sign of thawing tensions following American airstrikes last year on Nov 26 that accidentally killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.
    (AP, 2/14/12)

2012        Feb 16, Pakistan welcomed the leaders of Afghanistan and Iran for a regional summit at a key juncture in peace efforts with the Taliban and amid rising tensions between Tehran and Israel.
    (AFP, 2/16/12)

2012        Feb 17, In Pakistan a suicide attacker on a motorcycle blew himself up in a market in Parachinar town, Kurram region. 31 Shiite Muslims died and at least 35 people were left wounded. Taliban commander, Fazal Saeed Haqqani, claimed responsibility saying that Shiites had been attacking Sunnis.
    (AP, 2/17/12)(AFP, 2/18/12)

2012        Feb 18, Afghan Pres. Hamid Karzai met with Maulana Samiul Haq, a Pakistani cleric linked to Taliban insurgents. The meeting in Islamabad marked the first public contact between an Afghan official and members of the Afghan Taliban's support network in Pakistan.
    (AP, 2/18/12)

2012        Feb 19, In northwest Pakistan a bomb planted at a checkpoint manned by members of a Pakistani militia fighting a radical group similar to the Taliban exploded and killed eight militia members in the Khyber tribal region.
    (AP, 2/19/12)

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