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After nearly three months of planning, and very public anticipation, Pakistan's military moved on the South Waziristan stronghold of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an umbrella group of militants that Pakistani officials say have been behind some 80% of terrorist attacks in the country over the past few years, including the 2007 assassination of Benazir Bhutto and a recent spate of violence that has taken 150 lives in the past two weeks...
...trainees, commandos, and investigators to the attacks has yet again underscored Pakistan's poor counterterrorism apparatus. While authorities mounted a swift and eventually successful response, the militants' ability to penetrate such high-profile targets in major cities will inspire little confidence. It was the fourth time that major terrorist attacks have wounded Lahore, including a March 3 attack on the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team and the May 27 bombing of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency's regional headquarters...
...Taliban-linked Amjad Farooqi group has claimed responsibility for Thursday's attacks, Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters in Lahore. The relatively little-known group is named after a Punjabi terrorist who developed links with al-Qaeda through two militant groups from southern Punjab. The same group claimed responsibility for last weekend's siege of the military headquarters in Rawalpindi. (Read "Why Pakistan Must Widen Its Hunt for Militant Bases...
...there is improving dramatically. The Israelis and Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad have been cooperating on the removal of checkpoints and other economic impediments; the economy is growing at a 7% clip. U.S. Lieut. General Keith Dayton has supervised the training of an effective Palestinian security force; crime and terrorist acts are down significantly. (On the other hand, Hamas-controlled and Israel-isolated Gaza festers.) (See eight months of Obama's diplomacy...
...northwestern border city of Peshawar, killing a 6-year-old boy and wounded nine others, mainly women and children. Security is being beefed up in Karachi, Pakistan's financial capital and biggest city - and the only one to have so far remained immune from the latest wave of terrorist attacks. (Read "How a U.S. Aid Package to Pakistan Could Threaten Zardari...