Dera Ismail Khan

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, PAKISTAN: 8 are reported killed in blast at cleric's funeral

STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008

Bomb blast in Dera Ismail Khan 7 dead

NHatky (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: At least seven people were killed and several others injured when a bomb ripped through a congregation of funeral prayers near Kotli Imam on Bannu Road on Friday morning. Media reports said that the funeral prayers a man, Ismail Shah, who was target-killed last night were being ...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, PAKISTAN: Apparent U.S. missiles said to kill militants

STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008

Missiles believed fired from U.S. drones hit two villages close to the Afghan border Friday, killing 27 people, including an Arab al-Qaida operative and other foreign militants, intelligence officials said. The new strikes raised the number of such attacks to at least 17 since August. The airstrikes have angered many Pakistanis and put strains on the U.S. alliance with Pakistan, where rising violence...

More on the Captured Gunman

The Lede (Free subscription) | yesterday

The that was released Tuesday shows Mr. Kasab and an accomplice — named by reports in the Indian media as Abu Ismail Dera Ismail Khan, 25 — opening fire indiscriminately at Mumbai’s main train station, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, one of the world’s busiest. A gun battle is seen beginning between the two men and the police.

CCTV shows start of Mumbai massacre

Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday

The images capture the moment that the baby-faced militant Azam Amir Kasab, 21, the only gunman to be captured alive, and an accomplice -- named by reports in the Indian media as Abu Ismail Dera Ismail Khan, 25 -- opened fire indiscriminately at Mumbai's main train station, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, one of the world's busiest.

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Captured terrorist reveals plot to kill up to 5000

The Age (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008

... terminal, where he and another terrorist fired indiscriminately. Kasab and his accomplice, Abu Dera Ismail Khan, also shot dead three of Mumbai's top policemen, including anti-terrorism chief Hemant Karkare.Kasab was captured at Girgaum Chowpatty Naka in Mumbai while he was trying to escape in a car he had taken from its owner.

Blast kills 7 at Shi'ite funeral in Pakistan

Reuters (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - A bomb blast killed at least seven people and wounded 40 at the funeral for a Shi'ite Muslim on Friday in the northwest Pakistani town of Dera Ismail Khan, a hospital doctor said.

Blast kills 10 at Shi'ite funeral in Pakistan

Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - A bomb attack killed at least 10 people and wounded 40 at the funeral for a Shi'ite Muslim on Friday in the northwest Pakistani town of Dera Ismail Khan.

The Tribal Fallacy

War News Updates (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008

The Atlantic: Why the counterinsurgency tactics that seem to have worked so well in Iraq could backfire in Pakistan Last year, in the town of Dera Ismail Khan, near South Waziristan, a Pakistani friend of mine joined a gang—a “peace force,” he called it, but it sounded like a gang to me. The Taliban, flushed from Afghanistan into Pakistan's tribal areas, had begun to spread out of the tribal...

Blast kills 8 mourners at Pakistani funeral and US missile strike kills at least five

Signs of the Times (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008

A bomb killed eight mourners at the funeral of a slain Shiite cleric Friday in northwestern Pakistan, triggering rioting and heightening sectarian tension in the volatile region. Police said the attack in the city of Dera Ismail Khan wounded another 28 people and was followed by riots in which a mob burned shops and vehicles and pelted police with rocks. The U.S. this week shifted consular staff...

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World news: Blast kills 8 mourners at Pakistani funeral

euronews24 (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan – A blast killed at least eight mourners Friday at the funeral of a Shiite cleric in northwestern Pakistan who was gunned down hours earlier, police said. At least 28 others were wounded. After

Bomb hits Pakistan Shia funeral

NaiTazi.com (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008

Source: BBC News A bomb has killed at least six people at the funeral of a Shia Muslim in north-western Pakistan, police say. The blast, in the town of Dera Ismail Khan, injured many more. The town has a history of violence between Sunni and Shia Muslims. In violence elsewhere, a suicide bomber killed nine worshippers on [...]

Blast At Funeral Kills 8 In Northwest Pakistan

War News Updates (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008

From Voice Of America: Police in Pakistan say a bomb targeting the funeral of a slain Shi'ite cleric has killed eight people and wounded 40 others in the country's volatile northwest region. Authorities say the bombing happened Friday in Dera Ismail Khan, a city plagued by sectarian violence between extremist Sunni Muslim and Shi'ite groups. Read more ....

At least 10 die in Pakistan blast

Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- A suicide bomb attack at a funeral procession Friday in violence-plagued northwest Pakistan killed and injured dozens, police said. The incident near Kotli Imam in the Dera Ismail Khan district killed 10 people, Geo TV reported, quoting sources. Many more were injured, it said. CNN, quoting police said, put the death toll in the blast at six with injuries...

At least 10 die in Pakistan blast

Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008

A suicide bomb attack at a funeral procession Friday in violence-plagued northwest Pakistan killed and injured dozens, police said.The incident near Kotli Imam in the Dera Ismail Khan district killed 10 people, Geo TV reported, quoting sources. Many more were injured, it said.CNN, quoting police said, put the death toll in the blast at six with injuries to dozens more.The CNN report said there...