Pakistan Security Brief – August 5, 2010 

Total number of people affected by Pakistan flooding rises to 4 million as evacuations begin in Sindh and eastern Punjab; death toll rises to 86 in latest wave of Karachi violence; President Zardari scheduled to have dinner with U.K. Prime Minister Cameron ahead of official talks; one terrorist killed, one captured following shootout with police in Islamabad.

 

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa

 

Karachi

 

U.K.-Pakistan Relations

 

Islamabad

  • Police exchanged fire with three suspected terrorists in Islamabad on Wednesday, killing one of the suspects and arresting another. The shooting began when the suspects attempted to flee after trying to pick up their vehicle at a car workshop which was being watched by police acting on an intelligence report. During interrogation, the arrested suspect claimed that he belonged to a banned militant group and was involved in last week’s assassination of the son of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain, among other terrorist acts.[5]

 

Punjab

 

FATA

 



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[2] Kathy Gannon, “Pakistani school seeks to turn boys from Taliban,” AP, August 4, 2010. Available at http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_PAKISTAN_MILITANT_CHILDREN?SITE=JRC&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT.
[3] “Death toll rises as one more killed in Karachi,” Express Tribune, August 5, 2010. Available at http://tribune.com.pk/story/34602/karachi-caught-up-in-vicious-cycle-of-violence/. “Bloodbath continues in Karachi, 27 more killed,” Daily Times, August 5, 2010. Available at http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\08\05\story_5-8-2010_pg1_1. “Imran Ayub,” Dawn, August 5, 2010. Available at http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/metropolitan/06-six-wounded-in-mosque-attack-in-karachi-rs-05. “Drug-traffickers clash in Karachi’s Shantinagar area,” Dawn, August 5, 2010. Available at http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/metropolitan/04-karachi-dalmia-firing-qs-05.
[5] Munawer Azeem, “Suspected terrorist killed in shootout in Islamabad,” Dawn, August 5, 2010. Available at http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/islamabad-police-kill-terror-suspect-in-shootout-jd-04. Shakeel Anjum, “Terrorist shot dead in capital gunbattle,” The News, August 5, 2010. Available at http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=30506.
[6] “Corps commanders’ conference underway at GHQ,” Dawn, August 5, 2010. Available at http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/04-corps-commanders-conference-qs-04. “Pakistan army to donate salaries to flood victims,” Dawn, August 4, 2010. Available at http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/06-pakistan-army-to-donate-salaries-to-flood-victims-rs-01.
[7] “45 militants surrender in Bajaur Agency,” The News, August 5, 2010. Available at http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=30515.
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