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Daily Times
January 26, 2018
Most of the volunteers joined the Mulvi Faqeer cadre after the attack on Damadola Islamic school by the US drone strike January 2006. Relatives of the deceased people in Damadola joined the militant wing as to get revenge inside in Pakistan from the Pakistan security forces and across the border fromÃâà...
Voice of America
January 4, 2018
The United States is suspending security assistance to Pakistan's army until it takes "decisive action" against the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani network. "We consider them to be destabilizing the region and also targeting U.S. personnel," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Thursday inÃâà...
Daily Times
October 23, 2017
The very first known drone attack in Damadola in 2006 reportedly killed 80 innocent people. General Musharraf and his political cohorts had to pay heavily during the 2008 general elections as voters from areas as far away as Lahore expressed great resentment over these deaths by voting againstÃâà...
Hindustan Times
April 23, 2017
“Married to a local Pashtun girl, (Zawahiri) had been given a new home, a large mud-brick compound up in the hills” at Damadola, according to the book. Riedel said Karachi was an ideal hideout for Zawahiri because it would be a “very hard” place for the US to conduct the kind of commando raid that killedÃâà...
Newsweek
April 21, 2017
“Married to a local Pashtun girl, [al-Zawahiri] had been given a new home, a large mud-brick compound up in the hills” in Damadola, they write. In July 2015, al-Zawahiri was in the Shawal Valley, often in the company of one of his three wives and his top assistant, Saif al-Adel, a former bomb expert andÃâà...
The Express Tribune
September 10, 2014
FATA: A Levies official, on duty to protect a polio vaccination team, was killed in a firing incident in Bajaur Agency, Express News reported on Wednesday. The team was attacked while administering polio drops in Damadola- a village in the Agency. “A member of the tribal police guarding a polioÃâà...
McClatchy Washington Bureau
March 2, 2010
DAMADOLA, Pakistan — The Pakistani flag now flies over the complex of caves and tunnels that al Qaida and local Taliban extremists had made their logistical hub, and a major infiltration route into and out of Afghanistan is under government control. In the latest example of Pakistan's continuingÃâà...
BBC News
May 19, 2008
During our visit, we learnt that the chief spokesman of the Pakistani Taleban, Maulvi Omar, was also present in Damadola. We found him resting in a village mosque. He agreed to our request to meet Maulvi Faqir, the top commander of Taleban militants in Bajaur. Maulvi Omar asked us to get into hisÃâà...
Pakistan Dawn
May 14, 2008
KHAR, May 14: At least 12 people were killed in a Hellfire missile strike on Damadola, 20 km northeast of here, on Wednesday evening, local residents and witnesses said. They said that a pilotless predator fired two missiles on a two-storey compound in Khaza, a small hamlet in the Damadola area atÃâà...
Pakistan Dawn
November 1, 2006
KHAAR (Bajaur), Oct 30: Eighty-two people were killed, 12 teenagers among them, in an air strike at a religious seminary in Damadola in the Bajaur tribal region on Monday morning. Pakistan's military spokesman, Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan, said those killed in the dawn attack were all militants and deniedÃâà...
