"It is not the regular Taliban force with a pair of sandals and an AK-47... They are better trained and...

 

  Jamaat-ur-Ahrar, a faction of the Islamist militant Pakistani Taliban group, claimed responsibility for the attack in an email.

  "There are many wounded, so the death toll could rise."

According to Pentagon data, about $14 billion has already been paid to Pakistan under the CSF since 2002.

  Her husband alleged she was murdered by her family because her parents did not approve their marriage.

 

More than 500 people -- almost all women -- die in Pakistan each year in such killings, usually carried out by members...

 

  Sixteen of the dead were offering prayers in the mosque when it was swept away by the flood

  The report would form the basis of any police investigation into the drone attack.

  "The peace talks were going nowhere anyway, and this is just simply the death knell of that."

 

 

  Afghanistan has long accused Pakistan of actively harboring the Afghan Taliban leadership on its soil, a charge Islamabad denies, saying it only...