As a succession of generals before Asim Munir learned, cooptation of Pakistani jihadism is a dangerous—and mostly short-lived ...

When I picked up Baitullah Quaderee’s 'Bangladesher Shater Dashaker Kabita', it wasn’t particularly out of scholarly curiosity. The book is, by design, a doctoral thesis—its structure ...

Formed under the leadership of Baitullah Mehsud, who is now dead, TTP is rooted along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Some estimates suggest that TTP has between 30,000 and 35,000 members, according ...

Anila Masood, daughter of tribal elder Malik Masood Ahmad Khan Mahsud, has made history by becoming the first woman from South Waziristan’s Mehsud tribe to earn a PhD in English Literature. She ...

News about The Taliban in Pakistan (Hakimullah Mehsud), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

<p>Updated: Aug. 25, 2009</p><p>Baitullah Mehsud, the supreme leader of Pakistan's feared Taliban movement and the country's No. 1 enemy, is believed to have been killed on Aug. 5, 2009, in a <a ...