Militants Escape Control of Pakistan, Officials Say
14 January 2008
Carlotta Gall and David Rohde, '', New York Times, 15 January 2008
EXCERPT: "Pakistan's premier has lost control of some of the networks of Pakistani militants it has nurtured since the 1980s, and is now suffering the violent blowback of that policy, two former senior intelligence officials and other officials close to the agency say. As the military...
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Food Insecurity in Afghanistan Increasing Sharply
14 January 2008
'Afghanistan: Rising food prices push two million into food-insecurity ? WFP', IRIN, 14 January 2008
EXCERPT: "Soaring staple food prices have pushed 1.3 million previously food-secure people in rural Afghanistan into high risk food-insecurity, according to the latest assessment by the UN World Food Programme (WFP)... Staple food prices have increased by 100 percent in global markets and by over 60 percent in Afghan markets in the past...
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