Pakistan Setting Up for Waziristan Offensive
15 October 2009
'Pakistan Prepares Offensive on Taliban Stronghold', Spiegel Online, 15 October 2009
EXCERPT: "Two million people fled the Swat Valley during this summer's offensive against the Taliban. Now a new exodus is expected as the government prepares to step up its fight against the extremists. Thousands of people have already left their homes and after Thursday's multiple terror attacks, the expectation is that the military...
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Taliban Launches New, Coordinated Attacks
15 October 2009
'Pakistan Rocked By Fresh Attacks', BBC News, 15 October 2009
EXCERPT: "A series of gun and bomb attacks on security forces in Pakistan has killed about 40 people. In Lahore, police and militants fought gun battles at a federal security building and two police academies that left at least 26 people dead. A suicide car bomb at a police station in the north-western town of Kohat left 11 dead, while another car bomb in the nearby...
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Obama Signs US Aid To Pakistan
15 October 2009
'Factbox: Key Elements of New U.S. Aid to Pakistan', Reuters India, 15 October 2009
EXCERPT: "U.S. President Barack Obama signed a law on Thursday to triple nonmilitary aid to Pakistan to about $1.5 billion a year for the next five years as part of a plan to fight extremism. The funding, which still must be appropriated by Congress, is designed to demonstrate U.S. commitment to the nuclear-armed South Asian nation, which is fighting...
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UK Foreign Affairs Committee Report: Global Security: Afghanistan and Pakistan
15 October 2009
[pdf], October 2009
EXCERPTS: "The Government welcomes the Foreign Affairs Committee's inquiry into ?Global Security: Afghanistan and Pakistan? and the findings set out in the Committee's report published on 2 August 2009 (HC 302)...This Command Paper...
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