Operation "I Will See You" Launched on Afghan Border
24 November 2009
, AFP, 24 November 2009
EXCERPT: "Pakistani ground troops and attack helicopters launched a new operation against militants in its lawless tribal belt on the Afghan border on Tuesday, saying they killed at least 18 rebels. . . The paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) said the target of the latest offensive was Lashkar-e-Islam (Army of Islam), a criminal homegrown Islamist group...
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The Afghan Anvil: Breaking the Indo-Pakistani Deadlock?
24 November 2009
'The Afghan Anvil: Breaking the Indo-Pakistani deadlock?', openSecurity in openDemocracy, 22 November 2009
EXCERPT: "As the war in Afghanistan takes a turn for the worse, the burden of blame has increasingly come to rest on the state of relations between India and Pakistan and their 'rivalry' in Afghanistan. The McChrystal report, the recent bombing at the Indian embassy in Kabul, and the continuing reports in Pakistani...
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UK Complicit in Torture, Ill-treatment of Detainees in Pakistan: Report
24 November 2009
'Cruel Britannia: British Complicity in the Torture and Ill-treatment of Terror Suspects in Pakistan', Human Rights Watch, 24 November 2009
EXCERPT: "This 46-page report provides accounts from victims and their families in the cases of five UK citizens of Pakistani origin - Salahuddin Amin, Zeeshan Siddiqui, Rangzieb Ahmed, Rashid Rauf and a fifth individual who wishes to remain anonymous - tortured in Pakistan by Pakistani security...
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Reforms for Insurgency-hit Province Unveiled
24 November 2009
, AFP, 24 November 2009
EXCERPT: "Pakistan's government on Tuesday unveiled a package of reforms in a bid to ease a separatist insurgency in Baluchistan on the Afghan and Iranian borders, and maximise efforts on fighting the Taliban. . . 'The package will give people their political and economic rights in Baluchistan and will once again prove the supremacy of parliament,'...
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Lashkar-e-Taiba: The New Global Threat?
24 November 2009
'A Year After Mumbai Attack, Militants Thrive', The Times of India, 21 November 2009
EXCERPT: "The Islamist militant group behind the deadly attack in Mumbai one year ago remains a potent force determined to strike India and the West, and a source of acrimony between South Asia's nuclear-armed rivals, say officials and members of the militant faction. Indian officials and experts say at least six new plots against Mumbai...
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XE/Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan
24 November 2009
'Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan', The Nation, 24 November 2009
EXCERPT: "At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, 'snatch and grabs' of high-value targets...
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