Obama's Speech Lays Ground for Expansion in Pakistan
02 December 2009
, The New York Times, 1 December 2009
EXCERPT: "President Obama focused his speech on Afghanistan. He left much unsaid about Pakistan, where the main terrorists he is targeting are located, but where he can send no troops. Mr. Obama could not be very specific about his Pakistan strategy, his advisers conceded on Monday evening. American operations there are classified, most run...
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Army Campaign Far From Adequate Despite War's Significance
02 December 2009
, Foreign Policy, 1 December 2009
EXCERPT: "Despite the shrill public discussion of U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan, the most important front of the war in South Asia continues to be Pakistan, which the world's most dangerous jihadists call home. On this issue, there is good news and there is bad news. The good news is that U.S. President Barack Obama's private deliberations on strategy...
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Ongoing Displacement the Single Largest Recorded in Pakistan: Report
02 December 2009
[pdf], Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre // Norwegian Refugee Council, 2 December 2009
EXCERPT: "The ongoing wave of displacement in Pakistan is the single largest population movement recorded in the country since it was created in 1947. Under pressure to tackle the militancy which has taken root in the country, the government has launched successive military...
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Lashkar-e-Taiba Poised to Strike Again
02 December 2009
'The extremists who hit Mumbai are poised to strike again: Lashkar-e-Taiba now has global ambitions', Macleans, 2 December 2009
EXCERPT: "It is widely believed that the assault on Mumbai was carried out by the Pakistani Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba. . . The organization was created in the late 1980s by Pakistan's largest spy agency, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). According to Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer who,...
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2,600 Bodies Found in Kashmir Mass Graves: Report
02 December 2009
, The Associated Press, 2 December 2009
EXCERPT: "Nearly 2,600 bodies have been discovered in single unmarked and mass graves throughout mountainous Indian Kashmir, human rights activists said Wednesday, alleging some of the dead were likely innocent people killed by security forces. More than a dozen Kashmiri rebel groups have been fighting for independence from India or a union...
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Hope and Fear Amidst Suicide Attack on Naval Headquarters
02 December 2009
, The New York Times, 2 December 2009
EXCERPT: "In Pakistan, distrust of American intentions runs deep, partly because the United States is seen as having abandoned the region after the Soviet Union's withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989, and there is widespread fear in the security establishment of a repetition of those events. Also, despite suicide attacks by insurgents that have increasingly focused...
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