Pakistan Leader Faces Court Test, Militant Attacks
09 December 2009
Pakistan Leader Faces Court Test, Militant Attacks, The Wall Street Journal, 9 December 2009
EXCERPT: "Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari holds $1.5 billion in assets across the world, Pakistan's main anticorruption body alleged in a report delivered Tuesday to the country's Supreme Court. The court is considering the constitutionality of an amnesty protecting the embattled leader and thousands of other officials from corruption...
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Punjab: Old Jihadis, New Threats
09 December 2009
Why Pakistan's Old Jihadis Pose New Threat - at Home and in Afghanistan, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 December 2009
EXCERPT: "In recent years, Pakistan has aimed its antiterror offensives at the Taliban network operating in the remote northwestern tribal districts, a largely ethnic Pashtun movement in an area that has long resisted state rule. But another militant threat is rearing its head in Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province...
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Pakistan: "The Most Dangerous Foreign Policy Issue Facing the US"?
09 December 2009
, [pdf, op-ed, a reprint of a July 2009 US Army War College Strategic Studies Institute article], Defence Institute of Security Assistance Management (DISAM) Journal, November 2009
EXCERPT: "Pakistan is the most dangerous foreign policy problem facing the United States for five major reasons. First, Pakistan is a nuclear country, with at least 60 nuclear war-heads (according to both journalistic...
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Balochistan: Govt Ready to Talk, Army Pulling Out
09 December 2009
Govt Ready to Talk with Exile Baloch Leaders: PM, GEO TV, 9 December 2009
EXCERPT: "Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the government is ready to hold talks with all exiled Baloch leaders and activists. Addressing the joint sitting of Parliament today (Wednesday), Prime Minister Gilani said the government has already started the implementation of Balochistan package. He underlined that the government would address the...
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Returning IDPs Face Challenges Despite Aid
09 December 2009
Tough Times for Returning IDPs, IRIN News, 9 December 2009
EXCERPT: "Tens of thousands internally displaced persons (IDPs) from northwestern Pakistan who have returned home over the past few months are finding it difficult to resume their former lives, despite the fact that some aid is now reaching them, according to aid agencies. IDPs in Lower Dir, Buner, Swat and Shangla Districts in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) are particularly...
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