Poor Health Facilities Exacerbate Bomb Tolls
06 January 2010
Pakistan: Poor Health Facilities Exacerbate Bomb Tolls, IRIN News, 5 January 2010
EXCERPT: "The death toll from bombings across Pakistan in recent months has been exacerbated by the lack of health facilities, especially in rural areas, health officials say. At least 1,180 people died in bomb blasts across Pakistan in 2009. Some 79 of these bombings were suicide attacks, with most of them taking place in conflict-ravaged North West Frontier...
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US Drone Strike Campaign Heats Up
06 January 2010
Analysis: US Air Campaign in Pakistan Heats Up, The Long War Journal, 5 January 2010
EXCERPT: "The US air campaign in Pakistan's tribal areas remains the cornerstone of the effort to root out and decapitate the senior leadership of al Qaeda, the Taliban, and other allied terror groups, and to disrupt both al Qaeda's global and local operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan. As expected, in 2009 the US well exceeded the number...
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Violence Breaks Out in Both Sides of Kashmir
06 January 2010
Gun and Bomb Attacks Rock Kashmir, BBC News, 6 January 2010
EXCERPT: "Three soldiers have been killed and 11 injured in a suicide bombing outside an army barracks in Pakistani-administered Kashmir, police say. No group has claimed the attack, which occurred in Tarakhal, near the town of Rawalakot, close to the line of control (LOC) with Indian-administered Kashmir. Meanwhile, violence has also broken out in Indian-administered...
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Af-Pak: A Strategic Opportunity for South Asia?
06 January 2010
[pdf], Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, December 2009
EXCERPT: "In the post-Afghan elections scenario, the US is contemplating another 'surge? and a rethink on its counter-insurgency strategy.[...] The underside of this strategy is that it could result in an escalation of war with the Pakistani Taliban resorting to an expansion of the theatre of war into Pakistani Punjab, thereby,...
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Court Refuses to Acquit Mumbai Suspects
06 January 2010
, AFP, 6 January 2010
EXCERPT: "A Pakistani anti-terror court on Wednesday threw out requests to acquit seven suspects accused by rival India of helping to carry out the 2008 Mumbai attacks, a defence lawyer said. Pakistan is holding seven suspects over the November 26-29 siege on India's financial capital, including the alleged mastermind of the operation, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi,...
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