US Senators Defend Drone Attacks Amidst New Strikes and Pak Opposition
08 January 2010
US Senators Defend Pakistan Drone Attacks, Reuters, 8 January 2010
EXCERPT: "U.S. senators on Friday defended American drone aircraft strikes in ally Pakistan, an issue likely to become more volatile if Washington intensifies the attacks to hunt down enemies after the bombing of CIA agents in Afghanistan. Pakistan officially objects to the attacks on suspected al Qaeda and Taliban militants along its border with Afghanistan, saying they...
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Report: International Terrorism and Transnational Crime
08 January 2010
[pdf], Congressional Research Service, 5 January 2010
EXCERPT: "Dawood Ibrahim's D-Company, a 5,000-member criminal syndicate operating mostly in Pakistan, India, and the United Arab Emirates, provides an example of the criminal-terrorism 'fusion' model. The U.S. Department of Treasury designated Ibrahim as a Specially...
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Govt Offers Incentives to Bomb-Hit NW Frontier Province
08 January 2010
, AFP, 7 January 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistan on Thursday offered millions of dollars in tax breaks, financial aid and relief measures for its war-torn northwest that business leaders rubbished as insufficient. 'The impact of incentives that the government is announcing for North West Frontier Province (NWFP) will be billions of rupees,' Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told businessmen...
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Fatal Incidents Throughout Karachi
08 January 2010
Eight Reported Killed in Karachi Explosion, BBC News, 8 January 2010
EXCERPT: "At least eight people have been killed in an explosion at a house in the Pakistani city of Karachi, police said. The blast happened in Balida Town, a poor neighbourhood of the southern city, Pakistan's commercial hub. Police said explosives stored at the house may have gone off and that the dead were believed to be militants. In December, a blast...
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Narco-Jihad: Drug Trafficking and Security in Afghanistan and Pakistan
08 January 2010
Narco-Jihad: Drug Trafficking and Security in Afghanistan and Pakistan, National Bureau of Asian Research, December 2009
EXCERPT: "This essay explores the interface of Islamic militancy with opium poppy cultivation and the drug trade in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region and draws implications for U.S. national security. It analyzes the evolution of the narcotics economy in the region since the late 1960s and the progressive involvement...
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