Pakistanis Doubt Taliban Chiefs Are in Balochistan
12 February 2010
, The Washington Post, 7 February 2010
EXCERPT: "If Afghan Taliban fighters and their top leaders are roaming around this remote part of Pakistan as the U.S. alleges, the police chief here says he hasn't seen them. 'Point them out to me,' Abid Hussain Notkani says. 'I will arrest them.' Interviews with residents and officials in and around Quetta, a dusty frontier...
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Taliban Target Jobless Youth
12 February 2010
, Toronto Star, 11 February 2010
EXCERPT: "Since Tajamal Hussain lost his job in a textiles factory two months ago, the 19-year-old has walked the streets of this gritty city searching for work. Trouble is, the Taliban seem to be the only ones hiring nowadays. 'Yes, I will consider joining,' Hussain said, sipping tea in a shanty in Faisalabad's factory district. 'I have to eat.'...
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Confidence Building Measures Between India and Pakistan
12 February 2010
Cross-LoC Confidence Building Measures Between India and Pakistan: A Giant Leap or a Small Step Towards Peace?, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, 12 February 2010
EXCERPT: "The origins of cross-LoC contacts lie in the 2003 ceasefire between India and Pakistan. Following a meeting between Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and President Parvez Musharraf on the sidelines of the SAARC Summit in Islamabad in 2004,...
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US To Expand Pakistan Training Program
12 February 2010
US To Spread Training in Pakistan, DAWN, 12 February 2010
EXCERPT: "The US military is planning to set up new training centers inside Pakistan where American special operations trainers would work with Pakistani forces close to the Afghan border battle zone, a senior defense official said. The new centers would supplement two already operating in Pakistan, and they would be used to accelerate and expand the training of Pakistani forces...
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