Curbing Suicide Terrorism Requires Enhanced Strategies
16 February 2010
[pdf], Pak Institute for Peace Studies, 15 February 2010
EXCERPT: "Suicide attacks continue to hit Pakistan unabated. Government's efforts to counter suicide terrorism are excessively focused on engaging religious clerics to issue religious decrees against suicide attacks while paying little attention to enhance the operational capabilities of its law enforcement agencies. Pakistan continues...
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Huge Increase in School Attacks: Report
16 February 2010
Education under Attack 2010, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 10 February 2010
EXCERPT: "Even taking into account the increased reporting there has been a spike in attacks in Afghanistan: 670 in 2008, up from 241 in 2007. Pakistan has also seen a huge increase in two years, with 356 schools destroyed or damaged...'We need to encourage national or international war crimes investigations in...
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Pakistanis Engulfed by Conspiracy Theories
16 February 2010
Pakistanis See a Vast US Conspiracy Against Them, TIME, 16 February 2010
EXCERPT: "From the Pakistani army barracks to the roadside chai stands along the Indus River where truckers gulp down cups of muddy tea, anti-Americanism is roiling across the country. It is whipped up by the often sensationalist, ratings-hungry Pakistani TV news talk shows ? think of Fox News cranked up to full volume, in Urdu. It resounds from the mosques, in...
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Civil Service Needs Urgent Repair: Report
16 February 2010
Reforming Pakistan's Civil Service, International Crisis Group, 16 February 2010
EXCERPT: "If Pakistan's deteriorating civil service is not urgently repaired, public disillusionment and resentment could be used by the military to justify another spell of authoritarian rule. Reforming Pakistan's Civil Service, the latest report from the International Crisis Group, analyses the structure and functioning of Pakistan's civil bureaucracy....
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Pakistan, US Capture Key Taliban Leader
16 February 2010
, The New York Times, 15 February 2010
EXCERPT: "The Taliban's top military commander was captured several days ago in Karachi, Pakistan, in a secret joint operation by Pakistani and American intelligence forces, according to American government officials. The commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, is an Afghan described by American officials as the most significant Taliban figure to...
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