Drone Kills Leader of Chinese Separatist Movement
02 March 2010
Xinjiang Fighter "Killed by Drone", Al Jazeera, 2 March 2010
EXCERPT: "The leader of a Chinese separatist movement, believed to have links with al-Qaeda, has been killed in a US missile strike, Pakistani and Taliban officials have said. Abdul Haq al-Turkistani was apparently killed in an American drone attack in Pakistan's North Waziristan province, close to the border with Afghanistan. He was leader of the Turkistani Islamic...
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Army Captures Key Militant Hideout
02 March 2010
, AFP, 2 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistan's army on Tuesday revealed a vast Taliban and Al-Qaeda hideout dug into mountains near the Afghan border and captured in an offensive that killed 75 local and foreign militants. Commanders gave journalists a guided tour of the bastion, carved into sheer rock within clear view of the snow-capped mountains of eastern Afghanistan and said by one general...
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Security Concerns Challenge Development in Balochistan
02 March 2010
A Dangerous Mixture in Balochistan, IRIN News, 1 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Significant development and poverty challenges in Balochistan Province, southwestern Pakistan, are being exacerbated by growing security concerns, according to aid workers. Decades of nationalist unrest, underdevelopment and the scaling down of UN and NGO activity have left residents feeling neglected and fearful for their safety, they say. President Asif Zardari on...
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Lashkar-e-Taiba in Perspective: An Evolving Threat
02 March 2010
[pdf], New American Foundation via the Human Security Gateway, 25 February 2010
EXCERPT: "In 2006, the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba entered the Afghan theater, necessitating its increased presence in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province and Federally Administered Tribal Areas. Sharing physical space in the NWFP/FATA and operational interests in Afghanistan has created...
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Taking on the Taliban
02 March 2010
[op-ed by Steve Coll], The New Yorker, 1 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Earlier this month, outside Karachi, Pakistani security services, reportedly accompanied by C.I.A. officers, arrested the Afghan Taliban's top military commander, Abdul Ghani Baradar, an action that has revived questions about the relationship between Pakistan and the Taliban. The Taliban rose to power with extensive aid from the I.S.I.; the collaboration...
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