Court Orders Inquiry into Past Cases of Police Torture
05 March 2010
CJ Takes Suo Motu Notice of Police Torture in Public, DAWN, 4 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary has ordered the IGPs, home secretaries, Advocates General of all four provinces, commissioner Islamabad and Attorney General of Pakistan to identify the cases of police torture occurred in the past. Taking suo motu notice of police torturing in Punjab, the chief justice constituted committees...
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12 Civilians Killed as Suicide Bomber Targets Shiites
05 March 2010
, The Associated Press, 5 March 2010
EXCERPT: "A suicide bomber targeted Shiite Muslims on two buses being escorted by security forces through a northwestern Pakistan border area rife with sectarian and insurgent violence, killing 12 people Friday. Tensions between Pakistan's majority Sunni Muslims and Shiites had made the road unsafe for the minorities traveling to the nearby...
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Former ISI Officials Accused of Training Taliban
05 March 2010
, The New York Times, 3 March 2010
EXCERPT: "With his white turban, untrimmed beard and worn army jacket, the man known uniformly here by his nom de guerre, Col. Imam, is a particular Pakistani enigma. A United States-trained former colonel in Pakistan's spy agency, he spent 20 years running insurgents in and out of Afghanistan, first to fight the Soviet Army, and later to support...
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Kashmir Militants "Boosted" by Govt
05 March 2010
Why Pakistan is "Boosting Kashmir Militants", BBC News, 3 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistan has long been accused of supporting militant groups operating in Kashmir. As a fledgling peace process between India and Pakistan developed in the years since the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US, it was widely believed that Islamabad's support for militancy had declined. This has changed once again. Since 2009 militant activity...
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Homegrown Taliban Ignite Shift in Military Policy
05 March 2010
The New Face of the Pakistani Army, The Guardian, 4 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistan's army, the bedrock of an otherwise fragile state, may not be the most progressive institution. But recent developments suggest that military leaders realise it needs to change, even if key concerns remain. No issue puts Pakistan under the international spotlight more than its relationship with Islamist militancy. [...] At the heart of the...
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