Aid Agency Attacked, Workers Killed
10 March 2010
Gunmen in Pakistan Singled Out, Shot, Aid Workers, Reuters UK, 10 March 2010
EXCERPT: "The gunmen who attacked the office of a U.S.-based, Christian aid agency in Pakistan on Wednesday singled out staff members before killing six of them, survivors said. About 10 suspected Islamist militants stormed the office of the World Vision agency in Oghi village in Mansehra district, about 80 km (50 miles) north of Islamabad, at about 9 a.m....
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Arbitrary Arrests of Fishermen in India-Pakistan Dispute
10 March 2010
Pakistani and Indian Fishermen Are Pawns in Governments' Disputes, Los Angeles Times, 9 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Hundreds of Pakistani and Indian fishermen have been arrested and imprisoned in recent years, high-seas apprehensions that human rights activists say have nothing to do with border enforcement and everything to do with the 6-decade-old hatred between Pakistan and India. When fishermen from either country are hauled in for...
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Govt Risks IMF Aid Money
10 March 2010
, Asia Times Online, 9 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Islamabad's tardiness in naming a finance minister to succeed Shaukat Tarin, who resigned on February 23 to pursue his own business interests, may delay the release of US$1.2 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), part of a bailout package agree in November 2008. President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani have failed to...
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Govt Plots New Military Operations in NW
10 March 2010
Pakistan Plots Showdown with Taliban, AOL News, 9 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Having wrested control of one key region in Pakistan's northwest from a weakened Pakistani Taliban, the country's military leaders have announced they will launch a new operation against one of the militants' few remaining safe havens, perhaps within days. Last week's announcement that Pakistani forces had taken over the Bajur tribal agency,...
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The Open City: Social Networks and Violence in Karachi
10 March 2010
[pdf], The London School of Economics // Crisis States Research Centre, March 2010
EXCERPT: "The very features of Pakistani society that are represented so prominently in Karachi - ethnic and sectarian heterogeneity, political fragmentation, economic disparity, demographic pressures, steady erosion of the state's institutional capacity and the footprint of international conflict...
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