Multiple Attacks Kill Dozens in Lahore
12 March 2010
Three Bomb Blasts Rock Pakistan's Lahore, Montreal Gazette, 12 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Two suicide bombers targeting the Pakistani military killed at least 45 people in Lahore on Friday, officials said, in a challenge to government assertions that crackdowns have weakened Taliban insurgents. A third bomb exploded near a police station in Lahore later on Friday, police said, wounding up to four people and further rattling nerves in...
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Three Sunni Clerics Killed in Karachi
12 March 2010
Three Sunni Muslim Clerics Killed in Pakistan, Reuters India, 12 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Four people, including three Muslim clerics, were gunned down and one wounded in a drive-by shooting in Pakistan's biggest city of Karachi in a suspected sectarian attack, police said on Friday. Saeed Ahmed Jalalpuri, a senior Sunni Muslim cleric, was ambushed by three gunmen riding on a motor-bike as he was traveling in a car with his three colleagues...
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Deadly Bomb Attack Strikes Peshawar
12 March 2010
, The Associated Press, 11 March 2010
EXCERPT: "A homemade bomb placed outside a store in northwestern Pakistan where locals watch movies exploded Thursday, killing four people, including a child, said officials. The attack, which also wounded 21 people, occurred on the outskirts of Peshawar, a city near the Afghan border that experienced a wave of bombings at the end of last year...
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Pakistan Reluctant to Rein in LeT: US Experts
12 March 2010
Pakistan Reluctant to Rein in LeT, Say S Asia Experts, The Indian Express, 12 March 2010
EXCERPT: "The ISI continues to maintain links with Lashkar-e-Toiba, the terrorist outfit responsible for 26/11, and Islamabad is reluctant to take action against its leaders and its network, several eminent US scholars and experts of South Asia have categorically told US lawmakers. Attending a special Congressional hearing yesterday on 'Lashkar-e-Toiba...
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The AfPak Strategy: Reactions in Pakistan
12 March 2010
[pdf], Afghanistan Analyst Network, 9 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Viewing Pakistan in a historical and geostrategic context, this paper by eminent Pakistan and India expert Karl Fischer highlights those aspects of the new United States strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan (formerly termed ?the AfPak Strategy?) that are more relevant for Pakistan and shows predominant Pakistani reactions to these issues....
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Drone Attacks: Pakistan's Policy and the Tribesmen's Perspective
12 March 2010
Drone Attacks: Pakistan's Policy and the Tribesmen's Perspective, The Jamestown Foundation // Terrorism Monitor, 11 March 2010
EXCERPT: "This paper provides an analysis of Pakistan's policy on unmanned aerial vehicle (?drone?) attacks in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and how these attacks are perceived by students from Waziristan, the region most heavily targeted by CIA drones. The interviews with students...
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