Peace Returns to Bajaur
17 March 2010
Hustle and Bustle in Khar as Peace Returns to Bajaur, The News International, 17 March 2010
EXCERPT: "All main and link roads were opened to facilitate the returnees to their hometowns while cellular phone service and World Food Programme centres also started functioning after a long time. Reports said that tribesmen, dislocated due to the clashes between the security forces and militants, have started returning to their homes and villages....
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Taliban Increasingly Unpopular
17 March 2010
Taliban Increasingly Unpopular in Pakistan, Gallup, 12 March 2010
EXCERPT: "The Taliban's presence on either side of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border is largely unwelcome, but increasingly so in Pakistan, where Gallup surveys show they have lost much of the little appeal they had. Four percent of Pakistanis in a November-December 2009 poll, conducted prior to Pakistan's current push to rout the Taliban within its borders, said...
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Kashmiri Separatists Seek Saudi Mediation
17 March 2010
Kashmiri Separatists Seek Saudi Mediation To End Dispute [blog], Reuters // India: A billion aspirations, 17 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, a senior Kashmiri separatist leader, has urged Saudi Arabia to use its influence and bring India and Pakistan closer to solve the decades-long conflict over the disputed Himalayan region. Farooq arrived in the Kingdom last Thursday to perform the Umrah pilgrimage and his visit, two weeks after...
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US Transfers Cobra Helicopters to Pakistan
17 March 2010
US Delivers Pakistan Cobra Choppers, The News International, 17 March 2010
EXCERPT: "The United States on Tuesday handed over a fleet of modern AH-1 Cobra helicopters to Pakistan, which has been inducted in the Army Aviation, Geo news reported on Tuesday. The delivery consists of 14 to 16 helicopters. The channel quoted its sources as saying that helicopters of this design are being used by the Jordanian Armed Forces. The US will also...
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Identity and Conflict in the Pashtun Tribal Belt
17 March 2010
Mobilizing Identity in the Pashtun Tribal Belt, Small Wars Journal, 17 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Today, violent conflict in the Pashtun tribal belt in Afghanistan and Pakistan is increasing and a number of experts are attempting to understand the dynamics driving this conflict. An examination of two key identities of the Pashtun people reveals how religious identity is being mobilized by one group for political purposes and ethnic identity...
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