US Pledges Aid, Agrees to Speed up Arms Transfers
25 March 2010
US to Speed Up Arms Supply, The News International, 25 March 2010
EXCERPT: "US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday US pledged a $125 million aid to boost the energy sector in Pakistan, besides allowing Pakistani products access to US markets and speeding up military equipment transfers, Geo News reported. [...] 'Pakistan is on the front line of confronting violent extremism that threatens us all, and Pakistan's...
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50 Killed in Military Operations in FATA
25 March 2010
Pakistani Jets Kill Nearly 50 in Tribal Region, Reuters, 25 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistani jets pounded suspected Taliban positions in a one-two punch on Thursday that killed nearly 50 people, most of them militants, in a restive tribal region in the northwest, officials said. The two attacks targeted a school used by the Taliban as well as a madrasa or Islamic seminary in the Mamuzai area of the Orakzai Agency, an ethnic Pashtun tribal...
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Afghan Refugees Allowed to Stay Longer in Pakistan
25 March 2010
UNHCR Welcomes Pakistan's Decision to Extend Validity of Registration Cards for Afghan Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 25 March 2010
EXCERPT: "The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Mr. Ant?nio Guterres on Thursday welcomed the decision by Pakistan to allow 1.7 million registered Afghans to remain in the country for at least three more years, alongside continued voluntary repatriation to Afghanistan. Mr Guterres...
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Following Counter-insurgency Successes in NW, Time to Hold Ground
25 March 2010
Holding Pakistan: The Second Phase of Pakistan's Counterinsurgency Operations, Foreign Affairs, 24 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Conventional wars are won by capturing territory, but counterinsurgencies are won by holding it. Rather than rushing to open new fronts against the Taliban, Pakistan must now focus on keeping the territory it has already cleared.Last summer, Pakistan's military launched counterinsurgency campaigns against the...
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