US to Fund Road, Energy Projects
26 March 2010
US Fund for Pakistani Energy Initiative, The Hindu, 26 March 2010
EXCERPT: "According to a statement by the State Department Rajiv Shah, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), will sign three implementation letters committing $51 million to 'rehabilitate, refurbish and upgrade three energy projects in Pakistan.' The announcement came towards the end of the U.S.' Strategic Dialogue...
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Drone Attacks Justified: US Legal Adviser
26 March 2010
US Drone Strikes Are Justified, Legal Adviser Says, NPR, 26 March 2010
EXCERPT: "The Obama administration has for the first time laid out its legal rationale for drone strikes: The State Department's legal adviser described the reasoning in a major speech to a conference of international lawyers. Drone attacks have increased dramatically under President Obama, killing suspected terrorists in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia....
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Taliban Attack Triggers Fierce Fighting, Raises Doubts about Group's Weakened State
26 March 2010
Pakistani Troops Kill 34 Militants after Attack, DAWN, 26 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistani troops killed at least 34 militants after about 150 Taliban attacked a military checkpost in the northwest on Friday, challenging government assertions crackdowns have weakened the group. Homegrown Taliban rebels are seeking to topple the U.S.-backed government of unpopular President Asif Ali Zardari, who has been pressured to hand over some of...
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Face to Face with Pakistan's Most Wanted
26 March 2010
, The Independent, 26 March 2010
EXCERPT: "In his first interview with a western newspaper, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed ? suspected of organising the slaughter of 166 Indians in Mumbai in November 2008 ? denied responsibility for the bloodbath and told The Independent that he had won his court battles to remain a free man. Saeed, bearded, bespectacled and claiming to have no links with Lashkar-e-Taiba...
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An Interview with a Senior Taliban Official
26 March 2010
, Asia Times Online, 26 March 2010
EXCERPT: "After an often stormy relationship with the United States over the past 63 years since its independence, Pakistan is in the process of forging an all-embracing strategic relationship with Washington. [...] The Taliban, too, have their viewpoint on these unfolding developments. A senior Taliban official contacted Asia Times Online to put their side of the story....
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