G8 Announces Project to Develop Afghanistan-Pakistan Border
30 March 2010
G8 Announces Border Plan to Boost Afghan-Pakistan Trade, BBC News, 30 March 2010
EXCERPT: "The G8 group of industrial countries has announced an economic initiative targeting the Afghan-Pakistan border. The plan, made public at a meeting of G8 ministers in Canada, aims to help improve trade between the two countries and strengthen border infrastructure. The plan is designed to boost development and employment. Canadian Foreign Minister...
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30 March 2010
, AFP, 29 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Suicide bombers targeted anti-Taliban militiamen in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing three people and wounding another 10 in twin attacks, officials said. A suicide bomber walked into the office of a militia in Tank, a district of North West Frontier Province -- parts of which suffer heavily from militancy -- and blew himself up shortly after an anti-Taliban...
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Baloch Nationalism Offers Strong Resistance to Govt Efforts
30 March 2010
Balochistan: Pakistan's Broken Mirror, The National, 25 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Islamabad's brutal attempts to crush ethnic Baloch nationalism have met with fierce, escalating resistance - and have laid bare the strains that threaten the founding idea of Pakistan. Madiha R Tahir reports from the rallies, homes and hospital rooms of the fifth Baloch rebellion. [...] Over the course of six decades Islamabad has failed to come to terms...
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Pakistan's Foreign Minister on Combatting Militancy: Interview
30 March 2010
"The Silent Surge", Newsweek, 29 March 2010
EXCERPT: "[...] [Q] Skeptics will point to the traditional analysis that Pakistani support to the Taliban is a threat to Indian influence in Afghanistan. [A] I think they are out of date. Pakistan today does not consider [the] Taliban our friends. We do not want to see a Taliban control of government in Afghanistan. [...] [Q] Some say that the offensive against the Taliban might have...
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Moscow Attacks Linked to Al-Qaeda, Afghan-Pakistan Border
30 March 2010
, Asia Times Online, 31 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Monday's twin suicide attacks by female bombers in the Moscow metro system in which at least 38 people were killed and 64 injured were most likely planned and executed by people trained in Pakistan's tribal areas. The head of the Federal Security Service (FSB - formerly the KGB), under whose headquarters the attacks took place, immediately pointed a finger...
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Refugees Pay Price of War on Taliban
30 March 2010
Refugees Pay Price of Pakistan's Taliban War, CNN, 30 March 2010
EXCERPT: "'If living under the Taliban was tolerable, do you think we would be living here?' says Khan adding, 'We aren't happy here but what can we do? Our homes were destroyed. At least we are in our own country. We believe that only the government can straighten out the Taliban.' Indeed, the Pakistani government is winning praise in Washington...
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