Khyber Air Raid Kills Civilians
12 April 2010
60 Civilians Killed in Tirah Bombing, The News International, 11 April 2010
EXCERPT: "Sixty civilians were killed and as many sustained injuries when fighter jets bombed Sra Vella in Jamrud Tehsil's Tirah Valley in Khyber Agency on Saturday, local sources said. However, official sources claimed 35 militants were killed when jets hit their hideouts in the valley. The injured were shifted to hospitals in Jamrud and Peshawar through...
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What's in a Name? Deadly Clashes over NWFP Renaming
12 April 2010
Three Killed in Pakistan Protest over Province Name, Reuters, 12 April 2010
EXCERPT: "Violent protests broke out in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad on Monday over the government's move to rename a province, killing at least three people and wounding nearly 100, hospital officials said. Pakistan's National Assembly last week passed unanimously a set of constitutional reforms that include changing the name of the North West Frontier...
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Inadequate International Aid Funding Jeopardizes UN Humanitarian Projects
12 April 2010
UN Warns Pakistan Aid Projects in Jeopardy, DAWN, 12 April 2010
EXCERPT: "The United Nations on Monday warned it may have to shut down aid projects in Pakistan, after receiving only a fifth of the funds requested in an appeal for more than half a billion dollars. The United Nations launched the $537 million appeal in February to feed and assist more than one million people displaced by conflict in Pakistan's northwest and in border...
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Taliban Continue with Attacks in Orakzai
12 April 2010
Fourty-one Militants, Two Soldiers Die in Orakzai Fighting, DAWN, 12 April 2010
EXCERPT: "More than 100 militants armed with rockets and automatic weapons attacked two security checkpoints in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, sparking intense fighting that left at least 41 militants and two soldiers dead, officials said. The clashes were the latest violence in the Orakzai tribal region, where the military launched an operation in March...
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ISI Freed Senior Taliban Figures: US Officials
12 April 2010
, The Washington Post, 10 April 2010
EXCERPT: "[...] U.S. officials now believe that even as Pakistan's security forces worked with their American counterparts to detain Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and other insurgents, the country's Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, or ISI, quietly freed at least two senior Afghan Taliban figures it had captured on...
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