Pakistan Failed to Protect Bhutto: UN
16 April 2010
Pakistan Failed to Protect Bhutto, Probe Death: UN, Reuters, 15 April 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistan failed to properly protect former prime minister Benazir Bhutto or investigate her assassination and 'severely hampered' a United Nations inquiry, U.N. investigators said on Thursday. Bhutto was killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack after an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007, weeks after she returned to...
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Suicide Bomber Strikes Hospital in Quetta
16 April 2010
Deaths in Pakistan Hospital Blast, Al Jazeera, 16 April 2010
EXCERPT: "At least eight people have been killed and another 35 wounded after a suicide bomber attacked a hospital in the Pakistani city of Quetta. A television cameraman and a police officer were among those killed on Friday when the attacker detonated his explosives outside the gate of the Civic Hospital's emergency ward. The chief of police in Quetta told Al Jazeera...
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Jalozai IDPs Begin Returning to Mohmand Agency
16 April 2010
First Phase of Voluntary Return to Pakistan's Mohmand Agency Gets under Way, UNHCR, 16 April 2010
EXCERPT: "Adam Khan and his family watched closely as a group of about 90 people left northern Pakistan's Jalozai camp earlier this week and headed home after months of internal exile. The 50-year-old expects to be next and has started packing for the return trip. [...] He and his kin, including nine children, are among 400 families...
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"There Is No Jihad against Noncombatants": Islamic Scholar
16 April 2010
Islamic Scholar: "There Is No Jihad Against Noncombatants", Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 5 April 2010
EXCERPT: "Ever since the influential Muslim scholar Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri last month issued a 600-page fatwa, or religious ruling, condemning terror, he has been at the center of international discussions about Islam, Al-Qaeda, and the morality of suicide bombings. Qadri, a Pakistani, is the founding leader of Minhaj...
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Dissenting Views on Disbursement of US Aid to Pakistani Organizations
16 April 2010
[blog], Foreign Policy // The Cable, 12 April 2010
EXCERPT: "The U.S. government has agreed to give billions of new foreign aid money directly to Pakistani groups and not through American organizations such as the U.S. Agency for International Development, according to Pakistan's Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani. Since the U.S. Congress appropriated the first $1.5 billion...
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