Security Tensions "Hamper" Response to Flooding Threat
26 May 2010
National Security Tensions Hamper Pakistan's Response to Hunza Landslide Dam Crisis, The National, 25 May 2010
EXCERPT: "National security policy has been a major, but largely ignored, factor in the Pakistani government's handling of an unfolding humanitarian crisis in the idyllic northern valley of Hunza-Nagar. Thousands of residents there are watching the clock, hoping a massive landslide dam will survive the imminent stress of...
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US Provided Times Square/Taliban Evidence, Issued Warning to Pakistan
26 May 2010
U.S. Offered Crucial Evidence in Pakistani Meeting on Times Square Plot, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2010
EXCERPT: "Senior U.S. officials used an urgent meeting with Pakistan's president to present a dossier on terrorism suspect Faisal Shahzad, including a detailed chart describing his contacts with the Pakistani Taliban before his attempt to detonate an explosives-laden vehicle in New York City's Times Square, officials...
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Afghanistan, Pakistan Get Higher Priority at DfID
26 May 2010
Mitchell: Aid to Work Harder for Afghanistan, UK Department for International Development, 23 May 2010
EXCERPT: "International Development Secretary of State Andrew Mitchell has announced that aid to Afghanistan and Pakistan needs to get higher priority at the Department of International Development and that this needs to be more closely integrated with work on stabilisation. The announcement comes as he visits Afghanistan alongside...
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Media Fuels Conspiracy Theories
26 May 2010
, The New York Times, 25 May 2010
EXCERPT: "Americans may think that the failed Times Square bomb was planted by a man named Faisal Shahzad. But the view in the Supreme Court Bar Association here in Pakistan's capital is that the culprit was an American 'think tank.' No one seems to know its name, but everyone has an opinion about it. It is powerful and shadowy, and seems to control...
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