Millions Suffer from Taliban Abuse: Amnesty Report
10 June 2010
Amnesty: Tribal Pakistan Is a 'Rights-Free Zone', BBC News, 10 June 2010
EXCERPT: "Millions of Pakistanis live in a 'human rights-free zone' in the country's north-west, Amnesty International says. Residents of tribal areas face Taliban abuse and get no protection from the government, the rights group alleges. In a report, it says the Taliban secured their rule by killing elders and torturing teachers and aid...
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Pakistan Fifth Most Unstable Country: Global Peace Index
10 June 2010
Pakistan Ranked Fifth Most Unstable Country, DAWN, 10 June 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistan is the world's fifth most unstable country, better only than Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan and Sudan in that order, says the US State Department. The department's Global Peace Index (GPI), released on Wednesday, reports that Pakistan's overall score deteriorated steadily for the second successive year and it slid three places into the bottom five. Pakistan's...
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Karzai Looks to Pakistan in Hope of Ending Afghan Insurgency
10 June 2010
Afghan President "Has Lost Faith in US Ability to Defeat Taliban", The Guardian, 9 June 2010
EXCERPT: "President Hamid Karzai has lost faith in the US strategy in Afghanistan and is increasingly looking to Pakistan to end the insurgency, according to those close to Afghanistan's former head of intelligence services. Amrullah Saleh, who resigned last weekend, believes the president lost confidence some time ago in the ability...
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Relief Agencies Urge Pakistan Army to Agree to New Aid Rules
10 June 2010
Relief Agencies Urge Pakistan Army to Agree New Aid Rules, AlertNet, 9 June 2010
EXCERPT: "Aid agencies in Pakistan have drawn up guidelines for their relationship with the military to protect their neutrality and enable them to reach civilians caught up in the army's operations against the Taliban. For over a year, the United Nations, together with scores of relief groups, has been providing aid to more than 3 million people...
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Karachi Becomes Extremist Melting Pot
10 June 2010
Sprawling Karachi Becomes an Islamic Extremist Melting Polt, McClatchy, 9 June 2010
EXCERPT: "The jihadist recruiter, seated in an office attached to a lavish mosque in an affluent residential area of Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, said volunteers who came to join the fight in Afghanistan these days were modern, educated Pakistanis. 'You guys look for beards, but the ones who come to me are clean-shaven,' the Islamic...
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