The "AfPak Policy" and the Pashtuns
24 June 2010
[pdf], House of Commons Library, 22 June 2010
EXCERPT: "The fate of the US AfPak policy currently hangs in the balance. There is certainly no shortage of sceptics. It is clear that the success or failure of the policy will be heavily shaped by how the Pashtuns respond to its inducements. Therefore, the first part of this paper focuses on the Pashtuns. It begins with a survey of the geographic,...
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Taliban Regroup in Areas Thought Secure
24 June 2010
Taliban Regrouping in Pakistan Areas Thought Secure, The Washington Times, 22 June 2010
EXCERPT: "As Pakistan delays a long-awaited offensive in North Waziristan, the remote area dubbed the last bastion of indigenous Taliban and al Qaeda, Taliban insurgents are quietly staging a comeback in several districts and territories where the military earlier declared victories. Simultaneously, Islamist fighters are spreading into parts of the...
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Special Court Jails Five Americans over Terror Plots
24 June 2010
Pakistan Jails Five Americans for Plotting Terror Acts, The Guardian, 24 June 2010
EXCERPT: "Five Americans accused of plotting terrorist acts with militants in Pakistan they had met via the internet were each sentenced to 10 years in jail by a Pakistani court today. The US nationals, all in their 20s, come from Alexandria, Virginia, and were arrested in Sargodha, Punjab, in December after their families reported them missing. Prosecutors...
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Detained German Claims Dozens of Europeans Fighting in AfPak
24 June 2010
"Dozens of Europeans Fighting for Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan", RTT News, 23 June 2010
EXCERPT: "A suspected German al-Qaeda operative, arrested in Pakistan on Tuesday, told investigators that dozens of Europeans recruited by the terror outfit were fighting in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Reports quoting intelligence officials questioning Rami Mackenzie said that he had met militants from Germany, Spain, Sweden and Norway...
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China, Pakistan to Hold Third Anti-Terror Drill
24 June 2010
Pakistan Pledges Support as Beijing Turns the Screw on Xinjiang, The Hindu, 24 June 2010
EXCERPT: "In a week when much of the attention has been on Pakistan securing controversial support from China in the way of two nuclear reactors, Islamabad has announced a significant stepping-up of its cooperation with Beijing on tackling terrorism ? one of the few areas where the ?all-weather? friends have not always seen eye to eye. The two countries...
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Islamic Charities and Human Security in Pakistan
24 June 2010
Islamic Charities and Human Security in Pakistan, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 12 May 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistan, insists Christopher Candland, is neither a failed nor a failing state. Key institutions'such as the military, judiciary, and legislature?are all strong and growing even stronger. However, the Pakistani state is failing to provide basic services to its 180-million strong population?one in which, according...
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