Pakistan "Essential" in Afghan Reconciliation Process: Petraeus
29 June 2010
Pakistan Role Needed in Afghan Reconciliation Process: Petraeus, The Hindustan Times, 29 June 2010
EXCERPT: "US President Barack Obama's new war commander in Afghanistan, Gen David Petraeus, told lawmakers on Tuesday that Pakistan's involvement would be 'essential' if any reconciliation pact was agreed upon in the war-torn country. Petraeus, who spoke at his nomination hearing, spoke to Afghan President Hamid Karzai...
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Pakistan in the Danger Zone: A Tenuous US-Pakistan Relationship
29 June 2010
[pdf], Atlantic Council, June 2010
EXCERPT: "Perhaps no bilateral relationship in the world matches that of the United States and Pakistan when it comes to its combustible combination of strategic importance and perilous instability. For that reason, the Atlantic Council has made it a priority to track closely the Obama administration's considerable and often admirable efforts...
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Govt Revisits Transferring Captured Taliban Leader to Afghanistan
29 June 2010
Pakistan May Transfer Captured Taliban Commander to Afghanistan, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 29 June 2010
EXCERPT: "A spokesman for Afghan President Hamid Karzai says Pakistan may extradite a captured top Taliban commander to Afghanistan, RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal reports. Spokesman Hamid Elmi said that Afghan and Pakistani officials have discussed the fate of the commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, and that Pakistani authorities...
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Deadly Clashes Continue in Kashmir
29 June 2010
Deadly Clashes Continue in Kashmir, Al Jazeera, 29 June 2010
EXCERPT: "At least 10 people have reportedly been killed in clashes in Indian-controlled Kashmir, despite the deployment of thousands of troops in an attempt to bring recent violence in the territory under control. Two of the dead were civilians killed after troops fired on a protest against Indian rule in the town of Anantnag, 55km south of the main city of Srinagar. [...]...
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Peshawar Braces for Possible Taliban Fight
29 June 2010
Taliban Planning Massive Strike in Peshawar, Warns Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister, Sify News, 28 June 2010
EXCERPT: "The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is reorganising itself around Peshawar and planning a major terror strike on the provincial capital, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain has warned. Speaking during a press conference here, Hussain said there are reports that militants were reorganising...
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Related Resources
29 June 2010
For more information relating to public opinion in Pakistan, please see the following resources or the Monitor's posts on public opinion.
Chatham House
Gallup