Suicide Blast Kills 5 in Swat Valley
15 July 2010
Bus Stop Suicide Bomb in Pakistan's Swat Kills Five, BBC News, 15 July 2010
EXCERPT: "At least five people have been killed and nearly 50 injured by a suicide bomb next to a bus stop in north-west Pakistan's Swat Valley, officials say. The attack happened in Mingora, the main town in the former tourist region overrun by the Taliban in 2007. Police say the area where the bomb went off was crowded, so the number of casualties...
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Kidnappers Free Aid Workers
15 July 2010
Pakistan Kidnappers Free Aid Workers, AFP, 15 July 2010
EXCERPT: "Three aid workers employed by US-based charity Mercy Corps have been freed in good health by their abductors after a five-month kidnap ordeal in Pakistan, officials said. The aid workers and their driver were kidnapped in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, which is troubled by banditry, regional insurgency, Taliban violence and sectarian killings. They went missing...
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Kurram Agency Faces a "Humanitarian Crisis": Officials
15 July 2010
Officials: Isolated Pakistani Region Faces Humanitarian Crisis, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 13 July 2010
EXCERPT: "I.A. Rehman, the chairman of Pakistan's Human Rights Commission, says that people in Kurram Agency are facing a humanitarian crisis. Jawad Hussain, a member of the National Assembly from Kurram, says the region has been cut off from the rest of the country for the last three years. He says various Taliban groups...
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13 Detainees Killed while Attempting to Escape: Army
15 July 2010
Forces Killed 13 Detainees, Admits Army, DAWN, 15 July 2010
EXCERPT: "Maidan operational commander Col Nadeem Mirza on Wednesday admitted that security forces had shot dead 13 detainees when they tried to escape after suicide bombers struck at the Scouts Fort in Balambat on July 5. He said six rooms of the fort had been badly damaged and four detainees, who were being interrogated at the moment, had also died when a portion of the building...
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US Drone Attack Kills 10 in North Waziristan
15 July 2010
US Drone Attack Kills 10 in North Waziristan, DAWN, 15 July 2010
EXCERPT: "US missiles destroyed a compound used by militants in Pakistan's tribal belt on Thursday, killing at least 10 militants in the first such attack for two weeks, officials said. A US drone fired at least two missiles into the compound in the village of Sheerani Mada Khel in the district of North Waziristan, a Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked stronghold heavily...
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