Taliban Bombs, Threatens Anti-Militant Political Party
26 July 2010
Deadly Suicide Attack Targets Official In Pakistan, NPR, 26 July 2010
EXCERPT: "A Taliban suicide bomber struck Monday near the home of a Pakistani provincial minister whose only son was recently killed by the militants, officials said. Seven people were killed and 25 wounded. Mian Iftikhar Hussain, information minister of Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa province and an outspoken critic of the Taliban, was the apparent target. He was receiving...
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Bangladesh Tribunal Issues Jamaat-e-Islami Warrants
26 July 2010
, The Washington Post, 26 July 2010
EXCERPT: "A special tribunal in Bangladesh issued arrest warrants against four senior leaders of the country's largest Islamic party on Monday ahead of a planned trial over alleged crimes against humanity during the nation's 1971 independence war. Suspects including Jamaat-e-Islami party chief Matiur Rahman Nizami and his senior party colleagues...
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US Lawmakers Want Troops Out of Pakistan
26 July 2010
, AFP, 26 July 2010
EXCERPT: "Two US lawmakers -- a Republican and a Democrat -- proposed a bill this week demanding the withdrawal of all US troops in Pakistan, where they are conducting covert operations against militants. 'We have known that US forces have been operating in secret inside the territories of Pakistan without congressional approval,' Democratic Representative...
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Pakistan Aids Insurgency in Afghanistan: Leaked Reports
26 July 2010
, The New York Times, 26 July 2010
EXCERPT: "Americans fighting the war in Afghanistan have long harbored strong suspicions that Pakistan's military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year from Washington for its help combating the militants, according to a trove of secret military field reports made...
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