Govt Attempts to Rehabilitate "Would-Be Suicide Bombers"
28 July 2010
Pakistan Attempts Rehabilitation of Would-Be Suicide Bombers, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 28 July 2010
EXCERPT: "As suicide bombings have become a common tactic of terrorist groups in Pakistan, the authorities are now trying to rehabilitate would-be attackers, RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal reports. A suicide bomber who killed eight people on July 26 outside the home of a provincial minister near Peshawar is representative of the...
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Separatist Violence Drives Thousands of Settlers Out of Balochistan
28 July 2010
Violence Drives Settlers Out of Province, Gulf News, 28 July 2010
EXCERPT: "Around 100,000 settlers in Balochistan from other parts of Pakistan have left the troubled province so far because of violence involving Baloch separatist militants, Interior Minister Rahman Malek told the Senate here yesterday. Making a policy statement on the situation in the mineral-rich southern province rocked by recurring attacks and acts of sabotage,...
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Govt to Repatriate Afghan Refugees by 2012
28 July 2010
, China View, 27 July 2010
EXCERPT: "The Pakistani Senate was informed on Tuesday that some three million Afghan refuges, still living in the country, will be repatriated by 2012, official sources said. Pakistani Minister for Sates and Frontier Regions Najmuddin Khan told the upper house of the parliament that there are 1.7 million registered and more than one million unregistered...
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Taliban Violence Creating Social Revolution among Pashtuns
28 July 2010
Taliban Violence Creating Social Revolution among Pashtuns, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 23 July 2010
EXCERPT: "[...] The Taliban, by use of a brutal assassination campaign that targets tribal leaders and other influential locals, has gained the upper hand in Pashtun-populated areas such as the southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar. The strategy has weakened tribal solidarity among Pashtuns, effecting a societal breakdown...
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Senior Haqqani Network Leader Denies Alleged Links to ISI
28 July 2010
, The Daily Beast, 28 July 2010
EXCERPT: "Responding to WikiLeaks' release of tens of thousands of pages of classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan, a high-ranking Taliban commander rejected reports that the Taliban had any links with Pakistan's spy agency. 'Look, we?re at war and would like to get aid from anyone to fight against the U.S. and its allies who invaded our homeland,'...
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