WIkiLeaks Exacerbate Strains in US-Pak Relations: Analysts
30 July 2010
WikiLeaks' Fallout for U.S.-Pakistan Ties [audio], Council on Foreign Relations, 30 July 2010
EXCERPT: "The classified U.S. military documents related to the war in Afghanistan leaked by WikiLeaks.org paint a grim picture of collusion between Pakistan's intelligence service, the Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and members of the Afghan Taliban. While the allegations laid out in the documents--that the ISI supports...
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Disarming of Key City Proposed to Stop Targeted Killings
30 July 2010
Targeted Karachi Killings Lead to Calls to Disarm City, Central Asia Online, 28 July 2010
EXCERPT: "Disarming Karachi is essential to control the city's skyrocketing rate of assassinations, analysts say. Worried about increases in targeted killings, political observers are demanding that the government de-weaponise the city and divert funds into economic policies, such as reducing poverty and increasing job opportunities, to curb the...
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Press Q&A with Admiral Mullen on AfPak Security
30 July 2010
Pakistan Press Avail, Delivered by Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Joint Chiefs of Staff, July 24, 2010
EXCERPT: "[Q] Admiral, you were just quoted in New Delhi saying something that we do not always agree to the whole way the ISI works: 'The manner that they work, we have our differences.' Can you expand on that? Exactly where do you differ on the manner of working? [A] It is both the Pakistan ? the military...
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Lashkar-e-Taiba Expands Focus, Links with Al-Qaeda
30 July 2010
Lashkar-e-Taiba's Growing International Focus and Its Links with al-Qaeda, The Jamestown Foundation // Terrorism Monitor, 29 July 2010
EXCERPT: "Recent revelations that several so-called 'home-grown militants' connected to terrorist plots in Europe, North America and Australia had passed through camps controlled by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) have generated growing concern that the group may be emerging as a new global actor working...
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30 July 2010
C. Christine Fair, Neil Malhotra, and Jacob Shapiro, [pdf] via the Human Security Gateway, Center for Economic Research, Pakistan, 28 December 2009
EXCERPT: "Combating militant violence?particularly within South Asia and the Middle East'stands at the top of the international security agenda. Despite the extensive literature on the determinants of political...
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