Taliban Offer Relief if Govt Rejects Foreign Flood Funds
10 August 2010
Pakistan Taliban Urge Refusal of US Aid, The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 August 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistan's Tehreek-e-Taliban faction on Tuesday urged the government to reject American aid for people affected by the nation's worst floods in 80 years. 'The government should not accept American aid and if it happens, we can give 20 million dollars to them as aid for the flood victims,' Azam Tariq, a spokesman for Tehreek-e-Taliban...
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Zardari Open to Talks with Pakistani Taliban
10 August 2010
Zardari Open to Taliban Talks in Pakistan, TIME, 9 August 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari said Friday he's willing to consider reopening negotiations with the Taliban in his country ? a statement that came amid a flurry of criticism that some elements within Pakistan remain sympathetic to the extremist group. Zardari told The Associated Press that his country had never closed the door to talks with the Taliban....
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Swat: Paradise Regained? Report of an HRCP Fact-finding Mission
10 August 2010
[pdf], Human Rights Commission of Pakistan via the Human Security Gateway, 5 August 2010
EXCERPT: "An HRCP fact-finding mission, led by HRCP Council member Malik Jarar Hussain, visited Swat on May 20-21, 2010, in order to assess conditions for the civilian population and the general state of human rights in the region. [...] The HRCP team interviewed government officials,...
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Understanding Pakistan's Military
10 August 2010
Lieven, Anatol, Understanding Pakistan's Military, OpenDemocracy, 9 August 2010
EXCERPT: "A guided tour of Pakistan's Army, from its role within Pakistani nationalism, prospects of mutiny, and the relationship of the ISI to the Jihadi world, to hostilities with India, suggests that some key ways of defusing the situation may be being neglected. The Pakistani military is the only Pakistani state institution which works as it is officially...
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