Army's Flood Response Helps Enhance Its Status, Public Image: Analysts
12 August 2010
In Deep Water, TIME, 12 August 2010
EXCERPT: "Although its response has been limited, the Pakistani army at least has been visible. Television images prominently showed soldiers plunging into high waters to rescue the stranded, though critics said the footage was courtesy of camera crews dispatched on helicopters that could have been used for further rescues. Some 60,000 soldiers are currently at work in the affected areas. In the country's...
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Karachi Death Toll Reaches 1000 in Seven Months: Police
12 August 2010
Death Toll in Karachi Unrest Tops 1000, Press TV, 12 August 2010
EXCERPT: "Clashes between rival ethnic groups have left at least 1,000 people dead in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi over the past seven months, officials say. Karachi police chief, Waseem Ahmed, told reporters on Thursday that hundreds were victims of targeted killings. The police official added that over 300 localities of the port city have been declared...
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Taliban Command and Control System is in Quetta: ISAF
12 August 2010
Taliban Command and Control System is in Quetta: ISAF, The Express Tribune, 12 August 2010
EXCERPT: "International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) in Afghanistan has said that the Taliban command and control system is in Quetta from where it issues orders to the Taliban across the border. A senior official at the Isaf headquarters in Kabul gave a special briefing to a delegation of the Pakistani media. He admitted that nothing could...
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NATO Targets Haqqani Network on Af-Pak Border
12 August 2010
Twenty Insurgents Killed in Afghanistan: NATO, DAWN, 12 August 2010
EXCERPT: "At least 20 insurgents were killed in Afghanistan's southeast in an operation against the Haqqani network, whose leader Washington wants designated a terrorist, the Nato-led alliance said on Thursday. Air strikes were called in after Afghan and International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) troops found dozens of insurgents in 'entrenched fighting...
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