Flood Aid Shortfall Blamed on "Image Deficit", Fear of Funds Diverting to Extremists
17 August 2010
Pakistan Floods: World Bank to Lend $900m For Recovery, BBC News, 17 August 2010
EXCERPT: "The World Bank is to loan $900m (?574m) to Pakistan to help it recover from its worst ever flooding. The devastating floods have affected up to 20 million people and left some 2,000 dead, say officials. But the UN says international aid has been slow and that it has raised only a third of the $460m (?294m) needed for emergency relief. [...] The...
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US Spends Too Much on War, Too Little on Aid: Opinion
17 August 2010
The Real War on "Terror" Must Begin [OpEd], Al Jazeera, 17 August 2010
EXCERPT: "How can we process the idea of 20 million people left homeless and six million facing immanent starvation, with little or no locally produced food available for at least the next two years? How do you quantify feeding and housing 20,000,000 people - the seven zeros make the sheer scope of the disaster far more tangible than the word 'million'?...
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Uzbek Militants Confirm Leader Killed in Pak Drone Strike Last Year
17 August 2010
IMU Announces Longtime Leader Dead, Names Successor, Radio Free Europe // Radio Liberty, 17 August 2010
EXCERPT: "The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) says its charismatic leader, Tahir Yuldash, is dead. The IMU announced on its website, furqon.com, that Yuldash was slain exactly one year ago, according to the Islamic calendar (on the sixth day of Ramadan 1430) or on August 27, 2009, by the Western calendar. He is believed to have...
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ISI Sees Islamist Militants, Not India, As Main Threat
17 August 2010
ISI Sees Islamist Militants, Not India, As Main Threat to Pak, The Times of India, 17 August 2010
EXCERPT: "Shedding its India-centric phobia, Pakistan's main spy agency ISI has in its new threat assessment determined that Islamist militants, and not India pose the main threat to Pakistan. In a recent internal assessment of security, the Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan's most powerful military spy service has determined...
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