Curfew Imposed Across Entire Kashmir Valley
14 September 2010
Curfew Imposed Across Entire Kashmir Valley, Sify, 14 September 2010
EXCERPT: " Stray incidents of stone-pelting were reported in some parts of the Kashmir Valley Tuesday as indefinite curfew -- imposed after 18 people were killed Monday in the worst-ever day of violence in the current spell of unrest -- continued and all air services were cancelled for three days. 'No major untoward incident has been reported from anywhere in the Valley...
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Pakistan Floods: Deluge of Misery
14 September 2010
Osman Dar, Pakistan Floods: Deluge of Misery, Chatham House - The World Today (Volume 66, Number 8/9), 14 September 2010
EXCERPT: "Two of the world's four largest natural disasters of the last half century have happened in Pakistan: the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and now the floods. With many millions uprooted from their homes, without livelihoods and at risk of illness, the challenges for the international community and Pakistan are...
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"No-Go" Tribal Areas Became Basis for Afghan Insurgency Documents Show
14 September 2010
"No-Go" Tribal Areas Became Basis for Afghan Insurgency Documents Show, The National Security Archive, 13 September 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistani tribal areas where Osama bin Laden found refuge were momentarily open to the Pakistani Army when 'the tribes were overawed by U.S. firepower' after 9/11, but quickly again became 'no-go areas' where the Taliban could reorganize and plan their resurgence in Afghanistan,...
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Militant: US Missile Strikes "Incredible and Accurate"
14 September 2010
Militant: US Missile Strikes "Incredible and Accurate", CBS News, 14 September 2010
EXCERPT: "A Taliban commander in northwest Pakistan tells CBS News a wave of recent U.S. air strikes have had an 'incredible and accurate' impact on al Qaeda militants in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border area. Relentless waves of air strikes, suspected to have been carried out by unmanned U.S. drones, have pounded the region in the past three weeks, leaving...
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Political Rivals Close Ranks to Counter Musharraf's Comeback Efforts
14 September 2010
Political Rivals Close Ranks to Counter Musharraf's Comeback Efforts, Sify, 14 September 2010
EXCERPT: "The ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has joined hands with opposition party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) to counter the efforts of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf towards making a political comeback in the country. To frustrate Musharraf's aim of benefiting from weaknesses of the existing parties in...
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