Government, Military Agree to "Defend Democratic Process" as Court Delays Graft Hearing
28 September 2010
Pakistan's Supreme Court Delays Graft Case Threat to Zardari's Government, Bloomberg, 28 September 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistan's Supreme Court postponed a hearing on corruption cases facing President Asif Ali Zardari and thousands of current or former officials, delaying the latest challenge to Zardari's administration. The court accepted a government appeal and set Oct. 13 to hear a case in which judges last year ordered the scrapping...
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Pakistani Militants "Hijacking" Kashmir Cause: Separatists
28 September 2010
Pakistani Militants "Hijacking" Kashmir Cause, BBC News, 28 September 2010
EXCERPT: "The Kashmiri separatist Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) has criticised Pakistani militants for 'hijacking' its cause. The JKLF - which wants Kashmir to be independent of Pakistan and India - said that they were 'subverting the indigenous movement'. Its strongest criticism was for the Jamaat-ud Dawa (JD) charity. Experts...
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Rogue Pakistani Officers Involved in Mumbai Attacks: Journalist
28 September 2010
Woodward Book: "Rogue Pakistani Officers Were Involved in Mumbai Attack", Telegraph, 28 September 2010
EXCERPT: "According to Bob Woodward, the Washington Post reporter who broke the Watergate scandal, General Shuja Pasha, head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, admitted to his CIA counterpart Mike Hayden that 'rogue' elements linked to the army had been involved. President Bush had...
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Qaeda's Operations Chief for Afghanistan, Pakistan Killed in Drone Attack
28 September 2010
, AFP, 28 September 2010
EXCERPT: "Al-Qaeda's operational chief for Afghanistan and Pakistan has been killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan's lawless tribal border areas, Pakistani security officials said Tuesday. A covert American drone campaign has this month ramped up attacks on Al-Qaeda and Taliban operatives in the region as part of efforts to bring an end to a...
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Drone Strikes Stepped Up to Foil Terror Plot in Europe
28 September 2010
Drones Target Terror Plot, The Wall Street Journal, 27 September 2010
EXCERPT: "In an effort to foil a suspected terrorist plot against European targets, the Central Intelligence Agency has ramped up missile strikes against militants in Pakistan's tribal regions, current and former officials say. The strikes, launched from unmanned drone aircraft, represent a rare use of the CIA's drone campaign to preempt a possible...
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