Under Pressure, Al-Qaeda May Seek to Exploit India-Pakistan Tensions: Analyst
29 October 2010
Al-Qaeda Exploits Kashmir Conflict to Expand Operations to India, The Jamestown Foundation // Global Terrorism Analysis, 28 October 2010
EXCERPT: "It appears increasingly clear that al-Qaeda is intent on striking in India. In fact, the organization provided assistance in the 2008 Mumbai attacks and may already have been connected to bomb strikes this year. India has remained largely untouched by al-Qaeda directed violence, but the nation...
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Millions at Risk as Flood Crisis Funds Dry Up: Aid Agencies
29 October 2010
, AFP, 29 October 2010
EXCERPT: "International aid agency Oxfam warned Friday that three months into Pakistan's unprecedented flood crisis funds were drying up, putting millions at risk with swathes of farmland still under water. The stark warning came as the United Nations refugee agency said thousands of people displaced by the floods were likely to spend the winter in camps....
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Uncertainty Grows over N. Waziristan Operation; Civilians Dread Possible Displacement
29 October 2010
In Pakistan, Uncertainty Grows Over North Waziristan Operation, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 29 October 2010
EXCERPT: "The United States has wanted a ground operation because North Waziristan is the base of the notorious Haqqani network - which Washington considers the primary Taliban faction orchestrating terror attacks in Afghanistan today. But if the signals from Washington and Islamabad seemed to suggest that operation might...
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Extremists Aim to "Convert the War on Terror into a Sectarian War": Official
29 October 2010
, The Washington Post, 29 October 2010
EXCERPT: "Across Pakistan, religious institutions are on high alert after a deadly attack Monday at the Baba Farid shrine in Pakpattan, in the eastern province of Punjab, where explosives hidden in milk canisters attached to a motorcycle killed seven people and injured 14. It was the latest assault, authorities said, in a terrorist...
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