Three Million People Still Affected by Floods in Sindh
16 November 2010
Pakistan: Sindh Flood Victims "Forgotten", IRIN, 16 November 2010
EXCERPT: "Like tens of thousands of others in the southern province of Sindh, Ghulam Uddin and his family of eight are all but marooned more than 100 days after floodwater started swamping huge chunks of Pakistan in late July. [...] 'I cannot see how we are going to get back to anything resembling normal,' Uddin told IRIN. 'My elderly mother insisted...
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UN Denies Kashmir's Removal from SC Agenda
16 November 2010
UN Denies Kashmir's Removal from SC Agenda, Daily Times, 17 November 2010
EXCERPT: "The Jammu and Kashmir dispute remains on the United Nation Security Council's agenda, a UN spokesman categorically stated on Monday, while rejecting as 'inaccurate', reports that it has been removed from the list of unresolved issues. 'Some articles today on Kashmir are inaccurate,' UN spokesman Farhan Haq said, referring to those reports....
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Drone Strike Destroys Suspected Taliban Training Centre, Kills at Least 20
16 November 2010
Deaths in Pakistan Drone Attack, Al Jazeera, 16 November 2010
EXCERPT: "A US missile strike has destroyed a suspected Taliban training centre in Pakistan's tribal area near the Afghan border, killing at least 20 people. The missiles, launched from drones, struck a fortress-like compound and a vehicle in Ghulam Khan village in North Waziristan early on Tuesday. According to a Pakistani intelligence official in the region, the site...
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