Pakistan to Compensate Families of Drone Strike Victims
29 March 2011
"Pakistan will pay compensation to the families of 39 people who died in a US drone strike on a northwestern tribal area bordering Afghanistan, an official said Saturday. Civilians and police were among those killed when missiles hit a compound in Datta Khel, 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan on March 17. Tribal administration official Asghar Khan told AFP a compensation package was ready for the victims'...
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Taliban Create Cell to Hunt "Spies" Assisting Drone Attacks
29 March 2011
"Elements within the Taliban, based in North Waziristan, have established a separate vigilance cell to hunt down people suspected of providing vital intelligence to guide the United States in its drone campaign. Known as Lashkar-e-Khorasan (LeKh), the group’s only purpose is to identify, capture and execute people allegedly working for what is described as a web of local spies created by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The Lashkar draws...
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13 Frontier Corps Troops Killed by "Accident" in Khyber Agency
29 March 2011
"Thirteen members of the Pakistani Frontier Corps, including a colonel, were killed in an apparent friendly fire incident in a northwestern region infested with al Qaeda and Taliban-linked militants, a top military commander said on Tuesday. The deaths occurred late on Monday during an anti-militant operation by the paramilitary Frontier Corps in Khyber, an ethnic Pashtun tribal region near the Afghan border. Lieutenant-General Asif Yasin Malik,...
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India, Pakistan Agree to Counter-Terrorism Hotline
29 March 2011
"India and Pakistan Tuesday agreed to set up a 'hotline' on terror threats, a day before prime ministers of the two South Asian rivals meet over a cricket World Cup match in their renewed efforts to smooth relations strained by the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India. Home Secretary G.K. Pillai and his Pakistani counterpart Qamar Zaman Chaudhary met for two days in the Indian capital for discussions on counterterrorism measures, drug trade, forged...
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