Fighting Between Militants, Tribesmen Forces Migration from Khyber Agency
12 April 2011
"Hundreds of people have left a remote part of northwestern Pakistan's Khyber tribal agency following violent clashes between an Islamic militant group and local tribesmen, RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal reports. Locals told RFE/RL that fighting started in the Tirah Valley over the weekend between members of the Taliban-affiliated Lashkar-e Islam group and Zakha Khel tribesmen. A total of at least 25 people from both sides had been killed in the fighting...
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India, Pakistan Exchange Prisoners in "Show of Goodwill"
12 April 2011
"As the frosty relations between Pakistan and India begin to thaw, the two arch-rivals have started swapping each other’s prisoners languishing in jails for petty offences. In the second high-profile prisoner release in days, India on Monday set free a group of 39 Pakistani prisoners held in India. 'We have received 39 Pakistani prisoners from India,' said Mehboob Hussain, the spokesperson for paramilitary rangers. [...] This show of ‘goodwill’...
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Pakistan Asks US to Reduce CIA Activities, Stop Drone Strikes
12 April 2011
As ISI chief Ahmad Shuja Pasha arrives [in Washington] for talks with CIA Director Leon Panetta, Army Chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has demanded that the 'United States steeply reduce the number of CIA operatives and Special Operations forces working in Pakistan'. In a front page report, the New York Times quoted informed sources in Islamabad as saying on Monday that Gen Kayani had also 'demanded that US put on hold CIA drone strikes aimed at militants...
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