Militants Publicly Slay Tribesman Suspected of Assisting Security Forces
21 April 2011
Masked militants slit the throat of a tribesman in front of hundreds of terrified local residents in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency on Tuesday, sources said. They said that militants picked up Malang Meerak, a small-time vendor, from Meelwat area of Akkakhel and later brought him to Sheen Drang, a public place. They slaughtered him in front of hundreds of local residents, sources added. Sources said that militants forced the locals to witness the public...
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Service Notice
21 April 2011
Please be advised that our offices will be closed Friday, 22 April, 2011 and Monday, 25 April, 2011 due to a statutory holiday in Canada. We will resume publishing the Pakistan Conflict Monitor on Tuesday, 26 April, 2011.
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Internal Displacement: Global Overview of Trends and Developments, 2010 - Pakistan
21 April 2011
Human rights abuses by Taliban insurgents, counter-insurgency operations and local sectarian and tribal conflicts have displaced a total of four million people in Pashtu-dominated Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) since 2008. By December 2010, according to international agencies, the number of IDPs in KPK had fallen to between 840,000 and 980,000 IDPs. Roughly half of them had been displaced during the year....
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Pakistan Army "Rejects Negative US Propaganda"
21 April 2011
Pakistan’s army chief General Ashfaq Kayani vowed to defeat terrorism and rejected the notion of Islamabad “not doing enough” in the anti-Taliban fight, the military said on Thursday. His comments followed remarks by Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, accusing Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency of having ties with Afghan Taliban in Pakistan’s northwest tribal belt. The White...
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Karachi Gambling Den Blast Kills at Least 15
21 April 2011
At least 15 people have been killed in a blast in one of the largest gambling dens in the volatile Pakistani city of Karachi, officials say. Some 30 people are reported to have been wounded in the explosion. Police say the blast was caused by a bomb which rocked an illegal gambling den that officials say is run by a local crime gang. The city, Pakistan's commercial capital, has seen a series of political and ethnic attacks. Criminal gangs are said...
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