Schools Shut as Fear Drives Teachers Away
26 April 2011
The local school in Wana, the main settlement in Pakistani’s South Waziristan tribal agency, has been closed for several months, and the children only come to play games in the compound. “We have no teacher at the school,” Rida Ali, 8, said. “So we just play or do chores at home.” The teacher who taught them before insecurity shut down schools in the area lives only 1km or so away, but is unwilling to come to work. The...
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Drone Strike Kills 25 in North Waziristan
26 April 2011
Two U.S. pilotless aircraft fired four missiles into a house in Pakistan's North Waziristan region on the Afghan border on Friday killing 25 militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The strike came two days after a visit to Islamabad by Admiral Mike Mullen, the top U.S. military official, in which he expressed concern over links between Pakistani security agents and militants attacking U.S.-led forces across the border in Afghanistan. A...
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Leaked Guantanamo Documents Classify ISI as "Terrorist Support Entity"
26 April 2011
The U.S. military classified Pakistan's top spy agency as a terrorist support entity in 2007 and used association with it as a justification to detain prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, according to leaked documents published on Sunday that are sure to further alienate Pakistan. One document given to The New York Times, say detainees who associated with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate "may have provided support to al-Qaida or the Taliban,...
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Karachi Attack on Navy Officials Kills Four amidst Spate of Taliban Strikes
26 April 2011
Taliban militants attacked two buses carrying navy officials in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi on Tuesday, killing four people and wounding 56, officials said, the first major attack on the military in the city in seven years. Police said the bombs targeting the buses in two different parts of the city exploded simultaneously using remote controlled devices. A junior naval officer and a civilian female doctor were among those killed in the twin...
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