Three Wounded in Peshawar Attack on Minister for Agriculture
09 May 2011
Three people were injured when an explosive device went off outside the residence of Minister for Agriculture Arbab Ayub Jan here in Tarnab farm area on Sunday with police saying that the bomb was planted to harm the minister. The Chamkani police said that the injured also included a close relative of the minister, who was identified as Arbab Inam and his two friends Arshad and Shakeel. They said that the three friends were coming out of the minister`s...
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Pakistan Leaks CIA Officer’s Name as PM Responds to Criticism in Address to Parliament
09 May 2011
For the second time in five months, the Pakistani authorities have angered the Central Intelligence Agency by tipping the Pakistani news media to the identity of the C.I.A. station chief in Islamabad, a deliberate effort to complicate the work of the American spy agency in the aftermath of the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden, American officials said. The leak demonstrated the tilt toward a near adversarial relationship between the C.I.A. and the...
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Pakistan: Violence vs. Stability - Net Assessment: Report
09 May 2011
As the events surrounding the death of Osama Bin Laden make all too clear, Pakistan is passing through one of the most dangerous periods of instability in its history. This instability goes far beyond Al Qa’ida, the Taliban, and the war in Afghanistan. A net assessment of the patterns of violence and stability indicate that Pakistan is approaching a perfect storm of threats, including rising extremism, a failing economy, chronic underdevelopment,...
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