Security Officials Arrest Former Navy Commando in Connection with Attack on Naval Base
30 May 2011
Pakistani security officials have detained a former navy commando and his brother in connection with last week’s militant attack on a naval air base, intelligence officials and relatives said on Monday. The brazen assault on the PNS Mehran base in Karachi, the headquarters of Pakistan’s naval air wing, embarrassed the military and raised doubts about its ability to protect its bases after a similar raid on the army headquarters in the...
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Militancy in Khyber Agency: Backgrounder
30 May 2011
The Khyber Agency in Pakistan has emerged in recent times as a centre of sectarian conflict - partially as a result of the spillover of deep-rooted differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims in the nearby Kurram Agency and partially as a reaction to efforts by hardline Sunni groups to establish their writ in the area. One of seven tribal agencies located along the Pakistan-Afghan border, the strategically significant Khyber Agency offers easy access...
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Authorities Warn Aid Agencies to Prepare for Mass Displacement as Military Plans N. Waziristan Offensive
30 May 2011
Humanitarian agencies active in Pakistan's northwest have been quietly told to prepare for up to 365,000 displaced people in advance of a military offensive against North Waziristan, a senior official with an international humanitarian agency said Monday. The official, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject, was responding to a media report in a local newspaper that Pakistan will launch a military offensive against al Qaeda...
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