Intelligence Agencies Warn of Possible TTP Attacks
07 April 2010
TTP Plans to Target Bohri Bazaar?, Daily Times, 7 April 2010
EXCERPT: "Intelligence agencies have warned the government about possible terror attacks in the month of April, while specifying Bohri Bazaar and various other installations located along the MA Jinnah Road - the downtown commercial hub of the city - as potential targets, according to some reports. Sources privy to the matter said on an information report received from intelligence...
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Kashmiri Separatists Feud for Supremacy
07 April 2010
Kashmiri Separatists Feud for Supremacy, The National, 1 April 2010
EXCERPT: "The Kashmiri separatist leadership is in disarray and an ongoing struggle for supremacy between factions turned uglier last month when the supporters of at least two of the major players clashed on the streets of Sopore town. The developments come amid speculation that Saudi Arabia could assume the role of mediator between India and Pakistan, including the dispute...
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Unofficial Healthcare Discrimination against Bengalis
07 April 2010
Unofficial Healthcare Discrimination against Bengalis, IRIN News, 7 April 2010
EXCERPT: "All housemaid Shehr Bano needed to survive the late stages of Hepatitis B was good palliative care. But despite having an official Pakistani national identity card (NIC), her Bengali origin and meagre income meant she could not get treatment and she died in August 2009. Her husband and children are all Hepatitis positive but have no means of getting...
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IDP Malnutrition Strikes First Along Gender Lines
07 April 2010
Last in Line for Food, IRIN News, 5 April 2010
EXCERPT: "'We girls and our mothers eat last, after my four brothers, cousin and our fathers have finished. Sometimes there is almost nothing left to eat - but we are used to this,' Nasreena Bibi, 12, from northwestern Pakistan's Bajaur tribal agency, told IRIN. Her family has been based since early 2009 with an uncle in the town of Kohat, in North West Frontier Province (NWFP),...
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Short-Sighted Policies Hinder US Goals: Report
07 April 2010
[pdf], Refugees International via the Human Security Gateway, 5 April 2010
EXCERPT: "Military operations in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) continue to displace thousands of civilians. The role of the Pakistani military in the humanitarian response as well as allegations of human rights abuses in its counterinsurgency operations, have yet to be scrutinized, particularly...
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