After Failing to Spend Enough, US to Ramp Up Aid to Tribal Areas
14 April 2010
, The Associated Press, 14 April 2010
EXCERPT: "The U.S. is spending far less than it wants on developing Pakistan's Taliban-riddled tribal areas, but expects to ramp up its projects there and throughout the country while relying more on Pakistani institutions to handle billions more in aid dollars pledged for the coming years, officials said Wednesday. Of $750 million promised over...
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US, Pakistan Reconcile on North Waziristan Strategy
14 April 2010
, The Washington Post, 14 April 2010
EXCERPT: "To launch a major campaign in North Waziristan this spring, as the Obama administration has proposed, would be impractical and strategically unwise, the Pakistani army says. U.S. officials have expressed frustration about Pakistan's reluctance. But a rare visit to the restricted region by two Washington Post reporters...
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Court Testimony Highlights US, Pakistan Terror Connections
14 April 2010
Zazi Case Sheds Light on US Plot, Pakistan Connections, The Long War Journal, 13 April 2010
EXCERPT: "The continued cooperation of Najibullah Zazi with the investigation into his attempt to carry out terrorist attacks in New York City has led to the arrest of a fourth suspect, a Pakistani citizen, two days ago, and has shed some new light on the details of the case and the specific targets Zazi and his co-conspirators intended to hit....
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Socio-Economic Cost of Terrorism: A Case Study of Pakistan
14 April 2010
Socio-economic Cost of Terrorism: A Case Study of Pakistan, Pakistan Security Research Unit via the Human Security Gateway, 11 April 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistan is facing the menace of terrorism that is eroding the social structure, economic developments and political system. The immediate costs of terrorist acts are loss of human lives, destruction of property and infrastructure and depression of short-term economic activity. Additionally,...
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Analysis of IED Use in Southern Afghanistan and Western Pakistan
14 April 2010
Improvised Explosive Devices in Southern Afghanistan and Western Pakistan, 2002-2009, New America Foundation via the Human Security Gateway, 13 April 2010
EXCERPT: "This study examines the specific attributes of violence observed in the Afghan provinces of Kandahar, Helmand, and Nimroz, and much of the Pakistani province of Balochistan between January 1, 2002, and June 30, 2009, in an effort to understand how the Taliban have sought...
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