NATO Blamed for Taliban's Escape
15 April 2010
Pakistan Military Officials Claim NATO Forces Failed to Capture Taliban, Telegraph, 15 April 2010
EXCERPT: "An estimated 700 Taliban fighters are reported to have fled across Pakistan's troubled North West frontier with Afghanistan in recent weeks following the recent military offensive by Pakistan's Armed Forces against Islamist militants. But senior Pakistani officers who commanded the offensive, which has seen the government...
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Senate Agrees to Limit President's Powers, Rename NWFP
15 April 2010
, Asia Times Online, 16 April 2010
EXCERPT: "The move to change the name of restive North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) to Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa - meaning "Khyber side of the land of the Pakhtuns" - to reflect the majority ethnic Pashtun population of the province has stirred a violent backlash that adds another layer to the myriad problems Pakistan faces. More than a dozen people have been killed...
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Taliban, Al-Qaeda Cooperation "At the Highest Limits": Siraj Haqqani
15 April 2010
Taliban Cooperation with Al Qaeda "Is at the Highest Limits": Siraj Haqqani [blog], The Long War Journal, 15 April 2010
EXCERPT: "The top leader of the dangerous Haqqani Network operating in eastern Afghanistan said that al Qaeda fighters are welcome to fight alongside the Taliban, and that his forces control 90 percent of the areas under his command. Siraj Haqqani, the military commander of the deadly Haqqani Network, a Taliban...
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UN Bhutto Murder Report to Be Released Today
15 April 2010
, The Independent, 15 April 2010
EXCERPT: "More than two years after Benazir Bhutto was killed while seeking to make a political comeback, the UN is today due to reveal the findings of a nine-month investigation into the assassination of the former Pakistani prime minister. A three-member commission that investigated her death in a gun and bomb attack in Rawalpindi in December 2007 will...
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