TTP Leader Alive: ISI
29 April 2010
Pakistan Taliban Chief Hakimullah Mehsud Is Alive, Says Spy Agency, The Guardian, 28 April 2010
EXCERPT: "The Taliban leader in Pakistan, Hakimullah Mehsud, survived an American drone strike in January and is alive and well, a senior official with Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence agency told the Guardian today. Mehsud was reported to have died in a CIA drone strike in South Waziristan in January but, although Pakistan's...
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Pakistan Thins Indian Border Defense to Battle Insurgency: Pentagon
29 April 2010
Pakistan Moves 100,000 Troops from Border with India: Pentagon, Deccan Herald, 29 April 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistan has moved 100,000 troops from its borders with India, thinning the lines, to bolster its campaign against Taliban and other militants on its restive border with Afghanistan, the Pentagon said on Thursday. The mass shifting of troops is an acknowledgement of the fact that terrorism and internal insurgency were posing more threat...
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Pakistan Fails to Protect Religious Minorities from Violence, Discrimination: Report
29 April 2010
Pakistan - Annual Report 2010, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, 28 April 2010
EXCERPT: "Systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of freedom of religion or belief continue in Pakistan. Religiously discriminatory legislation, such as the anti-Ahmadi laws and blasphemy laws, foster an atmosphere of intolerance. Sectarian and religiously-motivated violence is chronic, and the government has failed to protect...
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Drone Pilots Could Be Tried for "War Crimes": Expert
29 April 2010
, Wired // Danger Room, 28 April 2010
EXCERPT: "The pilots waging America's undeclared drone war in Pakistan could be liable to criminal prosecution for 'war crimes,' a prominent law professor told a Congressional panel Wednesday. Harold Koh, the State Department's top legal adviser, outlined the administration's legal case for the robotic attacks last month....
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