Arrests Made over Mosque Attacks, Govt to Tackle Punjab Militancy
31 May 2010
Arrests Made Over Pakistan Mosque Attacks, Times Online, 31 May 2010
EXCERPT: "Police have arrested seven men over alleged links to the Taleban militants who attacked two mosques in eastern Pakistan on Friday, killing 93 people, including a British businessman. Rehman Malik, Pakistan's Interior Minister, visited one of the two mosques in Lahore and promised to work with local officials to tackle the growing problem of militancy in Punjab...
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Haqqani Network Key to Afghan Peace Talks, Pakistan's Interests: Analysts
31 May 2010
Pakistan Plays Long Game in Afghan Peace Drive, Reuters, 31 May 2010
EXCERPT: "An Afghan assembly touted by President Hamid Karzai as a homse-grown peace initiative is unlikely to produce a blueprint for reconciliation because the drafters do not include regional power Pakistan's Taliban clients. Heavyweights such as Pakistan's key militant asset, the Haqqani group, are not attending the June 2-4 'jirga', although Taliban...
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Govt to Invest in Border Areas to Tackle Militancy
31 May 2010
Pakistan to Invest in Taliban Stronghold to Tackle Militancy, BusinessWeek, 26 May 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistan, which has spent more than $35 billion fighting terrorism since 2001, plans to build roads and hospitals in the Afghan border regions in a bid to stem support for Islamic militants and bolster the local economy. Militancy and regional autonomy meant the government spent less than a fifth of its budget in the first half of this...
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No Consensus on Suicide Attacks among Pakistan's Deobandi Scholars
31 May 2010
The Deobandi Debate Terrorist Tactics in Afghanistan and Pakistan, The Jamestown Foundation // Terrorism Monitor, 28 May 2010
EXCERPT: "Muslim clerics following the Deobandi school of Islamic theology (named after the movement's original seminary in Deoband, India) are now increasingly associated with the Taliban and other allied militant groups in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Though the parent Deobandi seminary in India has distanced...
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Key Taliban Leaders Rumoured Killed in Drone Strikes
31 May 2010
Top Link between Al Qaeda and Taliban Thought Killed in US Predator Strike in Khyber, The Long War Journal, 30 May 2010
EXCERPT: "A Taliban commander who serves as a key link to al Qaeda and who carried out the assassination of a former Pakistani prime minister is said to have been killed in a US predator strike in Khyber in mid-May. The commander, Ebad-ul-Rehman, is thought to have been killed in a May 15 airstrike in the Tirah Valley...
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At Least 80 Killed in Attacks on Minority Sect
28 May 2010
Deaths in Pakistan Mosques Raids, Al Jazeera, 28 May 2010
EXCERPT: "Assailants with guns and grenades have attacked two mosques in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, killing at least 80 people. The co-ordinated assaults on mosques of the minority Ahmadi sect wounded scores more in different residential neighbourhoods of the city shortly after Friday prayers, police said. The armed men, including three suicide bombers, stormed into...
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AfPak "the Epicentre of Violent Extremism": US Report
28 May 2010
Afghanistan, Pakistan Epicentres of Extremism: US, DAWN, 28 May 2010
EXCERPT: "The new US national security strategy, released on Thursday, describes Afghanistan and Pakistan as the epicentre of violent extremism practised by Al Qaeda. [...] 'We must work with others to keep the pressure on Al Qaeda and increase the security and capacity of our partners in this region.' The document notes that within Pakistan, the Obama administration...
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UN "to Seek" End to CIA Drone Raids
28 May 2010
, The New York Times, 28 May 2010
EXCERPT: "A senior United Nations official is expected to call on the United States next week to stop Central Intelligence Agency drone strikes against people suspected of belonging to Al Qaeda, complicating the Obama administration's growing reliance on that tactic in Pakistan. Philip Alston, the United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or...
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Q&A: Terrorism Groups in Pakistan
28 May 2010
, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 27 May 2010
EXCERPT: "Terror groups operating in Pakistan have been linked to numerous attempted attacks in the United States and Europe and, most recently, to the failed bombing in New York's Times Square. Renewed attention on militancy spreading from Pakistan's tribal areas is raising fears that the country's instability threatens Western security. In a Q&A,...
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The Rise and Fall of the Maoist Movement in Pakistan
28 May 2010
[pdf], Institute for South Asian Studies, 26 May 2010
EXCERPT: "During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Maoist ideas gained considerable popularity and influence in left politics and the labour movement, and made an impact on Pakistani mainstream politics, which was out of proportion to its political strength in the overall balance of power. Neither class structure nor the ideological...
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