30 June 2010

Reconciliation Efforts with Afghan Militants Face Major Obstacle, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2010

EXCERPT: "Prospects for an effort by Pakistan to broker a reconciliation between the government of neighboring Afghanistan and a violent wing of the Afghan Taliban depend on overcoming a major obstacle: severing long-standing relations between the militant group and Al Qaeda.Experts say both Pakistan and Afghanistan realize that breaking...

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30 June 2010

Patched Up in Pakistan: Red Cross Hospital Treats Taliban and Children, Spiegel Online, 30 June 2010

EXCERPT: "A Red Cross field hospital in Peshawar specializes in treating victims of the armed conflicts in northwest Pakistan and Afghanistan. The doctors don't ask which side their patients are on. For them, they are all victims. [...] Since April 2009, the ICRC has been running the field hospital, which was set up to treat victims...

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30 June 2010

Kashmir Police Investigate Indian Soldiers Accused of Murdering Civilians, Guardian, 29 June 2010

EXCERPT: "Police in Kashmir are investigating a series of incidents in which Indian soldiers are accused of killing civilians who they subsequently claimed were Islamic militants. In one case, exposed this month, three labourers were allegedly murdered in an attempt to boost the combat record of an Indian army unit whose members were then able...

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30 June 2010

Afghanistan-Pakistan and Central Asia, Institut f?r Strategie-Politik-Sicherheits-und Wirtschaftsberatung via the Human Security Gateway, 18 June 2010

EXCERPT: "With the US-led West getting about to withdraw from Afghanistan - the real upsurge for the crucial region historically known as the Between and Betwixt of Empires is about to begin in earnest. This will be a confluence - a perfect storm - of the revival and resurrection of historic...

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30 June 2010

, The New York Times, 29 June 2010

EXCERPT: "Eight militants, including an Egyptian allied with Al Qaeda, were killed Tuesday in what residents and a Pakistani security official said was a United States drone strike in the South Waziristan tribal area near this country's Afghan border. [...] Tuesday's attack was the second within a few weeks in South Waziristan after a lull that lasted months....

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29 June 2010

Pakistan Role Needed in Afghan Reconciliation Process: Petraeus, The Hindustan Times, 29 June 2010

EXCERPT: "US President Barack Obama's new war commander in Afghanistan, Gen David Petraeus, told lawmakers on Tuesday that Pakistan's involvement would be 'essential' if any reconciliation pact was agreed upon in the war-torn country. Petraeus, who spoke at his nomination hearing, spoke to Afghan President Hamid Karzai...

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29 June 2010

[pdf], Atlantic Council, June 2010

EXCERPT: "Perhaps no bilateral relationship in the world matches that of the United States and Pakistan when it comes to its combustible combination of strategic importance and perilous instability. For that reason, the Atlantic Council has made it a priority to track closely the Obama administration's considerable and often admirable efforts...

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29 June 2010

Pakistan May Transfer Captured Taliban Commander to Afghanistan, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 29 June 2010

EXCERPT: "A spokesman for Afghan President Hamid Karzai says Pakistan may extradite a captured top Taliban commander to Afghanistan, RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal reports. Spokesman Hamid Elmi said that Afghan and Pakistani officials have discussed the fate of the commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, and that Pakistani authorities...

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29 June 2010

Deadly Clashes Continue in Kashmir, Al Jazeera, 29 June 2010

EXCERPT: "At least 10 people have reportedly been killed in clashes in Indian-controlled Kashmir, despite the deployment of thousands of troops in an attempt to bring recent violence in the territory under control. Two of the dead were civilians killed after troops fired on a protest against Indian rule in the town of Anantnag, 55km south of the main city of Srinagar. [...]...

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29 June 2010

Taliban Planning Massive Strike in Peshawar, Warns Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister, Sify News, 28 June 2010

EXCERPT: "The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is reorganising itself around Peshawar and planning a major terror strike on the provincial capital, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain has warned. Speaking during a press conference here, Hussain said there are reports that militants were reorganising...

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