Govt Activates National Counter Terrorism Authority
05 July 2010
Decision to Activate National Counter Terrorism Authority, Geo TV, 5 July 2010
EXCERPT: "The government has decided to immediately activate the National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta), which was promulgated last year in December to root out terrorism. The decision was taken in a high level meeting on 'national security' presided over by Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani here on Monday. The body was mandated...
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Coordinated Suicide Attacks Kill At Least 42 in Lahore
05 July 2010
Suicide Bombers Kill Dozens at Pakistan Shrine, The Guardian, 2 July 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistani authorities were under fresh pressure today to deal with the growing number of militant attacks in Punjab after suicide bombers devastated one of the country's most famous Sufi shrines. At least 42 people were killed and 180 wounded on Thursday night when two bombers attacked the Data Ganj Baksh shrine in central Lahore, where thousands...
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Al Qaeda-inspired Terrorism "Biggest Threat" to UK: Report
05 July 2010
[pdf], The Centre for Social Cohesion, July 2010
EXCERPT: "Al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda inspired terrorism remains the biggest threat to the UK's national security. The Security Service estimates that over 2,000 people in the UK pose a terrorist threat and in March 2005 it was estimated that there were up to 200 al-Qaeda trained operatives in the UK. The British-based threat does not only affect...
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Pakistan Army Finds Taliban Tough to Root Out
05 July 2010
, The New York Times, 4 July 2010
EXCERPT: "In an offensive nearly two years old, the Pakistani Army has been fighting Taliban militants in the nation's tribal areas and beyond, and like the United States across the border in Afghanistan, it is finding counterinsurgency warfare tougher, and more costly, than anticipated. Months after declaring victory on several important fronts,...
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