Religious Minorities Face Human Rights Abuses and Attacks: Report
07 July 2010
State of the World's Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2010: Asia and Oceania [pdf], Minority Rights Group International, 1 July 2010
EXCERPT: "In the early part of the year, Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi, an organization affiliated with the Taliban, agreed to a ceasefire after the government gave the go-ahead for the imposition of Sharia (Islamic law) in the NWFP's Swat Valley. The ceasefire did not last and, in May 2009, the...
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07 July 2010
[pdf], Congressional Research Service via the Human Security Gateway, 1 June 2010
EXCERPT: "A stable, democratic, prosperous Pakistan actively combating religious militancy is considered vital to U.S. interests. U.S. concerns regarding Pakistan include regional and global terrorism; efforts to stabilize neighboring Afghanistan; nuclear weapons proliferation; the Kashmir problem and Pakistan-India...
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Groups that Create Militias Unacceptable: Interview
07 July 2010
Interview: Groups that Create Militias Are not Acceptable to Pakistan, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 7 July 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistan's ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, says that Islamabad sees the Taliban as a threat to its security, both in Afghanistan and, increasingly, in Pakistan itself. [...] [Q]: There are three Talibans, to judge by media use of the terminology. One is outside Pakistan: the Afghanistan Taliban....
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Intensifying China-Pakistan Ties: Interview
07 July 2010
Intensifying China-Pakistan Ties, Council on Foreign Relations, 7 July 2010
EXCERPT: " [...] while the relationship between the two countries is strong, it's shadowed by Beijing's concerns about Pakistan's security threat and its impact on Chinese investment and personnel in Pakistan, says Andrew Small, an expert on China-Pakistan relations at the German Marshall Fund for the United States. Small adds that China might make...
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Govt Works to Tame Taliban and Nationalist Sympathies in Balochistan
07 July 2010
Pakistan Works to Tame Taliban and Nationalist Sympathies, CNN, 7 July 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistan is taking a page from America's counterinsurgency playbook in trying to win the hearts and the minds of those who might otherwise join Taliban militants or Balochistan nationalists against its military. Balochistan province - Pakistan's largest and one of its most troubled - is home to a nationalist insurgency and an increasingly violent...
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Indian Army Presence Soars amid Deadly Kashmir Protests
07 July 2010
, The Associated Press, 7 July 2010
EXCERPT: "India's regular army patrolled the violence-hit streets of Kashmir to enforce a round-the-clock curfew for the first time in two decades Wednesday after weeks of deadly unrest in the Muslim-majority region. Anti-India protests have grown increasingly strident. Residents accuse government forces of killing at least 15 people in street demonstrations...
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