Under Pressure, Al-Qaeda May Seek to Exploit India-Pakistan Tensions: Analyst
29 October 2010
Al-Qaeda Exploits Kashmir Conflict to Expand Operations to India, The Jamestown Foundation // Global Terrorism Analysis, 28 October 2010
EXCERPT: "It appears increasingly clear that al-Qaeda is intent on striking in India. In fact, the organization provided assistance in the 2008 Mumbai attacks and may already have been connected to bomb strikes this year. India has remained largely untouched by al-Qaeda directed violence, but the nation...
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Millions at Risk as Flood Crisis Funds Dry Up: Aid Agencies
29 October 2010
, AFP, 29 October 2010
EXCERPT: "International aid agency Oxfam warned Friday that three months into Pakistan's unprecedented flood crisis funds were drying up, putting millions at risk with swathes of farmland still under water. The stark warning came as the United Nations refugee agency said thousands of people displaced by the floods were likely to spend the winter in camps....
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Uncertainty Grows over N. Waziristan Operation; Civilians Dread Possible Displacement
29 October 2010
In Pakistan, Uncertainty Grows Over North Waziristan Operation, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 29 October 2010
EXCERPT: "The United States has wanted a ground operation because North Waziristan is the base of the notorious Haqqani network - which Washington considers the primary Taliban faction orchestrating terror attacks in Afghanistan today. But if the signals from Washington and Islamabad seemed to suggest that operation might...
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Extremists Aim to "Convert the War on Terror into a Sectarian War": Official
29 October 2010
, The Washington Post, 29 October 2010
EXCERPT: "Across Pakistan, religious institutions are on high alert after a deadly attack Monday at the Baba Farid shrine in Pakpattan, in the eastern province of Punjab, where explosives hidden in milk canisters attached to a motorcycle killed seven people and injured 14. It was the latest assault, authorities said, in a terrorist...
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Unfair Governance System Drives Disaffected, Young Men to Militant Groups: Analysts
28 October 2010
Feature: Pakistan Government Leaves Villages Wallowing in Neglect, Reuters, 28 October 2010
EXCERPT: "Less than a kilometer from the sprawling residential complex of Pakistan's prime minister, villagers have to scrabble for firewood in the dirt if they want a cooked meal. Noor Pur Shahan is typical of many villages in the country, where supplies of cooking gas, clean water, electricity, classrooms, and also hope for the future,...
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Pakistan Must Crack Down on Insurgent Havens: Afghanistan
28 October 2010
Afghans Blast Pakistan over Insurgent Fight, The Wall Street Journal, 27 October 2010
EXCERPT: "Senior Afghan officials pressed the U.S. at a closed-door strategy session to force Pakistan to crack down on insurgents on its territory, saying recent military gains will be short-lived as long as these havens remain across the border. 'If we do not get rid of them, we're just wasting time, lives and money,' Afghan national security...
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28 October 2010
Pakistani Criminal Justice System Proves No Match for Terrorism Cases, Los Angeles Times, 28 October 2010
EXCERPT: "A country pummeled by a continual barrage of suicide bombings, assassinations and militant ambushes needs a well-oiled criminal justice system that keeps terrorists off the streets after they're nabbed and sends a signal that extremists cannot supplant law and order. Instead, the message Pakistanis get is that when...
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Taliban-Turi Peace Talks May Give Militants Access to Strategic Border Areas
28 October 2010
Taliban in Peace Talks with Pakistani Tribe, Reuters, 28 October 2010
EXCERPT: "The Taliban are negotiating a peace deal with a Pakistani tribe in the northwest, tribal elders said on Thursday, that could give militants access to remote strategic areas on the Afghan border. The talk of a deal between members of the Haqqani network - one of the most dangerous Taliban factions - and the Turi tribe in the Kurram region is likely to...
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Army Blockades Anti-Taliban Tribe in Kurram over "Internal Security Concerns"
27 October 2010
Pakistan Army Blockades Anti-Taliban Tribe in Kurram, BBC News, 26 October 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistan's military has blockaded a strategically important district in the country's north, sealing in a fiercely anti-Taliban tribe. The Turi people have been keeping Taliban militants out of Kurram tribal district, near the Afghan border. Many in Kurram suspect the government is pressurising the Turis to meet Taliban demands to cross...
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Drone Strikes Kill up to Six in North Waziristan: Officials
27 October 2010
, AFP, 27 October 2010
EXCERPT: "US drone strikes killed up to six militants in Pakistan's tribal belt on Wednesday, targeting the extremist Haqqani network and a compound harbouring foreign fighters, officials said. The Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked faction is one of the toughest opponents of US troops in Afghanistan and was suspected of playing a role in a December 30 suicide...
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