Thousands of 1990s Refugees from Kashmir Still Live in Camps
13 October 2010
, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 October 2010
EXCERPT: "Some 35,000 Kashmiris fled from India-controlled Kashmir during the 1990s to settle in Pakistan, according to government estimates. They traveled difficult terrain and long distances to a country that claimed to speak for the beleaguered Kashmiri people. Years later, however, it has not yet granted citizenship...
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Overview of Main Militant Groups
13 October 2010
PAKISTAN: A Guide to Main Militant Groups, IRIN, 13 October 2010
EXCERPT: "There are at least nine major militant groups in northern Pakistan and the Punjab, battling the Pakistan army, US forces, and each other. Bombings of Sufi shrines in the cities of Karachi and Lahore this year - the hardliners? response to that more moderate tradition within Islam - has added to the toll of violence. Most of the armed groups operating in the Federally...
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Pakistani Army Officials "Wary" of Gen. Petraeus's AfPak Ambitions
13 October 2010
[blog], Foreign Policy // The AfPak Channel, 13 October 2010
EXCERPT: "At the center of today's controversy between Pakistan and the United States stands the man who, along with Admiral Mullen, helped shape what many viewed as an unusual friendship between the two militaries: top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan Gen. David Petraeus. Pakistani military officials, who once revered General Petraeus...
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Pakistanis Support CIA Drone Bombings: Study
13 October 2010
Study: Pakistanis Actually Favor CIA Drone Bombings, AOL News, 13 October 2010
EXCERPT: "Since terrorist groups took over the largely autonomous northwest regions of Pakistan, they've imposed a strict, fundamentalist law, closed all-girls schools and executed those who dared to voice their opposition. 'The Taliban and al-Qaida have turned their back on the Pakistani people,' Williams says. So he went to work with a Pakistani...
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