Pakistan Drone Strikes: the CIA's Secret War
22 December 2010
Pakistan Drone Strikes: the CIA's Secret War, Channel 4 News, 22 December 2010
EXCERPT: "In the last 12 months there have been at least 113 attacks by secret US drones in Pakistan's mountainous Waziristan region. It is double the number of strikes in 2009, which itself saw a dramatic spike, bringing the total number of attacks under President Obama to an estimated figure of 166. That marks an increase of nearly 300 per cent compared...
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US Review Casts Blame on Pakistan: Pakistani Official
22 December 2010
, Time, 22 December 2010
EXCERPT: "For Pakistanis, the phrasing may have been delicate but the message of the Obama Administration's Afghanistan-Pakistan review was clear: Washington is not satisfied with Pakistan's efforts against al-Qaeda militants hiding in the Tribal Areas, or its failure to deny the Afghan insurgency sanctuaries on its side of the border. The five-page summary of the...
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Journalists Working in Conflict Areas Need Better Protection: UNESCO
22 December 2010
Journalists working in conflict areas need better protection, UN agency stresses, UN News Centre, 22 December 2010
EXCERPT: "The United Nations agency mandated to defend freedom of expression and press freedom today called for improved safety for journalists and other media professionals working in areas of conflict or social unrest so they can carry out their duties. The call follows the publication last week of year-end analysis...
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Two Police Officers Arrested in Bhutto Case
22 December 2010
, AFP, 22 December 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistani police on Wednesday arrested two senior police officers for alleged dereliction of duty over the 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, a prosecutor said. Bhutto was assassinated almost exactly three years ago in a gun and suicide attack after addressing an election campaign rally in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, near the...
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