Drone Strike Kills 5 in South Waziristan
08 March 2011
"Unmanned US Predators struck inside Pakistan's tribal areas for the first time in 11 days. Today's strike killed five 'militants' in the tribal agency of South Waziristan. The Predators or the more heavily armed Reapers fired two missiles at a compound in the village of Landidog about 12 miles west of Wana, the main town in South Waziristan. The compound is owned by 'a local tribesman named as Fazal Karam', Dawn reported. A Pakistani intelligence...
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The Launches New Website
08 March 2011
The launched a new website to host the popular Afghanistan Conflict Monitor and Pakistan Conflict Monitor:
conflictmonitors.org
Building on our strengths—providing busy policy-makers, researchers, and professionals with high quality research and analysis from diverse perspectives—the new Conflict Monitors deliver many improvements:
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Interactive charts and maps illustrating...
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Pakistan Military Maintains Strong Presence in KP and FATA: Report
08 March 2011
"Pakistan continues to deploy significant number of its military and security personnel in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) though unprecedented flooding last summer increased pressure on Islamabad to maintain domestic security and stability, says the Military Balance 2011 report launched Tuesday by the International Institute for Strategic Studies.The report said the Pakistani Army now has a presence in...
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Bomb Attack Kills Dozens at Gas Station in Faisalabad
08 March 2011
"A car bomb exploded near an office of the country’s premier intelligence agency in eastern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 24 people and wounding more than 132, the police and emergency officials said. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. Ahsanullah Ahsan, a Taliban spokesman, said the target was an office of the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, the main intelligence agency, located in the eastern city...
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New Campaign Warns of "Education Emergency" in Pakistan
08 March 2011
"With millions of children out of school and one-fifth of teachers playing truant, Pakistan faces an 'education emergency' that costs the economic equivalent of its flood disaster every year, a new campaign has warned. The March for Education campaign, launched with British government backing, deploys stark statistics to draw a picture of a chronically ill system. One in 10 of the world's out-of-school children live in Pakistan, a nuclear-armed state...
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