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Pakistan Taliban Leader Sher Muhammad Qasab Arrested

DAWN.COM | Posted 05.25.2011

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ESHAWAR: Pakistan said soldiers Wednesday arrested a third man from a list of most-wanted Taliban commanders in the Swat valley that offered hundreds ...

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Pakistani Forces Arrest Taliban Spokesman In Swat

Reuters | Zeeshan Haider | Posted 05.25.2011

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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) �" Pakistani security forces have arrested the spokesman for the Taliban in the Swat valley, the military said, the first major ...

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Majority Of Pakistan Swat IDPs Back Home

GroundReport | Posted 05.25.2011

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ISLAMABAD: Around 90 per cent displaced people, out of the total, due to the operation in Swat, have so far returned to their homes....

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Pakistan Military Accused Of Summary Executions After Dozens Of Bodies Found

The Guardian | Mark Tran | Posted 05.25.2011

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Pakistan's security forces are under pressure to hold an inquiry after being accused by human rights groups of summarily executing suspected militants...

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Pakistan Anti-Taliban Militias Rise Up After Army Leaves

AP | ELENA BECATOROS | Posted 05.25.2011

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SULTANWAS, Pakistan — Village leaders in a former Taliban stronghold are rebuilding their own militia to protect the area from militants holding...

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In Waiting To Strike Taliban, Pakistan Committed Strategic Blunder

Ahsan Butt | Posted 05.25.2011

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When the Taliban overstepped their bounds, both literally and metaphorically, it led to greater public support for aggressive action, and gave the civilian leadership badly needed political cover to order the latest military operation against the militants.

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Battleground Lahore: Taliban in the City

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011

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Shirin Sadeghi

The insurgents that the Pakistani and U.S. forces are battling are various fronts of poor, largely uneducated men doing what their ancestors have done for centuries: defending the Pashtun way.

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Pakistan Army Vows To Intensify Campaign Against Taliban

Al Jazeera | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Pakistani military claims to have surrounded Mingora, the Swat valley's main city, seeking to wrest the area from Taliban fighters....

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Pakistan Reclaims Stronghold From Taliban

AP | ZARAR KHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistani forces killed 80 militants and drove the Taliban from a major urban stronghold on Wednesday, the army said, as U.S. milita...

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Jamaat-ud-Dawa: Banned Group Helping Pakistani Refugees

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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MARDAN, Pakistan — Members of a charity banned for its alleged links to the Mumbai terror attack have resurfaced in northwestern Pakistan under ...

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Taliban, Swat Outlook 'Pretty Bleak' For Pakistani Army

Financial Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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Pakistan's fight against the Taliban has a limited chance of success because of the army's inexperience and its refusal to accept help from the west, ...

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Swat: Thousands Of Pakistanis Flee Flighting

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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MARDAN, Pakistan — Thousands of Pakistanis skirted burning military trucks Thursday as they fled clashes between Taliban militants and the army ...

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Pakistani Taliban Want Control Beyond Swat: Sharif

The International News | Posted 05.25.2011

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Pakistan's top opposition leader, former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, expressed concern Monday about a controversial peace deal with Islamist militan...

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Taliban Now Has Immunity In Swat Valley: Pakistani Cleric

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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Zardari Agrees To Sharia Rule In Swat Valley

Al Jazeera | Posted 05.25.2011

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Pakistan's president has signed a regulation allowing the Taliban to impose Sharia, or Islamic law, in the country's northwestern Swat valley, a presi...

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Taliban Denies Polio Vaccine To 300,000 Children

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Taliban militants in Pakistan's northern Swat Valley region are preventing UN officials from administering the Polio vaccine to hundreds of thousands ...

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Swat Valley: Taliban Extend Cease-Fire

AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 05.25.2011

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ISLAMABAD — Taliban militants in Pakistan's Swat valley extended a cease-fire Tuesday, strengthening a peace process that Western governments sa...

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Permanent Taliban Cease-Fire In Swat: Pakistan Official

AP | SHERIN ZADA | Posted 05.25.2011

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MINGORA, Pakistan — Pakistan has agreed to an open-ended cease-fire with Taliban militants in the Swat Valley, government officials said Saturda...

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Pakistan: Bomb Kills 28 At Shiite Funeral

AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSHUD | Posted 05.25.2011

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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A suicide bomber blew himself up at a funeral for a slain Shiite leader Friday in northwest Pakistan, killing 30 pe...

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NATO: Pakistan Risks Creating Safe Haven For Extremists

AP | SHERIN ZADA | Posted 05.25.2011

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MINGORA, Pakistan — NATO led a growing chorus of international concern Tuesday by warning that a truce between the government of Pakistan and Ta...

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Taliban Destroy Girls' Education, Pakistan Is Powerless

Inter Press Service | Posted 05.25.2011

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PESHAWAR, Jan 28 (IPS) - "My school was destroyed by (Pakistani) Taliban. I won't be able to go back to it," says Sumaira bibi, a grade 5 student fr...

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