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Osama Bin Laden Believed Dead By Pak Intel: Zardari

AP | NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 05.28.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's president said Monday his intelligence agencies believe Osama bin Laden may be dead, but he added there is no proof. Othe...

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Gordon Brown 'Snubbed' By Pakistan President Zardari

Times Online | Posted 05.28.2009 | World

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Gordon Brown received an apparent snub today as he arrived in Pakistan for talks with President Zardari only to be told that he was not available to a...

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Pakistan: Who's To Blame?

Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

Read More: Islamabad, Pakistani Nuclear Weapons, Terrorism, Pakistan, Mullah Omar, Swat Valley, Asif Ali Zardari, Hillary Clinton, Taliban, Buner, Osama Bin Laden, World News
Jamal Dajani

US attacks on tribal areas in Pakistan have done nothing to reduce the Taliban's influence, but rather have backfired and strengthened it politically.

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Clinton Attacks Pakistan For Bending To Taliban

New York Times | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sharply rebuked the government of Pakistan on Wednesday, accusing the country's leaders of surrendering larg...

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A Primer on Pakistan: Why It Matters

Rob Asghar | Posted 05.17.2009 | World

Read More: Pakistan Opposition, Obama Pakistan Policy, Pakistan Democracy, Pakistan, Pakistan Us Relations, Bhutto, Asif Ali Zardari, Pervez Musharraf, World News
Rob Asghar

The biggest reason that Pakistan is relevant is because it has somewhere between 50 and 90 nukes, and the powerful army has many leaders who sympathize with the Taliban

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Pakistan: US Drone Attacks Weaken Government's Hold

Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 05.16.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON, Apr 15 (IPS) - The U.S. programme of drone aircraft strikes against higher-ranking officials of al Qaeda and allied militant organisati...

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Pakistan-Taliban Truce Will Have 'Horrible Impacts' On Afghanistan: Karzai Spokesman

Quqnoos | Posted 05.16.2009 | World

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Afghan government terms the peace pact with the Pakistani Taliban reinforcement to the Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan Afghan President's Spoke...

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Zardari Agrees To Sharia Rule In Swat Valley

Al Jazeera | Posted 05.14.2009 | World

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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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Pakistani Pro-Taliban Cleric Pulls Out Of Peace Deal In Swat Valley

CNN | Posted 05.10.2009 | World

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Pro-Taliban cleric Sufi Mohammad has announced he has pulled out of a peace deal in the violence-plagued Swat Valley, saying the government is not ser...

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Pakistani Police A Growing Target For Militants

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

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The militant attack on a Pakistani police academy Monday in Lahore, compounded with militants' attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team earlier this mont...

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White House Not Ruling Out Troops In Pakistan

Wired | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

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President Obama has just laid out his new war strategy. And he's made it clear that the fight is both in Afghanistan and Pakistan. So I asked Dennis M...

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Obama's Afghanistan Policy Sneak Peak: Ambinder

Marc Ambinder | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics

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President Barack Obama's new posture toward Afghanistan and Pakistan, to be unveiled tomorrow, codifies for the first time Iran's role in regional dip...

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Balancing the Equation: AfPak Security at the Expense of Governmental Stability

Vikrum Aiyer | Posted 04.25.2009 | World

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Vikrum Aiyer

Two tactics that Administration officials are entertaining in the region strongly beg the question as to whether Obama is placing a premium on security, at the expense of government stability.

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Pakistan Celebrates Restoration Of Chief Justice

New York Times | Posted 04.16.2009 | World

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It was a day of rejoicing, of drum playing, and of smiling at strangers. Pakistan's chief justice had just been reinstated after a two-year struggle, ...

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Zardari's Weakness Exposed By Pakistan Riots

Financial Times | Posted 04.16.2009 | World

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Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary's return as chief justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court, two years after his dismissal by Pervez Musharraf, the then militar...

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Pakistan Police Arrest Long March Activists

GroundReport | Posted 04.13.2009 | World

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GroundReport

Originally published on GroundReport.com, the global citizen reporting platform. By Imran Schah Islamabad, Pakistan- Police have started to crack d...

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Pakistan Marches, Crackdown Threaten Regional Stability

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.13.2009 | World

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The political and popular strife in Pakistan continues to escalate as police and government security officials attempt to stymie the rising tide of an...

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Zardari-Sharif Deal: Media Rife With Rumors

IBN | Posted 04.12.2009 | World

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Defiant lawyers hit the streets of Pakistan on Thursday, kicking off their Long March in the Punjab province. The march mirrors the protests by lawyer...

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Pakistan: Free Detained Opposition Activists

Human Rights Watch | Posted 04.12.2009 | World

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Human Rights Watch

The government of Pakistan should end its crackdown against activists of opposition groups led by the Pakistan Muslim League.

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Pakistan Rally Begins Despite Arrests

Al Jazeera English | Posted 04.12.2009 | World

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Hundreds of Pakistani lawyers and activists have started an anti-government march from the city of Karachi, the main city of Sindh province....

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Pakistan: Crackdown On Protests Continues

nytimes.com | JANE PERLEZ | Posted 04.12.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The civilian government has banned a national protest march and arrested hundreds of political workers , evoking for many Pakis...

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Pakistan Bans Protests, Rallies In Lahore Ahead Of Lawyers' March

AFP | Posted 04.10.2009 | World

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The eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Tuesday banned protests and rallies ahead of a planned "long march" by lawyers towards the capital Islamabad, ...

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Karzai Trip May Push Iran To Assist U.S. In Afghanistan

AFP | Posted 04.10.2009 | World

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrived in Iran on Tuesday on a trip that could help seal Tehran's presence at the table for an international meeting ai...

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Pak Army, Opposition Gun For Asif Ali Zardari

ibnlive.in.com | Parrull / CNN | Posted 04.10.2009 | World

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New Delhi: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is facing one crisis after another. Reports on Monday claimed Zardari has been given an ultimatum by ...

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Pakistan's Presidential Putz

Stuart Whatley | Posted 03.29.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, Pakistan Taliban, Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, Bryan Hunt, Taliban, Barack Obama, Pakistan Democracy, Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan Opposition, Benazir Bhutto Assassinated, Pakistan Crisis, Nawaz Sharif, Hillary Clinton, Shahbaz Sharif, World News
Stuart Whatley

The Pakistani government is quickly becoming overwhelmed in an attempt to keep its house in order. Obama and Clinton should demand increased oversight, or at least transparency, as a condition for further aid to the Pakistanis.

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