Pakistan Crisis

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Pakistani Refugees Reach 1.3 Million In Northwest

AP | NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 06.12.2009 | World

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MARDAN, Pakistan — Helicopters dropped Pakistani commandos into a Taliban stronghold in the Swat Valley on Tuesday, pressing ahead with an offen...

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Pakistan Refugees Number In The Hundreds Of Thousands

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 06.08.2009 | World

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MARDAN, Pakistan — Pakistan's army vowed Friday to eliminate militants from a northwestern valley but warned that its under-equipped troops face...

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Gates Seeks Saudi Arabia's Assistance With Pakistan

New York Times | Posted 06.05.2009 | World

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As the Obama administration prepares for talks this week with senior leaders from Afghanistan and Pakistan, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates flew to ...

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Striking the Right Balance: The Utility of Drone Attacks in AfPak

Sam Black | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

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Finding a way to conduct effective tactical counter-terrorism operations without compromising counterinsurgency in Pakistan or Afghanistan should be a U.S. priority.

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Taliban Kidnap Scores Of Pakistani Troops During Pakistani Airstrikes

AP | NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 05.30.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's offensive to push Taliban militants from a district near the capital drew little criticism from local politicians and cle...

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Yemen's Economic Crisis Threatens Volatile Region's Security (PHOTOS)

Diane Tucker | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the Arab world. It faces corruption, malnutrition and water shortages. Its population of 23 million owns over 23 million firearms. It's a witch's brew of potential disaster.

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Kerry: Obama Pakistan Plan 'Not A Real Strategy'

USA Today | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

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Just back from a visit to Pakistan, Sen. John Kerry says the Obama administration's plan for that volatile country, rolled out last month with great f...

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Pakistanis Used As US 'Spies' Get Taliban-Style Punishment When Caught

MSNBC | Posted 05.18.2009 | World

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"I was given $122 to drop chips wrapped in cigarette paper at al-Qaida and Taliban houses," confessed 19-year-old Habibur Rehman, just before the Tali...

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Pakistan Soon To Be Islamist State: US Experts

McClatchy | Posted 05.18.2009 | World

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A growing number of U.S. intelligence, defense and diplomatic officials have concluded that there's little hope of preventing nuclear-armed Pakistan f...

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Taliban Denies Polio Vaccine To 300,000 Children

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

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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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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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Pakistani Casualties In U.S. Drone Strike Rises

AFP | Posted 04.13.2009 | World

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The number killed in a suspected US missile strike in northwest Pakistan rose to 24 on Friday, most of them Taliban militants, according to local offi...

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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's Presidential Putz

Stuart Whatley | Posted 03.29.2009 | World

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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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Terrorism Causes Pakistan's Insurance Industry to Boom

GroundReport | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

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Originally published on GroundReport.com, the citizen journalism platform that covers world news from the ground. By Jamil Bhatti ISLAMABAD-- Escal...

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2009: Another Year of Living Dangerously

Eric Margolis | Posted 01.30.2009 | World

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The proud towers of Wall Street have fallen, disgorging packs of thieves and fraudsters. The mighty US suddenly exposed as the proverbial king without clothes. Uncle Sam is bankrupt.

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India's '9/11' Holds Grim Message for the U.S.

Eric Margolis | Posted 01.05.2009 | World

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India's patience is wearing thin. After a decade of terrorist attacks, it still lacks a well defined target for revenge or a way of preventing them.

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Bombs Rip Through Pakistani Market

BBC News | Posted 01.05.2009 | World

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At least 20 people have been killed and 70 injured in a suspected car bombing in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, police say. The blast ...

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Why the Conservatives Won't Crack-up, But the Left Probably Will

Rupert Russell | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

The conservative Counter-Establishment is the most cast-iron entanglement of alliances and dependencies known in modern American history.

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Pakistan: US Missile Strike Kills 27

AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home

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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Suspected U.S. missiles slammed into two villages close to the Afghan border Friday, killing 27 people including an...

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Pakistan officials: Suspected US strikes kill 19

AP | ISHTIAQ MASHUD | Posted 11.03.2008 | Home

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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Two suspected U.S. missile strikes Friday on villages close to the border with Afghanistan killed at least 19 peopl...

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Senator McCain: One More Such 'Victory' and We're Ruined

Eric Margolis | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

McCain's insistent claims that the US is winning the war in Iraq thanks to his "surge" strategy is the military-political equivalent of the junk securities that Wall Street's shady financiers have been peddling.

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