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Pakistan Taliban Exploit Class Rifts To Gain Power

New York Times | JANE PERLEZ and PIR ZUBAIR SHAH | Posted 05.18.2009 | World

Read More: Peshawar, Pakistan Islamists, Islamic Law, Pakistan Taliban, Pakistan, Swat Valley, Pakistan Islamic Law, Peshawar Pakistan, Taliban, Pakistan-Swat-Valley, Islamists, World News

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- The Taliban have advanced deeper into Pakistan by engineering a class revolt that exploits profound fissures between a small gro...

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Pakistan Soon To Be Islamist State: US Experts

McClatchy | Posted 05.18.2009 | World

Read More: Pakistan Uprising, Intelligence Officials, Pakistan Opposition, Afghanistan, Foreign Affairs, Pakistan, Pakistan Crisis, Pakistan Islamists, Taliban, Islamist Militants, Islamists, Pakistan State of Emergency, Advocacy, World News

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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Mullah Omar Calls For A Taliban Surge

New York Times | Robert Mackey | Posted 04.06.2009 | World

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In spirit, the attack on the Pashtun poet's shrine in Pakistan seems to echo one of the Afghan Taliban's most infamous acts of cultural cleansing: the...

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Support for Musharraf Collapses At Home And Abroad

Washington Post | John Ward Anderson and Robin Wright | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan Opposition, Pakistan, Pakistani Elections, Musharraf Support, Pervez Musharraf, Islamic Radicals, Pakistan Islamists, Pakistan Insurgents, Pakistani Terrorists, Pakistan Democracy, Politics News

As critical elections in Pakistan approach, President Pervez Musharraf is increasingly losing support from major constituencies, including his traditi...

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