Pakistan Opposition

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A Deadly October In Pakistan Amid South Waziristan Operation

Maria Tirmizi | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

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Panic-stricken text messages are making the rounds, warning friends and family against possible future target areas.

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Pakistan: 42 Militants Killed In Anti-Taliban Assault

AP | ASIF SHAHZAD | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan pressed an offensive deeper into Taliban territory along the Afghan border Tuesday, claiming to have killed 42 militants in...

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Pakistan's Security Crisis and Political Limitations

Saad Khan | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

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Pakistani people have grown weary of the ever-changing policies of government parties. They are the direct victims of suicide bombings and extremism and want a stern action against the Taliban.

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Attacks demonstrate Taliban resurgence in Pakistan

AP | RAVI NESSMAN | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — A week of terror strikes across Pakistan, capped by a stunning assault on army headquarters, show the Taliban have rebounded and app...

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Pakistan nabs last attacker, ends siege of army HQ

AP | MOHAMMAD YUSUF | Posted 10.11.2009 | World

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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Pakistan's army says commandos have caught the last militant who attacked its headquarters and took dozens of hostages. ...

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Musharraf Admits Secret Deal With Taliban Backfired

ANI | Posted 11.29.2009 | World

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LAHORE: Ex-Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf has admitted that his government's secret agreement with the Taliban had backfired. The Taliban had mi...

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Sharif Acquitted: Pakistani Court Dismisses 1999 Hijacking Charge, Lifts Ban Against Running For Office

AP | RASOOL DAWAR and MUNIR AHMAD | Posted 08.17.2009 | World

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MIR ALI, Pakistan — Pakistani fighter jets flattened a suspected Taliban hide-out in the northwest early Saturday, killing six associates of a t...

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Pakistan Taliban Back Out Of N Waziristan Peace Deal

Dawn | Posted 07.31.2009 | World

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Clashes between security forces and militants intensified in North Waziristan on Monday and the Taliban scrapped a peace deal they had signed with the...

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Role Of Pakistan's Taliban Offensive In Afghan War May Be Overstated: Analysis

AFP | Posted 07.23.2009 | World

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Pakistan's offensive against Taleban militants has won praise from Washington but may bring little benefit to US forces in neighboring Afghanistan, ex...

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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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Secretary Doomsday and the Empathy Gap

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 06.07.2009 | World

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If Obama suspended the Bush-era drone war, it would represent a start down a different path, one not already strewn with the skeletons of failed policies.

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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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A Primer on Pakistan: Why It Matters

Rob Asghar | Posted 05.17.2009 | World

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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 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 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: 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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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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Alamzeb Khan, Pakistan Nationalist Politician, Assassinated In Peshawar

GroundReport | Posted 03.14.2009 | World

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Published by GroundReport.com, the global citizen media platform covering world news from the ground up. by Shah Zaman Khan PESHAWAR-- Pakistan Na...

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No. 3 Taliban Leader, Omer Khalid, Killed in Pakistan: Security Forces

GroundReport | Posted 02.21.2009 | World

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Originally published on GroundReport.com, the citizen journalism platform that covers world news from the ground. By Alam Zeb Days after a visit by...

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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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How Deeply is the U.S. involved in the Afghan Drug Trade?

Eric Margolis | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

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Special for the Huffington Post By Eric Margolis October 15, 2008 Afghanistan is in a `downward spiral,' the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of S...

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