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Pakistan Reclaims Stronghold From Taliban

AP | ZARAR KHAN | Posted 06.20.2009 | World

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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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Pakistani Clerics Support Government Anti-Taliban Offensive

McClatchy | Posted 06.20.2009 | World

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Pakistani religious leaders and scholars Tuesday issued a strong denunciation of the tactics of Taliban militants, providing what could be major boost...

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Pakistan Denies Agreement With U.S. On Drones

Reuters | Posted 06.15.2009 | World

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Pakistan denied on Friday that it had an agreement with the United States under which it could request that Washington send surveillance drones over p...

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Pakistani Women Protest Taliban But Support Islamic Law (VIDEO)

Link TV - Global Pulse | Evelyn Messinger | Posted 06.14.2009 | World

Evelyn Messinger | Link TV - Global Pulse In February, the now-famous video of a young woman being flogged by Taliban brought women in cities across...

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Pakistan Cracking Down On Banned Charity

Posted 06.14.2009 | World

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By Andrew Buncombe and Omar Waraich | The Independent Pakistani authorities have ordered a fresh crackdown on a banned charity linked to militants b...

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Jamaat-ud-Dawa: Banned Group Helping Pakistani Refugees

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 06.14.2009 | World

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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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Pakistani President Zardari: Nukes Are Safe

AP | PAISLEY DODDS | Posted 06.13.2009 | World

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LONDON — Pakistan's president on Wednesday brushed aside warnings that country's nuclear arsenal was in jeopardy because of mounting instability...

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Taliban, Swat Outlook 'Pretty Bleak' For Pakistani Army

Financial Times | Posted 06.13.2009 | World

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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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Pakistan Taliban Stronghold Raid Kills 750 Militants, Leaves 800,000 Homeless

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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Pakistani President Zardari Absence Drawing Fire

FT | Posted 06.12.2009 | World

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The absence of Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari from his country at a time when military operations against the Taliban have triggered the bigges...

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Young Pakistani Army Officers May Be Defecting To Taliban: CQ

CQ | Posted 06.12.2009 | World

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A retired Pakistani general confided a deep worry to a friend in Washington last week: that some young officers in Pakistan's regular army have become...

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Pakistanis Prioritize Economy Over Terrorism: Poll

New York Times | Posted 06.11.2009 | World

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As the Pakistani military pressed its campaign to root out Taliban militants from three districts northwest of the capital, a new poll showed that an ...

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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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Obama Pakistan Strategy Must Be Different From Afghanistan: Analysis

True Slant | Posted 06.07.2009 | World

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Is the White House right to support the Pakistani army's fight against militias on the Afghan border? Or should President Obama encourage fewer helico...

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A Rock and Roll Jihad for the Soul of Pakistan

Rob Asghar | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

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Sufi music represents spiritual kryptonite to the Taliban -- and it offers a fresh but ancient face of Islam to a West that is wary of invading hordes.

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Pakistan's 'Existential Threat' Comes From Within: CFR Interview

CFR | Bernard Gwertzman | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

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Interviewee: Bruce O. Riedel, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution Interviewer: Bernard Gwert...

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Pakistan Attacks Taliban Militants Ahead Of Washington Talks

AP | ZARAR KHAN and CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

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TAKHT BAI, Pakistan — Pakistan launched air and ground attacks against up to 7,000 Taliban militants entrenched in a northwestern valley Wednesd...

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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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Return of the "Mad Mullah"

Eric Margolis | Posted 06.05.2009 | World

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Pakistan has a long way to go before becoming an Islamic republic on the Iranian model. But Pakistan is certainly headed into very dangerous waters.

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Pakistani Taliban Scoffs At US Strategy But Admits Drones' Effectiveness

New York Times | Posted 06.05.2009 | World

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President Obama is pouring more than 20,000 new troops into Afghanistan this year for a fighting season that the United States military has called a ...

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

Sam Black | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: Polls, US Drone Missiles, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan Taliban, Pakistan, Drones, Afghanistan War, David Kilcullen, Counterterrorism, Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistan Crisis, Pakistan Drone Attacks, Taliban Pakistan, Us Troops Afghanistan, Counterinsurgency, World News

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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Admiral Mullen: Pakistan Nukes Are Secure, I'm 'Gravely Concerned' About Taliban

AP | MATTHEW LEE and LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will seek assurances this week from Pakistani President Asif Ali Zadari that his country's nuclear arsenal i...

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Pakistan-Taliban Fighting Threatens Fragile Peace Deal

AP | ASIF SHAHZAD | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

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PESHAWAR — A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a vehicle carrying paramilitary forces in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, kill...

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Building Capacity Not Resentment in Pakistan

Taha Gaya | Posted 06.01.2009 | World

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The U.S. must recognize that while drone attacks may be effective in eliminating high-value targets, they undermine the larger U.S. strategy of winning Pakistani hearts and minds.

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Baitullah Mehsud: One of the World's Most Influential Men, Dead Or Alive

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 06.01.2009 | World

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For a while in 2008, international intelligence agencies thought Baitullah Mehsud was dead. Like his cousin-in-arms, Osama bin Laden, Mehsud suffers f...

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