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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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Major Ground Offensive Begins In Pakistan But Few Expect It To Turn The Tide In The War

AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD and NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 10.18.2009 | World

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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani soldiers attacked militant bases in the main al-Qaida and Taliban stronghold along the Afghan border Satu...

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Pakistan's Intelligence Service Supports Taliban, Say Afghans

Telegraph | Dean Nelson, South Asia Editor | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

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The policy adviser to foreign minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta, said the British and American governments were fully aware of the ISI's role but lacked ...

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Afghan War May Shift Focus To Al Qaeda in Pakistan

nytimes.com | PETER BAKER and ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

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President Obama's national security team is moving to reframe its war strategy by emphasizing the campaign against Al Qaeda in Pakistan while arguing ...

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Taliban Widen Afghan Attacks From Base In Pakistan

nytimes.com | ERIC SCHMITT and MARK MAZZETTI | Posted 11.24.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON �" Senior Taliban leaders, showing a surprising level of sophistication and organization, are using their sanctuary in Pakistan to stoke ...

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Sher Muhammad Qasab, Alleged Pakistan Taliban Commander, Arrested

DAWN.COM | Posted 11.16.2009 | World

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ESHAWAR: Pakistan said soldiers Wednesday arrested a third man from a list of most-wanted Taliban commanders in the Swat valley that offered hundreds ...

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Muslim Khan: Taliban Spokeman Arrested By Pakistani Forces in Swat

Reuters | Zeeshan Haider | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) �" Pakistani security forces have arrested the spokesman for the Taliban in the Swat valley, the military said, the first major ...

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Pakistani Forces Kill 35 Militants In Khyber Raids

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Government forces destroyed four militant bases and killed 40 insurgents Tuesday in a new offensive near Pakistan's famed K...

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Pakistani Army Kills 45 Taliban; Border Reopens

AP | ZARAR KHAN | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistani soldiers killed at least 45 Taliban militants in scattered gunbattles across the northwestern Swat Valley after a suicide ...

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Hakimullah, Potential Baitullah Mehsud Successor, Phones AP To Say He's Alive

AP | NAHAL TOOSI and KAY JOHNSON | Posted 09.10.2009 | World

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A barrage of rockets hit a residential area of Pakistan's northwestern Peshawar city in a brazen pre-dawn attack Tuesday, k...

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Pakistan Anti-Taliban Militias Rise Up After Army Leaves

AP | ELENA BECATOROS | Posted 08.30.2009 | World

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SULTANWAS, Pakistan — Village leaders in a former Taliban stronghold are rebuilding their own militia to protect the area from militants holding...

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Sufi Muhammad, Pro-Taliban Cleric Who Brokered Swat Deal, Arrested By Pakistan

AP | ELENA BECATOROS | Posted 08.26.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — Police arrested an influential pro-Taliban cleric on Sunday who had brokered a failed peace deal in northern Pakistan's troubled Swa...

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Pakistan's Homeless Displaced By Fighting "Totally Ignored"

Nosheen Abbas | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

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They can't even provide us a tent, how will they make our houses? What are we expected to go back to?

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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: Civilian Militias Join The Fight Against The Taliban

AP | PAUL ALEXANDER | Posted 07.22.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — Military jets and artillery pounded suspected militant hide-outs in two towns in Pakistan's northwest on Sunday, killing 27 fighters...

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Pakistan Refugee Hosts Stretched To The Limit (IMAGES)

World Vision | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

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* Scroll down for photos By Chris Webster ISLAMABAD -- Poor communities in Pakistan's northwest are hosting up to two million people uprooted by re...

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Pakistan Kidnapping: 400 Students, Staff Captured By Militants, Police Say

AP | ASHRAF KHAN and NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — Troops manning a checkpoint Tuesday rescued dozens of students, teachers and staff from a boys school who had been taken captive by ...

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Pakistan's Problem with Taliban Denial

Olivia Sterns | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

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In the long-term, defeating the Taliban will depend not just on resolving the causes they use to recruit, but on uprooting popular denial.

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Battleground Lahore: Taliban in the City

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 06.27.2009 | World

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The insurgents that the Pakistani and U.S. forces are battling are various fronts of poor, largely uneducated men doing what their ancestors have done for centuries: defending the Pashtun way.

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Pakistan Army Vows To Intensify Campaign Against Taliban

Al Jazeera | Posted 06.22.2009 | World

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The Pakistani military claims to have surrounded Mingora, the Swat valley's main city, seeking to wrest the area from Taliban fighters....

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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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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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