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Drone Attacks: Bombs in The Air Versus Boots on The Ground

Kalsoom Lakhani | Posted 08.20.2009 | World

Read More: Spotlight on Pakistan, Pakistan, Gen. David H. Petraeus, Pakistan Drone Attacks, US-Pakistan Relations, Predator Drones, Drones, South Waziristan, Reaper Drones, Al Qaeda, World News
Kalsoom Lakhani

If the strategic costs outweigh the tactical benefits of using drones, why does the US continue to champion such a policy? The answer seems to be: because it is their best worst option.

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Pakistan Drone Attack Secrecy Hides Abuses

Inter Press Service | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

Read More: US Drone Missiles, Pakistan Drones, Pakistan Taliban, Foreign Affairs, Pakistan, Air Force Drones, Drones, Drone Attacks, Cia, Pakistan Drone Attacks, US-Pakistan Relations, Predator Drones, Cia Drone Attacks, Advocacy, Inter Press Service, World News

By Gareth Porter | Inter Press Service WASHINGTON, Jun 12 (IPS) - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's refusal to share with other agencies even ...

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US Shares Drone Intel Data With Pakistan For First Time

New York Times | Posted 06.14.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, Pakistan Drones, War Wire, Foreign Affairs, Pakistan, Pakistan Crisis, US-Pakistan Relations, Drones, Drone Data, Advocacy, World News

The United States military for the first time has provided Pakistan with a broad array of surveillance information collected by American drones flying...

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Pakistani Taliban Scoffs At US Strategy But Admits Drones' Effectiveness

New York Times | Posted 06.05.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, Pakistan Taliban, Foreign Affairs, Pakistan, David Petraeus, Taliban, Drones, Us Strategy, Barack Obama, US Afghanistan, US-Pakistan Relations, General Petraeus, Taliban Pakistan, Advocacy, World News

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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Open Trade Within Closed Civil Society?

Mohsin Mohi-Ud Din | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, Elections, India, Islam and the West, Human Rights, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Atrocities, Global War on Terror, Extremism, Kashmir, Kashmir Protesters, India Protesters, Unarmed Protesters, Pakistani Militants, Religious Violence, Us Pakistan Relations, Kashmir Conflict, Us Indian Relations, India Pakistan Conflict, Us War on Terror, Kashmir Trading Route, Religious Conflict, Political Protest, Politics News
Mohsin Mohi-Ud Din

A trade route may alleviate concerns for now; but it will take more than a reopened trade route to erase decades of continued manipulation by India and Pakistan over Kashmiri civil society.

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Joint Chiefs Chair Make Surprise Visit To Pakistan Amid Mounting Tensions

NY Times | Salman Masood and Graham Bowley | Posted 10.17.2008 | Home

Read More: Afghanistan, Pakistan, US-Pakistan Relations, Joint Chiefs Chairman, Admiral Mike Mullen, War Wire, Home News

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, America's top military official, made a hastily arranged visit to Pakistan on Tuesda...

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Pakistani Troops Fire On US Helicopters, Report

Reuters | Zeeshan Haider | Posted 10.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Afghanistan Border, US-Pakistan Relations, Pakistani Troops, Pakistan, War Wire, Home News

ISLAMABAD - Firing by Pakistani troops forced two U.S. military helicopters to turn back to Afghanistan after they crossed into Pakistani territory ea...

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A Perfect Storm Brewing in Pakistan

Shuja Nawaz | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pakistan, Helicopter Attack, Afghanistan, Mccain, Obama, US Presidential Election, Afghan Taliban, Bush, US-Pakistan Relations, Politics News
Shuja Nawaz

The next time the US physically invades Pakistani territory to take out suspected militants, it may meet the Pakistan army head on.

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