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Escaping Taliban May Widen War as Pakistan Pays Cost

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Bloomberg - By James Rupert - Nov. 23 (News Report) - Taliban fleeing a Pakistani offensive are regrouping in the country’s northwest, threatening to spread and prolong a conflict that has strained the nation’s economy and may hamper efforts to attract foreign investment.

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CIA says it gets its money's worth from Pakistani spy agency

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Greg Miller - Nov. 15 (News Report) - The CIA has funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to Pakistan's intelligence service since the Sept. 11 attacks, accounting for as much as one-third of the foreign spy agency's annual budget, current and former U.S. officials say.

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In an unstable Pakistan, can nuclear warheads be kept safe?

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New Yorker - By Seymour M. Hersh - Nov. 08 (Special Report) - In the tumultuous days leading up to the Pakistan Army’s ground offensive in the tribal area of South Waziristan, which began on October 17th, the Pakistani Taliban attacked what should have been some of the country’s best-guarded targets. In the most

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Official resigns over Afghan war

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Karen DeYoung - Oct. 27 (Special Report) - Foreign Service officer leaves in protest of war he had come to believe simply fueled the insurgency.

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Caught in the crossfire of war against the Taliban

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - Oct. 23 (News Report) - Gul Hassan is incandescent with rage. As the Pakistan military mounted its most ambitious anti-Taliban offensive yet, the farmer and his family were not ready. "Bombs were falling all around us," he recalls, gesturing animatedly. "We were very scared. We didn't know what was going to happen to us."

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Islamabad dismayed by 'dithering' US

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Asia Times - By Zahid U Kramet - Oct. 22 (News Analysis) - As White House officials continue to debate the call of the United States' military chief in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, for an additional force of 40,000 to win the war against Taliban insurgents in the Afghanistan-Pakistan war theater, the overall impression in Pakistan is that rather than any decisive victory, the US and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are now looking for a face-saving exit to leave Pakistan to face the brunt of the fallout - once again.

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‘You Have Atomic Bombs, but We Have Suicide Bombers.’

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David Rohde - Oct. 20 (Special Report) - The Taliban fighters who kidnapped David Rohde, a Times reporter, and two Afghans were guided by a strident belief that the U.S. was waging a war against Islam. The third installment in Mr. Rohde’s account of his captivity.

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Refugee flood reveals human cost of South Waziristan's invisible war | World news

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Declan Walsh - Oct. 20 (News Report) - • Pakistani forces accused of hitting civilians • Up to 260,000 people may flee battle against Taliban. The war in South Waziristan started early for Ghufran. As Pakistani warplanes pounded the Taliban stronghold of Ladha last week, in preparation for the ground offensive now under way, the 11-year-old boy and his family scrambled to safety across a range of jagged mountains. They left behind a broken home, destroyed by the air force, but also something much more precious. Ghufran said his father stayed on to guard the family's worldly wealth: four goats, three sheep and a donkey. "I miss him already. I wish he came with us," the schoolboy said, a shadow falling across his face. As fighting raged for a third day in South Waziristan ...

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US, Pakistan agree to disagree on Waziristan offensive

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Issam Ahmed - Oct. 19 (News Analysis) - "As the Pakistani Army continues its massive offensive against the Taliban's base in South Waziristan, top US officials including CENTCOM chief David Petraeus and Sen. John Kerry (D) of Massachusetts, are meeting with military and civilian leaders here. While the Army's action is in line with US encouragement to rout out the militants, key differences appear to remain between the US and Pakistan on how to tackle the insurgency".

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Inside the troubled and dangerous Pakistan

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Chuck Leddy - Oct. 19 (Other) - "Pakistan, the deeply troubled US ally bordering both Iran and Afghanistan, may be the next crisis facing US foreign policymakers. The country’s mountainous northwest region is increasingly controlled by the Taliban (Muslim extremists) and is the suspected hiding place of Osama bin Laden. American journalist Nicholas Schmidle spent two years in this troubled country, watching Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf attempt to hold on to his military dictatorship amid challenges from both secular, pro-democracy reformers and pro-Taliban Islamic extremists".

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Pakistan launches risky offensive into Taliban-Al Qaeda stronghold