weeklystandard.com - 5/19/2009
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One of the main reasons large swaths of Pakistan has fallen under Taliban control is that the military has nearly no capacity to fight a counterinsurgency operations. The Pakistani Army is built to battle the Indians on the eastern plains, not the Taliban in the mountainous northwest. The ...
nytimes.com - 5/18/2009
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WASHINGTON Members of Congress have been told
in confidential briefings that Pakistan is rapidly adding to...
its nuclear arsenal even while racked by insurgency, raising questions on Capitol Hill about whether billions of dollars in proposed military ...
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Pakistan Is Rapidly Adding Nuclear Arms, U.S. Says
dailytimes.com.pk - 5/19/2009
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I did not say Cheney killed Benazir: Hersh
LAHORE: US journalist Seymour Hersh on Monday contradicted news...
reports being published in South Asia that quote him as saying a special death squad made by former US vice president Dick Cheney had killed ...
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Leading News Resource of Pakistan
nytimes.com - 5/19/2009
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IN recent days, the Pentagon has made two
major changes in its strategy to defeat the Taliban,...
Al Qaeda and their affiliates in Afghanistan and Pakistan. First came the announcement that Lt. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal would take over as the top ...
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Pakistani al Qaeda leader killed in March Predator strike
The Long War Journal —
... The Pakistani military's senior commander has asserted that the military has very little use for counterinsurgency operations to defeat the Taliban. During a briefing over the weekend, Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani said his troops have no need of additional training from outside the country. “Therefore, except for very specialized weapons and equipment, high technology, no generalized foreign training is required,” Kiyani said. ...
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pajamasmedia.com 12/8/2008 — The Times of India reports that US policy makers are having second thoughts about whether Pakistan is in the main, friend and not foe.
The United States is dusting off a long-discarded proposal to declare Pakistan a state sponsor of terrorism. But ...
US Predator hits al Qaeda target in North Waziristan kills 3
longwarjournal.org 12/5/2008 —
Map of the tribal areas and the Northwest Frontier Province. The government signed peace agreements in the red agencies/ districts (the military said Shangla was under Taliban control in October); purple districts are under de facto ...
Senior al Qaeda leader targeted in airstrike in Bannu, Pakistan
longwarjournal.org 11/19/2008 — This morning's airstrike in Pakistan's Bannu region targeted a senior al Qaeda leader with close ties to Osama bin Laden, sources told The Long War Journal .
The early morning Predator strike is thought to have killed Abdullah Azzam al Saudi, a ...
US hits Taliban safe house In North Waziristan
longwarjournal.org 11/21/2008 —
Map of the tribal areas and the Northwest Frontier Province. The government signed peace agreements in the red agencies/ districts (the military said Shangla was under Taliban control in October); purple districts are under de facto ...
US targets compound in North Waziristan
longwarjournal.org 11/14/2008 — The US has struck again in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agencies. Three unmanned Predator aircraft are reported to have fired three missiles at a compound in Garyom in North Waziristan. The home was owned by a "tribal man" named Mir Gul, ...
US targets Taliban "facility" in South Waziristan
longwarjournal.org 10/26/2008 —
A sketch map of North and South Waziristan. Map from The Khyber Gateway . Click to view.
US unmanned Predator aircraft have struck again inside Pakistan's tribal areas. The latest attack occurred in the Shakai region north of ...
Al Qaeda's paramilitary 'Shadow Army'
longwarjournal.org 2/9/2009 —
At least one squad of the joint Taliban-al Qaeda Shadow Army operating in Swat.
Al Qaeda has reorganized its notorious paramilitary formations that were devastated during the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and 2002. Al ...
Clinton Announces New Aid for Pakistan —
NYT > Politics 5/19/2009
The United States pledged an additional $110 million in aid on Tuesday, reflecting the deepening crisis in the Swat Valley and the administration’s growing confidence in Pakistan’s efforts to combat the Taliban.
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