longwarjournal.org - 10/17/2008
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Pakistan Taliban spokesman Mullah Omar has offered to conduct peace talks with the government just days after the military promised "decisive action" against the Taliban in their sanctuary in the Bajaur tribal agency. But Omar said the Taliban refused to lay down their weapons as long as West ...
mcclatchydc.com - 10/15/2008
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WASHINGTON — A growing al Qaida-backed insurgency, combined
with the Pakistani army's reluctance to launch an all-out...
crackdown, political infighting and energy and food shortages are plunging America's key ally in the war on terror deeper into ...
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New intelligence report says Pakistan is 'on the edge'
longwarjournal.org - 10/16/2008
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After a relative lull in targeted airstrikes in
Pakistan's tribal areas, the US has launched an attack...
in South Waziristan. Reports from Pakistan indicate at least six were killed and five were wounded after an unmanned Predator strike aircraft ...
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US kills 6 in strike in Baitullah Mehsud's territory
newsweek.com - 10/17/2008
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This time it wasn't the terrorist scare making
Pakistanis nervous. Depositors thronged banks over the last few...
days to retrieve cash and valuables. Rumors that the government was on the verge of seizing bank lockers and foreign-currency accounts to ...
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Can Pakistan Stay Afloat? | Newsweek International
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... Friday, 17 October 2008 Spokesman Mullah Omar denied heavy casualties in Bajaur, claimed Taliban is inflicting high casualties on government forces. read ...
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