/CORRECTED REPEAT*/POLITICS: Pakistan’s Offensive, Afghanistan’s Risk
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Commentary By Killid Correspondents*
KABUL, Oct 13 (IPS) – For generations, Pakistan’s southern Waziristan region has been a launching pad for insurgent military operations in Afghanistan
During the Soviet invasion of this country, Mujahiddin used the area as a staging ground for attacks on Russian soldiers. [...]
POLITICS: Pakistan’s Offensive, Afghanistan’s Risk
Global Analyst Online – Global News Blog / IPS
Commentary By Killid Correspondents*
KABUL, Oct 12 (IPS) – For generations, Pakistan’s southern Waziristan region has been a launching pad for insurgent military operations in Afghanistan
During the Soviet invasion of this country, Mujahiddin used the area as a staging ground for attacks on Russian soldiers. [...]
THE PUNJABI TALIBAN
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR–PAPER NO. 566
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B.RAMAN
The interrogation of Muhammed Aquil alias Dr.Usman, the only surviving member of the group of nine terrorists, which launched a commando-style attack on the Pakistan Army’s General Headquarters (GHQ) at Rawalpindi on October 10,2009, which lasted a little over 20 hours, has [...]
WHO WAS AMJAD FAROOQI IN WHOSE NAME PAK GHQ HAS BEEN RAIDED?
INTERNATIONaL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO.563
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B.RAMAN
A news agency report says as follows: "The Tehreek-e-Taliban has claimed responsibility for the brazen attack on the Pakistan Army’s Headquarters in Rawalpindi on Saturday, which left four of its militants and eight soldiers dead. The outfit has again demanded a halt in the [...]
PAKISTAN: Local Residents Tacitly Approve of Swat Killings
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Ashfaq Yusufzai
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct 1 (IPS) – Widespread reports of extrajudicial killings of suspected Taliban by the military do not seem to have raised alarm bells among a people that have been deeply traumatized by the militant group’s atrocities.
A number of residents of the [...]
OBAMA’s NIGHTMARE: CONTRADICTIONS IN AFPAK POLICY
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By M RAMA RAO
New Delhi: As President Obama is getting ready for a midcourse correction to his AfPak policy, he and his advisors must come to grips with the very basic features of the policy that has brought a new nightmare to the Americans. The policy has [...]
CONTINUING THREAT FROM INDIAN MUJAHIDEEN
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO.559
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B.RAMAN
It is one year since the last reported terrorist attack (in New Delhi in September last year) by the Indian Mujahideen (IM) and its mentor the Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). Not only has there been no jihadi terrorist attack in Indian [...]
OBAMA’S AF-PAK TROIKA FAILS TO DELIVER
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By B.Raman
http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers32/paper3186.html
US policy-makers had hoped that the taking-over of Gen. David Petraeus as the commander of the US Central Command, and Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the US Commander in Afghanistan working under Gen.Petraeus would bring about a more proactive strategy to weaken the Taliban and create a [...]
FRONTLINE/World Pakistan: Karachi’s Invisible Enemy | PBS
PGS Frontline
September 18, 2009
Correspondent Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy examines how Pakistan’s largest city has become a refuge for Taliban fighters.
U.S.: Pro-War Officials Play Up Taliban-al Qaeda Ties
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Analysis by Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (IPS) – U.S. national security officials, concerned that President Barack Obama might be abandoning the strategy of full-fledged counterinsurgency war in Afghanistan, are claiming new intelligence assessments suggesting that al Qaeda would be allowed to return to Afghanistan in [...]
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