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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
DARRA ADAM KHEL, Pakistan - In theory, Pakistan's security forces oppose the Taliban, which is now firmly entrenched across the country's Federally Administered Tribal Areas and encroaching on the adjacent region in the North West Frontier Province, known as the "settled" areas. The Taliban "don't bother us, only those who are doing wrong," says Shah Mahmood, a tribal elder and...
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Reporters sans frontières (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Reporters Without Borders calls for the release of two freelance journalists - reporter Pir Zubair Shah and photographer Akhtar Soomoro - who were kidnapped yesterday by a Taliban group in the Mohmand region of the Tribal Areas while doing a story on marble production, which the authorities plan to develop.“The kidnapping of these two genuine journalists is incomprehensible and we hope...
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Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
On July 2, 2007, following complaints from the Chinese authorities about threats to Chinese women living and working in Islamabad from the students of the two madrasas attached to the Lal Masjid of Islamabad, President Pervez Musharraf ordered the deployment of the Rangers, a para-military unit, outside the Masjid to prevent any more raids into the city by the students of the two madrasas. On July...
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Kansas City Star (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Pakistani security forces have eased an operation against insurgents in a tribal region near the border with Afghanistan as local elders try to negotiate peace with a militant leader, a government official said Saturday.
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Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Lahore , July 5 (ANI): A senior US security official has reportedly said that Al Qaeda was regrouping itself in tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has said that he feared Al Qaeda and other militant organisations could resume their activities after turning the Pakistani Tribal Areas bordering Afghanistan [...]
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Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Despite several government schemes, child birth-weight is falling sharply in Vidarbha, particularly in the tribal areas of Gondia, Gadchiroli, Chandrapur, Yavatmal, and Amravati, say health officials. Moreover, ih has spread across the rural areas, they say.Even in Nagpur’s slums, average weight at birth has fallen below 2.5 kg mark, says Dr Satish Gogulwar of voluntary organisation...
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OTB News (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
BARA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani security forces have eased an operation against insurgents in a tribal region near the border with Afghanistan as local elders try to negotiate peace with a militant leader, a government official said Saturday….
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Pakistani security forces have eased an operation against insurgents in a tribal region near the border with Afghanistan as local elders try to negotiate peace with a militant leader, a government official said Saturday.
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Pakistani security forces have eased an operation against insurgents in a tribal region near the border with Afghanistan as local elders try to negotiate peace with a militant leader, a government official said Saturday.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Pakistani security forces have eased an operation against insurgents in a tribal region near the border with Afghanistan as local elders try to negotiate peace with a militant leader, a government official said Saturday.
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Alertnet (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
July 3 (Reuters) - Northwestern Pakistan's ethnic Pashtun lands are home to militants bent on bringing hardline Islamic rule to Pakistan, defeating Western forces in Afghanistan and launching attacks in Western countries.Al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and his number two, Ayman al-Zawahri, are believed to be hiding in the region.Here are some details about the Pashtun tribal areas.THE...
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 2 -- Several Pakistani politicians and local media outlets have started to sharply criticize the government's new offensive against Islamist insurgents, as paramilitary troops on Wednesday continued to press operations in the country's northwest.
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Get Mash (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 2 — Several Pakistani politicians and local media outlets have started to sharply criticize the government’s new offensive against Islamist insurgents, as paramilitary troops on Wednesday continued to press operations in the country’s northwest. Read the full story
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
American commandos are poised to stage "hot pursuit" raids into Pakistan's loosely governed tribal areas to stem mounting Taliban attacks against U.S. troops in Afghanistan and to disrupt resurgent al-Qaida operatives' efforts to map strikes against the U.S. homeland, according to three Texas congressmen briefed during a trip to the region.
