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Pakistan Fashion Week a Symbolic Blow to Taliban

Fox News (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

As surging militant violence grabs headlines around the world, Pakistan's top designers and models are taking part in the country's first-ever fashion week.

To defang Taliban, some look to private schools

kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

The schoolhouse is so tiny that dozens of pupils have to sit outdoors. They're lucky if their teachers have more than a basic education. And the chanting of math equations and Quranic verses gets so loud that the children have a hard time hearing themselves.

To defang Taliban, some look to private schools

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

QUTBAL, Pakistan -- The schoolhouse is so tiny that dozens of pupils have to sit outdoors. They're lucky if their teachers have more than a basic education. And the chanting of math equations and Quranic verses gets so loud that the children have a hard time hearing themselves.

18 militants, 3 Pak soldiers killed in war on Taliban

rediff News (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

Pakistani forces were close to overrunning all three Taliban strongholds in South Waziristan as they killed 18 terrorists in fierce fresh battles in the lawless region and adjoining areas over the last 24 hours.

In Peshawar, denial over Taliban tactics

MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Many people in the Pakistani city of Peshawar blame "foreign hands," not the Taliban, for last week's heinous market bombing.

Pakistani troops kill 12 Taliban in Waziristan offensive

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

Islamabad - Pakistani troops have killed a further 12 Taliban militants during the ongoing operation in country's restive north-western region, the country's army said on Saturday. Five soldiers, including two officers, were also injured in the clash...

In Pakistan's South Waziristan, hopes that Taliban's exit will bring progress

L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago

Though villagers tolerate the militants, many of them fellow Mahsud tribesmen, they welcome the Pakistani offensive, hoping it will help bring basic infrastructure to the isolated region. The Mahsud tribesmen of South Waziristan don't hate the Taliban. But they hate what having Taliban fighters living among them has done to life in their mud-hut hamlets.

• In South Waziristan, hopes that Taliban's exit will bring progress - Los Angeles Times
• In South Waziristan, hopes that Taliban's exit will bring progress - L. A. Times Dodgers Blog

Pakistan's fashionistas defy Taliban

Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago

KARACHI, Pakistan — Some women strode the catwalk in vicious spiked bracelets and body armor. Others had their heads covered, burqa-style, but with her shoulders — and tattoos — exposed. Male models wore long, Islamic robes as well as shorts and sequined T-shirts.

Pakistan's fashionistas defy Taliban

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday

KARACHI, Pakistan -- Some women strode the catwalk in vicious spiked bracelets and body armor. Others had their heads covered, burqa-style, but with her shoulders - and tattoos - exposed. Male models wore long, Islamic robes as well as shorts and sequined T-shirts.

Pakistan's fashionistas defy Taliban

kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

Some women strode the catwalk in vicious spiked bracelets and body armor. Others had their heads covered, burqa-style, but with her shoulders - and tattoos - exposed. Male models wore long, Islamic robes as well as shorts and sequined T-shirts.

Pakistani army enters last Taliban bastion in S. Waziristan

Washington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Pakistani army on Friday entered Makeen, the last of three insurgent strongholds targeted by a major offensive in the northwest, as gunmen wounded a senior army officer and a soldier in the capital, Islamabad.

Pakistani army pushes into Taliban stronghold

Boston Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistani army entered the last of three Taliban strongholds targeted by its Waziristan offensive yesterday, as gunmen wounded a senior army officer and a...

Will Marshall: The Taliban's Ties to Al-Qaeda

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday

How severe a threat does the Taliban pose to America? Blithely assuming that they would never again play host to America's sworn enemies is not a risk progressives should be prepared to take.

OEF Update, Nov. 7, 2009: Forces Interdict Taliban IED Facilitator in Zabul, Nab Militants in Khowst, Logar Provinces

THE TENSION (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

D ispatches from the Front: KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 7, 2009 -- Afghan-international security forces killed an enemy militant and detained a few suspected militants in Zabul Province, one of which was a Taliban IED facilitator operating out of Qalat City. This facilitator was responsible for financial support of militant activities and the transport of IED materials and weapons into the area. The joint...

• Afghan-International Security Force Interdicts Taliban IED Facilitator in Zabul; militants in Khowst - DVIDS RSS 2.0 Feed

Pakistan offensive kills 12 Taliban militants: army

Sify (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

Pakistan's military said Saturday it had killed 12 Taliban militants as government troops pressed a major offensive in the South Waziristan tribal area bordering Afghanistan.

Drug Rehab Center - Mountainside Cites That Heroin And Opiate Use Is On The Rise. Heroin Use And Prevalence Increases As Does The Number Of Deaths From It's Use

eprnetwork | 11/02/2009

The numbers of individuals entering inpatient drug rehab for heroin and opiate addiction continues to increase. In Afghanistan and Pakistan the opium (heroin) trade is tightly controlled by al Qaeda and the Taliban, and despite the war the efforts, the production of heroin and opium has dramatically increased - heroin is still dirt-cheap and readily purchased on the streets of Kabul and sold in short

NATO jets bomb fuel tankers; Afghans say 70 killed

rtomas80 | 09/04/2009

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan – A U.S. jet dropped 500-pound bombs on two tanker trucks hijacked by the Taliban before dawn Friday, triggering a huge explosion that Afghan officials said killed more than 70 people, including insurgents and some civilians who had swarmed around the vehicles to siphon off fuel. Germany, whose troops called in the strike, said it feared the hijackers would use the trucks to carry