Source: BBC News
Nadene Ghouri laments the collapse of Pakistan’s most famous tourist destination while spending time as the only guest in a 50 room luxury hotel.
A valley as green as the emeralds that lie beneath the mountains. Cold and clear rivers flowing from the snow-capped peaks of the Hindu Kush. A brilliant blue sky - […]

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Source: Swiss Info
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military conceded it was not winning the fight against an increasingly deadly insurgency in Afghanistan and said on Wednesday it would revise its strategy to combat militant safe havens in Pakistan.
U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the […]

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Source: Daily Times
* US president says every nation has an obligation to ensure its territory does not become haven for terror
WASHINGTON: Pakistan has the responsibility to battle terrorists and must ensure its Tribal Areas do not become sanctuaries for them, United States President George W Bush said on Tuesday.
“Defeating these terrorists and extremists is in […]

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Source: The Associated Press
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Suspected militants bombed a bus carrying prisoners in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least nine people as fighting between security forces and extremists flared across the country’s tribal belt.
The powerful blast left a massive crater in the middle of a bridge in Bannu and left the burnt-out […]

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Source: Daily Times
KABUL: United States lawmakers met Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on Sunday, saying that they would raise concerns with Pakistan about its peace deals with extremists.
The US congressmen said part of the reason for their visit to Kabul and Islamabad was to look into the issue of extremist ‘sanctuaries’ in Pakistan.
There is […]

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Source: Huffington Post
Ever since the September 11th attacks, the Bush administration has been warning Americans that, but for the rule of military dictator General Pervez Musharraf, the sky would be falling. Musharraf, we were told, was what was standing between us and a flood of Islamic extremists who would unleash acts of terrorism around the […]

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Source: [Emergency] Mailing List
By Husain Haqqani
The aftermath of Pakistan’s February 18 parliamentary election has created hope of ending Pakistan’s political dysfunction. The voters overwhelmingly rejected supporters of General (retired) Pervez Musharraf at the polls and the leaders of the country’s major political parties have agreed to work together to build a democratic political order. Pakistan’s […]

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Source: ABC News
PESHAWAR, Pakistan Feb 20, 2008 (AP)
Share Fed up with violence and economic hardship, voters in the deeply conservative northwest have thrown out the Islamist parties that ruled this province for five years a clear sign that Pakistanis are rejecting religious extremism in a region where al-Qaida and the Taliban have sought refuge.
Instead, voters […]

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From: http://www.washingtonpost.com
By Walter Pincu
Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Radical elements are now a threat to the survival of Pakistan, prompting Pakistani military leaders to recognize that more aggressive efforts are needed to get the elements under control, Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said yesterday in testimony before […]

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Source: AFP
ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Pakistan was on high alert as Shiites prepared to observe the Muslim festival of Ashura, a day after security officials said they had foiled plots aimed at causing massive loss of life.
This year’s commemorations come amid widespread militancy and unrest across Pakistan, which Saturday saw the arrest of Sunni extremists intent […]

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