Source: BBC News
US Gen David Petraeus is due to meet Pakistan’s army chief on his first visit to the country since becoming head of US Central command.
The trip comes amid tensions between Islamabad and Washington over US missile strikes on suspected Islamist militants in northwest Pakistan.
Last Friday Gen Petraeus took control of US military operations […]

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Source: Newsweek
By Michael Hirsh
As U.S.-Pakistani tensions mount, Petraeus steps in.
They seem an odd couple: the general who engineered President Bush’s surge in Iraq, and the presidential candidate who has promised to undo it. But look again. Gen. David Petraeus’s broad new agenda as the likely next commander of Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees U.S. forces […]

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