Source: The Frontier Post
By : Niaz A Shah
The government of Pakistan has, on several occasions, said that the US missile strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan are against the United Nations Charter. The US Secretary of State, Robert Gates, argues that the US has the right of self-defence against the Pakistani Taliban fighters as […]

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Source: Daily Times
* Boucher meets NWFP governor, CM
* Assures Hoti ties will be strengthened
* Hoti says no compromise on government writ
* Ghani says lashkars guarantee war on terror success
ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR: President Asif Ali Zardari told United States Secretary of State Richard Boucher during a meeting that Afghan drug traffickers are funding terrorists in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas, […]

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Source: Thomson Financial News
France warned Tuesday that missile strikes by suspected U.S. drones in Pakistani tribal areas were undermining international efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
‘Not only are these creating human tragedies but also situations that have counterproductive effects on the political dynamics that we would like to see, and that means a partnership between Afghanistan, […]

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Source: The Hindu
Karachi (PTI): Radio is serving as an ideal propaganda tool for radical clerics in Pakistan’s restive tribal agencies, and the inking of a peace deal between the government and Pakistan Taliban will provide legal cover to FM stations used by them.
The deal under which licenses will be given to close to 100 […]

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Source: The New York Times
WASHINGTON — American commanders in Afghanistan have in recent months urged a widening of the war that could include American attacks on indigenous Pakistani militants in the tribal areas inside Pakistan, according to United States officials.
The requests have been rebuffed for now, the officials said, after deliberations in Washington among senior […]

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Source: Daily Times
Staff Report
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Day was celebrated issued on Sunday with national fervour and enthusiasm in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and cantonment areas in the province.
According to an Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) press release, tribesmen from all walks of life joined the Pakistan Army, Frontier Corps, and the Political Administration (PA) […]

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Source: AFP
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP) — Islamist militants killed a tribesman after accusing him of working as a US spy in a lawless stronghold of Al-Qaeda and Taliban insurgents bordering Afghanistan, officials said Friday.
Rebels shot and then slit the throat of the 30-year-old man in the latest in a series of executions in Pakistan’s troubled tribal […]

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Source: AFP
ISLAMABAD — A top official in charge of Pakistani tribal areas resigned following a surge in violence linked to Al-Qaeda rebels hiding out in the country’s northwest, an official said.
Retired Lieutenant General Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai, governor of North West Frontier Province “cited personal reasons behind his decision and President (Pervez) Musharraf has […]

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