Posts Tagged ‘NWFP’
American Officials Admit Blackwater is in Balochistan and NWFP
According to a story in the New York Times of 5 October 2009: "American officials have said that Blackwater employees worked at a remote base in Shamsi, in Baluchistan, where they loaded missiles and bombs onto drones used to strike Taliban and Qaeda militants. ... Several Blackwater employees also worked in the North-West Frontier Province [...]
Pakistani Working for VOA Removed to USA
Washington Post | By N. C. Aizenman | 20 August 2009 Pakistani VOA Journalist Held at Dulles Is Released Immigration Case Remains Unresolved U.S. immigration officials released a visiting Pakistani journalist employed by the U.S.-sponsored Voice of America news service Wednesday, 10 days after taking him into custody on his arrival at Dulles [...]
Forcing Pakistan into American Categories
Registan.net | 18 July 2009 Is It COIN, Or Not? And does it matter? Haider Ali Hussein Mullick has an interesting essay in Foreign Affairs about “Pakistan’s emerging counterinsurgency strategy.” In the fall, Major General Tariq Khan, at the time commanding a squadron of the Pakistani army’s paramilitary force, the Frontier Corps, [...]
