Posts Tagged ‘Waziristan’
Secret Talks May Lead to Peace in Waziristan
PressTV.ir | Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:30:43 GMT Pakistan puts Taliban war on hold amid secret talks Pakistan has temporarily shelved its plans to push into militant havens in Waziristan amid reports of secret talks between Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsud and the Pakistani army. Colleagues of Meshed in the troubled northwestern Waziristan [...]
Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Officials Brief New York Times
| By ERIC SCHMITT and JANE PERLEZ | Published: July 21, 2009 Pakistan Objects to U.S. Plan for Afghan War ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan is objecting to expanded American combat operations in neighboring Afghanistan, creating new fissures in the alliance with Washington at a critical juncture when thousands of new American forces are [...]
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, [...]
Profile: Baitullah Mehsud
Commander of the Faithful Meet the man who is Islamabad and Washington's new Public Enemy No. 1. BY IMTIAZ ALI | JULY 9, 2009 In May of last year, a convoy of journalists made its way from Peshawar up into the remote reaches of South Waziristan. They were responding to an invitation from the diminutive, diabetic, and hypertensive commander [...]
American Paid Waziri Spies Guiding CIA Drone Strikes
Danger Room reports: Spy Chips Guiding CIA Drone Strikes, Locals Say By Noah Shachtman | June 1, 2009 (more...)
