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Pro-Govt Fighters, Under Attack by Taliban, 'Betrayed' by Kabul

PESHAWAR - The past two months has seen an upsurge in violence unleashed by Pakistani Taliban in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and the adjacent tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. The most recent was the brazen series of attacks on North ...

From ASHFAQ YUSUFZAI, AntiWar.com,  12 Dec 2008

PAKISTAN: NATO Convoys Under Taliban Attack

PAKISTAN: PESHAWAR, Dec. 12 (IPS) - The past two months has seen an upsurge in violence unleashed by Pakistani Taliban in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and the adjacent tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. The most recent was the ...

From ASHFAQ YUSUFZAI, Inter Press Service,  12 Dec 2008

RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: Civil Society United Against 'Honour' Killings

RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: PESHAWAR, Oct 6 (IPS) - The current campaign against "honour" killings in Pakistan led by anti-death penalty NGOs has support from lawmakers and lawyers pressing for modifications of Islamic law to prevent perpetrators ...

From ASHFAQ YUSUFZAI, Inter Press Service,  6 Oct 2008

PAKISTAN: Tax Payers Pay for Subsidised Fuel to Afghanistan

PAKISTAN: PESHAWAR, Sep 30 (IPS) - Petrol pumps in Pakistans border regions do brisk business. Jerry cans of fuel are carried both clandestinely and openly across the porous frontier for sale in neighbouring Afghanistan. According to ...

From ASHFAQ YUSUFZAI, Inter Press Service,  30 Sep 2008

'Militants Are Not Taliban, We Are'

PESHAWAR - The world knows the Taliban as armed fighters who have unleashed a wave of violence in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan including devastating suicide bomb attacks, the most recent on the luxurious Marriot Hotel in high-security Islamabad ...

From ASHFAQ YUSUFZAI, AntiWar.com,  26 Sep 2008

PAKISTAN: ‘Militants Are Not Taliban, We Are’

PAKISTAN: PESHAWAR, Sep 25 (IPS) - The world knows the Taliban as armed fighters who have unleashed a wave of violence in Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan including devastating suicide bomb attacks, the most recent on the luxurious ...

From ASHFAQ YUSUFZAI, Inter Press Service,  25 Sep 2008

PAKISTAN: Outlawed Taliban Have Free Run of Media

PAKISTAN: PESHAWAR, Sep 2 (IPS) - Taliban factions in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and tribal areas have been outlawed and their accounts frozen by the Pakistan government. But that has not in the least bit altered their ...

From ASHFAQ YUSUFZAI, Inter Press Service,  2 Sep 2008

PAKISTAN: Border Villages Rise Up Against Taliban

PAKISTAN: PESHAWAR, Aug 26 (IPS) - "We are trend-setters. Others are following us," boasts Rauf Khan, mayor of Pakistans Buner district, where villagers killed six militants in the Dara Shalbandi area on Aug. 14. In some parts of the North ...

From ASHFAQ YUSUFZAI, Inter Press Service,  26 Aug 2008

PAKISTAN: Civilians Flee Fresh Fighting in Tribal Area

PAKISTAN: UPPER DIR, Pakistan, Aug 14 (IPS) - "We have been staying in this camp for two days. My daughter is still in Loi Sam which we left due to heavy shelling by the army," says Gul Pari, who fled the fighting in volatile Bajaur Agency, ...

From ASHFAQ YUSUFZAI, Inter Press Service,  14 Aug 2008

HEALTH-PAKISTAN: Polio Campaign Stops As Violence Spreads

HEALTH-PAKISTAN: PESHAWAR, Aug 7 (IPS) - The polio eradication campaign has ground to a halt in the Swat Valley, in northern Pakistan, with the breakdown of a peace agreement with a hardline militant group. In fact, violence has escalated ...

From ASHFAQ YUSUFZAI, Inter Press Service,  6 Aug 2008

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