30 October 2009

'IDP Hosts Increasingly Wary of Undercover Militants', IRIN News, 29 October 2009

EXCERPT: "Fear and a growing wariness on the part of potential IDP hosts means some South Waziristan internally displaced persons (IDPs) are finding it hard to get accommodation in the neighbouring districts of Dera Ismail Khan and Tank. 'No one is ready to take us, because they think we are sympathetic to the militants battling government forces,'...

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30 October 2009

'Clinton Challenges Pakistanis on Al Qaeda', The New York Times, 30 October 2009

EXCERPT: "Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, on a visit meant to improve relations with Pakistan, strongly suggested Thursday that some Pakistani officials bore responsibility for allowing terrorists from Al Qaeda to operate from safe havens along this country's frontier. 'I find it hard to believe that nobody in your government...

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