30 July 2010

WikiLeaks' Fallout for U.S.-Pakistan Ties [audio], Council on Foreign Relations, 30 July 2010

EXCERPT: "The classified U.S. military documents related to the war in Afghanistan leaked by WikiLeaks.org paint a grim picture of collusion between Pakistan's intelligence service, the Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and members of the Afghan Taliban. While the allegations laid out in the documents--that the ISI supports...

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30 July 2010

Targeted Karachi Killings Lead to Calls to Disarm City, Central Asia Online, 28 July 2010

EXCERPT: "Disarming Karachi is essential to control the city's skyrocketing rate of assassinations, analysts say. Worried about increases in targeted killings, political observers are demanding that the government de-weaponise the city and divert funds into economic policies, such as reducing poverty and increasing job opportunities, to curb the...

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30 July 2010

Pakistan Press Avail, Delivered by Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Joint Chiefs of Staff, July 24, 2010

EXCERPT: "[Q] Admiral, you were just quoted in New Delhi saying something that we do not always agree to the whole way the ISI works: 'The manner that they work, we have our differences.' Can you expand on that? Exactly where do you differ on the manner of working? [A] It is both the Pakistan ? the military...

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30 July 2010

Lashkar-e-Taiba's Growing International Focus and Its Links with al-Qaeda, The Jamestown Foundation // Terrorism Monitor, 29 July 2010

EXCERPT: "Recent revelations that several so-called 'home-grown militants' connected to terrorist plots in Europe, North America and Australia had passed through camps controlled by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) have generated growing concern that the group may be emerging as a new global actor working...

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30 July 2010

C. Christine Fair, Neil Malhotra, and Jacob Shapiro, The Roots of Militancy: Explaining the Support for Political Violence in Pakistan [pdf] via the Human Security Gateway, Center for Economic Research, Pakistan, 28 December 2009

EXCERPT: "Combating militant violence?particularly within South Asia and the Middle East'stands at the top of the international security agenda. Despite the extensive literature on the determinants of political...

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