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A NATO War Dog Is The Taliban's Newest Hostage
The Nine Lives of Pakistan's 'Dirty Harry'
Jailbreak Season Continues as al Qaeda Issues Threat Against Gitmo
After Malala's Speech, Pakistan's Long Road to Fix Education
The Best Bluffs of the U.S.-Afghan Relationship
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A NATO War Dog Is The Taliban's Newest Hostage
Early Thursday morning, Taliban forces in Afghanistan released a video proving, it claimed, that the militants had captured a U.S. military dog. The footage shows a group of bearded men holding up machine guns and standing around a brown dog tied to a...
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Thu, Feb 02 2014 3:45 PM
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The Nine Lives of Pakistan's 'Dirty Harry'
Karachi's famed police investigator, Chaudhry Aslam Khan was a man for whom metaphors have been mixed. He was a divisive figure, sometimes called Karachi's " Dirty Harry " because of his controversial law enforcement tactics, which many...
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Thu, Jan 01 2014 3:18 PM
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Jailbreak Season Continues as al Qaeda Issues Threat Against Gitmo
It's officially jailbreak season. In a little over a week, inmates in Iraq, Libya, and now Pakistan have escaped from what were supposed to be secure prisons (the phenomenon has even reached Arkansas ). Just this morning, al Qaeda leader Ayman al...
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Wed, Jul 07 2013 9:50 AM
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After Malala's Speech, Pakistan's Long Road to Fix Education
Speaking on a 16th birthday that she nearly didn't live to see, Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani education rights advocate targeted by the Taliban, called on an assembly at the United Nations on Friday to invest in educational opportunities for children...
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Fri, Jul 07 2013 11:02 AM
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The Best Bluffs of the U.S.-Afghan Relationship
As the Obama administration considers what the residual U.S. force in Afghanistan will look like after its planned drawdown in 2014, the general consensus has been that some troops -- particularly special forces for counterterrorism missions -- will be...
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Tue, Jul 07 2013 11:30 AM
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Pakistan demands end to U.S. drone strikes -- for the ninth time
In his inaugural remarks as prime minister on Wednesday, Nawaz Sharif called for an end to U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan. "The chapter of daily drone attacks should stop," he told the Pakistani parliament. "We respect sovereignty of other...
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Wed, Jun 06 2013 2:20 PM
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Taliban phones hacked?
You can't even blame this one on Murdoch (we think). The Taliban denied today reports that its leader, Mullah Omar, had died. Spokesmen for the group said their mobile phones, email accounts, and a website they operated had been hacked into , and...
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Wed, Jul 07 2011 7:29 AM
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Suspect in Bibi Aisha's mutilation goes free
The case of Bibi Aisha, the young girl who graced the cover of TIME Magazine after her nose and ears were cut off, has been dropped. The only arrested suspect, Aisha's father-in-law, was released in Afghanistan, according to government officials....
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Tue, Jul 07 2011 1:56 PM
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Calling the Taliban to account
A year has passed since the Taliban issued the latest version of their Code of Conduct, or Layha . The Code regulates how Taliban fighters should wage war and how they should deal with each other, with the enemy, and with the rest of the population. The...
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Wed, Jul 07 2011 11:05 AM
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Video game company eliminates "Taliban" mode
Makers of the video game Medal of Honor announced today that they were removing the option of being a Taliban soldier in online multiplayer. Electronic Arts had come under fire for the insensitivity of creating a virtual world in which gamers could act...
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Fri, Oct 10 2010 2:48 PM
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Pakistan's never-ending game of Whac-A-Mole
Amid last week's carnage in Lahore and Quetta , Pakistan is saying they've cleared Orakzai Agency of militants. They said the same thing barely three months ago (see here for more on June's "victory"). On Friday, militants blew up...
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Tue, Sep 09 2010 1:27 PM
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Taliban
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South Asia
Pakistani officials refuse to submit to x-ray scan
U.S.-Pakistani relations tend to be defined by a certain set of core issues, which include the ISI's double-dealing with the CIA, the 2005 Indo-U.S. civilian nuclear agreement, and Pakistani nuclear security. While these issues are undoubtedly important...
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Wed, Mar 03 2010 1:33 PM
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Strange "recidivism" numbers
In order to return to doing something, you needed to have been doing it before. That was the point made in the media scrum after the Pentagon reported last spring that 14 percent of released Guantanamo detainees went "back to the battlefield."...
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Thu, Jan 01 2010 3:35 PM
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FP Passport
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U.S. Foreign Policy
Karzai and Ghani BFF? Slim chance.
If you are like most people who heard Afghan President Hamid Karzai's re-inauguration speech , you are wondering about a few choice words: Here I would like to invite all presidential candidates, especially my brother Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and my...
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Thu, Nov 11 2009 6:58 PM
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FP Passport
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Central Asia
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Taliban
How important are Taliban headquarters?
The Pakistani military reported that they entered and largely cleared the "Taliban headquarters" in South Waziristan today. The reported success is part of a large-scale offensive in the region, which is a stronghold of Tehrik-i-Taliban, an...
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Fri, Nov 11 2009 10:21 AM
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FP Passport
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