Fears Rise Over Refugees as Pakistan Presses Fight
New York Times – United States
A boy displaced by military operations in the Swat valley in a relief camp in Mardan, Pakistan, on Friday. More Photos By SALMAN MASOOD and DEXTER FILKINS …
www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/world/asia/09pstan.html?hp

Pakistan: from refugee exodus to high-tech drones
Reuters – USA
Both Pakistan’s The News International newspaper and the blog Changing up Pakistan warn against the onset of compassion fatigue, both for the sake of the …
blogs.reuters.com/pakistan/?p=2673

Displaced Pakistanis crowd camps
CNN – USA
These children are among the thousands of refugees this week at the Jalozai camp in western Pakistan. Adolescent girls carry infants on their hips, …
www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/07/pakistan.fleeing.the.fight/

Balance of Opinion: The perils of Pakistan
Dallas Morning News – Dallas,TX,USA
In the White House’s juggling act of various global and domestic crises, Taliban incursions in Pakistan have risen to the top this week, and several pundits …
www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/viewpoints
/stories/DN-balance_08edi.State.Edition1.27ae5aa.html

One million people now displaced in northwestern Pakistan, UN says
The Canadian Press – GENEVA
GENEVA — The United Nations refugee agency says half a million people have fled fighting in northwestern Pakistan in the past few days, bringing the total …
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article/ALeqM5hrENw_2YDkdoaIXZmai_mQgThH2Q

Kashmir CM notes Pakistan role in curbing violence
AFP
SRINAGAR (AFP) — The chief minister of Indian Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, has acknowledged Pakistan’s contribution to the “remarkable” drop in violence in the …
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LeqM5hH6TDunawBg12nbnRZyTCpti3rww

Amid Fighting, Premier Vows to Eliminate the Taliban in Pakistan
New York Times – United States
By DEXTER FILKINS ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A day after Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani vowed to “eliminate” the Taliban militants who have taken over large …
www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/world/asia/09pstan.html?ref=world

Pakistan on the precipice
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
By Kapil Komireddi Writing From Lahore, Pakistan — Pakistan is still finding it difficult to accept that the forces it once created and nurtured, …
www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/
la-oe-komireddi8-2009may08,0,7360957.story

Refugees flee airstrikes; swell Pakistan tent cities
Washington Times – Washington,DC,USA
By Nasir Khan (Contact) | Thursday, May 7, 2009 MARDAN, Pakistan | Tent cities swelled in the Pakistani city of Mardan on Thursday with the arrival of tens …
washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/07/refugees-swell-tent-cities/

In Pakistan, Mardan anxiously awaits the Taliban
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
By Mark Magnier Reporting from Mardan, Pakistan — Three lightly armed police officers man a leaky checkpoint at the southern entrance to this dusty city in …
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-
pakistan-mardan8-2009may08,0,3289667.story

Farrukh Rehan: The Battle For Pakistan’s Soul
By Farrukh Rehan
Is Pakistan serious about this fight this time, or will it cut a deal with the militants, as it has done in the past with disastrous consequences?
www.huffingtonpost.com/farrukh-rehan
/the-battle-for-pakistans_b_200069.html

A Tale of Two Counterinsurgencies in Pakistan and Sri Lanka – The …
By By Robert Mackey
Looking at the news this week, with hundreds of thousands of civilians fleeing battles in Pakistan and Sri Lanka as a result of counterinsurgency campaigns, it is hard not to notice that there is one major difference in the way the two …
thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/08/a-tale-of-
two-counterinsurgencies-in-pakistan-and-sri-lanka/

Pakistan Refugees Number In The Hundreds Of Thousands
By The Huffington Post News Editors
MINGORA, Pakistan — Pakistani jets screamed over a Taliban-controlled town Friday and bombed suspected militant positions as hundreds of thousands fled in terror and other trapped residents appealed for a pause in the fighting so they …
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/08/
pakistan-refugees-number_n_199934.html

Matthew Yglesias “ India-Pakistan Linkages
By myglesias
Meanwhile, is anyone trying to persuade India to take steps to ease tensions on its border with Pakistan? This is a precondition to getting the Pakistani military to take its threat from within more seriously. …
yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/05/india-pakistan-linkages.php

Commentary: Aiding Pakistan is a must for U.S. | McClatchy
Fact: the United States cannot afford to let Pakistan collapse. This is not Afghanistan, which has a long history of dysfunction. And it’s not Iraq, which is important, but for different reasons. This is a place with a nuclear weapons …
www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/67805.html