Suspected US Drone Fires Missiles in NW Pakistan
Voice of America – USA
Suspected US drones have carried out at least 30 missile strikes on militant targets in northwest Pakistan over the past year. The United States rarely …
www.voanews.com/english/2009-05-09-voa7.cfm

Obama’s threatened guests
Boston Globe – United States
The meeting at the White House reflected the close link between Pakistan and the anti-Taliban struggle in Afghanistan. Indeed, nests of Taliban, Al Qaeda, …
www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/
articles/2009/05/09/obamas_threatened_guests

US drone attack kills at least five in Pakistan
Washington Post – United States
The United States began increasing the frequency of drone attacks in Pakistan a year ago. There has been no let-up since President Barack Obama’s …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/
2009/05/09/AR2009050900758.html

Afghanistan’s civilians caught in the middle
Reuters – USA
With ordinary people bearing the brunt of the fighting, both in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Taliban have been accused of deliberately using civilians as …
blogs.reuters.com/pakistan/?p=2696

SCENARIOS: What next in Pakistan’s battle with the Taliban?
Reuters – USA
The struggle in the scenic northwestern valley 130 km (80 miles) from Islamabad and a former tourism center has become a test of Pakistan’s resolve to fight …
www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5480KP20090509

Pakistan fighting sparks exodus
Aljazeera.net – Qatar
Pakistan is preparing for a humanitarian crisis as hundreds of thousands of people flee fighting between the Taliban and government troops in the country’s …
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/05/20095965652682132.html

US drone fires missiles into Pakistan, official says
Reuters India – Mumbai,India
ISLAMABAD, May 9 (Reuters) – A suspected pilotless US drone aircraft fired missiles into Pakistan’s South Waziristan, a major al Qaeda and Taliban sanctuary …
in.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idINISL41147520090509

Pakistan May Transfer More India Border Troops to Fight Taliban
Bloomberg – USA
By Saikat Chatterjee May 9 (Bloomberg) — Pakistan may transfer more troops from its border with India, with which it has fought three wars since the…
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20
601080&sid=aarz6Jr765Ng&refer=asia

Afridi confident of Pakistan’s good show at T20 WC
Press Trust of India – New Delhi,India
Karachi, May 9 (PTI) Pakistan may be short of match practice ahead of the Twenty20 World Championship but all-rounder Shahid Afridi says his side would …
www.ptinews.com/pti%5Cptisite.nsf/0/899C427
8DD4F7A56652575B10020A68F?OpenDocument

Taliban’s Gains in Pakistan Have Washington Worried About Nuclear …
U.S. News & World Report – Washington,DC,USA
By Thomas Omestad It is usually a subject that US and Pakistani officials scrupulously avoid discussing in public: the security and safety of Pakistan’s …
www.usnews.com/articles/news/national/2009/05/08/talibans
-gains-in-pakistan-have-washington-worried-about-nuclear-security.html

Pakistan steps up assault
By Pamela Constable
Pakistan steps up assault, Military officials declared that they had launched a ‘’full-scale offensive’’ against extremist Taliban fighters in the Swat Valley and said that they plan to remain there until peace is restored and the area …
www.azcentral.com/rsslinks/1034497

Dissident Voice : Pakistan at the Precipice
By M. Junaid Levesque-Alam
A radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and justice.
dissidentvoice.org/2009/05/pakistan-at-the-precipice/

Refugees flee fighting in Pakistan as military offensive …
M ARDAN, Pakistan | After four sleepless nights as explosions rocked the area, Siraj Muhammad and his family joined a convoy of people fleeing Pakistan’s latest offensive against the Taliban. But the war soon caught up with them.
www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/1187076.html

5 dead in Pakistan drone attack – The CNN Wire – CNN.com Blogs
By fkarimi
South Waziristan is part of Pakistan’s tribal region, the Federally
Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). The area has seen a sharp spike in the number of aerial attacks carried out by unmanned U.S. drones on what are believed to be Taliban …
cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/09/5-dead-in-pakistan-drone-attack/

Epoch Times – Pakistan Moves Against Swat Militants, Civilians Flee
By Reuters
Pakistani forces attacked Taliban militants in the Swat valley; one million civilians fled the region to escape the fighting.
www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/16500/