US looks for Saudi help in Afghanistan, Pakistan
The Associated Press
KABUL (AP) — The United States, grappling with how to counter the spread of Taliban militants on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, …
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM
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Pakistan worried about Mushtaq’s presence in England camp
Times of India – India
3 Jun 2009, 1015 hrs IST, PTI KARACHI: The presence of former leg-spinner Mushtaq Ahmed in England’s camp has got the Pakistan team worried ahead of their …
cricket.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Pak-worried-about-
Mushtaqs-presence-in-England-camp/articleshow/4611551.cms

Georgia Tech student’s terror trial begins
United Press International – USA
ATLANTA, June 2 (UPI) — A Georgia Tech student on trial on terror conspiracy charges led a group of young men planning to go to a camp in Pakistan, …
www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/06/02/Georgia-Tech
-students-terror-trial-begins/UPI-16871243995779/

Pakistan to attack the fountainhead of extremism: Rugged Waziristan
MiamiHerald.com – Miami,FL,USA
By SAEED SHAH ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Waziristan, the remote area that’s the epicenter of Taliban and al-Qaida militants in Pakistan, is set to become the …
www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1075752.html

Long war against Pakistan Taleban
BBC News – UK
By Syed Shoaib Hasan Pakistan’s security forces appear to have achieved their main objective in Swat with the capture of its administrative seat of Mingora. …
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8078947.stm

Pakistan frees students snatched by Taliban
Times of India – India
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan military rescued students and staff members of North Waziristan’s Ramzak Cadet College in an operation in the wee hours of Tuesday. …
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Pakistan/Pakistan-frees-
students-snatched-by-Taliban/articleshow/4606840.cms

Estimated 2.5M displaced in Pakistan
United Press International – USA
NEW YORK, June 1 (UPI) — The United Nations says more than 2.5 million Pakistanis have been displaced by the offensive against Islamic militants in the …
www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/06/01/Estimated-25M
-displaced-in-Pakistan/UPI-95401243907908/

Pakistan vows to curb Jundullah terror group
PRESS TV – Tehran,Iran
Pakistan vows to wipe out a shadowy rebel group which has used the country’s territories as a pad to launch attacks inside the Iranian border areas. …
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=96799&sectionid=351020101

Two views of former Georgia Tech student drawn in terror trial
CNN – USA
He said Ahmed, a naturalized US citizen who was born in Pakistan, offered himself as personnel for violent jihad, took casing videos of landmarks in…
www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/02/georgia.jihad.trial/

MyBandra blogs “ Pakistan: On a downward spiral
By Leena
The Swat valley in Pakistan has been taken over by the Taliban who believe that they can run the country better than the government there. If the Taliban take over Pakistan, there will be mayhem and India must do all it can to gather …
blogs.mybandra.com/2009/06/03/pakistan-on-a-downward-spiral/

Global Voices Online “ Pakistan: The Plight Of The IDPs
By Rezwan
Deadpan Thoughts writes about the plights of the IDPs of Swat Valley region in Pakistan: “Only about 300000 people have been provided shelter in the camps set up by the UNHCR and Pakistan’s government. This is hardly 10% of the total …
globalvoicesonline.org/2009/06/02/pakistan-the-plight-of-the-idps/

Pakistani search engine Faadi “ AltSearchEngines
By Steffen Schilke
Faadi is a search engine from Pakistan and could be very boring if you see it as another meta search engine which is aggregating search results from the Top 10 search engine including, e.g., Google, Yahoo, Alltheweb, Altavista, …
www.altsearchengines.com/2009/06/02/pakistani-search-engine-faadi/

David Miliband
By David Miliband
Last week Global Dashboard’s Alex Evans asked me in a comment on this blog what I thought of Australian analyst David Kilcullen’s argument on US use of drone attacks in Pakistan – see this post: I don’t recognise the statistics but the …
blogs.fco.gov.uk/roller/miliband/entry/us_pakistan_a_reply_to1