Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Afghanistan/Pakistan: On Ground Updates - October 8, 2008

Wednesday, October 08, 2008
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* VOANews.com brings us the following News and News Video that starts off like this... Pakistani officials have ordered more than 50,000 Afghan refugees out of the country's embattled border tribal area... Pakistani authorities Tuesday began enforcing an order for Afghans to leave the Bajaur tribal region, accusing the refugees of having links to militants in the area...
Read the rest at link below...
Pakistan Orders Afghan Refugees Out of Tribal Region
Interesting Video report at above link so be sure to check it out
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* DAWN.com had this report posted on their website yesterday, Oct. 7th...
Bajaur areas cleared of militants, claim elders: Deployment of security men sought
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* AP.Google.com reports this news like this... Afghan refugees were flowing over the border from a Pakistani battle zone Tuesday after officials accused them of links with Taliban militants and ordered them out, police said... Pakistani authorities have told Afghans living in the Bajur tribal region to go back to their homeland and leave an area where troops have been fighting a bloody war with insurgents... The order risked adding to the humanitarian crisis resulting from the two-month-old military offensive in a long-neglected region that had become a base for militants fighting on both sides of the frontier... U.S. officials concerned about the escalating insurgency in Afghanistan have praised the operation...
Read the full report at link below...
Unwelcome Afghans quit Pakistan battle zone
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* The EarthTimes.org reports...
Pakistani lawmakers were set Wednesday to receive a rare briefing from the country's new military intelligence chief on threats posed by Taliban and al-Qaeda militants based in mountainous tribal regions and the spread of Islamic militancy to settled areas. Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, who was appointed director general of the military's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) last week, was expected to brief the closed-door joint session of the parliament's upper and lower houses...
Pakistani lawmakers to get rare security briefing from spy chief
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