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BBC News - Pakistan country profile - 5 views

  • The disputed northern territory of Kashmir has been the flashpoint for two of the three India-Pakistan wars
  • There was a further brief but bitter armed conflict after Islamic militants infiltrated Indian-administered Kashmir in 1999
  • tarnished by corruption, inefficiency and confrontations between various institutions
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  • military rule
  • coup leader, General Pervez Musharraf
  • economic challenges
  • increasing polarisation between Islamist militancy and the modernising secular wing of Pakistani politics
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  • Mr Musharraf relinquished his army post in November 2007
  • his supporters were defeated by the opposition Pakistan People's Party and former PM Nawaz Sharif's Muslim League.
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      Political parties: PPP, Muslim League (now in power)
  • Pakistan's place on the world stage shifted after the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US. It dropped its support for the Taliban
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      Impact of 9/11 on Pakistan's world role
  • was propelled into the frontline in the fight against terrorism
  • estive tribal regions along the Afghan border
  • forces
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  • Page last updated at 13:55 GMT, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 14:55 UK E-mail this to a friend Printable version Pakistan country profile
  • ince 2009, the government has been waging a rolling military campaign to flush the militants out of the tribal areas.
  • by Pakistan's legislators
  • "Mr 10%" following allegations of corruption.
  • 2001, two years after Pervez Musharraf seized power in a military coup
  • The broadcasting regulator can order a halt to the carriage of foreign TV channels via cable, particularly Indian or Afghan ones.
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In Pictures: Floods in Pakistan caused by heavy Rains | Yasir Imran Mirza - 2 views

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    This is a blog written by a Pakistani graphic designer and web developer living in Saudi Arabia.
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Experience Isn't Enough in Pakistan's Punjab Flood Plain - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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    Pakistanis look for someone to blame
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2010 Pakistan Floods - The New York Times - 1 views

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    Times Topic overview with links
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Floodwaters Continue to Surge in Pakistan - Photographs - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Slide show linked to article: "Floods Force Thousands From Homes in Pakistan"
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Karzai Family Political Ties Shielded Bank in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Karzai and corruption
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Could a Peanut Paste Called Plumpy'nut End Malnutrition? - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    article about the aid/profit conundrum around a breakthrough child malutrition treatment
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God and Politics, Together Again - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Great explanation of the origins of the culture wars in the 1960s and 1970s--and Pres. Obama's place in the culture wars
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In Somali Civil War, Both Sides Embrace Pirates - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Somalia pirates and politics and a failed state
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News Analysis - Trying to Buck Odds, Obama Takes On 3 Big Mideast Tasks - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • simultaneous progress on the most vexing and violent problems in the Middle East — Israeli-
  • is attempting a triple play this week that eluded his predecessors over the past two decades: simultaneous progress on the most vexing and violent problems in the Middle East — Israeli-Palestinian peace, Iraq and Iran — in hopes of creating a virtuous cycle in a region prone to downward spirals.
  • resident Obama is attempting a triple play this week that eluded his predecessors over the past two decades: simultaneous progress on the most vexing and violent problems in the Middle East — Israeli-Palestinian peace, Iraq and Iran — in hopes of creating a virtuous cycle in a region prone to downward spirals.
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  • resident Obama is attempting a triple play this week that eluded his predecessors over the past two decades: simultaneous progress on the most vexing and violent problems in the Middle East — Israeli-Palestinian peace, Iraq and Iran — in hopes of creating a virtuous cycle in a region prone to downward spirals.
  • It turned out that the reverse was true as well: When one of those efforts fell apart, so did the other two.
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Link to Crisis in Pakistan Article - 1 views

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    "Crisis in Pakistan," December 2008, CQ Global Researcher
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Repairing Pakistan - Video Library - The New York Times - 0 views

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    Video on infrastructure repair--worst flood in a century
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Hard-Line Islam Fills Void in Flooded Pakistan - NYTimes.com - 5 views

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    Why this happens in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, etc.
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Pakistan Update (Video) - Council on Foreign Relations - 0 views

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    59 minute video 2010
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Video of Taliban Flogging Rattles Pakistan - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Pakistan woman public flogging
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