List of Pakistan articles
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US-POLITICS-OBAMA-HOSTAGE A Drone Killed My Friend, Warren Weinstein
Instead of using drones to combat men who kidnap aid workers, let's support local movements that seek to prevent the men from taking such actions in the first place.
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PAKISTAN-SOUTHWEST-UNREST-RIGHTS-CRIME Silenced: Another Killing Amidst Pakistan’s Democratic Trappings
How Sabeen Mahmud's murder reveals the limits of Pakistan's democracy.
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PAKISTAN-RELIGION-SHRINE The Road Not Taken in Pakistan
Counternarratives in Pakistan are silenced. But a playwright is trying to fill the educational void around Sufism and bring its heritage into the political and intellectual discourse.
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Weinstein Family Pakistan Helped Weinstein Family Arrange Ransom
The family of American aid worker Warren Weinstein paid a $250,000 ransom in a failed effort to win his release, three years before he was killed in a botched U.S. drone strike.
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US-WEATHER-NASA-HURRICANE DRONES The United States Does Not Know Who It’s Killing
A remorseful acknowledgment of the drone deaths of American civilians is not an acceptable answer for a counterterrorism policy out of control.
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loportog Slain Italian Hostage ‘Had No Time for Simplistic Western Policy Agendas’
“I do love the people, the culture and the food of this part of the world,” Lo Porto told a professor who taught him in London.
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Weinstein Family ‘My Husband Will Never Safely Return Home’
American Warren Weinstein was kidnapped from his home in Pakistan four days before his departure date. With the news of his death made public on Thursday, his family now has to accept he will never come home.
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470813422crop Botched U.S. Strike Highlights Risks of Obama’s Drone War
Obama has taken personal responsibility for the strike that killed an American development expert and an Italian aid worker. But the apology raises more questions than it answers.
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PAKISTAN-CHINA-DIPLOMACY Happy to Play Second Fiddle
The United States is increasingly on the outside looking in as China -- and India -- invest across South and Central Asia. And that’s a good thing for Washington.
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PAKISTAN-CHINA-DIPLOMACY China Loves Pakistan … but Most Chinese Don’t
China's pro-Pakistan state media blitz may be more about convincing its own people.
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PAKISTAN-CHINA-DIPLOMACY Today’s question: How much should we pay China to take Pakistan off our hands?
I think I understand why China is reaching out to Pakistan.
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CHIPAK China Invests Billions in Its ‘All-Weather Friendship’ With Pakistan
New energy and infrastructure deals with Islamabad are starting to flesh out both pillars of Beijing’s Silk Road plans. That may not be a bad thing after all.
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INDIA-PAKISTAN-ATTACKS-TRIAL The Lakhvi Triangle
Why Pakistan’s release of the suspected mastermind behind the 2008 Mumbai attacks isn’t just a strike against its ever fragile relationship with India, but one that could throw off the dynamic the U.S. has with both countries -- to everyone’s detriment.
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PAKISTAN-UNREST-POLITICS-RAID-MQM A New Turn for Pakistan’s Fight Against Militancy
How the March 11 raid on the MQM's Karachi headquarters changed Pakistan.
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169351599obamacrop Kill > Capture
The Obama administration's explicit policy is to capture suspected terrorists, not drone them. So why is there so much droning and so little capturing?
