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The Taliban ordered a pullback from Buner district on Friday, which had them only 110 kilometres from Pakistan's capital of Islamabad. But distinguished Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid (I've got his most recent book: Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia) warns that Pakistan's government [...]
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From the BBC: A Pakistani man living in the US has been jailed for nearly six years for transmitting a television channel run by Lebanon's Hezbollah movement. Javed Iqbal was accused of using his satellite TV company to distribute the al-Manar channel. The US has designated Hezbollah a terrorist organisation. He pleaded guilty to the [...]
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From the BBC: It is thought that the women were researching North Korean refugees Two US journalists arrested by North Korea near its border with China are to face trial, North Korea's state media has reported. Euna Lee, a Korean-American, and Laura Ling, a Chinese-American, who work for Current TV, were detained on 17 March. [...]