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1. Pakistan is losing this great game | Mustafa Qadri

   
   The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority 985
   Barack Obamas surge in Afghanistan worries Pakistan – when the US leaves, it will still have to deal with the Taliban […] There is more to President Obamas policy shift in central Asia than more boots in Afghanistan . For Pakistan it represents […] Taliban and al-Qaida despite the practical complexities of the task. The fundamental problem for Pakistan is that Obamas
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2. Detained Americans had nuclear power site map, say Pakistan police

   
   The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority 985
   Police are trying to determine whether five Americans detained in Pakistan had planned to attack a complex that houses […] nuclear power facilities. The young Muslim men, who are from the Washington DC area, were arrested in Pakistan earlier this […] planned to attack sites in Pakistan. Earlier, however, local police accused the five of intending to fight in Afghanistan
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3. Pakistan chase world record victory

   
   The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority 985
   Australia 454-5 & 225-8; Pakistan 258 & 170-3 Pakistan require 252 to win with 7 wickets remaining Captain […] Mohammad Yousuf will hold the key as Pakistan chase a record 422 for victory after Shane Watsons maiden Test century gave […] , Pakistan must surpass the highest ever successful chase of 418 made by West Indies in their defeat of Australia in Antigua in
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4. Nathan Hauritz stars as Australia take control against Pakistan

   
   The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority 985
   • Australia 454-5 dec; Pakistan 109-4 • Nathan Hauritz excels with bat and ball in Melbourne Nathan Hauritz is […] called a "lucky" half-century as Australia took control in the Test against Pakistan in Melbourne. Hauritz had been under an […] dismiss the Pakistan captain Mohammad Yousuf on the penultimate ball of a day to leave the tourists in trouble on 109 for four
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5. The moment that changed Afghanistan | Stephen Kinzer

   
   The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority 985
   , including Osama bin Laden , to the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. With them these outsiders brought harsh forms of Islamic […] in a war paid for by the US and Saudi Arabia – gave birth to the Taliban . Pakistan served as eager midwife and […] overthrew, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto , or that his two transcendent goals for Pakistan were creating a "pure Islamic order" and
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6. Strategic Balochistan becomes a target in war against Taliban

   
   The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority 985
   covering two-fifths of Pakistan, Balochistan occupies highly strategic real estate. But for the black-turbaned clerics […] Pakistan. The Quetta shura conducts a formal campaign review each winter, after which Mullah Omar announces his guidance and […] intent for the following year." Yet efforts to break up the Talibans Pakistan sanctuary have so far been concentrated to the
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7. Watching Pakistan Teeter

   
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   Pakistan, President Asif Ali Zardari is only hanging onto power by the skin of his teeth. Zardari and many of his closest […] allies face serious political troubles because Pakistan’s supreme court recently overturned a Musharraf-era amnesty deal that […] Pakistan in the sort of destabilizing political protests experienced at the end of the Musharraf regime. The weakening or
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8. Good cop/bad cop in Pakistan

   
   The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Authority 838
   Times online capturethe ambivalent, not to say schizophrenic, nature of U.S. dealings withPakistan. First, an AFP digest […] of what had been a front-page New York Times expose: US threatens to chase Taliban into Pakistan WASHINGTON:The US […] has warned the government that its forces will chase Talibanforces into Pakistan if Islamabad does not get tough with
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9. US Diplomats Shown Hostility In Pakistani Actions

   
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   ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has held up visas for U.S. diplomats, military service members and others, apparently because of […] hostility within the country toward the expansion of U.S. operations in Pakistan, a senior U.S. diplomat said Wednesday […] focus on foreigners working in Pakistan. U.S. cars are searched, although diplomats are told to open the trunk but to refuse
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10. 2009 in review: Pakistan

    
    The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority 985
    revealed the extent to which Pakistan is now doing the bidding of the US. In a country where so much is centred around the […] other Pakistanis brought back terrible memories of the war in Bangladesh [which saw Pakistan split in 1971, amid widespread […] the Taliban if we do not support legislation on Pakistan in Washington, and then lumps us and Afghanistan together in this
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