The Human Cost of Pakistan’s Conflict

The recent developments in Swat Valley [see here for CHUP's related posts] have garnered significant media attention, both among Western and Pakistani media outlets, [not to mention among Pakistani blogs - see Grand Truck Road and A Reluctant Mind]. What is both notable and significant, though, is the media’s continued portrayal of the oft-neglected, human [...]

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Pakistan: Another Cambodia?

I watched an interesting news segment on CNN today. Anchor Rick Sanchez spoke to the news agency’s Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr about the shift of U.S. troops from Iraq to Afghanistan due to the increasingly deteriorating security situation. According to Starr, the U.S. will add an additional 15,000 U.S. troops [to the current 30,000 already [...]

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American UN Official Kidnapped in Pakistan

Western media outlets are reporting that gunmen kidnapped a United Nations worker and killed his driver today. According to the Associated Press, “Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry called the abduction a “dastardly terrorist act,” but it was not clear who seized John Solecki, the head of the U.N. refugee office in the city of Quetta, as he [...]

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