Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Taliban was toppled, and a Northern Alliance-dominated government took its place. Hamid Karzai, educated in India, became President. India stepped in with multimillion-dollar reconstruction projects. Pakistani officials mutter darkly about up to 19 Indian "consulates" based in sensitive border areas as if it were fact (there are only three). "Who is the beneficiary of this war on terror that requires the collaboration of Pakistan?" a retired major in the Pakistani army once asked me. "India is again in Afghanistan, working against us. Unless you demonstrate what good for Pakistan will come out of this collaboration, you will...
...Pakistan's prime minister warned that the Pentagon must end its missile strikes against militants on Pakistani soil along the Afghan border, or risk losing its war on terror. "No matter who the President of America will be," Yousuf Raza Gilani told the AP earlier this week, continued strikes will fuel "anti-American sentiments." Such ire could doom Washington's efforts to rid Pakistan's lawless frontier of the Taliban and al-Qaeda forces that regularly launch attacks on U.S. and NATO forces in nearby Afghanistan. Highlighting how Afghanistan has eclipsed Iraq as a strategic issue, Baghdad didn't demand...
...Pakistan will have to be handled carefully. A senior U.S. official told me that the intelligence community now considers Pakistan the "central front" in the war on terrorism. "Al-Qaeda wants to go after the Pakistani leadership," the official said. With foreign fighters coagulating in Pakistan's border regions, forging a renewed U.S.-Pakistani alliance against al-Qaeda will be a top priority...
...Americans are not interested in our bad guys.' SENIOR PAKISTANI OFFICIAL, saying U.S. operations are targeting only militants involved in strikes on American troops in Afghanistan rather than those causing violent unrest in Pakistan...
...prompted Pakistan to desperately seek aid from such long-term allies as Saudi Arabia, Britain, the U.S. and China. Despite Zardari flying to those countries in recent weeks to make his case, he has yet to secure the loans needed to avoid a default on Pakistan's debt. Pakistani officials insist that they have no intention of defaulting, and the Pakistani rupee rose this week amid signs that the International Monetary Fund might step in to rescue this frontline state in the war on terror. The IMF confirmed Wednesday that it would soon enter discussions with Pakistan over ways...