Pakistan Civil War News Updates - May 15, 2009

Pakistan Civil War News Updates -- May 15, 2009 Pakistani soldiers load relief goods onto a truck in Karachi on May 14 for displaced families of Malakand region. Pakistan's military suspended a curfew Friday in a northwest city where it is fighting Taliban guerrillas, officials said, allowing tens of thousands of civilians to flee the area. (AFP/Rizwan Tabassum)

Pakistan's War With The Taliban: Fleeing The Battlefield -- The Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13649359

Taking on Islamist militants exacts a terrible human toll

IMPATIENTLY awaited and enthusiastically cheered on by its American allies, the offensive by Pakistan's army against Taliban fighters in the Swat valley in North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) is understandably less welcome to the thousands uprooted by the fighting. Many of those sheltering among the rows of white tents at Jalala camp in Takht Bhai, in Mardan district, think the operation was necessary. But there is also anger and mistrust, and many agree with Umer Rachman, a shopkeeper from Mingora, Swat's main city, that the army relies too much on mortars and air power, killing civilians. He himself had helped bury five, killed by shelling in the city centre, in a single grave.

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More News On Pakistan's Civil War

Pakistan says 55 Taliban, 3 troops killed in Swat -- Yahoo News/AP
60 Taliban killed in operation -- Daily Times
Taliban "shaving beards" to flee Swat: army -- Yahoo News/Reuters
Pakistan allows thousands to flee combat zone -- Yahoo News/AFP
Pakistan Eases Curfew in Swat -- New York Times
Pakistan Rejects Peace Talks With Taliban in Swat -- Bloomberg
Bloody battle looms for Pakistan's Swat capital -- AFP
Bloody battle looms for Mingora -- Daily Times
Swat outlook 'pretty bleak': Kilcullen -- Daily Times
AP source: US wants faster training in Pakistan -- AP
US Shares Drone Intelligence with Pakistan, But No Joint Control -- Voice of America
Pakistan will defeat Taliban, must win hearts - PM -- Reuters
Pakistan hospitals, camps are overwhelmed -- L.A. Times
Pakistan's Taliban Fight Threatens Key Economic Zone -- Wall Street Journal
How Pakistan Failed Itself -- Time Magazine
Pakistan Faces the Abyss -- the Moderate Voice (opinion)
Pakistan: A Potential Jihadist State? -- Brookings