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	South Asia: Will North Waziristan Peace Deal Spawn Imitations? - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The peace agreement signed on September 5 was a commitment by Fakhr-e-Alam Irfan, the political agent in North Waziristan and a representative of the North West Frontier Province governor, on one side, and "tribal elders,...
		North West Frontier Governor Ali Mohammad Jan Orakzai -- who has emerged as a leading supporter of the agreement -- called the North Waziristan deal a "model agreement" that should be emulated.
		NATO officials have greeted the North Waziristan agreement with skepticism, but have been cautiously optimistic in their public assessments.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2006/10/9aae7a16-dee2-41b9-90eb-b730cc100281.html (1235 words)

	Waziristan - LoveToKnow 1911
		WAZIRISTAN, a section of the mountain tract in the North - West Frontier Province of India, lying between the Tochi river on the north and the Gomal river on the south.
		The Tochi and the Gomal rivers enclose Waziristan, their affluents rising to the west of that country in the upland valleys of Shawal and Birmal, and flowing north and south to a junction with the main streams.
		The physiography of Waziristan is that of the Kurram to the north rather than that of the Suliman hills to the south.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Waziristan (1473 words)

	Waziristan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It comprises the area west and southwest of Peshawar between the Tochi River to the north and the Gomal River to the south, forming part of Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
		Waziristan is divided into two "agencies", North Waziristan and South Waziristan, with estimated populations (as of 1998) of 361,246 and 429,841 respectively.
		South Waziristan, which comprises about 6,500 square kilometers, is the most volatile agency of Pakistan; it is not under the direct administration of the government of Pakistan, but is indirectly governed by a political agent, sometimes an outsider, sometimes a Waziri— a system that was inherited from the British Raj.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Waziristan (499 words)

	How stable is Waziristan
		Another incident that caused anguish among the North Waziristan tribes was the killing of 17 people, including 10 children and five women, in a night-time gunbattle involving Pakistani troops and some militants near Miramshah.
		South Waziristan was pacified, at least for the time-being, after a period of trial and error.
		As in the case of South Waziristan, the political administration in North Waziristan concluded agreements with the tribal elders and Ulema to involve them in the campaign to isolate and expel foreign militants.
	www.cobrapost.com /documents/stable.htm (1178 words)

	Afghan Refugees and Al Qaeda
		North Waziristan is the second tribal agency after South Waziristan from where the Afghan refugees are being expelled.
		Because of the military operations in the Waziristan area, many of the Afghan refugees were forced to leave their belongings because they had no time to pack.
		They informed that the North Waziristan is a stronger base for militants due to the presence of a large number of seminaries and because around 70 percent of the local population supported militants.
	www.cobrapost.com /documents/AfghanAl.htm (1983 words)

	North Waziristan Agency :: Khyber.ORG
		North Waziristan covers an area of 1,817 square miles.
		The north waziristan wazirs are utmanzai of which the major sections are wali khel, momit khel and ibrahim khel.
		North and south waziristan have been the scene of fierce battles with the british and the legendary faqir of ipi, Mirza Ali Khan, A tori khel wazir, conducted his major encounters with the british in this region.
	www.khyber.org /places/2005/NorthWaziristanAgency.shtml (292 words)

	60 killed in Afghan fighting
		The Pakistan army offensive in North Waziristan coincides with President Pervez Musharraf's order for a countrywide crackdown on Islamist militants in the wake of revelations of Pakistani connections to the bomb blasts in London on July 7.
		Last Thursday, 24 militants were killed in North Waziristan after killing a soldier in a rocket attack on an Afghan army post before fleeing back over the border to Pakistan but not beyond the range of US artillery and helicopters.
		In Paktika province, which adjoins both Khost and North Waziristan, four US soldiers received minor wounds when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb yesterday.
	www.infowars.com /articles/world/afghanistan_60_killed_in_afghan_fighting.htm (535 words)

	WAZIRISTAN - Online Information article about WAZIRISTAN
		Kurram to the north rather than that of the Suliman hills to the south.
		Kohat and Bannu districts, and the ground lying on both sides of the Kurram river, between Thal on the north and the Tochi Valley on the south.
		A large force of 11,000 British troops subsequently traversed the tribal country, destroyed their towers and dictated terms, one of which was that the Tochi Valley should be occupied by British garrisons.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /WAT_WIL/WAZIRISTAN.html (2016 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| South Asia \| Pakistan's Taleban challenge
		In North Waziristan, it is religion that overrides all tribal bondages and customs, making it the most conservative region in the seven tribal agencies that constitute Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata).
		Although North Waziristan had been a powder keg for over a year, first signs of a Taleban-like uprising started to emerge in December.
		Observers of tribal and Afghan politics say North Waziristan is among the last bases for the resurgent Taleban in their battle against the Afghan government.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/4782140.stm (837 words)

	Waziristan (Pakistan) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Waziristan Mountain tract, SW North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan; 4373 sq.
		(1961) 394,312; divided into North Waziristan (formerly Tochi) and South Waziristan (formerly Wana); lies along border of Afghanistan; inhabited by Wazirs, a Pathan tribe, divided into the Darwesh Khel and Mahsuds; their chief town is Kaniguram.
		The Waziristan resistance movement against the British in the 30's used a red flag with the Takbir (i.e., Allahu Akbar = "God is the greatest") written on it.
	flagspot.net /flags/pk!waz.html (159 words)

	Pakistani Taliban take control of wild Waziristan - Boston.com
		The old social order has broken down in the towns and villages of Waziristan, a region populated by some of the most recalcitrant tribes on Pakistan's side of the Pashtun belt that straddles the border with Afghanistan.
		As the military campaign moved north, political assassinations became commonplace in the south.
		Waziristan's Taliban advise men to grow beards and veil their women, cameras are banned, and the militant mullahs are trying to stop people watching television or listening to music.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2006/05/30/pakistani_taliban_take_control_of_wild_waziristan (949 words)

	North Waziristan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		North Waziristan (Urdu: شمالی وزیرستان) is the northern part of Waziristan, a mountainous region of northwest Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan and covering some 11 585 km² (4,473 mi²).
		It comprises the area west and south-west of Peshawar between the Tochi river to the north and the Gomal river to the south, forming part of Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
		The region became part of Pakistan on independence in 1947.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_Waziristan (282 words)

	At least 25 militants killed in Pakistan North Waziristan
		North Waziristan's political administrator Zaheerul Islam told reporters in Miranshah that the artillery had targeted a house near an Islamic seminary run by wanted cleric Maulana Sadiq Noor and Cobra helicopters gunships.
		The entire tribal region of Pakistan, consisting of seven regions called agencies, is ruled under a separate set of laws chartered by the British colonial rulers in 1893-94 after their forces failed to subjugate hundreds of tribes straddling the region.
		There was no official reaction to the clerics' move in the South Waziristan region which had been the site of bloody military operations during 2004 and 2005 against the pro al-Qaeda militants, in which about 175 mostly foreign militants were killed.
	news.monstersandcritics.com /southasia/printer_1136311.php (560 words)

	Taliban Setup Office in South Waziristan
		While the Taliban in South Waziristan is beginning to cooperate with the government, the Taliban in North Waziristan is involved in intense fighting with government security forces.
		In North Waziristan, there are two prominent leaders who are driving the resistance against the Pakistani government.
		Additionally, North Waziristan is next to the Afghan province of Khost, a former stronghold of the Afghan Taliban.
	jamestown.org /terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369958 (1066 words)

	Gulf Times â€“ Qatarâ€™s top-selling English daily newspaper - Pakistan/Afghanistan
		The violence in the North Waziristan tribal region has highlighted the challenge President Pervez Musharraf faces from Pakistani militants allied to Al Qaeda as Pakistan wages its part of the war on terrorism.
		The governmentâ€™s top official in North Waziristan, Zaheerul Islam, said one of his bodyguards was killed in the late Tuesday ambush as he was travelling from the curfew-bound town of Miranshah to the city of Peshawar.
		Waziristan is part of what are known as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, which cover about 27,220 square km of mountainous territory and are home to about 6mn people, most of them Pashtuns.
	www.gulf-times.com /site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=76037&version=1&template_id=41&parent_id=23 (797 words)

	North Waziristan refugee camps closed
		A final 14 families were registered yesterday, the last scheduled day for assisting those who asked to repatriate under the UNHCR voluntary repatriation programme, bringing the total to 4,539 families or 27,537 individuals who obtained the voluntary repatriation forms needed to receive assistance on arrival in Afghanistan.
		When the government of Pakistan announced a month ago that the North Waziristan camps would be closed at the end of June, there were an estimated 32,000 Afghans living in a dozen camps in the unruly agency bordering Afghanistan, part of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
		UNHCR supported the closing of the camps in North Waziristan because of security concerns — the area has been the scene of continuing clashes between the Pakistani army and rebel tribesmen linked to fighting in Afghanistan — that have made it impossible to properly assist the refugees.
	www.kashar.net /complete.asp?id=1715 (560 words)

	Briefings :: 40 militants killed in North Waziristan
		The firing between the two sides continued till the evening as security forces cordoned off the entire area and suspected militants trapped in the mountainous region were trying hard to break the siege.
		It is the first time that the militants engaged the security forces in North Waziristan as most of the recent operations met no significant resistance.
		Meanwhile, a revenue officer’s bodyguard was killed and six army personnel were injured during a fire exchange between soldiers and militants in the Hamzoni area of North Waziristan, NNI reported.
	www.punjabilok.com /punb2/full.php?p=1359&more=1 (444 words)

	e-Ariana - Todays Afghan News
		There are 25 militant groups operating in South and North Waziristan with a total fighting force of roughly 4,000, tribal sources said.
		Tribal sources said that while most of the militant groups in South Waziristan had agreed to hold fire, a couple of others who were pressing for the release of their men were sticking to their guns.
		In North Waziristan, the Taliban shura met twice to discuss the proposition but despite having made some positive statements fell short of announcing a similar ceasefire.
	www.e-ariana.com /ariana/eariana.nsf/allDocs/6DDF90D0DD0E8CA287257196003CC781?OpenDocument (830 words)

	The Institute for International Mediation and Conflict Resolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		He said, "religious extremism, militancy and terrorism were continuously undermining Pakistan's image in the international community" and the situation remained volatile in both North and South Waziristan agencies, despite the deployment of a heavy contingent of armed forces.
		The federal government has also imposed a ban on carrying arms and ammunition in North Waziristan, which has met with stiff opposition from tribal elders who have said that the ban, if enforced, will put their lives at stake.
		Elsewhere, Musharraf has said that though the situation in Waziristan is bad, it has not deteriorated to the extent that it won't be possible to hold talks to find an amicable solution to the crisis.
	www.iimcr.org /index.cfm?pageID=2&articleID=3935 (596 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		On a road in South Waziristan, masked gunmen killed the 20-year-old son of Malik Khadin, a prominent elder who led a tribal militia in a search for militants last year, an intelligence officials said on condition of anonymity.
		In North Waziristan, 20 rockets were fired before dawn on a base in Mir Ali, a town east of Miran Shah, said another intelligence official.
		The army shifted its focus to North Waziristan this year, saying they had cleared the southern part of the tribal belt of guerrillas including foreign fighters.
	www.arabtimesonline.com /arabtimes/world/view.asp?msgID=6020 (547 words)

	Pakistan Link Headlines
		Sources, however, said that the government is considering a new operation in North Waziristan Agency in the wake of intelligence reports that some miscreants including foreigners could have escaped to North Waziristan Agency from the adjoining tribal area of South Waziristan.
		They said that top government functionaries are not sure about the presence of top Al-Qaeda leadership in North Waziristan Agency, however, they do believe that dozens of al-Qaeda militants of low cadres have taken refuge in South and North Waziristan Agencies that could be flushed out by swift military action.
		Meanwhile, the panic gripped the local tribals of North Waziristan when they witnessed arrival of more personnel of armed forces and regular patrolling of army helicopters in the area.
	www.pakistanlink.com /headlines/April04/04/02.html (622 words)

	Four soldiers killed in tribal military operation: army
		The Pakistani military said on Friday that four soldiers were killed and several injured during an operation against suspected militants in the country's North Waziristan tribal region.
		He said the tribal elders do not have much control over the people in North Waziristan who are more conservative and ethnically united that those in South Waziristan.
		Pakistani security in North Waziristan also said personnel of the paramilitary Frontier Corps arrested a nephew of former Afghan Mujahideen commander and ex-Taliban minister Maulvi Jalaluddin Haqqani and shifted him to Miranshah.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/pakistan/2005/pakistan-051001-irna03.htm (476 words)

	All Quiet on the North-Western Front (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The MMA leaders, who backed the militants and were critical of the military operation in South Waziristan, contended that those on the army's wanted list meant no harm to Pakistan and it would be wiser to befriend them rather than turning them into outlaws.
		The fighting around Wana had spread to other parts of South Waziristan and military convoys and installations had been attacked in North Waziristan and the Kurram tribal agency as well.
		Following the hoped-for neutralisation of Pakistani tribal militants, the registration of the foreigners and their numbers and level of importance would be the second yardstick to measure the success of the army's political-military strategy in South Waziristan and the rest of the tribal areas.
	www.newsline.com.pk /NewsMay2004/newsbeat1may.htm (1364 words)

	Asia Times Online :: South Asia news, business and economy from India and Pakistan
		KARACHI - By taking control of virtually all of Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal area on the border with Afghanistan, the Taliban have gained a significant base from which to wage their resistance against US-led forces in Afghanistan.
		The footage includes their bases, where thousands of youths are present, preparations for an attack into Afghanistan, and shots of criminals executed at a public rally staged by the Taliban.
		North Waziristan is now their "Islamic state" and base from which to launch a summer offensive in Afghanistan.
	atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/HB08Df01.html (1373 words)

	Afghans asked to leave tribal North Waziristan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		ISLAMABAD, 19 Jul 2005 (IRIN) - Afghan refugees living in Pakistan's North Waziristan agency's western tribal belt bordering Afghanistan have been asked to leave the area in six weeks, an official from the Afghan refugee directorate told IRIN from the agency's capital, Miranshah, on Tuesday.
		Of the 58,000 Afghans in the tribal North Waziristan agency, some 50,000 Afghans have already repatriated over the last six weeks on their own, as well as through the assistance from the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), according to the state-run body dealing with Afghan refugees in North Waziristan.
		But the remaining 900 Afghan families living in urban and rural clusters of North Waziristan are more established than those of the camp population.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=48200 (699 words)

	Death toll of militants in Waziristan rises to 70
		The death toll in the fighting that erupted over the weekend between the Pakistani security forces and suspected Taliban and al-Qaeda militants has risen to 70 with the killing of 19 militants in Pakistan's restive North Waziristan.
		The clashes that began on Saturday after alleged miscreants fired rockets on an army base near Miranshah, the administrative headquarters of North Waziristan, bordering Afghanistan's Khost province, coincided with the visit of United States President George W Bush.
		North and South Waziristan regions have been the sites of frequent military operations since early 2004.
	www.rediff.com /news/2006/mar/06pak3.htm (347 words)

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