Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published October 6, 2009.
In Pakistan, Taliban militants have claimed responsibility for yesterday´s attack on a UN office in the capital city of Islamabad. Spokesperson Azam Tariq said the Tehreek-e-Taliban group sent a suicide bomber to the World Food Program offices in Islamabad because the agency´s work was “not in the interest of Muslims.” The blast killed five people.
Pakistan's Interior Ministry says it is expecting more attacks, as the military prepares to launch an offensive in South Waziristan.
Northwest Pakistan is known for Islamic militants, but it was once also home to an influential leftist movement. Communist groups have been around in Pakistan since independence from Britain, but in the 1980s and 90s, Islamic groups joined nationalist governments and the US to fight Soviet influence in the region and leftist thinking gradually lost popularity.
During the post September 11th campaign against Taliban militants, Pakistan´s communists have faced persecution and some of them have been killed. Today, most of them have fled the region. FSRN'S Nathan Moore reads for our reporter in the Swat valley, Gabe Matthews.
