Pakistan boosts police pay as violence grows

[Coventina]

Source: Reuters

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Authorities in Pakistan's violence-plagued North West Frontier Province boosted police salaries by about 30 percent on Tuesday in recognition of the danger they face from an intensifying Taliban insurgency.

Violence has surged across Pakistan since 2007, especially in the country's northwest, raising fears that the nuclear-armed U.S. ally, whose cooperation is vital to efforts to stabilise Afghanistan, could become a failed state.

The police in particular, are seen as vital to efforts to stand up to the spread of the Taliban but hundreds of them, as well as paramilitary and army soldiers, have been killed in militant attacks and clashes.

"Their salaries are very low in view of the great risk my boys are facing and the casualties they are suffering," provincial police chief Malik Naveed Khan told Reuters. "We lost 180 policemen last year, the wounded were in the hundreds."



Read more: http://in.reuters.com/article/southAsiaNews/idINIndia-39159920090421

[ohio2007]

1. Taliban say "BOO" and

well, you know how it goes

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cef_1240347288

[friendly_iconoclast]

2. Pakistan *is* a failing state, and few seem to notice

Search DU, Google News, etc., and see for yourself.

This will not end well at all.