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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
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Effective from January 1983

The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
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OPPORTUNITIES

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
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Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)

Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
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Effective from May 1983

Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
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Effective from August 1983

The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
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Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)

Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
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Effective from March 1983

The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
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Effective from October 1997

Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)

The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc

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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
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Effective from April 1984

Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
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Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)

Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:

* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).

Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
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Effective from July 2001

Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
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Effective from August 1989

Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCRM: Criminal Activity
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Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
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Effective from May 1991

Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
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Effective from December 2007

Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
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Effective from August 1986

Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
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Effective from May 2007

Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
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Effective from September 2006

Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
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Effective from June 2000

Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
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Effective from August 2006

Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)

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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
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Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
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Effective from January 1999

Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
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Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.

(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
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Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
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Effective from August 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
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Effective From October 1999

Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
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Effective from April 1984

Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
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Effective from February 1984

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
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Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
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Effective from May 2000

Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
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Effective from November 1984

Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
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Effective from August 1996

Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
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Effective from March 1993

Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
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Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
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Effective from October 1997

Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
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Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)

Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
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Effective from July 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
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Effective from June 1984

Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
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Effective from September 2008

Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
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Effective from November 1995

Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
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Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
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Effective from June 1995

Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
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Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
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Effective from January 1983

Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
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EXCHANGE OPERATIONS

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
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Effective from January 1983

Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
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Effective from October 1999

Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
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Effective from January 1983

A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)

The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
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Effective from January 1983

Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
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Effective from January 1985

The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
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Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)

People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
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Effective from January 1983

The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
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Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
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Effective from March 1995

The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)

The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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05ISLAMABAD15286TFPK01: POLITICAL PARTIES AND MILITANT
[...] (U) Summary: Pakistan's political parties are mobilizing their own relief/recovery operations for victims of the South Asian earthquake. All have promised to send funds, supplies, and teams to the affected areas and several are setting-up independent relief camps. In addition, Kashmiri mil [...]
2005-10-12 09:23:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER EAID MOPS PK
05ISLAMABAD16553PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: A VISIT TO BATTGRAM
[...] (C) Forward Operating Base Mansehra Officer-in-Charge and Econoffs visited Battgram district on November 5. Settlement patterns have complicated relief as damage is spread across mountain villages with low population densities. Interlocutors were concerned for villages in the Allai tehsil, [...]
2005-11-07 13:02:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID MASS MOPS PGOV PK PTER ECON PREF ASEC
05ISLAMABAD16577PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: A VISIT TO BATTGRAM
[...] (C) Forward Operating Base Mansehra Officer-in-Charge and Econoffs visited Battgram district on November 5. Settlement patterns have complicated relief as damage is spread across mountain villages with low population densities. Interlocutors were concerned for villages in the Allai tehsil, [...]
2005-11-08 08:00:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALEAID MASS MOPS PGOV PK PTER ECON PREF ASEC
05NEWDELHI6520ALL EYES ON UNGA SUMMIT AS INDO-PAK TALKS WRAP UP
[...] (C) Summary: Round Two of the Indo-Pakistan Composite Dialogue (CD) is drawing to a close with few concrete results, although the two sides managed to preserve a sense of forward movement, which reinforces the broad Indian public support for rapprochement with Pakistan. To facilitate dialogu [...]
2005-08-24 14:01:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV ECON SNAR SCUL PBTS PINR IN PK INDO PAK UNGA
05NEWDELHI8791INDIANS WORRY LASHKAR TERRORISTS ARE THRIVING IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Apprehension is mounting in India about Pakistan-based terrorist groups' exploitation of relief efforts to enhance their capabilities, recruitment, and operations against India. Indians are also noticing with alarm that terror groups such as the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jammat- [...]
2005-11-18 12:43:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PBTS KISL MOPS PINS EAID ASEC PK IN
06ISLAMABAD12265CONSENSUS ON ELECTION AND RECONCILIATION BEGINS
[...] (C) Summary. The visit of elections expert Andrew Raucci provided a rare opportunity for a frank dinner discussion between senior representatives from most of Pakistan's key political parties: PML, PPP, PML-N/ARD, MQM and ANP. Raucci's comment about the critical need for credibility in the el [...]
2006-06-27 11:17:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPK PREL PGOV
06ISLAMABAD13519MUMBAI BLASTS: BROAD CONDEMNATION IN PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary. Pakistani leaders and politicians have been unanimous in their condemnation of the July 11 Mumbai bombing, with the Foreign Ministry issuing a strong statement within hours of the attack that cited both President Musharraf and the Prime Minister Aziz. On July 13, President Mus [...]
2006-07-14 12:16:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PK IN PREL
06ISLAMABAD17014REACTION TO DEATH OF NAWAB BUGTI SHIFTS FROM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: From Sunday's ""we've got him"" triumphialism, the government's position on the death of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti has evolved to a denial that the Baloch tribal leader was the victim of a targeted assassination. The back pedaling follows growing criticism of the security operation [...]
2006-08-29 12:36:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPK PREL PGOV KTER
06ISLAMABAD18917HUDOOD ORDINANCE AMENDMENTS: A BIG SLOPPY MESS
[...] (C) Summary and Introduction: With President Musharraf on official travel in the U.S., the governing Pakistan Muslim League (PML) announced a tactical retreat in it beleaguered campaign to amend the Hudood Ordinance, the Sharia-based laws on criminalizing extramarital sexual relations and e [...]
2006-09-25 11:38:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKDEM KWMN PGOV PHUM PK
06ISLAMABAD19125PAKISTAN ELECTIONS (5): MUSHARRAF'S COALITION
[...] (C) Summary and introduction: Pervez Musharraf has three options for ensuring a solid political foundation for his moderate and progressive agenda as he prepares for 2007 elections. He can stand by the present Pakistan Muslim League (PML) coalition and leadership; stick with the PML, but di [...]
2006-09-27 13:26:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKDEM PGOV PINR PK PREL
06ISLAMABAD19126PAKISTAN ELECTIONS (6): THE U.S. ROLE
[...] (C/NF) Summary and introduction: The U.S. casts an outsized shadow over Pakistani domestic politics; with the onset of these elections, we have an opportunity to nudge Pakistan toward a stable and sustainable democratic order. Throughout the coming year, we should confirm our support for a [...]
2006-09-27 13:29:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKDEM PGOV PINR PK PREL
06ISLAMABAD22046FOREIGN MINISTER'S VIEWS ON PAK-AFG JIRGAS, BAJAUR
[...] (C) Summary: In a November 2 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Kasuri reaffirmed Pakistan's commitment to hold a jirga as discussed at the September 27 trilateral iftar at the White House, but noted that Pakistan's vision for the event is limited to the tribal areas along the Pa [...]
2006-11-17 11:11:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNAF IN PGOV PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD22572POSTURING OVER WOMEN'S RIGHTS LEGISLATION REFLECTS
[...] (C) With no fanfare and in the privacy of his office, President Musharraf signed the Women's Protection Bill (WPB) into law on December 1. The bill,s contentious journey through Parliament cast into sharp relief the cleavages within and between Pakistan's major political parties. The Pakista [...]
2006-12-23 05:54:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KWMN PK
06ISLAMABAD3808SLIGHT GAINS FOR PML IN SENATE ELECTIONS
[...] (C) In a follow-up to the January 2nd "retirement" of 50 Senators (reftel A),Members of the Provincial Assembly (MPAs) in each of Pakistan's four provinces were charged with electing replacements on March 6. Each Provincial Assembly elected 11 Senators in a secret-ballot overseen by the Provi [...]
2006-03-08 14:31:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPK PREL PGOV KDEM
06ISLAMABAD9704FREE, FAIR, AND ISI: THE PML ELECTION STRATEGY
[...] (C/NF) Summary: According to PML Secretary General Mushahid Hussain, the party's goal in the upcoming elections is a plurality in the National Assembly. He identified urban areas in central Punjab (Lahore, Gujranwala, Faisalabad) as the chief battlegrounds, predicted a strong PML victory in [...]
2006-05-25 11:52:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPGOV KDEM PREL PTER MOPS PK AF IR
06ISLAMABAD9890PARTIES PREPARE THEIR ELECTORAL STRATEGIES
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Electoral strategies for Pakistan's major parties are coalescing in advance of the likely late 2007/early 2008 national and provincial elections. At this stage, most parties, save the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N),have adopted a go-it-alone strategy. The ruling Pakist [...]
2006-05-30 08:10:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPGOV KDEM PREL PK
07ISLAMABAD115NGO HOSTS POL PARTIES ON THE QT TO DISCUSS
[...] (C) Summary: On December 22, The Asia Foundation's Pakistan office convened a multiparty dialogue to discuss how political parties can assist democratic development with the goal of making some concrete recommendations ahead of upcoming parliamentary elections. The session was meant to be low [...]
2007-01-09 05:10:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PK
07ISLAMABAD1176NATIONWIDE PROTESTS FOLLOW CHIEF JUSTICE'S
[...] (C) Summary. President Musharraf's March 9 suspension of Supreme Court Chief Justice Ifthikar Chaudhry has ignited the ire of Pakistan,s legal community and consumed the attention of the press and intelligentsia. Hundreds -- perhaps thousands -- of lawyers and other sympathizers protested na [...]
2007-03-13 14:51:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPK PREL PGOV
07ISLAMABAD1688RED MOSQUE UPDATE
[...] (C) Talks continued over the weekend between the leaders of the Red Mosque (Lal Masjid) and the government. Maulana Abdul Aziz and Maulana Ghazi, the two leaders of the mosque, have softened their public tone toward the government. During Friday,s sermon, Aziz delivered a more tempered message [...]
2007-04-16 13:34:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PK
07ISLAMABAD1698RED MOSQUE CALLS OFF NEGOTIATIONS
[...] (C) On April 16, the administration of the Red Mosque (Lal Masjid) announced that it would suspend talks with the government, after mosque leaders accused the government of aerial surveillance and spraying unknown gases on the mosque. Red Mosque leader Maulana Ghazi told a news conference that, [...]
2007-04-17 11:03:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPK PREL PTER
07ISLAMABAD2157VIOLENCE IN KARACHI: RUMOR MILL ACTIVE WHILE CITY WAITS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-14 11:10:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PK PREL
07ISLAMABAD2175MAY 15 KARACHI UPDATE
[...] (C) According to Consulate Karachi, as of 1500 Tuesday, April 15 (three days after the outbreak of violence),most Karachi businesses are operating normally and the city, while somber, is returning to normal. Public transportation is operating. The airport and all usual transport routes in Kar [...]
2007-05-15 11:22:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PK PREL
07ISLAMABAD2193ALL QUIET IN KARACHI; NO ONE YET HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR VIOLENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-16 11:49:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PK PREL
07ISLAMABAD2218MQM HOLDING EMERGENCY MEETING IN LONDON
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-17 12:27:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PHUM PK PREL
07ISLAMABAD2344POLITICAL PARTIES WORRIED ABOUT MQM VIOLENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-26 07:36:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK
07ISLAMABAD2401UPDATE ON MUSHARRAF'S POLITICAL SITUATION
[...] (SBU) Frequently Asked Questions about President Musharraf's current political problems. 2. (C) Q: Is Musharraf in as much trouble as some Western journalists indicate? A: No, but he is not as strong politically as he was four or five months ago. 2007 is an election year in Pakistan, and the P [...]
2007-05-31 13:13:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETASEC KDEM PGOV PHUM PK PREL PINS
07ISLAMABAD2467MQM FEELING WOUNDED
[...] (C) On June 1, Charge met with Minister of Ports and Shipping (and MQM member) Babar Khan Ghauri to discuss the May 11-13 violence in Karachi. Ghauri said the Karachi violence had "killed" the MQM's chances of gaining voters in Punjab province. The party was focusing on repairing its reputation in [...]
2007-06-04 12:42:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPK PREL PGOV
07ISLAMABAD2526WHAT HAPPENED TO PRESS FREEDOM IN PAKISTAN?
[...] (C) On March 24, President Musharraf told Ambassador Crocker that Musharraf intended to fire the head of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Agency (PEMRA),whose heavy handed interventions during the early stages of the Chief Justice controversy had been "unhelpful and wrong" (ref C). I [...]
2007-06-06 14:40:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL PK
07ISLAMABAD2546IMRAN KHAN TAKES ON THE MQM IN THE UK
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-07 13:13:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PTER
07ISLAMABAD2795NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OPPOSITION SUBMITS REFERENCE
[...] (C) Summary: On June 21, opposition National Assembly members submitted a disqualification reference (complaint) against Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz for financial misconduct. The reference comes on the heels of a similar reference against political leader (and former cricket star) Imran Khan, [...]
2007-06-23 05:55:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON KCRM PK UK
07ISLAMABAD3199PAKISTAN POLITICAL LANDSCAPE, PART 1: POLITICAL
[...] (SBU) Summary. Pakistan's multi-party parliamentary system includes large personality-based secular parties, regional nationalist/ethnic parties with limited appeal and surprisingly democratic religious parties. Party/personal loyalty and a spoils system count for more with voters than ofte [...]
2007-07-24 12:04:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PK
07ISLAMABAD3434NEW NATIONWIDE POLL SHOWS DIMINISHED SUPPORT FOR
[...] (C) Summary: The results of a new nationwide poll show a 20 percent drop in support for President Musharraf's job performance since February -- from 54 percent to 34 percent. Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairman Benazir Bhutto's popularity continued to grow steadily, and she emerged as the c [...]
2007-08-07 09:16:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PK
07ISLAMABAD4209REACTION TO PRO-MUSHARRAF RULING
[...] (C) Summary: Musharraf's spokesman lauded the September 28 Supreme Court ruling allowing the President to run for re-election in uniform and called on all sides to respect the rule of law. Musharraf's coalition partner, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM),called on Musharraf to doff his unifor [...]
2007-09-29 13:02:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK
07ISLAMABAD5380MGPK02: SITREP 3: BHUTTO'S FUNERAL; PROTESTS
[...] (C) Summary: The GOP transported the body of slain Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Benazir Bhutto to Larkana, where funeral services are taking place as of 1430 hours December 28. Violent sporadic protests occurred throughout the country well into the night of December 27. Pakistan was r [...]
2007-12-28 11:24:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PK PREL AEMR ASEC CASC PINR KFLO MARR
07ISLAMABAD5410MGPK02: SITREP 6: CALM BEING RESTORED; ELECTION
[...] (C) Summary: Pakistan today slowly returned to life after three days of mourning for Benazir Bhutto. Major cities were largely quiet December 31, with most businesses open and public transportation running. Pakistan's Election Commission deferred to tomorrow a decision on whether elections c [...]
2007-12-31 12:25:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL AEMR AMGT ASEC CASC KFLO MARR
07KARACHI755SINDH GOVERNOR ON BHUTTO BOMBING AND INVESTIGATION
[...] (C) Summary: On October 23, the Ambassador and Consul General (CG) met with Sindh Governor Ishrat-ul-Ebad. The Governor provided his official perspective on the security issues surrounding the October 19 attack on Pakistan People,s Party (PPP) leader Benazir Bhutto and the subsequent investi [...]
2007-10-29 10:34:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PINR PREL PTER PK
07KARACHI784SINDH GOVERNOR SUMMONS THE CONSULAR CORPS TO HIGH
[...] (C) Summary: On November 5, 2007, the Governor of Sindh summoned all Consuls General for a meeting to explain and justify the recent declaration of a State of Emergency. Within the one-sided conversation, the Governor touched upon press freedom, judicial activism, and how the abuse of freed [...]
2007-11-06 12:30:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL ASEC CASC PK
07KARACHI861MQM LEADERS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT ELECTIONS,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) leaders discussed their election plans at a meeting with the Consul General (CG) at their party headquarters on December 13, 2007. The MQM sees itself as a national party and will field candidates throughout Pakistan. Party leaders have been in [...]
2007-12-14 06:26:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD1034ZARDARI DROPS FAHEEM AS PM CANDIDATE
[...] (C) Summary. Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Amin Faheem told Ambassador March 7 that Asif Zardari does not want him to be Prime Minister because the party needs a Punjabi to counter the influence of Nawaz Sharif. Zardari offered Faheem the post of Speaker of the National Assembly or any other minist [...]
2008-03-07 16:20:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PK
08ISLAMABAD1271YOUSEF GILLANI ELECTED PRIME MINISTER
[...] (C) Summary: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Vice Chairman Yousef Gillani was elected as Pakistan's new Prime Minister on March 24 by a resounding two-thirds majority of the National Assembly; he will be sworn in by President Musharraf on March 25. With the real political leaders (Asif Zardari [...]
2008-03-24 13:19:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL
08ISLAMABAD145CODEL LIEBERMAN MEETS WITH HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST,
[...] (C) Summary: In a January 9 meeting with Codel Lieberman, human rights activist Asma Jahangir expressed her great concern for the current political and economic atmosphere within Pakistan. She also has hope for the elections but sees that the relationship between the American and Pakistani go [...]
2008-01-10 08:41:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PK PREL
08ISLAMABAD1476CODEL BIDEN'S MEETING WITH ASIF ZARDARI
[...] (C) Summary. Pakistan People's Party leader Asif Zardari told Codel Biden February 19 that he is seeking U.S. advice on the way forward. He is meeting or talking with all parties in pursuit of some form of a national unity government but suggested the PPP would try to form a government wit [...]
2008-04-07 03:26:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PK
08ISLAMABAD1499BOUCHER'S MEETING WITH MUTTAHIDA QUAMI MOVEMENT
[...] (C) Summary: On March 28, Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) leader Farooq Sattar met with Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher to discuss the party's plans for sitting in opposition of the new government. Sattar expressed satisfaction with the credibility of th [...]
2008-04-08 09:54:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL
08ISLAMABAD1679GROWING CONCERN OVER JUDGES' RESTORATION
[...] (C) Summary. There is growing concern over the continued deadlock between the Pakistan People's Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz over how to resolve the issue of the deposed judiciary. A new court petition attempting to prevent the National Assembly from considering a legislative [...]
2008-04-25 14:20:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD1702WILL THE JUDICIARY ISSUE BRING DOWN PAKISTAN'S
[...] (C) Summary: Though seemingly close to a deal on restoration of the deposed judiciary, the Pakistan People's Party and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz continue to negotiate (now in Dubai). The sticking point continues to be former Chief Justice Chaudhry, who likely will return to the bench. But [...]
2008-04-29 14:25:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL KJUS
08ISLAMABAD1749DRL ASSISTANT SECRETARY KRAMER MEETS WITH FEMALE
[...] (C) Summary: On April 22, Assistant Secretary Kramer and PolCouns met with female National Assembly members from the Pakistan People's Party (PPP),Pakistan Muslim League (PML),and the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM). During a lively one hour discussion, the women discussed election reform and [...]
2008-05-05 11:29:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PK PREL KWMN
08ISLAMABAD1867ZARDARI PUSHES "GLOBAL DEAL," BUT NAWAZ MAY HAVE
[...] (C) Summary: Meeting with the Ambassador May 14, Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Asif Zardari was optimistic about reaching a "global deal" on the judiciary, wooing the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) back into the cabinet, and finalizing a budget by the June 30 deadline. PML-N lead [...]
2008-05-15 14:48:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL
08ISLAMABAD1894SHOWDOWN MAY LOOM OVER JUDGES' RESTORATION
[...] (C) Summary: On May 18, Pakistan's legal fraternities, frustrated with the new GOP's lack of progress to restore the pre-November 3 judges, called for a "long march" on the capital to begin June 10. The lawyers' movement is hoping sympathetic civil society organizations and political parties [...]
2008-05-19 15:18:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL KJUS
08ISLAMABAD1933CONSTITUTIONAL HURDLES FOR PROPOSED 18TH AMENDMENT
[...] (C) Summary: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) this week prepared and appears ready to present an omnibus amendments package to reinstate the pre-November 3 judiciary, indemnify President Pervez Musharraf for his actions related to the judges' removal, and diminish significantly the possibility of [...]
2008-05-23 16:05:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL KJUS
08ISLAMABAD2351REP. JACKSON-LEE MEETS NA SPEAKER MIRZA
[...] (C) Summary: Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee met July 1 with National Assembly Speaker Dr. Fehmida Mirza. Mirza informed Rep. Jackson-Lee of her intention to visit the U.S. and women's advances in the current assembly. They also discussed President Musharraf's future. Rep. Jackson-Lee voiced concer [...]
2008-07-10 11:09:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL PHUM
08ISLAMABAD2611NAWAZ GOVERNMENT: NOT YET READY FOR PRIME TIME
[...] (C) Summary. Although Nawaz Sharif would like to exploit his status as Pakistan's most popular politician, he does not now have the votes to bring down the government and force new elections. If Nawaz quits the current coalition, PM Gilani could continue to lead a minority government with th [...]
2008-08-04 14:07:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD2689COALITION CONFIDENT; MUSHARRAF WEIGHING OPTIONS
[...] (C) Summary: The media campaign over President Musharraf's impeachment swung into high gear over the weekend as coalition members met to draft an impeachment charge sheet and there was wild speculation about the potential vote count for impeachment. Al Qaeda weighed in with a purported audio [...]
2008-08-11 14:07:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL
08ISLAMABAD2772POTENTIAL PAKISTANI PRESIDENTS
[...] (C) Summary: Following Musharraf's resignation August 18, Pakistan's political party leaders began immediate debates over who would become the next president; they have now taken a 72 hour break. On August 20, the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) made a surprise announcement that it would suppor [...]
2008-08-21 03:48:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK PINR
08ISLAMABAD2802IMMUNITY FOR MUSHARRAF LIKELY AFTER ZARDARI’S
[...] (C) Summary. In separate meetings with Asif Zardari, PM Gilani and Chief of Army Staff Kayani, Ambassador pressed for quick action on immunity for former President Musharraf. Zardari and Gilani said flatly that they were committed to providing immunity, but not until after the presidential election [...]
2008-08-23 14:12:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV EAID PK
08ISLAMABAD2817NAWAZ PULLS OUT OF THE COALITION
[...] (C) Summary. As expected, Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) leader Nawaz Sharif announced August 25 that the PML-N was formally withdrawing from the coalition government because it had lost faith in its coalition partner, Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Asif Zardari. In a news confere [...]
2008-08-25 13:42:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD2850INSIGHTS ON ZARDARI'S PLANS FOR THE PARTY,
[...] (C) Summary: Pakistan People's Party Deputy Secretary General Sheik Mansoor admitted August 27 that his party leadership, including those serving in government, would not focus on the extremist threat or other pressing issues until its Co-Chair Asif Zardari was elected Pakistan's president on Septe [...]
2008-08-27 12:03:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL KJUS PTER
08ISLAMABAD2940AFTER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION; ACTION WILL MOVE TO
[...] (C) Summary: Pakistan's electoral college will choose the country's next president on September 6; we expect the new president to be sworn in on September 7. Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Co-Chair Asif Zardari is confident of victory and has been working overtime to ensure he receives the maxi [...]
2008-09-06 05:56:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL
08ISLAMABAD2941PPP'S ZARDARI WINS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
[...] (C) Summary: Nineteen days after former President Pervez Musharraf resigned and nine months after Benazir Bhutto's assassination, Pakistan People's Party (PPP) candidate Asif Zardari was elected September 6 as the new President of Pakistan. We now expect he will be sworn in on September 9. De [...]
2008-09-06 11:17:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PK PREL PINR
08ISLAMABAD3070OUTREACH TO ASFUNDYAR WALI KHAN AND CHAUDHRY NISAR
[...] (C) Summary. In separate discussions with Ambassador September 19, Awami National Party leader Asfundyar Wali Khan and Pakistan Muslim League-N leader Chaudhry Nisar both said they were encouraged by signs that some local tribes had decided to rise up and fight militants. Khan said candidly [...]
2008-09-19 14:56:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV MOPS PK
08ISLAMABAD324PAKISTAN: JUDICIARY UPDATE
[...] (C) Summary: Attorney General Qayyum reported that he expected the three attorneys still under house arrest to be released "soon" and noted that the attorney's movement was fizzling under economic pressure. He was pessimistic about convincing Musharraf to release the eleven remaining detain [...]
2008-01-22 12:15:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PK
08ISLAMABAD3248PAKISTAN'S PARLIAMENT BEGINS TERRORISM DEBATE
[...] (C) Summary. The October 8-9 closed joint session of parliament convoked by President Zardari to address the security situation has been widely praised as a good first step in convincing Pakistan's elected leadership to take ownership of the fight against extremism; this effort now should be extend [...]
2008-10-13 09:43:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD3249ZARDARI IS SECURE, BUT THE GOP IS VULNERABLE
[...] (C) Summary. Despite political parlor talk that Asif Zardari has only a few months to get control of Pakistan or face a military coup, we see no immediate threat Zardari will be ousted from power. His chief threat comes from Chief of Army Staff General Kayani, who has no desire to take on [...]
2008-10-13 09:59:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD3349NAWAZ'S TENETS FOR WAR ON TERROR
[...] (C) Summary: The opposition Pakistan Muslim League-N's (PML-N) Nawaz Sharif has submitted a letter to PM Gilani outlining his party's six tenets for any counterterrorism strategy. While blaming the Musharraf administration for misguided policies and claiming a desire for consensus, the letter [...]
2008-10-22 12:47:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER MOPS EAID PK
08ISLAMABAD3398QURESHI TALKS TO BOUCHER ABOUT FRIENDS AND
[...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary Boucher met Foreign Minister Qureshi late October 20. Qureshi was appreciative of the effort put into the "Friends of Pakistan." He hoped the initiative would be more than "just a donors' group," and informed Boucher that an action plan was with President Zar [...]
2008-10-28 09:16:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER EAID PK
08ISLAMABAD3677REACTION TO ALLEGED DRONE ATTACKS IN BANNU
[...] (C) Summary: According to local press, the alleged U.S. strike in Bannu on November 19 marked the first such attack in the settled areas of the Northwest Frontier Province, outside of the tribal areas. The strike drew a new round of condemnation by Prime Minister Gilani, coalition political pa [...]
2008-11-24 01:27:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PK
08ISLAMABAD3827ALL PARTIES COMMUNIQUE ON INDO-PAK RELATIONS
[...] (U) Late December 2, in Islamabad, Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani convened an "all political parties conference" to discuss Pakistan's unequivocal condemnation of the October 29 Mumbai bombings and their unified position vis-a-vis Pakistan's relations with neighbor India. The text of the unanim [...]
2008-12-12 14:31:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IN PK
08ISLAMABAD405AMBASSADOR’S CONDOLENCE CALL ON ASIF ZARDARI
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-28 09:30:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PK
08ISLAMABAD421MQM LOOKING FOR RESPECT
[...] (C) Summary. The Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) based in Karachi appears to be transforming itself from a group of thugs to a service-based grass-roots political party. Expecting to win 20-25 seats in the upcoming National Assembly elections, MQM also sees itself as a potential kingmaker in formati [...]
2008-01-29 13:36:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PK
08ISLAMABAD422CRIMINAL PLANNING BEHIND POST-ASSASSINATION
[...] (C) Summary. During a visit to Karachi January 25-26, Ambassador heard a consistent message about the violence that wracked the city for three days after Benazir Bhutto's assassination. According to our contacts, while there were grief-stricken mobs, much of the damage was carefully planned [...]
2008-01-29 13:51:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PK
08ISLAMABAD470TAKING THE KARACHI BUSINESS COMMUNITY'S PULSE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Econ Counselor and Econoff traveled to Karachi to meet with a broad section of Karachi's dynamic business community. The overall consensus was that 2007 had been a good year for business in spite of repeated political turmoil and violence. Concern over lack of law and order and t [...]
2008-02-01 09:44:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALECON EINV EFIN PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD483“THE BEST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN IN PAKISTAN”
[...] (C) Summary. During a meeting with Ambassador January 31, Nawaz Sharif confirmed he was ready to work with the Pakistan People's Party in a post-election coalition government and described this union as "the best thing that could happen in Pakistan." He dismissed reports of threats against his life [...]
2008-02-01 13:41:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD505AMIN FAHEEM: SINCERE BUT UNPREPARED TO BE PRIME
[...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met January 31 with Amin Faheem, the Pakistan People's Party Vice-Chairman, who confirmed the party will not decide on a candidate for Prime Minister until after the February 18 elections. Faheem continues to remain open to working in a coalition with Musharraf's part [...]
2008-02-04 12:55:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD614PAKISTAN ELECTIONS: MANAGING EXPECTATIONS
[...] (C) Summary. Regardless of who "wins" the February 18 elections in Pakistan, the challenge will be managing expectations of the Pakistani public, the political parties and the international community. Despite assumptions that Bhutto's assassinaton will propel her party to a big victory, we [...]
2008-02-11 12:00:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD696ELECTION COMMISSION SECRETARY'S PREDICTIONS AND
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with the Election Commission Secretary February 15. In addition to predicting a strong showing by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, he commented on the relative strength of Pakistan's three main parties and their leaders. He thought turnout would be generally [...]
2008-02-16 12:21:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL
08ISLAMABAD70FRENCH AMBASSADOR BRIEFS FM KOUCHNER VISIT
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met January 4 with French counterpart Regis de Belenet to discuss the recent visit to Pakistan of French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner. Kouchner intended to meet with Asif Ali Zardari, husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, but the GOP recommended against the trip [...]
2008-01-05 07:06:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL
08ISLAMABAD720SITREP 5: PAKISTAN'S ELECTIONS: THE LATEST NUMBERS
[...] (C) Summary: Pakistan's Election Commission continues to tally and review results at its Islamabad headquarters. Final "unofficial results" are not expected until February 20. Once these numbers are known, candidates winning in multiple constituencies will need to resign from all but one of [...]
2008-02-19 15:39:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL
08ISLAMABAD745ZARDARI EXAMINING A COALITION WITH NAWAZ SHARIF
[...] (C) Summary: In the wake of the losses suffered by Musharraf's Pakistan Muslim League (PML) and the religious parties, scenarios for the next government are being debated. Bhutto widower Zardari described the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) as supporting a government of ""national unity,"" [...]
2008-02-20 15:19:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PK
08ISLAMABAD746ANATOMY OF A DEFEAT
[...] (C) Summary. Overall, Pakistan's February 18 election process went better than anyone expected. Voter turnout was approximately 48%, and violence was lower than in past elections. Musharraf's Pakistan Muslim League (PML) party suffered a stunning defeat, dropping from 144 to 40 seats; its [...]
2008-02-20 15:56:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PK
08ISLAMABAD762STRUGGLING TOWARDS A COALITION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-21 12:27:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PK PREL
08ISLAMABAD764AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-21 15:52:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL
08ISLAMABAD786PPP AND PML-N AGREE TO TRY AND FORM A GOVERNMENT
[...] (C) Summary. Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Co-Chair Asif Zardari and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Nawaz Sharif announced February 21 that they planned to form a coalition government. However, this is an agreement in principle; details on key issues including a choice for Prim [...]
2008-02-22 12:46:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PK
08ISLAMABAD807NAWAZ STILL NEGOTIATING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-25 13:56:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PK PREL
08ISLAMABAD852MQM WAITING FOR PPP'S CALL
[...] (C) Summary: Karachi-based Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) leader Farooq Sattar asked Ambassador February 26 to push subtly for his party's inclusion in any Pakistan People's Party-led government. Sattar highlighted his party's secular, pro-western policies and suggested the Pakistan Muslim L [...]
2008-02-27 13:10:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL
08ISLAMABAD857PAKISTAN WORKERS FEDERATION SECRETARY GENERAL CRITICAL OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a February 13 meeting with Economic and Commercial Affairs Counselor, Pakistan Workers' Federation (PWF) Secretary General Khursheed Ahmad criticized the Government of SIPDIS Pakistan's (GOP) economic and labor policies, accusing them of "taking for granted that labor doesn [...]
2008-02-27 14:34:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ETRD PGOV SOCI PREL PK
08ISLAMABAD876PPP: "GIVE US TIME"
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-29 01:46:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PK PREL
08ISLAMABAD89POLITICAL FALLOUT FROM BHUTTO'S ASSASSINATION
[...] (C) Summary. Ten days after Benazir Bhutto's assassination, Pakistan is slowly recovering, and the various political parties are gaming out the way forward. Before Bhutto's death, it was clear that no one party would win enough votes to form a government, and even a pro-Pakistan People's P [...]
2008-01-07 12:26:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PK
08ISLAMABAD898AMIN FAHEEM: WAITING QUIETLY TO BE CHOSEN PM
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-29 13:10:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PK PREL
08ISLAMABAD980PPP/NAWAZ: TACTICAL ALLIES BUT STRATEGIC ENEMIES
[...] (C) Summary. Pakistan Muslim League (PML) General Secretary Mushahid Hussain believes that Asif Zardari's SIPDIS Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) party are "tactical allies but strategic enemies" so the alliance may be short-lived. Mushahi [...]
2008-03-05 04:13:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PK
08KARACHI141MQM WORRIED ABOUT POST-ELECTION MANUEUVERING
[...] (C) Summary: The Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) is concerned about any coalition formed by the Pakistan Peoples, Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). With PML-N publicly stating that it will not talk with the MQM, the MQM is crying foul and wants &respect8. It also claims t [...]
2008-02-25 12:24:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PK
08KARACHI220SINDH -- MQM LEADER SAYS PARTY LEFT OUT OF
[...] (C) Summary: On March 14, Farooq Sattar, Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) leader, told the Consul General that his party has not been approached to participate as a coalition partner in either the national or Sindh provincial governments. He was not in favor of a blanket restoration of the j [...]
2008-03-17 14:38:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PK
08KARACHI380CODEL CASEY MEETS WITH KARACHI MAYOR
[...] (C) Summary: On May 27, U.S. Senator Robert Casey and Consul General (CG) met with Karachi Nazim (Mayor) Syed Mustafa Kamal in Karachi. Kamal, a member of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) political party, forecast a growing threat to Karachi from religious extremists and disagreed with th [...]
2008-06-06 12:36:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER EINV PK
08KARACHI466KARACHI - MUSHARAFF MEETS WITH BUSINESS COMMUNITY
[...] (C) Summary: The Consul General (CG) was briefed by Majyd Aziz, a Karachi textile manufacturer, who attended meetings between President Pervez Musharraf and the city,s business leaders during his August 1)4 visit to Karachi. Musharraf first held a private meeting on August 2 with a small gr [...]
2008-08-05 06:29:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON PREL PTER PK
08KARACHI477SINDH - MQM TELLS KARACHI RESIDENTS TO ARM AGAINST
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 8, Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) leader Altaf Hussain advised residents of two upscale Karachi communities to arm themselves against an impending takeover by Taliban forces. MQM critics accused Hussain of trying to exacerbate an ethnic dispute with the city's Pashtu [...]
2008-08-13 08:33:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PK
08KARACHI479SINDH ASSEMBLY ASKS MUSHARRAF TO ACCEPT ELECTORAL
[...] (C) Summary: In a move spearheaded by the Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP),the Sindh Provincial Assembly voted 94 ) 0 on August 13 to ask President Pervez Musharraf to agree to resign or face impeachment if he fails to win a vote of confidence on his re-election from his electoral college (all [...]
2008-08-16 11:39:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PK
08KARACHI483SINDH - GUNFIRE HITS MOTORCADE OF NATIONAL
[...] (C) Summary: A motorcade carrying National Assembly Member (MNA) Haider Abbas Rizvi, a member of the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) political party, and his family was struck by gunfire on August 17. Neither Rizvi nor any of his family members were hurt, but a police officer escorting the [...]
2008-08-20 05:53:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PK
08KARACHI484SINDH - GUNFIRE HITS MOTORCADE OF NATIONAL
[...] (C) Summary: A motorcade carrying National Assembly Member (MNA) Haider Abbas Rizvi, a member of the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) political party, and his family was struck by gunfire on August 17. Neither Rizvi nor any of his family members were hurt, but a police officer escorting the [...]
2008-08-20 06:46:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PK
08KARACHI488SUBJECT: KARACHI - BOMB BLAST TARGETS POLICE
[...] (SBU) About 11:45 am local time on August 23, Lyari Police Commander Umar Khitab was slightly injured and two of his bodyguards sustained unspecified injuries when a convoy carrying him from a police residential compound was struck by what appears to have been a remote controlled bomb secrete [...]
2008-08-23 11:07:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PK
08KARACHI627ETHNIC VIOLENCE SHAKES KARACHI
[...] (C) Summary: Up to 50 people have been killed in violent ethnic riots between Pashtuns and Mohajirs since November 27. While the specific action that sparked sporadic attacks is unclear, the ruling Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) movement has been warning for months of the increased 'taliba [...]
2008-12-03 14:10:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER SOCI PK
08KARACHI91PASHTUN POLITICAL LEADER KILLED IN KARACHI
[...] (C) Summary: On February 6, gunmen killed the Sindh Deputy President of the Awami National Party (ANP),Fazlur Rehman Akakhel. Almost immediately after, Pashtuns in Karachi took to the streets, creating mayhem in certain neighborhoods and traffic jams everywhere. In a separate incident, t [...]
2008-02-07 09:19:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PK
08LAHORE209AMBASSADOR BRIEFS NAWAZ SHARIF ON USG ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and members of the country team briefed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his closest advisors on USG assistance programs and the terrorist threat on May 15. This was similar to the briefing provided to Ambassador Durrani and ANP leader Wali Khan at CIA headquarter [...]
2008-05-22 05:59:00Consulate LahoreCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL PK
08LAHORE276PUNJAB GOVERNOR TASEER TELLS AMBASSADOR THAT SHARIFS ARE TOO
[...] (C) Summary: Punjab Governor Salman Taseer told Ambassador Patterson September 30 that Punjab Chief Minister Shabaz Sharif and his brother Nawaz have ignored the growing extremist threat in the Punjab. Taseer, a member of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP),criticized the Sharifs' focus on pol [...]
2008-10-07 06:05:00Consulate LahoreCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER EFIN PK
08LONDON3062PAKISTAN: LYALL GRANT AND BOUCHER AGREE ON
[...] (C) Summary. Assistant Secretary Boucher and Foreign Office Political Director Lyall Grant agreed on the need for Pakistan, and especially General Kayani, to close down Lashkar e Taiba operations and move on to reform of the intelligence service. Lyall Grant observed there would be less political [...]
2008-12-08 16:51:00Embassy LondonSECRETPREL PGOV PTER PINR IN PK CH UK
08PESHAWAR431FATA AND NWFP: BI-WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION: AUGUST
[...] (C) Increased violence and intense fighting in Swat, Kurram and Bajaur characterized the first two weeks of August. Operations in Swat continue although the military's primary focus appears to have shifted to Bajaur. The government aggressively attacked militants in Bajaur, where air bombardme [...]
2008-08-22 09:16:00Consulate PeshawarUNCLASSIFIEDPTER MOPS PGOV PK
08PESHAWAR435FATA AND NWFP: BI-WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION: AUGUST
[...] (C) Increased violence and intense fighting in Swat, Kurram and Bajaur characterized the first two weeks of August. Operations in Swat continue although the military's primary focus appears to have shifted to Bajaur. The government aggressively attacked militants in Bajaur, where air bombardme [...]
2008-08-26 00:37:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1014 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 12, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-12 10:12:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1122PAKISTAN MILITARY CLAIM MINGORA; PRIME MINISTER
[...] (SBU) Summary. Pakistan military operations continued on May 25, as the troops continued efforts to recapture the main Swat city of Mingora and secure major intersections and surrounding areas. Major General Athar Abbas, the Director General's Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR) spokesm [...]
2009-05-25 12:05:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON IO PGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD1166KARACHI MAYOR PROMOTES AND PLEADS FOR HIS
[...] (C) Summary: Karachi Mayor Mustafa Kamal met May 26 with the Ambassador and Codel Carper in Islamabad. The energetic 37-year old mayor of one of the world's largest cities jumped at the chance to showcase Karachi, Pakistan's "revenue engine," he said. The five senators were particularly inte [...]
2009-05-28 14:50:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD1249 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 08, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-08 09:59:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1261 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 09, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-09 10:12:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1272JUNE 10 IDP UPDATE: UN PULLS PERSONNEL OUT OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: The UN has moved the majority of its personnel in Peshawar to Islamabad after the June 9 attack on the Pearl Continental hotel resulted in the deaths of two of its officials (septel). This repositioning, the duration of which has not yet been determined, will not prevent the UN [...]
2009-06-10 12:49:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPTER PREF PHUM PGOV AID PK
09ISLAMABAD1321 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 16, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-16 10:11:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD141CONSEQUENCES OF A ZARDARI-NAWAZ SHOWDOWN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-22 14:13:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL
09ISLAMABAD180ANOTHER CABINET EXPANSION; MQM JOINS GOVERNMENT
[...] (C) Summary: President Asif Zardari swore in four more federal ministers on January 26, two from the religious Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party (JUI-F, including Fazlur Rehman's brother) and two from the Karachi-based Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM). With this move, Zardari formally brings MQM and i [...]
2009-01-28 14:24:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR EAID MARR PK
09ISLAMABAD1988 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 20, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-20 09:48:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2288PRIME MINISTER GILANI OUTLINES GOP PLANS ON THE
[...] (C) Summary: In an hour-long meeting September 18, Prime Minister Gilani said the Malakand campaign against extremist groups is 70 percent completed. He emphasized the need to undertake reconstruction and rehabilitation in the region, not only to help the population there but also to convi [...]
2009-09-20 09:46:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PTER PREL SNAR PINS PREF AMGT PHUM
09ISLAMABAD2289NATIONAL RECONCILIATION ORDINANCE MAY BE THE
[...] (C) Summary: The Supreme Court's decision to return the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) to the National Assembly for action has left the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) government with a Hobbesian choice between taking public responsibility for passage of this very unpopular legislation [...]
2009-09-21 12:07:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD230ZARDARI IN NO HURRY TO CEDE HIS CONSTITUTIONAL
[...] (C) Summary: Nawaz Sharif has a new populist cause-- pressuring President Zardari and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) to fulfill their Charter of Democracy pledge to repeal Musharraf-era constitutional changes that transferred power from the Prime Minister to the President. Zardari inherite [...]
2009-02-03 13:56:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD2353 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-29 11:00:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD239PAKISTAN'S GOVERNMENT STABILIZES
[...] (C) Summary. Despite media speculation and rumor, PM Gilani's government is now stable, and President Zardari's position is now secure. Nawaz Sharif may be the most popular leader in Pakistan, but Zardari has added the Muttahida Quami Movement, soon perhaps to be joined by the Pakistan Musl [...]
2009-02-04 13:38:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD2459HEATED DEBATE IN PAKISTAN'S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: In three days of intense debate in the Pakistan National Assembly October 7-9, the Kerry-Lugar Bill (KLB) has come under fire (reftel). Post has been observing the debates daily. During debates on October 8 and 9, criticism of the bill by opposition members of parliament conti [...]
2009-10-10 06:24:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD2474 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TERRORISM, KERRY-LUGAR BILL,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-13 10:33:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2663 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, TERRORISM/MILITARY,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-03 11:35:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2669 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, TERRORISM/MILITARY,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-04 12:33:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2810 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: NOVEMBER 20, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-20 10:30:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2928SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW NATIONAL RECONCILIATION
[...] (C) Summary: The National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) lapsed on November 28. The Supreme Court announced that it will review all petitions related to the NRO beginning on December 7, and will likely make a ruling on its constitutionality. The government has not yet decided whether to def [...]
2009-12-04 11:35:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD378POLITICAL UPDATE: ZARDARI CONSOLIDATES POWER
[...] (C) Summary: President Asif Zardari has taken simultaneous moves to further consolidate his authority over the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and to extend the PPP's control over both the National Assembly and Senate. Senate elections will not occur until March 4, but the PPP has already locked [...]
2009-02-20 13:34:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD397 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 23, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-23 10:55:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD411 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 24, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-24 13:06:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD412NEW PRIVATIZATION POLICY APPROVED; GAS FIELD PRIVATIZATION
[...] (SBU) Summary. On February 19, the Cabinet Committee on Privatization (CCOP) approved a new privatization policy whereby 26 percent and management control of a number of state owned enterprises would be sold. While total privatization is the eventual goal, the GOP intends to proceed in steps [...]
2009-02-24 13:58:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ECON ETRD ENRG PK
09ISLAMABAD429DEMONSTRATIONS AND POLITICAL MANEUVERING CONTINUE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-26 15:05:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PINR PK PREL
09ISLAMABAD439DEMONSTRATIONS CONTINUE IN PUNJAB
[...] (C) Summary: Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets, mostly in Punjab, after Friday prayers to protest the disqualification of opposition Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) leaders Nawaz and Shahbaz Sharif. Protests turned violent in Lahore and Rawalpindi, and police used tear gas and b [...]
2009-02-27 14:53:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD477NO CONTEST: PAKISTAN'S SENATE ELECTIONS
[...] (C) National and provincial legislators gathered in their respective chambers March 4 to elect 50 new senators to Pakistan's 100-member upper house (ref A). Senators are hand-picked by their party leaders, elected indirectly not by popular vote, and serve six-year terms. Pakistan's Election [...]
2009-03-04 14:14:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD495ZARDARI-NAWAZ RECONCILIATION: PLEAS FOR U.S. INTERVENTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-07 16:44:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD548ZARDARI AGREES TO APPEAL SHARIFS' DISQUALIFICATION
[...] (C) Ambassador and UK High Commissioner (Ambassador) had dinner with President Zardari March 14. Right before the meeting, Zardari had issued a statement indicating his government's intention to request a review of the Supreme Court's decision on the eligibility of the Sharif brothers to ho [...]
2009-03-14 17:48:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD559LONG MARCH ROUND UP AS OF 1500 LOCAL TIME, MARCH 16
[...] (C) Summary: Early in the morning on March 16 Prime Minister Gilani announced former Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry's reinstatement and the GOP's intention to file a review petition on the Sharif brothers' case in the Supreme Court. Shortly thereafter, Nawaz Sharif announced that he was calling of [...]
2009-03-16 12:11:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD723SWAT FLOGGING VIDEO GENERATES OUTRAGE
[...] (C) Summary. Civil society groups launched demonstrations across Pakistan April 4-5 to protest the video-taped flogging by the Taliban of a 17 year-old girl in Swat. Secular politicians condemned the incident, and newly restored Supreme Court Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry called upon the govern [...]
2009-04-06 14:41:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PHUM PK
09ISLAMABAD785 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 14, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-14 09:51:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD788ZARDARI SIGNS SHARI'A REGULATIONS FOR SWAT
[...] (C) Summary: On April 13, President Zardari signed the proposed Nizam-e-Adl regulations into law, officially extending Shari'a law in Swat and surrounding areas. The approval came after months of pressure from coalition partner Awami National Party (ANP) and also the Pakistani military. The A [...]
2009-04-14 14:19:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD819 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: April 20, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-20 10:19:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD829PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: April 21, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-21 10:12:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD847PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 22, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-22 13:47:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD888PREPARING FOR THE LONG HAUL
[...] (C) Summary. As promised, the Pakistani military began anti-militant operations in Lower Dir April 26; the Mission will monitor activities on a regular basis to keep Washington apprised of this positive turn of events. However, based on actions over the past year, we should be prepared for [...]
2009-04-27 13:37:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER MARR EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD918MQM: PRINCIPLES AND CONSPIRACIES
[...] (C) Summary: On April 23, Charge met with Karachi-based Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) leaders Dr. Farooq Sattar and Haider Rizvi to discuss their party's stance against the recently signed Nizam-e-Adl Regulation, their ideas for a GOP response, and the potential for violence in the mega-city [...]
2009-04-30 10:07:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD935 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 01, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-01 09:47:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD946RECONCILIATION UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) publicly agreed to continue in a coalition with the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) government in Punjab, but PML-N again politely declined PM Gilani's offer to rejoin the PPP-led government in Islamabad. Awami National Party leader Wali Khan [...]
2009-05-03 10:35:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD947ANP'S WALI KHAN PRAISES MILITARY SUCCESSES
[...] (C) Summary. Awami National Party President Asfundyar Wali Khan told Charge May 3 that he was pleased (for the first time) with vigorous Army/Frontier Corps action against militants in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP). GOP forces were moving into Shangla, completing the encirclement [...]
2009-05-03 11:08:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD991GILANI DECLARES WAR IN SWAT
[...] (C) Summary: On May 7 in a landmark television and radio address to the nation, Prime Minister Gilani made an impassioned plea to Pakistanis to support decisive military action against the Taliban in Swat and surrounding areas. All political parties except Imran Khan's and the Jamaat-e-Islami [...]
2009-05-08 13:21:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PTER PGOV PREF PHUM PK
09KARACHI130SINDH - ETHNIC TENSIONS BREWING
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-14 04:15:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PTER
09KARACHI131BALOCHISTAN - PROTESTS ROIL PROVINCE AFTER
[...] (C) The mutilated bodies of Baloch National Movement (BNM) General Secretary Ghulam Mohammad and two other Baloch nationalists were found near the southern Balochistan city of Turbat on April 8. The discovery sparked violent unrest in many urban centers throughout Balochistan, including prote [...]
2009-04-14 04:38:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PK
09KARACHI138SINDH - THE GANGS OF KARACHI
[...] (S) Summary: The police in Karachi are only one of several armed groups in the city, and they are probably not the most numerous or best equipped. Many neighborhoods are considered by the police to be no-go zones in which even the intelligence services have a difficult time operating. Very f [...]
2009-04-22 11:52:00Consulate KarachiSECRETPTER ASEC PGOV PK
09KARACHI152 SINDH - ETHNIC VIOLENCE ESCALATES
[...] (SBU) Ethnic violence erupted again in Karachi and has left at least 30 people dead and more than 50 injured. The fighting between the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Awami National Party (ANP) has sent tremors throughout the city as more violence is anticipated. Schools remained closed o [...]
2009-05-01 05:35:00Consulate KarachiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER PK
09KARACHI168KARACHI --- ALL QUIET ON MAY 12
[...] (SBU) Summary: After weeks of tense negotiations and anticipation of violence, May 12 appears to be passing without incident. The local holiday declared by the Provincial government, coupled with a heavy visible police presence throughout the city has effectively kept the peace. End Summary [...]
2009-05-13 02:37:00Consulate KarachiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PK
09KARACHI194KARACHI - POLITICAL KILINGS INCREASE
[...] (SBU) Almost fifty political workers, mainly from MQM-H, have been killed in what appear to be targeted assassinations, in Karachi over the past week. On Sunday alone, ten workers from various parties, but mainly Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi (MQM-H) died. Political parties blame Muttahida [...]
2009-06-10 08:53:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK
09KARACHI21 SINDH - ABRAJJ DELAYS INVESTMENT IN KESC UPGRADES
[...] Summary: Dubai-based Abrajj group, the new owner of Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) (ref E),has yet to carry through on its promise to invest up to USD 350 million to upgrade the power company's crumbling distribution and generation systems, leading many to speculate about the seriousne [...]
2009-01-21 01:12:00Consulate KarachiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EFIN PK
09KARACHI222 SINDH/KARACHI: LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO BE DISSOLVED
[...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Gilani's announcement that Local Government (LG) will be dissolved in August and Administrators appointed, with the understanding that the government will hold elections when the law and order situation permits, has changed the political landscape in Karachi and S [...]
2009-07-14 08:43:00Consulate KarachiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PK
09KARACHI362KARACHI - MQM'S STUDENT-WING AS LEADERSHIP TRAINING GROUND
[...] (C) Summary. Poloffs met November 6 with Syed Waheeduzzaman, Chairman of APMSO, which he described as the "mother-wing" of MQM. APMSO provides traditional student support in schools and Universities across Sindh and plays a major role in the day to day operations of MQM by identifying and prov [...]
2009-11-16 04:47:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER KCRM KCRS PK
09KARACHI396SUICIDE BOMBING DURING MUHARRAM PROCESSION IN KARACHI -
[...] (SBU) Summary: A suicide bomber attacked a Muharram procession in Karachi on December 28. Preliminary reports indicate 25 dead and 82 wounded. Following the initial explosion, marchers attacked security personnel and vehicles. Leaders from all political parties are calling for calm in the [...]
2009-12-28 15:24:00Consulate KarachiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER PK
09KARACHI397MUHARRAM VIOLENCE IN KARACHI
[...] (C) Summary: Three days of Muharram procession violence in Karachi culminated on December 28 with a suicide bombing that killed at least 43 people and sparked rioting leading to extensive property damage. Political leaders urged calm, but tensions remain high throughout the city. End summary [...]
2009-12-29 12:28:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PTER PK
09KARACHI74SINDH - MQM HOLDS RALLY TO SUPPORT PPP, OFFER
[...] (C) Summary: The Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) held a large rally in Karachi on March 1, in an apparent show of solidarity with Pakistan People's Party (PPP) anger over damage to Benazir Bhutto's Rawalpindi shrine and burning of her photos by supporters of Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim Lea [...]
2009-03-06 12:31:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PK
09LAHORE95MODERATE ISLAMIC LEADERS IN PUNJAB LOOK TO U.S. FOR GUIDANCE
[...] (C) Summary: Although historically divided by sometimes violent sectarian differences, Punjab's Islamic religious leaders have found common cause in recent years in pressing for a moderate alternative to the Taliban-style Islam increasing in Pakistan's Pashtun areas. While infiltration by wel [...]
2009-05-18 10:46:00Consulate LahoreCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PK
09PESHAWAR47NWFP: SWAT UPDATE; ANP HEDGING ON SUPPORT FOR ZARDARI?
[...] (S/NF) While the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) government has rejected militant calls for withdrawal of the army from Swat, plans to send the Nizam-i-Adl (Shari'a) Regulation to President Zardari again and a prisoner release underscore the provincial government's determination to hang ont [...]
2009-03-10 11:20:00Consulate PeshawarSECRETPGOV PTER MOPS EAID PK
09PESHAWAR76NWFP: SWAT UPDATE - MILITANTS GAINING GROUND WITH NEW
[...] (C) Summary and Comment. Following the signing of the Nizam-e-Adl regulation by President Asif Zardari on April 13, the residents of Swat District in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) expected to experience a new sense of peace in their region. While targeted, high profile violence has co [...]
2009-04-22 10:40:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV EAID PK
10ISLAMABAD11 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 05, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-05 10:43:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD265 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 03, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-03 10:34:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD387 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 18, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-18 10:33:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD41 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 11, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-11 11:19:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD54 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 12, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-12 12:10:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10KARACHI15KARACHI - AMBASSADOR MEETS MQM LEADERSHIP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 6 meeting, the Ambassador discussed wide ranging issues with leaders of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM). MQM discussed the aftermath of the December 28 bombing and arson in Karachi, MQM's relationship with PPP, and the development needs of Karachi. END SUMMARY. 2. [...]
2010-01-20 10:20:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PK
10KARACHI23KARACHI - TARGETED KILLINGS ESCALATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Since June 2009, politically motivated targeted killings have been the norm in Karachi. The advent of the new year brought an escalation of the violence, and points to potential fissures in the ruling coalition. End summary. ---------------------- New Year, New Violence -- [...]
2010-01-26 11:44:00Consulate KarachiSECRETPGOV PTER KCRM PK
10KARACHI40KARACHI: MQM AND PPP SPAR OVER LAW AND ORDER, LOCAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The debate over the future of local governance in Sindh Province continues without resolution, while the current local government's tenure expired in October 2009. The terrorist attack in Karachi on Ashura, and several recent periods of elevated targeted killings in the city hav [...]
2010-02-09 10:40:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PK
10KARACHI42KARACHI: LG RESOLUTION LEAVES MUCH TO BE RESOLVED.
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Concluding an internal deadlock, the Sindh Assembly tabled the Sindh Local Government (Amendment) Bill on February 15, 2010. After many heated exchanges, negotiations and a delay of nearly a year, the amendment received unanimous support for Chief Minister appointed 'Administr [...]
2010-02-18 06:59:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PK
10KARACHI53KARACHI: NEW SINDH ADMINISTRATORS NAMED
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Sindh Assembly on February 22 announced the appointment of administrators to oversee local government until the May 2010 party-based elections. Replacing Karachi Nazim Mustafa Kamal (MQM) is District Coordination Officer Lala Fazal ur Rehman, and replacing Hyderabad Nazim Kan [...]
2010-02-25 06:46:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PK
91ISLAMABAD8792 SHARIA--WHERE DID IT GO?
[...] LOU- ENTIRE TEXT 2. ONE MONTH AGO, THE LEADING TOPIC OF POLITICAL DISCUSSION IN MUCH OF PAKISTAN WAS THE PRIME MINISTER'S SHARIA BILL, OSTENSIBLY MEANT TO "ISLAMIZE" PAKISTANI LAWS, GOVERNMENT, AND SOCIETY. DEBATE RAGED IN THE PRESS BETWEEN CRITICS FROM THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT, WHO ARGUED THA [...]
1991-06-17 06:12:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM PK
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