In the past few months, a rash of suicide bombings something previously almost unknown in Pakistan have left scores of people dead in the frontier region.

NEWYORKER: Days of Rage

The former cattle rancher, Grateful Dead lyricist and founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been engaged in that battle for 25 years, longer than many of the young Internet users opposing the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) have been old enough to sit at a keyboard.

FORBES: As SOPA Looms, John Perry Barlow On 'The Right To Know'

Pakistan's artillery and airstrikes against Taliban militants in North West Frontier Province left 47 suspected militants dead in operations over the last 24 hours, the military said.

CNN: Pakistan claims dozens of militants killed

Georgian forces shot dead 11 gunmen in an operation to free hostages near the frontier with Dagestan.

ECONOMIST: Politics this week

Col Stambekov was made acting head of the service in June, weeks after 14 border troops were found dead at a burnt-out border post near Kazakhstan's southern frontier with China.

BBC: Kazakhstan military plane crash kills 27 near Shymkent