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Newshoggers (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Steve Hynd Our good friend Jeremy Scahill broke a truly massive story yesterday at The Nation. At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations...
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Sify (Free subscription) | yesterday
At the time when Islamabad is pushing for resolution of the Kashmir issue in accordance with the UN resolutions of 1948 and 1949, Pakistan Muslim League -Quaid (PML-Q) Secretary General Humayun
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Pen and Sword (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
President Barack Obama is about to make the biggest mistake of 21 st century by sending 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan. We currently have 68,000 troops in Afghanistan. NATO countries supply an additional 42,000. There are maybe 100 al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, and maybe 300 in Pakistan. Some estimates say al-Qaeda is down to fewer than a dozen core fighters. And we already have 110,000 mechanized, highly...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
'The British know well we do not garland or honour terror suspects', says Pakistan intelligence officer The latest evidence that British government officials have been complicit in the torture of British citizens during the so-called "war on terror" has come from the most compelling of sources: the torturers themselves. For more than a year, researchers from Human Rights Watch have been...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
A new report finds the UK was complicit in sickening acts by Pakistan's ISI. The government so far seems unmoved Today sees the release by Human Rights Watch (HRW) of a searing exposé of the evidence against the British government of its complicity in the torture of people held in Pakistan suspected of terrorism. The report, Cruel Britannia, is based on evidence collected by Ali Dayan Hasan,...
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The Agonist (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Azaz Syed | Islamabad | November 24 Dawn - After fighting a bloody war in Afghanistan for more than eight years, the United States appears to have undertaken a re-think of its policy and has started engaging the Taliban in negotiations through Saudi and Pakistani intelligence agencies, highly-placed sources told Dawn here on Monday. ‘We have started ‘engagement’ with the Afghan Taliban...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Pakistan has categorically rejected reports of the Washington Times about presence of Afghan Taliban leader, Mulla Mohammad Omar, in Karachi of the country. Speaking to a private Pakistani TV channel, Pakistan's Foreign Office spokesman, Abdul Basit, stressed that Omar was not present in Karachi. The spokesman also denied Pakistan intelligence service ISI's involvement in shifting Mulla Omar to Karachi,...
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Haqeeqat.Org (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Two days after he said women could be recruited as fighter pilots only if they did not become mothers till a certain age, Vice Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal P K Barbora on Thursday took a swipe at the political class, saying politics over defence purchases impinged “very badly” on the country’s military requirements POSSIBLY RELATED POSTS: ISI Summons RAW Chief over Terrorism in...
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Haqeeqat.Org (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Lately, Pakistan has been rocked by unprecedented levels of violence, as the Pakistani army intensifies military operations against the Taliban in the tribal areas. The latest bomb blast near the Afghan border is the ninth in two weeks in and around Peshawar the capital city of Pakistan’s North Western Frontier Province (NWFP). Pakistan’s most populous province Punjab has also suffered...
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baithak (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Photographs from Seven Years with the Roma - What began as a short visit to Hungary finished seven years later with a prize-winning book documenting the lives of the Roma people, from India to Eastern Europe. The photos are now on display in Germany. And with Berlin planning to repatriate up to 10,000 Roma, they are more than just pretty pictures. Asif Ezdi - Gilani should also order investigations...
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Bulletin.India (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
The US investigators believe some elements in Pakistan’s ISI could be linked to American terror suspect David Headley who is currently in FBI custody for trying to plot attacks in India.
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rediff News (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
The US investigators believe some elements in Pakistan's ISI could be linked to American terror suspect David Headley who is currently in FBI custody for trying to plot attacks in India.
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Understanding Each Other, Diversity and Dissent (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
We view things too simply. These are the guys who taught Marco Polo what he learned about business, negotiations, logistics and operations. http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/29/taliban-isi-let-jem-lashkar-jaish-pashtun-afghanistan-opinions-contributors-pakistan.html Commentary An Alphabet Soup Of Terror Bahukutumbi Raman 05.29.09, 9:30 AM ET An emailed question from an editor at this publication asked...
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publishaletter.com (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Dear Editor:I, Zubin Vicky Driver, 11years, studying in VII std in Sister Nivedita English School, Dombivli, have to ask you something. Why we remember a moment on particular day? Why we light candles for those soldiers who fought in terroism, is it only for showing pity to them? Government promised that they will help their families who give their lives in terroist attack on 26/11/08. But did they...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Washington: Fearing that Taliban supremo Mullah Omar might be targeted by U.S. drones, Pakistan’s ISI has helped him to flee from the border town of Quetta to the mega port city of Karachi, where he has established a new Shura ...