Source: The Star
Home side puts up stiff challenge but ultimately succumbs; Sri Lanka cruises in early match
Faraz Sarwat
Special to the Star
A spirited Canada fought hard against Pakistan yesterday at King City, but ultimately lost their opening match of the T-20 Canada 2008 Cup by 35 runs.
Jet-lagged and lethargic, Pakistan were pegged-back in their 20 overs […]

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Source: Chicago Tribune
A group of Pakistani-Americans and anti-war activists delivered a letter Thursday to the Chicago office of Sen. Barack Obama, calling on him to cool political rhetoric about bombing targets in Pakistan.
“We are particularly concerned with your public pronouncements earlier this week in support of violating the borders of our ally, the country of […]

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Source: Telegraph
Just when it was looking as if the situation in Pakistan could not get any worse, along comes the global credit crisis. As if the newly appointed administration of President Ali Zardari didn’t have enough on its plate already trying to establish its political authority while waging war against a determined Islamist insurgency. But […]

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Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Pakistani politician and cricket great Imran Khan says his country is heading towards anarchy because of the war on terror.
Addressing the 2008 National Radio Conference on the Gold Coast on Friday, Khan said Pakistan was experiencing increasing suicide bomb attacks and instability since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan.
He compared Pakistan’s current situation […]

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Source: Chron
Separate blast, U.S. strike leave at least 19 dead
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — A suicide bomber bearing a box of sweets managed to penetrate one of the most heavily secured police enclaves in the capital on Thursday, wrecking a residential building that housed anti-terrorism police and injuring half a dozen officers.
Elsewhere in the country, 10 people […]

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Source: BloombergOct. 9 (Bloomberg) — An explosion rocked a police complex in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, GEO television reported. The explosion was heard across the city.
More than 2,000 people were killed in Pakistan last year in terrorist attacks, including suicide bombings that the government blames on militants who oppose the country’s support for the U.S.-led […]

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Source: AFP
KARACHI (AFP) — Pakistan’s new cricket chief Ejaz Butt Thursday vowed to restore the health of the sport in the nation, plagued by security concerns and disciplinary problems.
Butt, a former secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in Pakistan, now the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), was appointed as chairman on Tuesday, replacing Nasim […]

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Source: The News
By Javed Aziz Khan
10/9/2008
PESHAWAR: Suicide bombers have struck 116 times in Pakistan since the first incident of its kind in March 2002 at an Islamabad church, disclosed data collected by a law-enforcement agency.
It was March 16, 2002, when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a church in Islamabad, killing five people and […]

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Source: The Canadian Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan may not host the Champions Trophy tournament next year due to security concerns, a top official of the Pakistan Cricket Board said Wednesday.
“Everybody knows about the present security situation in Pakistan,” PCB chairman PCB Ijaz Butt told reporters in the eastern city of Lahore. “We have to look […]

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Source: Cricket Next
Mumbai: Several changes in the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) set-up are likely to take place under the chairmanship of former Pakistan Test player Ijaz Butt.
“I am yet to receive the government notification (about my appointment as new chairman) which may be delivered to me sometime tomorrow. But yes, I am being told about […]

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Source: Bloomberg
By Khaleeq Ahmed and Naween A. Mangi
Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) — Pakistan, with the world’s second- lowest credit rating, will send a delegation to the U.S. next week as it seeks $10 billion in emergency assistance to avoid defaulting on its debt.
The government is also expected to meet with the Friends of Pakistan Group in […]

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Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Prospect of Afghan-Taliban peace talks gains currency
Against the backdrop of a string of suicide bombings in Pakistan, British, American, and United Nations officials are grappling with the idea of a negotiated settlement with the Taliban.
On Monday, a suicide bomber struck the home of a prominent politician in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province, […]

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Source: Sky Sports
Shoaib Akhtar has been included in Pakistan’s 15-man squad for this week’s Twenty20 tournament in Canada.
However, star batsman Mohammad Yousuf has been left out by selectors for the tournament, which also features Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and the host nation.
The inclusion of Shoaib came after the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) apparently softened its […]

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Source: Telegraph
Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves are so low that the country can only afford one month of imports and faces possible bankruptcy.
Officially, the central bank holds $8.14 billion (£4.65 billion) of foreign currency, but if forward liabilities are included, the real reserves may be only $3 billion - enough to buy about 30 days […]

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Source: Taiwan News
A bomb exploded at the home of an opposition lawmaker in eastern Pakistan on Monday, killing at least seven people and wounding 61, officials and a witness said.
The blast was the latest in a string of attacks apparently targeting lawmakers in Pakistan, a key ally in the U.S. war on terror.
The country has […]

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Source: Press Trust of India
Islamabad, Oct 6 (PTI) Facing flak for President Asif Ali Zardari’s description of militants in Jammu and Kashmir as “terrorists”, the Pakistan government today said there was no change in its position and it was committed to the Kashmiri people’s right of self-determination.
Information Minister Sherry Rehman said there had been no […]

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Source: Tehran Times
TEHRAN – Pakistan’s charge d’Affaires to Iran Nasrullah Khan said that Tehran and Islamabad are cooperating very well on the security of their borders.
“Pakistan is very sensitive about Iran’s security concerns,” he told reporters conference on Saturday on the sidelines of a ceremony held to mark Pakistan’s Defense Day.
“We call Iran-Pakistan border a […]

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Source: Pakistan Observer
WITH each passing day we are witnessing actions by the United States which reflect the hostile designs of the sole superpower hurting the interests of Pakistan. Continued violation of our airspace, criticism over lack of action to eliminate militants in FATA, expression of doubt over the security of our nuclear assets by the […]

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Source: DAWN
NEW YORK, Oct 4: Citing the threat posed by militants along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and the possible economic meltdown, President Asif Ali Zardari has asked the international community to give Pakistan $100 billion in grant to ensure the country’s survival.
“I need your help, if we fall, if we can’t do it, you can’t do […]

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Source: Economic Times
ISLAMABAD: The United States has asked Pakistan to undertake joint military patrols of its border with Afghanistan along with NATO forces and Afghan troops to end cross-border raids and fight against Taliban militants.
The US also sought the participation of Pakistan in a major winter offensive against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants.
At a recent […]

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Source: New York Times
THE rising violence in Afghanistan and fractious political situation in Pakistan have become leading issues in the American presidential campaign and the debates between the candidates. Indeed, after seven years of war in the region, it’s time to ask a very impolite set of questions: If we did, by chance, capture or […]

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Source: Press Trust of India
Islamabad, Oct 4 (PTI) Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari today reviewed security situation across the country with army chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and both of them agreed to continue the military operation against the Taliban in the restive Bajaur tribal region bordering Afghanistan.
Kayani met Zardari at the presidential palace here and […]

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Source: International Viewpoint
The decision to make public a presidential order of last July authorizing American strikes inside Pakistan without seeking the approval of the Pakistani government ends a long debate within, and on the periphery of, the Bush administration. Senator Barack Obama, aware of this ongoing debate during his own long battle with Hillary Clinton, […]

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Source: Jamestown Foundation
10/03/2008 - By Tariq Mahmud Ashraf (from Terrorism Monitor, October 3) - Recent events in Pakistan have raised critical issues concerning the continuation of Pakistan’s support for the U.S.-led war on terrorism in Afghanistan. Commencing with the enormous backlash in Pakistan in the aftermath of the raid by U.S. Special Forces on Angoori […]

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Source: Guardian
‘Fiasco’, ‘The Forever War’, ‘Descent into Chaos’ - the titles of recent books capture the consensus on the US entanglement in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pankaj Mishra asks whether a new president will change the crazy logic of American militarism
We are winning in Iraq, John McCain declared in the presidential debate last week, “and we […]

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