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President Musharraf leaves office alone, besieged and abandoned. He is not leaving the country into strong hands. In fact, in the hands of the most the corrupt, unscrupulous and dangerous criminals this country ever produced. The regime-change game which CIA had initiated about one year ago […]

Source: The Guardian
Pakistan’s president, Pervez Musharraf, today announced his resignation after robustly defending his record.
Expectations that the former army chief and firm US ally would go had been mounting since the coalition government, led by the party of the assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, said this month it planned to impeach him.
In a televised […]

Source: [Emergency] Mailing List
Musharraf is supposed to address the country in a few hours - 1 PM to be precise. Those who want to watch it live and are abroad can watch it on geo or dawn at www.tvpakistan.com. According to Newsweek he is supposed to resign today (http://www.newsweek.com/id/153869) and leave for Saudi Arabia […]

 
Quaid-e-Azam and Allama Iqbal’s dream of Pakistan turned into a reality on 14th August 1947. Surely, they did not know that the Pakistan they dreamt about is still far from reality. Though, despite of its socio-political problems Pakistan has done considerably well in the past 60 years but that doesn’t not mean in any regard […]

Assalamualikum wa rehamatullahi,

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PAKISTAN/USA: A Pakistani lady doctor remains missing with her three children five years after her arrest ISSUES: Disappearance; rape; violence against women; torture; right to liberty and security; arbitrary arrest and detention
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Dear friends,

We have received information that Dr. Afia Siddiqui, was arrested along with her three children by […]

Source: Reuters
By Rob Taylor

Australia will offer military advisers to Pakistan to train security forces to fight Taliban and al Qaeda militants taking sanctuary there from neighbouring Afghanistan, the government said on Wednesday.
Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon called for a bigger international effort, including more economic and military aid, to combat Taliban insurgents based in Pakistan’s largely […]

Source: Reuters
Militants shot and killed an Afghan woman accused of being a U.S spy in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region, and dumped her body in a sewer, a witness and intelligence officials said on Wednesday.
The pro-Taliban militants in North and South Waziristan have killed dozens of people they accused of being Pakistani government supporters or spies […]

Source: The Wall Street Journal

By ZAHID HUSSAIN
Here in the remote mountains of Pakistan, a deep, mostly dry riverbed has been turned into a training camp where about two dozen young men, most in their teens, receive rigorous training for the war against NATO troops in neighboring Afghanistan.
Their day starts at 4 a.m. with prayers, […]

Source: The Times of India

The Indian defence establishment is “concerned” but “not rattled” by the US decision to divert $230 million in aid to Pakistan from counter-terrorism programmes to upgrade its F-16 fighter jets.
“Acquisition of new airborne capabilities by Pakistan is definitely a matter of concern for us since it’s always primarily directed at us. […]

Thank you Again Sirs July 21, 2008
Prime Minister of Pakistan
President Of Pakistan
Co-Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party
Federal Finance Minister
Federal Trade Minister
Chairman O.G.R.A. 
Dear Sirs
We as a nation are great full to you for providing us an opportunity to thank you again in the same month of July, due to your act of kindness on Sunday the […]

Source: The Long War Journal
By Bill Roggio

The Pakistani government has negotiated yet another peace agreement with the Taliban in the tribal agencies bordering Afghanistan. The latest agreement was signed in the Orakzai tribal agency, Geo TVreported.
The agreement mirrors other peace deals that have been signed in the tribal areas and in several settled districts in […]

Source: AFP
Pakistani troops and helicopter gunships killed 15 pro-Taliban militants and captured 60 others while clearing a restive northwestern town near the Afghan border, the military said Sunday.
Authorities launched an offensive in the increasingly troubled district of Hangu on Wednesday after Taliban insurgents occupying the area killed 17 paramilitary troops in an ambush.
Pakistan is under […]

Source: TPM Muckraker
It was just one month after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
U.S. forces were poised to invade Afghanistan in just a few weeks.
Gen. Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan was getting a lot of pressure from the White House to cooperate with the newly declared War on Terror. And he wanted a few favors […]

Source: Reuters

NATO forces in Afghanistan attacked targets inside Pakistan with artillery and attack helicopters after coming under rocket fire from across the border, the alliance said on Wednesday.
Tension is high along the border with a sharp rise in attacks in eastern Afghanistan coming from inside Pakistan that Afghan and NATO officials blame on de-facto ceasefires […]

Source: Teeth Maestro

The borders of Pakistan remain under constant pressure from the offensive generated by the American War on Terror, it is this plague amongst other problems that continue to weaken Pakistan on a daily basis. Its ironic that the war is thousands of miles away from the coast of America yet they assume the […]

Source: The Strata Sphere

by AJStrata
This story explains how American children are being sent to Pakistan to be brainwashed in “Taliban-backed madarsa”:
A Pakistani filmmaker has launched a campaign to secure the release of 78 American teenagers from a Taliban-backed madarsa in the country and asked the US to step in to check students enrolment in […]

Source: Al Jazeera.net

Pakistan’s foreign minister has ruled out allowing military personnel from the United States, or any other foreign country, in Pakistan to hunt for Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda.
Mahmoud Qureshi said on Saturday that the country’s new government had not permitted any such operation in the regions bordering Afghanistan and never would.
Bin […]

Source: AP
By Sadaqat Jan

Investigators on Monday examined the site of a suicide blast that targeted police in the nation’s capital as officials sorted out clues about the alleged attacker.
No one has claimed responsibility for the explosion that left at least 15 people dead and dozens wounded. It appeared to be the capital’s deadliest suicide attack […]

Source: Associated Press
By RIAZ KHAN
Pakistani security forces have halted an operation against militants in the country’s volatile northwest to try negotiating peace through tribal elders, officials said Saturday
Tariq Hayat, chief administrator for the Khyber tribal area, said local tribal leaders have agreed in principle to conditions including handing over 16 wanted men and respecting government […]

Source: AFP
Pakistan’s top nuclear authority Saturday rejected claims by disgraced atomic scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan that the army and President Pervez Musharraf sent centrifuges to North Korea in 2000.
Lieutenant General Khalid Kidwai, head of the Strategic Planning Division (SPD), told a select group of reporters there was “enough evidence” about the proliferation network that Khan […]

Source: Al jazeera

Pakistani security forces claim to have arrested 18 fighters and to have destroyed two major opposition sites in the country’s Khyber tribal district.
An official statement released on Wednesday said that the operation was successful, and that the main bazaar in the town of Bara was under curfew with troops patrolling the area.
The operation […]

Source: prairiepundit

Pakistani authorities declared today that they had re-established control in a district that a local warlord had used as a staging ground for forays into the largest city in Pakistan’s volatile northwest.
Commanders said paramilitary troops encountered no resistance as they fanned out in the Bara district of the Khyber tribal agency, the former stronghold […]

Haan Fauji ne Farangi se bachaya hai Watan ko,
Par Iska matlab ye nahi ke Barrack chor ke fauj raah-e-iqtadar pe chal parey,
Haan Aman - o - Mohabat se sajaya hai watan ko,
Aesey Aman - o - Mohabat se ke aaj Bhai Bhai ko mar raha hai Sarhadon par,
Haan Maan Ki Tarah Doodh Pillaya hai watan […]

Source: CNN

Pakistan on Saturday launched an offensive against the Taliban — the biggest military push against militants in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region since a civilian government took power in March.
Army spokesman Gen. Athar Abbas said the operation occurred in the Khyber section of the tribal region — west of Peshawar, the capital of the North-West […]

Source: AP
Pakistan has renewed an offer to fence the country’s porous border with Afghanistan to stop crossings by militants.
Afghan and U.S. officials complain militants fighting in Afghanistan freely roam the 1,500-mile border.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani says in a Monday statement that Pakistan is prepared to build a fence.
The idea was first proposed by Pakistan’s […]