Entries filed in 'Politics'
July 23rd, 2008 by Aimon
Source: Telegraph
Amnesty International has accused Britain and the US of helping Pakistani security forces in the “enforced disappearances” of more than 560 people.
Calling on Pakistan’s new government to reveal details about hundreds of missing people who are being held by security forces, the human rights group said Britain and the US had benefited from some […]
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July 23rd, 2008 by Aimon
Source: Teeth Maestro
A key witness of a Bhutto assassination has been shot dead in Karachi yesterday on Khy-e-Bhukahri
Khalid Shahanshah, the chief security officer of PPP co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari, was assassinated on Tuesday afternoon outside his Clifton residence, police and witnesses said. They said that gunmen on a white car sprayed him with a volley […]
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July 22nd, 2008 by Aimon
Source: Reuters
Gunmen killed a senior security officer for Asif Ali Zardari, head of Pakistan’s ruling party, in the southern city of Karachi on Tuesday, police and party officials said.
Zardari is the widower of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was killed in a suicide gun and bomb attack in the city of Rawalpindi on December […]
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July 21st, 2008 by Peppebiundo

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Article/Report,
24th June 2008
Dear Companions
I am readdressing with humble concern the report on the subject of the heaviest issue.
There is a necessity of immediate attention, accuracy, consideration and examinations of the conditions heretofore exposed.
On the fifty-fifth session, 7th September 2001, 11th plenary meeting, the UN General Assembly adopted the Resolution 55/282.
The General Assembly […]
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July 21st, 2008 by Aimon
Source: Daily Times
By Iftikhar Gilani
NEW DELHI: Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir arrived in India on Sunday via the Atari border to initiate the fifth round of the composite dialogue process between Pakistan and India.
“I have come to India to hold talks with my Indian counterpart on the issues of peace and security of both […]
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July 21st, 2008 by Aimon
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 […]
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July 20th, 2008 by Aimon
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 […]
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July 20th, 2008 by Aimon
Source: Teeth Maestro
After the publication of our latest Rumor Mill report which concerned the alleged pardoning of the Police officer involved in the murder of Murtaza Bhutto by the Dogar Court, we very soon received a confirmation report from another credible source who states
Yes, all the police officers implicated in the Murtaza Bhutto case (including […]
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July 17th, 2008 by Aimon
Source: The Hindu
Growing economic and political uncertainty pushed Pakistani shares to new depths on Thursday and triggered violent protests at the Karachi Stock Exchange.
By Thursday afternoon, the exchange’s benchmark 100-share index was down 4.2 percent at 10,056 points. The index is at an 18-month low and has fallen about 36 percent from an all-time high […]
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July 17th, 2008 by Aimon
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 […]
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July 16th, 2008 by Aimon
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 […]
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July 16th, 2008 by Aimon
Source: AFP
President Hamid Karzai has appointed a team of experts to investigate allegations that Pakistan had dumped nuclear waste in southern Afghanistan, his office said Wednesday.
In April, an Afghan minister told the BBC that his government had evidence Pakistan had buried its nuclear waste in the southern Afghan provinces of Helmand and Kandahar during the […]
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July 15th, 2008 by Aimon
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 […]
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July 14th, 2008 by Aimon
Source: International Professor
When shahbaz sharif returned to ministry, people thought that it’s compensation by God for the inhuman treatment of both sharif brothers by Mush during their confinement in attock jail. But people who are ware of the history of “fake encounter cases” and the role of police in such extra judicial killings say that […]
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July 13th, 2008 by Aimon
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 […]
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July 13th, 2008 by Aimon
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 […]
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July 10th, 2008 by Aimon
Source: AP
Pakistan’s top diplomat Wednesday rejected the idea of any foreign troops operating inside Pakistan, reinforcing its refusal to accept U.S. military aid in battling insurgents near the Afghan border.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s comments during a U.N. Security Council session on Afghanistan’s future could deal a blow to the United States’ efforts to […]
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July 9th, 2008 by salmanit

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July 9th, 2008 by Aimon
Source: Reuters
By Zeeshan Haider
Hundreds of Islamist women gathered at the radical Red Mosque in Pakistani capital on Wednesday and vowed to raise their children for holy war, days after a suicide bomber killed 18 people after a similar rally.
Chanting slogans of “jihad is our way”, burqa-clad women, some with babies, listened to fiery speeches from […]
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July 8th, 2008 by Aimon
Source: AP
A massive suicide bombing against India’s embassy in Kabul could not have succeeded without the support of foreign intelligence agencies, Afghanistan said in a thinly veiled reference to Pakistan in a security report released Tuesday.
The report said terrorists entered Afghanistan after receiving training and logistical support from across the border, a reference to Pakistan. […]
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July 7th, 2008 by raza

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1999 - When Musharraf came in power, everybody thought Pakistan is going to get it right this time around, we are going to get rid of corrupt politicians, our institutions will be stronger, we will progress as a nation and Musharraf would prove that his intent of coup was right … people were jubilant …. […]
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July 7th, 2008 by Aimon
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 […]
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July 6th, 2008 by Aimon
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 […]
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July 5th, 2008 by Aimon
Source: The New York Times
By JANE PERLEZ
Fresh out of Cambridge University in the late 1960s, and steeped in the era’s favorites — Marx, Mao and Che — Ahmed Rashid took off for the hills of Baluchistan, a dry, tough patch of western Pakistan. He stayed for 10 years.
He was a guerrilla fighter and political organizer, […]
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July 5th, 2008 by Aimon
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 […]
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