Source: CNN
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistani security forces launched an operation against Taliban militants in the nation’s tribal region along the border with Afghanistan on Tuesday, shutting down NATO supply routes, Pakistani military sources said.
Eight people — two suspected Taliban militants and six civilians — died in the operation in the Khyber Agency that involved […]

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Source: AFP
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) — Suspected Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan opened fire on an oil tanker used to supply fuel to foreign forces in Afghanistan, killing three people, local officials said Saturday.
Two drivers and one assistant were killed in the incident late Friday in the Khyber tribal district, located on the main supply route […]

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Source: Reuters
By Kamran Haider
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan will reopen a main supply route to Western forces in Afghanistan on Monday, a week after militants hijacked more than a dozen trucks on the road through the Khyber Pass, a senior official said on Sunday.
Most supplies, including fuel, for U.S. and NATO forces in landlocked Afghanistan […]

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Source: ABC News
The United States Has Given Pakistan $13 Billion Since 9/11 but Almost All of It Has Gone to the Military
Next to his milky tea, the flies covering his bread and the flickering TV with election results in the corner, even 24-year-old Ghulam Jaffer appreciated the moment.
Sitting in a small restaurant next to a […]

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Source: Wall Street Journal
As the election results were becoming clear, Pakistan’s Aaj TV news station summed up the cautious optimism with which the country greeted Obama’s victory, flashing the headline: “Obama wins, world awaits promised change.”
For many in Pakistan and Afghanistan, Obama’s promised change can’t come soon enough. Both countries are struggling to beat back […]

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Source:Reuters
by: Simon Cameron Moore

Pakistan cropped up with uncomfortable regularity during the U.S. presidential campaign, but listening to Barack Obama and John McCain it was difficult to discern how different their approach would be in dealing with one of America’s most complicated and conflicted allies.
Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari met leaders of both the Democrat and […]

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Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (Reuters) - The next U.S. president stands to inherit a potentially more dangerous challenge in Afghanistan and Pakistan than the situation that led to the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.
The situation is so serious that analysts say the incoming administration will need to move quickly on a broad new initiative to […]

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Source: Daily Times
* Seeks regional conference on Afghanistan
* FM supports access for Pakistani goods
* Pakistan, Italy likely to sign MoU on security
ISLAMABAD: Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini urged the international community on Monday to fully support Pakistan as it was playing its due role in the war on terror.
Addressing a joint press conference at the […]

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Source: Daily Times
Najmuddin A Shaikh
Peace in Afghanistan remains a distant dream and Pakistan must frame its policies so that it can, to the extent possible, insulate itself from an unstable Afghanistan’s pernicious influence
Polls taken immediately after the second US presidential debate on Tuesday showed that Barack Obama had consolidated his lead. This was partly attributable […]

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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: 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: 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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Source: Seattle Times
WASHINGTON — The escalating insurgency in Afghanistan is being spearheaded by a trio of warlords who came to prominence in the CIA-backed war to oust the Soviets but who now direct attacks against U.S. forces from safe havens in Pakistan, according to U.S. military and intelligence officials.
Groups led by the three veteran mujahedeen […]

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Source: The Vancouver Sun
Clearly there has been a dramatic upheaval when local people think Afghanistan is a safer haven than Pakistan.
That’s just what happened on Monday when United Nations officials reported 20,000 people fleeing across the border into Afghanistan’s Kunar province from Pakistan’s semi-autonomous Bajaur Agency tribal territory.
And within Bajaur, the most northerly of Pakistan’s […]

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Source: The Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United Nations says 20,000 Pakistani refugees have fled to Afghanistan to avoid fighting between militants and Pakistan’s military.
The U.N.’s refugee agency says nearly 4,000 Pakistani families have fled Pakistan’s Bajur tribal agency into Afghanistan’s Kunar province.
Pakistan’s military launched an offensive in Bajur, the most northerly of Pakistan’s […]

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Source: Daily Times
I can accept politics but I do have a problem with our supposedly free media. They spend hours covering those killed in US strikes across the Durand Line but they have no time for all those killed by suicide bombers
After the Marriott bombing, apologists for the bombers keep crawling out of the woodwork. […]

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Source: AFP
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari said in an interview broadcast Sunday that Islamabad’s military is capable of quelling militant elements on its border with Afghanistan, and again urged the US military against launching incursions into its territory.
“Let us do the job, we can do a better job than anybody else can. […]

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Source: Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s security forces pounded militant positions near strategic areas in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan, killing 25 suspected insurgents in a new round of a military offensive that also left three troops dead, officials said.
Security forces on Friday cleared militant compounds near Bajur’s Rashakai and Loi Sam areas, army […]

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Source: New York Times
For months, Senators John McCain and Barack Obama have argued over whether Iraq was the right war to fight in 2003. On Friday night they delved for the first time into the problems one of them will face on Jan. 20: Whether America has to be ready to carry out military action […]

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Source: Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush on Tuesday said the United States wanted to help Pakistan protect itself amid questions about U.S. military strikes aimed at al Qaeda and Taliban militants in its remote border region.
Bush sat down for his first face-to-face meeting with newly elected Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari […]

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Source: VOA News
America’s top military officer, Admiral Michael Mullen, says the transition to a new U.S. administration could be a time of heightened threat for the United States. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who spoke in Los Angeles Monday, said the next president must address a growing insurgency along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. […]

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Source: Daily Times
The two stands of American policy, i.e. unilateralism and working with others, are being pursued simultaneously as well as separately, causing contradictions at the operational level
Sandwiched between the American air and ground attacks in the tribal areas and domestic pressure to respond firmly to these attacks, the Government of Pakistan faced a difficult […]

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Source: Gazette
It is unclear whether Pakistani troops actually confronted and turned back U.S. troops on the verge of crossing the border from Afghanistan a few days ago in pursuit of Taliban forces that had conducted a raid in Afghanistan and slipped back into Pakistan. What does seem clear is that the Pakistani government has more-or-less […]

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Source: Reuters
* Zardari says Pakistan won’t tolerate sovereignty violation
* Economy the greatest challenge, Zardari says
* Two bombs in Waziristan kill soldiers, civilians
By Zeeshan Haider
ISLAMABAD, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Pakistan will not tolerate any infringement of its territory in the name of the fight against militants, President Asif Ali Zardari said on Saturday.
He was speaking after […]

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War has come to Pakistan’s door step a long time ago. It is most unfortunate that even till yesterday, many of us denied this fact. Not any more. Not when War has pushed in to our house and is now in our living rooms, in our bedrooms, in our backyards, every where around us.
Pakistan is […]

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