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WASHINGTON: The US and Pakistani governments have reached a tacit agreement on Predator strikes on Pakistani territory, under which Islamabad allows them while continuing to complain about them and Washington never acknowledges them, The Washington Post reported on Sunday. (more…)

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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: Star Tribune
By ERIC SCHMITT and MARK MAZZETTI
President Bush secretly approved orders in July that for the first time allow U.S. Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the prior approval of the Pakistani government, senior American officials said.
The classified orders mark a watershed for the Bush administration after nearly seven […]

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 This opinion was first published at The WeCite Blog
I’m not convinced we are winning it in Afghanistan. I am convinced we can… We are looking at a new, more comprehensive strategy for the region that would cover both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. In my view, these two nations are inextricably linked in a […]

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Source: Reuters
Last week, after U.S. forces were reported to have launched their first ground assault in Pakistan, the website Registan.net asked the obvious question: “Did We Just Invade Pakistan?” Nearly a week and several missile attacks by U.S. drones later, I am still pondering the same question.
We have just witnessed what may have been the […]

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Pakistan’s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, acknowledged publicly August 12 that Taliban forces are using Pakistan’s border region as a base from which to launch attacks against U.S. and NATO troops occupying Afghanistan.
“There is support from these areas to Taliban activity inside Afghanistan,” said Musharraf in a joint appearance with Afghan president Hamid Karzai at the […]

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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 […]

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We hear everyday by the media of Musharaf’s coalition partners that Pakistan is a terrorist state. Moreover, we were told that we would be sent back to the Stone Age at the time of Afghan war post 9/11. Nevertheless, we are warned by Uncle Sam day after day to sort things out or else they […]

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Source: International Herald Tribune
SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt: Pakistan’s premier has pledged to fight terrorism after a meeting with President Bush — the highest-level contact between the two governments since Pakistan’s new leaders offered peace talks to Islamist insurgents.
The two leaders met Sunday in Egypt at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East, a gathering of […]

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TO WHOM IT SHOULD CONCERN !
No Aid to Musharraf’s Dictatorship in Pakistan! No Arming and Training of Tribal Militias! We need funds for working families at home, not for reckless intervention. The United States is bringing Iraq to Pakistan. Modeled on the costly and dangerous experiment of training and arming Sunni militias in Iraq’s Anbar […]

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Source: BBC News
Pakistan’s foreign office has denied suggestions that the timing of a visit by top US diplomats is unusual.
US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte and Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher arrived in Pakistan early Tuesday.
It was the same day that the new PM, Yusuf Raza Gillani, was sworn in.
Pakistan is a key […]

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Source: Daily Times
* Maulana Faqir says US biggest terrorist in world
KHAR: A pro-Taliban leader in the Tribal Areas said on Sunday that Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden and fugitive Taliban militant leader Mullah Omar were “not enemies of Pakistan”.
Addressing a rally near Khar, the main town of Bajaur tribal district bordering Afghanistan, Maulana Faqir […]

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Source: The Guardian
America’s massive military aid package to Pakistan has come under scrutiny after allegations that as much as 70% of $5.4bn in assistance has been misspent.
Since 2002, the US has paid the operating costs of Pakistan’s military operations in the tribal belt along the Afghan border, where Taliban and al-Qaida fighters are sheltering.
Pakistan provides […]

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Source: Scotsman News
By Jane Perlez and Carlotta Gall
FROM overthrowing Saddam to helping the Afghans expel the Soviets, America has often had cause to rue outcomes that it has been at pains to engineer. Pakistan looks set to be another case in point.
There were unmistakable signs this week that the three competing political power blocks in […]

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Source: Inquirer
ACCRA — US President George W. Bush on Wednesday embraced Pakistan’s elections as “a significant victory” for democracy and said he hoped the new government would “be friends of the United States.”
“It’s now time for the newly elected folks to show up and form their government. And the question then is: ‘will they be […]

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Source: The New York Times
After years of American enabling and billions in American aid, Pakistan’s Pervez Musharraf, was — to put it delicately — trounced in Monday’s parliamentary elections. The results are much better than the United States could hope for, and more than President Bush deserved after overinvesting in the former general and his […]

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Source: Teeth Maestro
Yesterday a very high profile meeting was held in Washignton DC with Imran Khan who met a high powered Senate group under the leadership of Senator Harry Reid the Senate Majority Leader, other leaders included Senator Dick Durbin who is Assistant Senate Majority Leader, Chairman Senate Foreign Relation Committee Senator Joe Biden, Chairman […]

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Source: Washington Post
With the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the Bush administration is now depending on two politicians — one accused in the 1990s of being a crook and the other still viewed as almost powerless — to help prop up President Pervez Musharraf and stabilize volatile Pakistan, according to U.S. officials, regional experts and Pakistanis.

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Source: New Statesman
The west has often regarded the civilian dimension of Pakistani politics as a hindrance to its security priorities
Over the past decade one country has caused more alarm in the west than any other over its weapons of mass destruction. It is neither North Korea, nor Iraq, nor even Iran. Pakistan is the concern.

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Source: Information Press
ALSO
Letter of U.S. Rep. Braley to President Bush
PJF Delegation Visits U.S. Legislator Braley’s Washington DC Office
By SYED ADEEB

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Source: Ethical corporation
A new politics diary section looks at how companies can do business in some of the world’s political hotspots. First up: Pakistan
Pakistan’s president Pervez Musharraf has been a key member of the coalition in the “war on terror”, in particular by supporting US efforts to root out Osama bin Laden.

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Source: teeth Meastro
Article published in The Washington Post
By John F. Tierney and Aitzaz Ahsan
One of us chairs a House of Representatives subcommittee tasked with oversight of U.S. foreign policy, and one of us languishes under house arrest after transfer from a Pakistani jail for the “heinous” and “seditious” crime of representing, in legal proceedings, the […]

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CRAWFORD, Texas: US President George W. Bush has praised Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf as a strong ally against terrorism and said he had no reason to doubt his pledges to return to democratic rule.

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