Source: Trib

By Robert Novak
Yousuf Raza Gilani, prime minister of Pakistan, will lunch with George W. Bush in the White House on July 28. That will not be merely another of the president’s routine meetings with foreign leaders. As Pakistan’s democratically elected government and U.S. diplomats understand, the lunch symbolizes a turn away from Washington’s […]

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Source: International Herald Tribune
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani plans to meet with U.S. President George W. Bush at a gathering of political and business leaders in Egypt.
It will be the highest-level contact between the two governments since Pakistan’s new leaders offered peace talks to Islamic insurgents. NATO expressed concern Wednesday that the […]

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Source: Reuters Blog
The United States, beginning with President George W. Bush himself, has this past two weeks trained its crosshairs on Pakistan, warning that another Sept. 11, if it were to happen, would most likely not be plotted out of Iraq, Afghanistan or even Iran, but Pakistan.
Like the steady drumbeat that has often preceded major […]

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Source: The Australian
A PLAN by the US to seek direct “oversight” of Pakistan’s powerful nuclear arsenal and the command structure that controls it was heading for rejection last night after it was denounced in Islamabad as “outright interference” in the country’s affairs.
The secret plan, disclosed in the Pakistan media, would for the first time see […]

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Source: The Media Line
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday lifted democracy-related law restrictions on American security aid for Pakistan, two weeks after a democratically elected government took office.
The U.S. terminated is military aid to Pakistan following Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s military coup, which took place in 1999. The U.S. nevertheless resumed its aid […]

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Source: AFP
ISLAMABAD - US President George W. Bush telephoned Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to congratulate him on being sworn in on Tuesday, a government official said.
Gilani, a senior official from slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto’s party, took the oath as prime minister from Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf at the presidential palace in […]

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Hypocrisy is the most pugnacious aspect of human life. A charlatan friend is more dangerous than a straightforward enemy. Hypocrites embrace people with a stilted smile while at the same time they drain them of their assets. Therefore, they are the most hideous people marked by a streak of perversity that reserve for them a […]

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Source: Reuters
By Robert Birsel
ISLAMABAD, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Pakistan rejected on Friday a call by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for President George W. Bush to consider cutting Pakistani aid unless it restores full civil rights and does more to fight terrorism.

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Source: Teeth Maestro
The following letter was just received. The Senate Majority leader Sen. Harry Reid has written to Bush and has insisted that the Judiciary should be restored, as well as political prisoners freed and the media restrictions removed. More action from the Senate and Congress in this regard will be seen in the near […]

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Source: Salt Lake Tribune
By Joe Galloway
In the real world, there are consequences. For every action there’s a reaction, and often even inaction triggers a reaction.
  The unfolding disaster in Pakistan in the wake of the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is in part a reaction to a series of inactions and actions by […]

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