Source: Reuters Blog
This is definitely a case of “the more you know, the less you understand”.
There has been much talk in the media about whether PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari is heading for a showdown with President Pervez Musharraf to force him out of office.
But it is not clear whether Zardari is really looking for […]
Showdown or climbdown in Pakistan?
May 27th, 2008 Sana · 2 Comments
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Location of Hundreds of Missing Persons
May 9th, 2008 WellWisher · 3 Comments
Source: PK Politics.com
Thanks to PK Politics for providing such an informative article in the time of need!
Anma Masood Janjua reveals the whereabouts and locations of Hundreds of Pakistani National Missing Persons in custody of Pakistani Fauj and their agencies including ISI and FIA.
Locations revealed in Capital Talk:
- ISI Detention Center in Kent Garrison Chaklala (Near […]
Filed Under: News From You
U.S. Must Quit Bush’s Chicken Little Politics in Pakistan, Cold Turkey
April 3rd, 2008 Sana · No Comments
Source: Huffington Post
Ever since the September 11th attacks, the Bush administration has been warning Americans that, but for the rule of military dictator General Pervez Musharraf, the sky would be falling. Musharraf, we were told, was what was standing between us and a flood of Islamic extremists who would unleash acts of terrorism around the […]
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Bhutto Murder Suspect Arrested - Or Protected?
February 28th, 2008 Sana · 3 Comments
Source: IPS News
By Amir Mir
ISLAMABAD, Feb 28 (IPS) - The arrest of top militant leader Qari Saifullah Akhtar may have brought Pakistani intelligence agencies closer to discovering any conspiracy behind the Dec. 27 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. But many believe the opposite to be true.
Qari, chief of the militant group Harkatul Jehadul […]
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The Failure in the War on Terror - Not Osama but Musharraf
February 26th, 2008 samadkhurram · 10 Comments
Written for The Harvard Crimson
by Samad Khurram
The former head of the Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence’s (ISI) political cell recently confessed that he was responsible for political manipulation in Pakistan’s 2002 elections that led to Islamists coming to power in two provinces and gaining 59 seats in the National Assembly. This fraud was the work of the America’s […]
Filed Under: Emergency 2007 · News From You · Opinions · Politics
Lets Find Together
February 7th, 2008 hushamahmad · No Comments
::Official Web Site::
http://www.missingpeople.com.pk
::Profile::
This website is an attempt to help those affected families whose beloved ones are either missing or lost due to any circumstances, thereby leaving their families in a state of perpetual grief and agony. This is an effort to provide them a platform to find these missing persons. However, this effort can only […]
Filed Under: News From You · Politics
From an insider: ISI’s mouth pieces and their dirty work
January 27th, 2008 hushamahmad · 3 Comments
Source: USF
The kind attention of all patriot Pakistanis is invited towards a pro-Musharraf website run by official agencies.
Ahmed Quraishi, an anchor person of official TV channel, Pakistan Television (PTV) is being used to run the show. It contains pro-Musharraf and anti-politicians articles. Each article is discussed with fake names in which the contents of […]
Filed Under: Politics
Retired generals, officers of other ranks urge Musharraf to step down
January 23rd, 2008 durrani · 4 Comments
Source: Dawn
A number of retired chiefs of the army, air force and navy and dozens of former commanders and some retired junior commissioned officers on Tuesday called upon President Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf to step down as head of the state to pave way for complete restoration of democracy in the country.
Organised by what is […]
Filed Under: Emergency 2007 · Miscellaneous · Politics
Pakistan security forces arrest 15-year-old suspect in Bhutto’s assassination, officials say
January 19th, 2008 Sana · No Comments
Source: Los Angeles Times
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani intelligence officials said today they arrested a 15-year-old suspect in the killing of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, as police announced they had foiled new suicide attacks by militants against the country’s Shiite minority.
The teenager, who allegedly said he was part of a team of assassins […]
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CIA, Pakistan concur on Bhutto’s killer
January 19th, 2008 Sana · No Comments
Source: Los Angeles Times
An agency inquiry finds ’strong indications’ that Taliban leader Baitullah Mahsud and his associates were behind the slaying.
By Josh Meyer
WASHINGTON — The CIA believes that Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mahsud and his associates, some linked to Al Qaeda, were responsible for the assassination last month of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, […]
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Reporter recalls Pakistan deportation
January 16th, 2008 Sana · 6 Comments
Source: BBC News
US journalist Nicholas Schmidle never felt unsafe in a crowd of Kalashnikov- wielding Taleban fighters near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
The reason: he was there as a guest.
Filed Under: Politics
Pakistan’s personality test
January 16th, 2008 Sana · 2 Comments
Source: The Boston Globe
HISTORY, geography, and domestic politics have all helped mold Pakistan into a large question mark for its neighbors, its allies, and itself. Intermittent military rule has had its role in this identity crisis, as have Pakistan’s major political parties, with their feudal structures and their corruption.
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Arrested and sent into void in Pakistan
January 14th, 2008 Sana · No Comments
Source: The Star
500 people have disappeared since country became front line for war on terror
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan–Amina Masood Janjua keeps a picture of her husband in her purse, another on her cellphone and a third in her mind – the way he looked the last day she saw him, July 30, 2005.
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Benazir killing’s eyewitness gagged
January 13th, 2008 Sana · 1 Comment
Source: The Emergency Times
WASHINGTON (Daily Times): A Canadian newspaper report claims that Ishtiaq Hussain Shah, the deputy superintendent of police who was alongside former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s vehicle when she died, has been gagged with no one allowed to visit him in the Rawalpindi hospitial where he is recovering from the injuries he suffered […]
Filed Under: Politics
ISI’s Desperate Bid To Save Musharraf
January 3rd, 2008 Sana · No Comments
Source: ICH
Alternative media is the West is falling prey to the ISI propaganda to save Musharraf. However, it doesn’t take too much to read between and behind and lines and see the facts and the ground realities which the ISI operatives are distorting.
By Abid Ullah Jan
ISI operatives in the media in Pakistan have been busy […]
Filed Under: Politics
Who killed Benazir Bhutto? The main suspects
December 28th, 2007 Sana · 22 Comments
Source: Times Online
The main suspects in Benazir Bhutto’s assassination are the Pakistani and foreign Islamist militants who regarded her as a heretic and an American stooge and had repeatedly threatened to kill her.
But fingers will also be pointed at Inter-Services Intelligence, the agency that has had close ties to the Islamists since the 1970s
Filed Under: Politics
Bombers Kill Up to 35 in Rawalpindi
November 24th, 2007 Editor X · 2 Comments
Source: Associated Press
By Munir Ahmad
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Militants struck at the heart of Pakistan’s security establishment Saturday, killing up to 35 people in suicide attacks on a checkpoint outside army headquarters and a bus carrying intelligence agency employees, officials said.
The brazen early morning attacks in Rawalpindi coincided with the announcement that Nawaz Sharif, a […]
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ISI used dirty tricks to bully judges in Pakistan: British newspaper
November 13th, 2007 Ali · 7 Comments
[source: TimesOnline, Hindustan Times]
Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf suffers another setback as The Sunday Times, UK reveals that the intelligence arm ISI tried to blackmail by filming SC judges and their children having sex with partners.
ALREADY UNDER intense pressure from both friends and foes at home and abroad, Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf suffered another setback today, […]
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