Source: International Herald Tribune
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Dozens of Islamists marked the 10th anniversary of Pakistan’s nuclear test on Wednesday by rallying for an end to the house arrest of the man considered the father of the country’s bomb, Abdul Qadeer Khan.
The nuclear scientist was detained in 2004 after admitting to passing nuclear technology to Iran, Libya […]

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Source: Telegraph 
Four people have been questioned by police in connection with seven bomb blasts that killed 80 people and injured 200 in the crowded markets of Jaipur in India.
The suspects were detained as police sifted through mutilated bodies and the remains of buildings following a series of bombs, which are thought to have been planted […]

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Source: Reuters
While living in Delhi after 9/11, and in particular after India and Pakistan nearly went to war over an attack on the Indian parliament on December 13, 2001, one of the questions that cropped up frequently was about how much the Pakistan army had been permeated by hardline Islamists. In other words, how much […]

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Source: AFP
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP) — Islamist militants killed a tribesman after accusing him of working as a US spy in a lawless stronghold of Al-Qaeda and Taliban insurgents bordering Afghanistan, officials said Friday.
Rebels shot and then slit the throat of the 30-year-old man in the latest in a series of executions in Pakistan’s troubled tribal […]

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Source: Globe and Mail
Democracy is bringing a change in Pakistan that will have far-reaching consequences not just for its people, but for the rest of the world. The forces of the mullah-military alliance have been dealt a decisive blow. However, while the focus thus far has been on the national
elections and the drubbing President Pervez […]

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Source: Telegraph
The suspected mastermind behind Benazir Bhutto’s assassination has stolen sophisticated Nato equipment by raiding the alliance’s supply lines running through Pakistani territory.
Baitullah Mehsud, the Taliban commander who American officials hold responsible for Miss Bhutto’s death, has emerged as a threat to the flow of supplies for British and American forces fighting in neighbouring Afghanistan.
Mehsud’s […]

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Source: Workers’ Liberty
Author: Cathy Nugent
The new Pakistani general [Musharraf], he’s just been elected — not elected, this guy took over office. It appears this guy is going to bring stability to the country, and I think that’s good news for the subcontinent. (George W Bush, 1999)

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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

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Source:BBC News 
A suicide bomber has blown himself up close to a bus carrying school children in north-west Pakistan, wounding five children, a military spokesman said.
The attack took place near a military base at Kamra early on Monday.
The driver and a guard on the bus, which was carrying over 30 school children, were also hurt, […]

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