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: DVD Times
Morgan Spurlock’s follow-up film to his massive hit Super Size Me is an extremely irritating and at times mystifying film. At its heart is the odd dichotomy of a hopefully unintentional condescending tone with a central thesis that is almost wilfully trivial, showing a lack of insight into its subject matter so profound […]

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Source: Al Jazeera.net

Pakistan’s foreign minister has ruled out allowing military personnel from the United States, or any other foreign country, in Pakistan to hunt for Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda.
Mahmoud Qureshi said on Saturday that the country’s new government had not permitted any such operation in the regions bordering Afghanistan and never would.
Bin […]

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Source: The New York Times
In the last two months, Taliban militants have suddenly tightened the noose on this city of three million people, one of Pakistan’s biggest, establishing bases in surrounding towns and, in daylight, abducting residents for high ransoms.
The militants move unchallenged out of the lawless tribal region, just 10 miles away, in convoys […]

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Source: Globe and Mail 
Former top Mountie was briefed on $500,000 reward
COLIN FREEZE
May 13, 2008
A U.S. intelligence agency paid a bounty of $500,000 (U.S.) to Pakistani military officials who arrested a Canadian citizen wanted for links to al-Qaeda, according to a new Federal Court ruling.
Mr. Justice Richard Mosley ordered an Oct. 19, 2004, RCMP memo released […]

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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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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 […]

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Source: BBC News
Pakistani pop singer Ali Haider says he has rejected an offer to play the lead role in a Bollywood film called Osama after receiving threatening calls.
The film is about a Kashmir boy, Osama, who travels to Afghanistan and ends up at the World Trade Centre in New York at the time of the […]

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