I am going to try to be as blunt and straight-forward as possible without deviating from the issue at hand (NOTE: I said I’ll try!).
This ‘one sided’ peace agreement with the Taliban holed up in Pakistan’s North is NOT GOING TO WORK!
Unless Islamabad has a few tricks up their sleeves and are earnestly at […]

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Source: Hindustan Times

The serial blasts in Jaipur on Tuesday are the direct result of Pakistan’s bid to step up terrorism in a renewed attempt to dictate terms on Kashmir, say intelligence officials.
With Tuesday’s attacks, terrorists have now struck thrice in as many days. The first two days saw attacks on Samba, the border town in […]

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Source: Daily Times
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Turkey discussed defence co-production and decided to initiate a “strategic dialogue” to boost mutual ties, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Saturday.
He was addressing a joint press conference with his Turkish counterpart Ali Babacan after a formal meeting. Babacan arrived in Pakistan on Friday on a two-day official visit.
“We […]

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Source: Thaindian News
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has criticised Pakistan for not doing enough to curb terrorism and has told President Pervez Musharraf to lift his game. Rudd told Musharraf that he needs to do more to stem the flow of arms and support to the Taliban in remote areas of Pakistan, reports the Australian […]

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The national and provincial elections in Pakistan have taken place about 50 days ago on 18th February and yet the national and provincial governments have not come into being. The national cabinet has been announced but it has not taken charge. And the provincial governments will take a few more days to be completed. This […]

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Source : msnbc
3 soldiers killed, 2 injured during simulations to show off arsenal
POKHARAN, India - The Thar desert boomed with artillery guns as tanks kicked up dust and fighter aircraft flew on bombing runs.
It may have looked like war, but it was actually an elaborate simulation to demonstrate to international observers that India has become […]

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Source: The Associated Press
A look at suicide attacks in Pakistan this year:
_ March 11: Separate bombers shatter seven-story police headquarters and house in Lahore. At least 27 people killed, more than 200 wounded.
_ March 4: Two bombers blow themselves up at navy training college in Lahore, killing four college employees.
_ March 2: Bomber attacks tribesmen […]

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Source: Teeth Maestro
In a press briefing given by the US State Department on 10th March a few questions were raised on Pakistan and its ongoing judicial & political crisis. It seems that the US Government is still not willing to come clean and talk about the restoration or independence of judiciary, despite one reporters direct […]

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This question has been wracking the minds of those who are concerned about Pakistan’s welfare for long but it has gained importance because terrorist attacks mainly in the form of suicide and bomb attacks continue to take place in the country despite the fact that the opposition has gained the majority vote and is likely […]

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Source: The Associated Press
By MATTHEW PENNINGTON
The Associated Press
Tuesday, February 26, 2008; 4:16 AM
UCHRAI SAR, Pakistan — Hardcore militants who seized Pakistan’s most scenic valley are still holed up in its snowy heights, three months after President Pervez Musharraf sent in the army to show his resolve against spreading Islamic extremism.
Down below, life in the towns […]

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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: Globe and Mail
New government must mend deteriorating economy and tackle Islamic extremists in tribal areas bordering Afghanistan
SAEED SHAH
ISLAMABAD — The challenges facing the new government in Pakistan can be summed up as FATA and atta.
FATA is the acronym for the federally administered tribal areas - the badlands on the Afghan border that are reputedly […]

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The national and four provincial elections held in Pakistan on 18th February 2008 are truly a ‘victory for Democracy’ as stated by the official US sources.
The atmosphere in Pakistan due to President Musharraf’s determined fight against terrorism and extremism and the political opposition which had not been there for the first seven years of his […]

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Source: Boston.com

WASHINGTON—Sen. John Kerry leaves this weekend for a four-day trip that includes stops in Afghanistan and Pakistan, two key countries in the fight against terrorism.
more stories like thisAn aide says Kerry will depart Saturday as part of a congressional delegation. He will travel with Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Joe Biden and Nebraska Sen. […]

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Islam only has practicable and durable solutions to world problems
THE two most pressing problems facing the world at large today are terrorism and AIDS, and various measures that are needed to fight them cost billions of dollars without achieving much. In other words, the battle against them is very feeble.
However, Islam is a ‘deen’ or […]

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From: http://www.washingtonpost.com
By Walter Pincu
Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Radical elements are now a threat to the survival of Pakistan, prompting Pakistani military leaders to recognize that more aggressive efforts are needed to get the elements under control, Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said yesterday in testimony before […]

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Pakistan has been faced with the twin menace of terrorism and extremism for quite some time and some in Pakistan claim, and still others in the West think, that a democratic dispensation can rid thecountry of the problems of extremism and terrorism.
This is not true. While it may be true that a return to democratic […]

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Pakistan is at the crossroads of grave challenges that have plagued the social, political and economic fabric of the country. Its economy is in a shambles; its politics is based on fragile democratic institutions and powerful dictatorship; and its society is confronting relentless gauntlets of growing intolerance and extremism. Its enemies are sparing no effort […]

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Source: The Australian News
SHOOT-on-sight orders were issued to Pakistan’s security forces last night after suspected al-Qa’ida and Taliban-linked militants detonated a powerful bomb in the heart of the industrial zone in Karachi, the Islamic nation’s economic capital.

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Source: The Guardian
Pakistan has as many paradigms as pundits. What is clear, however, is that meddling will only ever foment disorder
Simon Jenkins in Lahore

The Pakistani senator gazed at the headline in despair. It read: “US weighs new covert push in Pakistan”. Washington was authorising “enhanced CIA activity” in the country while US Democratic candidates […]

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Source: AFP
LONDON (AFP) — A 29-year-old dentist was jailed in London on Tuesday after admitting planning to travel to Pakistan to carry out unspecified acts of terrorism.
Sohail Qureshi, who was sentenced to four and a half years, was detained at London Heathrow Airport in October 2006 carrying thousands of pounds in cash, as well as […]

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Ever thought why there is no threat to Qazi Hussain’s life, when there is a threat to every leader life including Fazal-ur-Rehman?
Jamaat is trying to impose Islamic rule through supporting suicide bombings in Pakistan….
They were sending Jihadist in Kashmir and Afghanistan..it is a known fact…now the same “Jihadist” have become terrorist and destroying Pakistan. , […]

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Source: www.pkpolitics.com (Pakistan Politics)
January 4, 2008 | Filed Under Featured Articles
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“The Pentagon has re-negotiated a new agreement which expands its role in Pakistan to allow […]

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Source: Times Online
FRIENDS of Rashid Rauf, the man wanted in Britain for last year’s Al-Qaeda plot to blow up transatlantic airliners, believe that he did not escape from custody last weekend but was kidnapped by Pakistan’s military intelligence agency (ISI). They fear he may be shot.

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Source: Saint Francisco Chronichle
Pakistan’s military and intelligence agencies, apparently trying to avoid acknowledging an elaborate secret detention system, have quietly set free nearly 100 men suspected of links to terrorism, few of whom were charged, human rights groups and lawyers say.
Those released, they say, are some of the nearly 500 Pakistanis presumed to have disappeared […]

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