The terrorists in Mumbai might have committed inhuman acts, but in at least one way, they are just like you and me. When authorities cut the cable feeds to the hotels where the terrorists held over 200 hostages, they relied on another piece technology to monitor the police response and the world’s reaction to the […]

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Source: DAWN
NEW YORK, Oct 4: Citing the threat posed by militants along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and the possible economic meltdown, President Asif Ali Zardari has asked the international community to give Pakistan $100 billion in grant to ensure the country’s survival.
“I need your help, if we fall, if we can’t do it, you can’t do […]

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Source: Seattle Times
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — War has come to Pakistan, not just as terrorist bombings, but as full-scale battles, leaving Pakistanis angry and dismayed as the dead, wounded and displaced turn up on their doorstep.
An estimated 250,000 people have now fled the gunship helicopters, jets, artillery and mortar fire of the Pakistani army, and the […]

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Source: Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush on Tuesday said the United States wanted to help Pakistan protect itself amid questions about U.S. military strikes aimed at al Qaeda and Taliban militants in its remote border region.
Bush sat down for his first face-to-face meeting with newly elected Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari […]

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Source: The Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — Three British Muslims with ties to Pakistan were found guilty Monday of conspiracy to murder in a terrorist bombing campaign but jurors failed to reach a verdict on whether they plotted to blow up multiple trans-Atlantic airliners with liquid explosives disguised as soft drinks.
The failure to get convictions on […]

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Source: Chicago Tribune
WASHINGTON - The U.S. should rethink its approach in Pakistan, including a multimillion dollar program aimed at training and equipping tribal militants, unless Islmabad does more to keep terrorists from crossing the Afghan border, a top Democrat said Tuesday.
Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, told reporters after a three-day trip […]

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Source: Bloomberg
By Tony Capaccio

Pakistan won’t be capable of rooting out terrorists based along its rugged border with Afghanistan for at least three years, according to the U.S. military.
“Safe havens” in this area for al-Qaeda and Taliban militants “have grown in recent years,” according to a report to the House and Senate defense panels.
“Deficiencies in […]

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Source: The New York Times
WASHINGTON — American commanders in Afghanistan have in recent months urged a widening of the war that could include American attacks on indigenous Pakistani militants in the tribal areas inside Pakistan, according to United States officials.
The requests have been rebuffed for now, the officials said, after deliberations in Washington among senior […]

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Source: Political gateway
NEW YORK — United States officials reportedly have reached a quiet agreement with Pakistani leadership to step up secret air strikes against suspected terrorists.
The New York Times says the strikes would use pilotless Predator aircraft launched in Pakistan.
But the Bush administration is said to be concerned the plan may be curtailed or scuttled […]

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Source: Guardian
Plan for ‘live’ internet murder of soldier may have been inspired by killing of British engineer Ken Bigley in Iraq
by Helen Carter and David Batty
The arrest a year ago of nine people in connection with a plot to kidnap and behead a British soldier live on the internet prompted grave concern when revealed by […]

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The American government is in a dilemma over the current political situation in Pakistan. Overtly it has to lend support to President Musharraf but covertly it is indeed troubled over the political row in Pakistan.
Although the American-government proper has not expressed any doubts over President Musharraf’s ability to keep things in power, there […]

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Source: Telegraph
British detectives investigating the assassination of former prime minister and opposition leader, Benazir Bhutto, have examined the remains of victims killed in the suicide blast.
The anti-terrorism specialists visited the Rawalpindi morgue where the remains of some of the 23 victims of the gun and suicide bomb attack have been kept since the December 27 […]

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