Source: International Herald Tribune
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani plans to meet with U.S. President George W. Bush at a gathering of political and business leaders in Egypt.
It will be the highest-level contact between the two governments since Pakistan’s new leaders offered peace talks to Islamic insurgents. NATO expressed concern Wednesday that the […]

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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: Reuters Blog
The United States, beginning with President George W. Bush himself, has this past two weeks trained its crosshairs on Pakistan, warning that another Sept. 11, if it were to happen, would most likely not be plotted out of Iraq, Afghanistan or even Iran, but Pakistan.
Like the steady drumbeat that has often preceded major […]

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Source: Reuters
By Zeeshan Haider
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has an effective command and control structure for its nuclear weapons and they are fully safe and secure, the country’s new prime minister said on Thursday.
Pakistan is the only nuclear-armed Muslim nation and is a staunch ally of the United States in its campaign against al Qaeda and […]

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Source: The Australian
A PLAN by the US to seek direct “oversight” of Pakistan’s powerful nuclear arsenal and the command structure that controls it was heading for rejection last night after it was denounced in Islamabad as “outright interference” in the country’s affairs.
The secret plan, disclosed in the Pakistan media, would for the first time see […]

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Source: Daily Times
NEW YORK: Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has cited a 1981 visit to Pakistan while he was a college student in a bid to counter rivals’ accusations that he lacks foreign policy experience.
He spoke of his trip to Pakistan while speaking to supporters at a fund-raiser in San Francisco on Sunday night, according […]

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Source: The Media Line
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday lifted democracy-related law restrictions on American security aid for Pakistan, two weeks after a democratically elected government took office.
The U.S. terminated is military aid to Pakistan following Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s military coup, which took place in 1999. The U.S. nevertheless resumed its aid […]

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By: Lisette Poole (Washington Report on Middle East Affairs)
Global Policy Forum

As long as the United States continues putting profits over people, siphoning precious resources and trampling the rights and sovereignty of nations along the way, the world will witness more resentment, rage, violence and paranoia. The solution is a burgeoning people-to-people movement that will lift […]

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Source: MWC News
The situation in Pakistan provides another good reason why the American people should put a stop to the U.S. government’s meddling in the affairs of other countries.
For years, U.S. officials have had a close, working partnership with Pakistan’s president Pervez Musharraf, which has included the delivery to him of millions of dollars in […]

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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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Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON — Since Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani took command of Pakistan’s Army last November, a parade of top American officers and spymasters has trooped to Islamabad to urge him to wage an aggressive campaign against Al Qaeda and other militants in the country’s restive tribal areas.
The American officials have come away gushing […]

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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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Source: AFP
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States hopes Pakistan’s upcoming election will be free and fair and bring an end to domestic violence so that Islamabad can focus on the “war on terror.” But it may not get what it wants.
In addition, experts warn, any post-election violence that results in a confrontation between President Pervez […]

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Source: Pakistan Think Tank
By Ishrat Husain             
A spate of editorials, articles, columns and reports emanating from the United States in the last few months have vehemently argued that continuation of  U.S. assistance to Pakistan should be made conditional upon the progress in the achievement of U.S.’s strategic goals in the region.  The resonance of these assertions […]

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Source: Washington Post
By Malou Innocent
America’s most vulnerable ally in the war on terror is Pakistan. But our alliance with the nuclear-armed Islamic state may be exacerbating that country’s instability.
For eight years, Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf has delayed, deferred and ultimately denied his citizens the right to freely choose their next leader. U.S. policymakers and analysts […]

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Source: Global Research
By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto has created conditions which contribute to the ongoing destabilization and fragmentation of Pakistan as a Nation.
The process of US sponsored “regime change”, which normally consists in the re-formation of a fresh proxy government under new leaders has been broken. Discredited in the eyes of Pakistani […]

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Source: Daily Times

* Pakistani woman to undertake space flight in two years
Daily Times Monitor
LAHORE: Numira Saleem, a Pakistani woman, hoisted the country’s flag at the South Pole on Wednesday, Samma TV reported. According to the TV channel, Numira Saleem hoisted the Pakistani flag at the North Pole last Saturday, and there she had announced […]

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Source: Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Opposition leader Nawaz Sharif said Monday that U.S-backed anti-terror operations have left Pakistan “drowned in blood,” issuing some of his harshest criticism yet of President Pervez Musharraf.

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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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Source: New Statesman
The Foreign Policy Centre’s Alex Bigham considers how the world should react to a changing Pakistan
There are, broadly speaking, two schools of thought about what the international community should do next to help alleviate the chaos consuming Pakistan. One was emphasised by Simon Jenkins in the Guardian – that we should never seek […]

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Source: APP
WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (APP): President Pervez Musharraf has always been very clear that the US troops could not operate unilaterally on Pakistani soil and instead called for coordinated efforts, former US ambassador to Pakistan Wendy Chamberlin said.

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Source: AFP
WASHINGTON  — Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, in a US magazine interview released Friday, called for the body of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto to be exhumed as he rejected charges that the government was complicit in her assassination.

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Source: The Boston Globe
IN THE AFTERMATH of Benazir Bhutto’s murder, domestic power struggles are shaping, or distorting, debates about how she was killed, what becomes of her Pakistan People’s Party, and when to hold pending elections. Given Pakistan’s geopolitical importance, and the likelihood that any overt American meddling in those power struggles will exacerbate resentment […]

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