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PAKISTAN/USA: A Pakistani lady doctor remains missing with her three children five years after her arrest ISSUES: Disappearance; rape; violence against women; torture; right to liberty and security; arbitrary arrest and detention
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We have received information that Dr. Afia Siddiqui, was arrested along with her three children by […]

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Source: Teeth Maestro

The borders of Pakistan remain under constant pressure from the offensive generated by the American War on Terror, it is this plague amongst other problems that continue to weaken Pakistan on a daily basis. Its ironic that the war is thousands of miles away from the coast of America yet they assume the […]

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Source: Teeth Meastro
Guest Post by Zubair Ahmed
After reading Mr. Shakir Husain’s “Our Heroes” published in The News on 11th June 2008, I immediately dismissed one of my own hypotheses that said: ‘only’ senior military officers, given a chance to speak on high technology; reveal an uncanny ability to churn out opinionated nonsense.
Mr. Shakir fears “Essentially […]

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Source: Reuters Blog
With Senator Barack Obama looking increasingly confident about winning the Democratic nomination, there have been a new spate of articles on what it would mean for Pakistan if he becomes president.
The most eye-catching, perhaps, was a story in The News about how President Pervez Musharraf’s family in the United States have been giving […]

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Source: BBC News 
The United States has imposed financial sanctions on four people it says are leaders of the Pakistan-based militant group, Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET).
The US treasury called the group “a murderous al-Qaeda affiliate” which had shown willingness to murder civilians.
The group is active in Indian-administered Kashmir. In 2001, the US blocked its assets.
LET has been blamed […]

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Source: DAWN
ISLAMABAD, May 26: Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has said that Pakistan will be a stronger and more stable democracy after the present government resolves all constitutional and legal issues through democratic consensus.
During meetings with two US congressional delegations here on Monday, Mr Zardari briefed them on steps being taken by the […]

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Source: China View
ISLAMABAD, May 26 (Xinhua) — It will require determined efforts on both sides of the Afghanistan and Pakistan border to tackle the challenges to global security presented by violent extremism, the visiting British Defense Secretary Des Browne said here on Monday.
Browne made the remarks while holding a series of talks with Pakistan Defense […]

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Source: Daily Times
ISLAMABAD: Close strategic relations between Pakistan and the United States and mutual co-operation in the ongoing war on terror are vital for peace and stability in the region, President Pervez Musharraf said on Sunday. Talking to US senators Carl Levin and Robert Casey in a meeting, the president said ties between the two […]

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Source: Daily Times
KABUL: United States lawmakers met Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on Sunday, saying that they would raise concerns with Pakistan about its peace deals with extremists.
The US congressmen said part of the reason for their visit to Kabul and Islamabad was to look into the issue of extremist ‘sanctuaries’ in Pakistan.
There is […]

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Source: Reuters
By Sahibzada Bahauddin
DAMADOLA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Angry residents of a Pakistani village on the Afghan border stopped government officials on Thursday from approaching the ruins of a house struck by missiles suspected to have been fired by a U.S. drone.
Eighteen people including foreign militants were killed when two missiles hit a house in the […]

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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 
Patterson says money is transferred to Finance Ministry rather than to security forces
KARACHI: The United States has been providing almost a billion dollars annually to reimburse Pakistan for its fight against militancy since 2001, US Ambassador to Pakistan Anne W Patterson said on Thursday.
Talking to members of the Management Association of Pakistan (MAP), […]

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Source: Daily Times
KARACHI: US Ambassador to Pakistan, Anne W Patterson, Thursday visited Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) and held a meeting with its management and board of directors.
US Consul General Kay L Anske and Press Attache Elizabeth O Colton were also present on the occasion.
Speaking on this occasion, she said that Pakistan stock market has a […]

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Source: Daily Times
Policies for FATA and Balochistan are most important and should not be formulated as a reaction to previous policies but rather on the basis of having learnt from them
Post-9/11, when the US struck the Al Qaeda-Taliban combine in Afghanistan, Pakistan became the anvil for the US-Northern Alliance hammer. While the attack was largely […]

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Source: BBC News 
Pakistan has played down a recent US report that in February the Pentagon refused its request for funds to fight Taleban and al-Qaeda militants.
The military’s spokesman conceded that the funds had still not been released but called it a “routine matter”.
Pakistan receives some $80m (£41m) a month from the US to help […]

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Source: USA Today
TORKHAM (AP) — U.S., Afghan and Pakistani officers opened the first of six joint military intelligence centers along the Afghan-Pakistan border Saturday, an effort to cut down on militants’ movement in a region of rising terrorist activity.
The centers represent the latest step in American efforts to get Afghanistan and Pakistan to coordinate […]

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Source: BBC News
Pakistan’s foreign office has denied suggestions that the timing of a visit by top US diplomats is unusual.
US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte and Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher arrived in Pakistan early Tuesday.
It was the same day that the new PM, Yusuf Raza Gillani, was sworn in.
Pakistan is a key […]

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Source: Daily Times
By Khalid Hasan
WASHINGTON: The United States must recognise the analytical failures of its current Pakistan policy considering that President Pervez Musharraf’s rule fostered fundamentalism and it is only through democracy that Pakistan can be turned back towards moderation, according to an analysis published here.
Raj Purohit, a senior fellow at the Washington think tank, […]

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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: Daily Times
* Coalition spokesman in Afghanistan confirms ‘precision-guided strike’ on ‘Haqqani network compound’
* Bajaur tribesmen protest killings
MIRANSHAH/KHAR: Pakistan lodged a protest with coalition forces in Afghanistan on Thursday after two Pakistani women and two children were killed by US fire from across the border in North Waziristan, the army said, AFP reported.
“They fired five […]

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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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Source: CNN

Girls, who are often discouraged from attending school, read at one of the Central Asia Institute schools.
Greg Mortenson brushed his tears away. His body sagged when he saw it happen. The prize he had sought for 78 agonizing days was slipping from his view.
He was clinging to an icy patch of K2, the second-highest […]

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He also called on Washington to change its standpoint towards Iran and said it had to understand that the Iraqi people did not like America.

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Source: Daily Times
A US company, persuaded by an American woman who visited Pakistan and was moved by the keenness of the girls she met to obtain an education, is donating educational toys and aides to a girls’ madrassa in Lahore.
In September 2007, Ann EW Stone, a political consultant from Alexandria, Virginia, visited several cities in […]

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Source: The Guardian
America’s massive military aid package to Pakistan has come under scrutiny after allegations that as much as 70% of $5.4bn in assistance has been misspent.
Since 2002, the US has paid the operating costs of Pakistan’s military operations in the tribal belt along the Afghan border, where Taliban and al-Qaida fighters are sheltering.
Pakistan provides […]

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