Source: Hindustan Times

US President-elect Barack Obama called Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday morning and assured him that his administration would take Islamabad along in all decisions regarding the war on terror. Zardari is likely to meet Obama during his trip to the US next week.
Obama called Zardari to thank him for the warm […]

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Source: Daily Times
* Seeks regional conference on Afghanistan
* FM supports access for Pakistani goods
* Pakistan, Italy likely to sign MoU on security
ISLAMABAD: Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini urged the international community on Monday to fully support Pakistan as it was playing its due role in the war on terror.
Addressing a joint press conference at the […]

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Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Pakistani politician and cricket great Imran Khan says his country is heading towards anarchy because of the war on terror.
Addressing the 2008 National Radio Conference on the Gold Coast on Friday, Khan said Pakistan was experiencing increasing suicide bomb attacks and instability since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan.
He compared Pakistan’s current situation […]

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Source: Guardian
‘Fiasco’, ‘The Forever War’, ‘Descent into Chaos’ - the titles of recent books capture the consensus on the US entanglement in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pankaj Mishra asks whether a new president will change the crazy logic of American militarism
We are winning in Iraq, John McCain declared in the presidential debate last week, “and we […]

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Source: Tehran Times
ISLAMABAD (The News) — Was there such an animal as the Tehrik Taliban-I-Pakistan before the American invasion of Afghanistan? The Americans sparked turmoil and chaos in this region and now that they are bogged down in Afghanistan, how come this adventure they thoughtlessly started becomes our war?
Yet from President Asif Zardari downwards our […]

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Source: All Things Pakistan

Most Pakistanis seem to like Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic Party candidate for President. However, for most, Senator Obama’s “Pakistan Connections” were limited to (a) his rather strong words about Pakistan, including about sending troops into Pakistan, and (b) his choice of Senator Joeseph Biden, who has a long and deep […]

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Source: Kansas City
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Seven years after 9/11, al Qaida and its allies are gaining ground across the region where the plot was hatched, staging their most lethal attacks yet against NATO forces and posing a growing threat to the U.S.-backed governments in Afghanistan and nuclear-armed Pakistan.
While there have been no new strikes on […]

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 This opinion was first published at The WeCite Blog
I’m not convinced we are winning it in Afghanistan. I am convinced we can… We are looking at a new, more comprehensive strategy for the region that would cover both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. In my view, these two nations are inextricably linked in a […]

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The ‘war on terror’ in Afghanistan is an unending war as its pinnacle where no one is able to surrender. Americans have brought so much carnage that they cannot leave the battlefield untill and unless stability starts to reside in Afghanistan again. Afghanis consists of Taleban supporters and Karzai supporters which includes the Northern Alliance, […]

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Source: AFP
by Danny Kemp
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s new government will review the country’s role in the US-led “war on terror,” former Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif said Tuesday after holding talks with a top American envoy.
Deputy US Secretary of State John Negroponte and Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher flew into Islamabad for talks focusing on Pakistan’s […]

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Source: FAST Rising
On March 9th, the lawyers of Pakistan together with conscientious citizens from all walks of life, kicked off Blag Flag Week, a week of protests demanding the restoration of the independent judiciary of Pakistan.
Present at the rally that started at Zaman Park from Aitezaz Ahsan’s residence was a delegation of the families of […]

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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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The most tragic part of Saud Memon’s story is the fact that he never told it. He never could. Not because of any curtailment of the freedom of speech, not because of political pressure, not because he didn’t want to. He could not tell the world about what goes on in Guantanamo or in ISI’s […]

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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: Asia Times Online
By Syed Saleem Shahzad
KARACHI - After more than six years, Pakistan finds itself in probably the most difficult position it has been in since signing on as a partner in the US-led “war on terror”.

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Source: BBS News
More than $5bn in US military aid to Pakistan has often failed to reach frontline units fighting al-Qaeda and the Taleban, the New York Times says.
It quoted officials saying much of the money was diverted to weapons systems designed to counter India, rather than to fighting Islamist militants.

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Source: Ethical corporation
A new politics diary section looks at how companies can do business in some of the world’s political hotspots. First up: Pakistan
Pakistan’s president Pervez Musharraf has been a key member of the coalition in the “war on terror”, in particular by supporting US efforts to root out Osama bin Laden.

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