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The tag 'Pakistan' is associated with 17 posts.

FTR #683 Interview (#3) with Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald

Afghan gov­ern­ment offi­cials over­see mas­sive Afghan hero­in traf­fic; the BCCI at the cen­ter of decades of intel­li­gence com­mu­ni­ty drug traf­fick­ing in that area; U.S. may col­lapse like ancient Rome.


FTR #680 Interview [#2] with Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald

U.S. Cold War pol­i­cy pro­duces slaugh­ter of mod­er­ates in Afghanistan; Pri­vate cor­po­ra­tions dri­ve U.S. pol­i­cy in that coun­try and led to U.S. sup­port of Tal­iban; Tal­iban cre­at­ed by U.S. “ally” Pak­istan.


India compiling evidence to share with Pak, rest of world

PTI New Del­hi: As Islam­abad con­tin­ues to be in denial mode, India is com­pil­ing evi­dence about the role of Pak­is­tan-based ele­ments in the ter­ror strikes for shar­ing it with the world besides the neigh­bour very soon. The evi­dence, being put togeth­er, includes the con­fes­sion of the lone ter­ror­ist held in Mum­bai ter­ror attack Ajmal Amir […]


Scenic Pakistani valley falls to Taliban militants

by Nahal Toosi­AP ISLAMABAD, Pak­istan – Tal­iban mil­i­tants are behead­ing and burn­ing their way through Pak­istan’s pic­turesque Swat Val­ley, and res­i­dents say the insur­gents now con­trol most of the moun­tain­ous region far from the law­less trib­al areas where jihadists thrive. The dete­ri­o­rat­ing sit­u­a­tion in the for­mer tourist haven comes despite an army offen­sive that began […]


Let’s Give Pakistan the Attention It Deserves

The Mum­bai attack is the lat­est wake-up call. By BERNARD-HENRI LEVYWSJ “The world is decid­ed­ly poor­ly made,” Asif Ali Zardari, wid­ow­er of Benazir Bhut­to and pres­i­dent of Pak­istan, must be say­ing to him­self. The French expres­sion Le monde est décidé­ment mal fait sums things up quite nice­ly. For it was at the very moment that […]


India blames Pakistanis, calls for punishment

by Somi­ni Sen­gup­ta and Robert F. Worth­New York Times Mum­bai, India In a new sign of ris­ing ten­sion between two nuclear-armed neigh­bors, Indi­an for­eign min­istry offi­cials sum­moned Pak­istan’s ambas­sador Mon­day evening and told him Pak­ista­nis were respon­si­ble and must be pun­ished for last week’s ter­ror­ist attacks here, in which 173 peo­ple were killed over three […]


Key Eyewitness In Benazir Bhutto Assassination Case Killed

The Mem­ri Blog Khalid Sha­hen­shah, the key eye­wit­ness in the Benazir Bhut­to assas­si­na­tion case and the Chief Secu­ri­ty Offi­cer to her hus­band Asif Zardari, the leader of rul­ing Pak­istan People’s Par­ty, was shot dead at his door. Accord­ing to a report in the Urdu-lan­guage news­pa­per Roz­na­ma Nawa-i-Waqt, car-borne assailants fired six bul­lets into Khalid Sha­hen­shah […]