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Pakistan seeks identity of American suspect

Al-Qaida-Arrest

ISLAMABAD: Intelligence officials are trying to establish the identity of an American militant suspect arrested in Pakistan, but doubts grew Monday that he is al-Qaida’s U.S.-born spokesman. Pakistani officials have contradicted each other on whether the suspect is Adam Gadahn, 31, who has appeared in videos threatening the West. Two intelligence officers and a senior [...]

The World Doesn’t Have a Pakistan Nukes Problem

The World Doesn’t Have a Pakistan Nukes Problem

….It Has a David Albright Problem! As AFP tells us, the Institute for Science and International Security just published a report on Pakistan’s nuclear program that seems designed to pour gasoline on the “the Pakistani nuclear program is outta control” story. And, when you look at the story, there isn’t a whole lot of there [...]

Pakistan Tells America To Stop Supporting Insurgents Inside Pakistan

Pakistan Tells America To Stop Supporting Insurgents Inside Pakistan

This report, first published in August 2008, is reproduced here to provide context to the determined Pakistani military operation against terrorists coming from Afghanistan. Pakistan’s largest English-language daily, The News, ran this on its front page, written by Kamran Khan, an investigative reporter who has worked for The Washington Post. The mainstream Am-Brit media continues [...]

Afghanistan-Pakistan: Where Empires Go to Die

Afghanistan-Pakistan: Where Empires Go to Die

Under the pretext of responding to the September 11, 2001, attacks in America, the United States and Great Britain invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001. They dubbed this invasion Operation Enduring Freedom. President Bush 41 told the American people that the US strikes were, “… designed to disrupt the use of Afghanistan as a terrorist [...]

Pakistan in victory over Taliban in border area: commander

Pakistan in victory over Taliban in border area: commander

KHAR, Pakistan: Pakistan said on Saturday it had forced Taliban militants out of a key battleground in the global fight against extremism and boasted of major gains in another region bordering Afghanistan. The six-month battle with Islamist insurgents in the remote Bajaur district is seen as pivotal to the country’s fight against Al-Qaeda and the [...]

Intelligence agency of Pakistan pivotal in war on terror

Intelligence agency of Pakistan pivotal in war on terror

Contrary to the widespread theory, the Inter-Services Intelligence agency is a disciplined and professional organization that is playing a pivotal role in the global war on terrorism. This organization has been crucial in bringing regional stability. Its contribution in the 1980s against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan could not be denied, and it operated cooperatively [...]

US envoy conducts policy review in Pakistan

US envoy conducts policy review in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The US envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan was to meet key leaders here Tuesday as part of a major US policy review aimed at turning around the war against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in south Asia. Richard Holbrooke, considered the architect of peace in Bosnia, was due to meet President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime [...]

An Open Letter to President Barack Obama

An Open Letter to President Barack Obama

To the Honourable Mr President, President Barack Hussein Obama. We wish you are in the best of health and high-spirits. Mr. President, we are writing to you as a group of concerned American, foreign, and Pakistani students who would like to bring your attention to the world’s longest-standing flashpoint. It is our belief that a [...]

Clinton says Obama supports Pakistan economic aid expansion, confident of positive ties

Clinton says Obama supports Pakistan economic aid expansion, confident of positive ties

WASHINGTON: Assuring lawmakers of President‑elect Barack Obama’s support for a Congressional measure on three‑fold expansion in economic assistance for Pakistan, U.S. Secretary of State‑designate Hillary Clinton has vowed pursuing a ‘positive’ relationship with Islamabad towards addressing the ‘tough and complicated’ problem of violent extremism afflicting the region. “Yes, the President‑elect does support the legislation that [...]

Pakistan dismisses Indian data as ‘not evidence’

Pakistan dismisses Indian data as ‘not evidence’

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Pakistan’s prime minister has dismissed the significance of a dossier handed over by India about the Mumbai attacks, saying it was just information and “not evidence.” Yousuf Raza Gilani’s remarks will likely anger New Delhi, which says the dossier provides evidence that Pakistani militants staged the November slaughter of 164 people. Pakistan has [...]