Secretary of the State Hillary Clinton recently said Pakistan needed to understand that anti-Americanism and conspiracy theories will not end its problems. I agree. But what would help? Many things to start with, but American disengagement most definitely will. Read more »
The deadly and brazen attack on Pakistan Navy’s base in Karachi on May 22 has dealt another humiliating blow to the reputation and morale of Pakistan’s armed services. According to the initail accounts the small group of militants, as few as six, Read more »
DAWN has released Wikileaks cables about the role of US ground troops in Pakistan. I would say, my fellow liberal Pakistanis smell coffee! I had no illusions about the Jamaatis and forget about Imran Khan but liberals should wonder if they got anything right since 9/11? I would say hardly. They have been criticising the military leadership for talking about sovereignty in relation to the US drone attacks while ignoring that the presence of foreign militants which, according to them, is also a violation of sovereignty. Read more »
The following is the full text of Sanam Bhutto’s statement released to The News: Sanam stays away from politics and rarely issues a statement.
“I refer to a news report in The News dated 16 May, 2011, entitled: Islamabad continues to hide the truth. Read more »
Time is running out fast. Pakistani Generals’ latest love affair with the United States that started after 9/11 seems to be heading for an acrimonious break up after exchanges of charges of betrayal. The US tolerated Pakistan’s duplicity (we cannot point to America’s because it is a super power and nor can we try Bush for war crimes) from day one Read more »
Paul Joseph Watson
Source: Infowars.com
May 4, 2011
Top US government insider Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik, a man who held numerous different influential positions under three different Presidents and still works with the Defense Department, Read more »
A Chinese visitor walks past an artwork of U.S. President George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden, in Beijing on May 6, 2007. (Teh Eng Koon/AFP/Getty Images)
By Antoaneta Becker
BEIJING, May 6, 2011 (IPS) – The United States’ most vilified terrorist foe has been dead only a week but China is already haunted by the phantom of the next big U.S. enemy. Read more »
Courtesy: Centre for Research on Globalization, Montreal, Canada , By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Note: Dr. Paul Craig Roberts served as Assistant Secretary of Treasury for President Ronald Reagan. An economist by profession, Dr. Roberts studied at Berkeley and Oxford. Read more »
Never before Pakistan has cut such a humiliated and sorry face before the whole world and its military leadership looked so incompetent and stupid. The unilateral commando action of the US forces to kill Osama has exposed more than the incompetence or complicity of Pakistan’s military establishment. Read more »
Osama is dead, Obama is enjoying a surge in popularity, Pakistani military high command is hiding in embarrassment, and the big question for Pakistan is where do we go from here? Read more »
Obama, Biden, Clinton in the Control Room
A middle-aged nonentity, a political failure outstripped by history – by the millions of Arabs demanding freedom and democracy in the Middle East – died in Pakistan yesterday. Read more »
ISLAMABAD – Osama bin Laden was holed up in a sprawling house just 100 yards from a Pakistani military academy when helicopters carrying U.S. anti-terror forces swooped in the early morning hours of Monday and killed him. Read more »
Israel has relied on Egypt’s help to police the border with Gaza, above in 2006, but Egypt says it is planning to end its blockade.
From DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
CAIRO — Egypt is charting a new course in its foreign policy that has already begun shaking up the established order in the Middle East, planning to open the blockaded border with Gaza Read more »
