Archive for January, 2012

ISI beyond the reach of the justice system: Human Rights Watch

January 30, 2012
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The following is the text of the statement released by the Human Rights Watch – a global human rights body.

January 30, 2012

The Pakistani government should redouble efforts to find the killers of the journalist Saleem Shahzad, following the failure of the judicial inquiry commission to identify those responsible, Human Rights Watch said today. Read more »

X-Rated Video Shows Mansoor Ijaz is a Complete Ass

January 19, 2012
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From the New York Times
In Pakistan’s Coup Intrigue, an X-Rated Plot Twist

By ROBERT MACKEY

via YouTube Mansoor Ijaz, an American at the center of Pakistani intrigue, in a still frame from a 2004 music video.

A complex political and legal drama dubbed “Memogate” by the Pakistani press veered into unexpected territory on Wednesday, when an American businessman who claims that Pakistan’s government Read more »

Has PTI done its homework?

January 2, 2012
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DAWN, Dec. 28, 2011

By Zubeida Mustafa

THE message that emerged loud and clear from the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf’s massive rally in Karachi on Sunday was that people want a change. Read more »