The following are the “Conclusions and recommendations” of the report on Afghanistan published by the United Kingdom’s parliamentary defence select committee on April 10, 2013
The following are the “Conclusions and recommendations” of the report on Afghanistan published by the United Kingdom’s parliamentary defence select committee on April 10, 2013
This book – Devils’ Game- by Robert Dreyfus is a must read for anyone who wants to have a better understanding of the Political Islam in the global context. 
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At the request of Mr. Yousuf Nazar, we are releasing his book (published in 2011) online. Click on the link Balkanisation and Political Economy of Pakistan Kindel
Farrukh Siddiqui, Editor
The Stratfor ( a private US intelligence service) just released this report under the above title which is quite meaningful. Read more »
The following are some of the killings which reportedly have been carried out by the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi during 2012. I request all political parties, civil rights groups including lawyers’ groups/ associations, and journalists to email this to the Supeme Court of Pakistan Read more »
Today a DAWN columnist wrote about the recently published book “Confront and Conceal” by David Sanger. The column misses some key points like Obama administration is dysfunctional and its information sources have often turned out to be completely wrong. The following review published in the New York Times is a more serious and objective (not reverential) critique of the book. Read more »
A record of payments allegedly made to 19 senior-journalists of Pakistan, by the Bahria Town owner Malik Riaz has surfaced on the social networking site Twitter, Aaj News reported. Read more »
We are reproducing the following email from Mr. Yousuf Nazar without comment:
Regards,
Farrukh Siddiqui Read more »
Updated April 22, 2012: 1210 Hours PST
The crash of Bhoja Airlines is a horrible tragedy. The Bhoja Air Boeing 737 carrying about 127 people was on its first flight from Karachi to Islamabad. The Bhoja airliner crashed in stormy weather on Friday evening. There were no reports of survivors. Read more »
April 5 (Bloomberg) — An Indian security guard, cradling a Kalashnikov assault rifle, shadowed two Indian engineers as they inspected the concrete shell of the parliament building they are constructing — in the Afghan capital of Kabul. Read more »
Do you know that:
In 2000, there were 14 bomb blasts in Pakistan; 5 in Punjab, 4 in Sindh, 3 in Balochistan, and one each in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (KPK) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in which a total of 79 people died; 55 in Punjab and Sindh, 18 in Baluchistan, 5 in FATA and only one in the KPK. Read more »
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 »
A growing rivalry between India, Pakistan and China over the region’s great
rivers may be threatening South Asia’s peace
Nov 19th 2011 | DELHI, DHAKA, ISLAMABAD AND SRINAGAR |
from the Economist
SONAULLAH PHAPHO has spent half a century picking a living from Wular lake high in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Today he is lucky if he scoops a fish or two out of the soupy mess. Read more »
Please read the following story published in Vanity Fair magazine in August 2002 and think?
THE JOURNALIST AND THE TERRORIST
by Robert Sam Anson
The reporter who comes to Karachi, Pakistan is given certain cautions.
Do not take a taxi from the airport; arrange for the hotel to send a car and confirm the driver’s identity before getting in.
Do not stay in a room that faces the street.
Do not interview sources over the phone.
Do not discuss subjects such as Islam or the Pakistani nuclear program in the presence of hotel staff. Read more »
When the CNN and other poodle media outlets carry unsubstantiated claims of discredited American establishments and liars like Donald Rumsfeld, it is NEWS. When bloggers like us diligently document the connections of Al Qaeda to the Western secret services, it is conspiracy theory. But we always quote mainstream or corporate media reports to raise difficult questions which Western reporters, US government paid think-tank analysts, or the likes of Fareed Zakaria would never be able to face. Read more »
Startling revelations by French intelligence experts back David Shayler’s alleged ‘fantasy’about Gadaffi plot
British intelligence paid large sums of money to an al-Qaeda cell in Libya in a doomed attempt to assassinate Colonel Gadaffi in 1996 and thwarted early attempts to bring Osama bin Laden to justice. Read more »
From Huffington Post / La Temps (Aug.30, 2011)
By Jean-Pierre Perrin
Abdel Hakim Belhadj, who leads the rebel forces in Tripoli, was a founder of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, and is believed to have been close to bloodthirsty head of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Belhadj spoke last week to Al Jazeera Read more »
Former US Intelligence Chief Dennis Blair makes the same points that the critics of the so-called war on terror have made for nearly a decade: Read more »
Picture is a worth a thousand words
Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves hit a record high of $18.25 billion during the week ended July 2, following inflows of $411 million from World Bank and Asian Development Bank under programme loans, a senior central bank official said on July 8, 2011. Is this a reason to cheer? Read more »
This is a very familiar pattern over the last twenty years. MQM quits government and Karachi is terrorised by a wave of killings, burning, and arson. For over two decades, MQM is the only constant in the violence in Karachi. MQM has not matured into a political party from a militant group… it has degenerated into a criminal mafia. Read more »
Saudi-Iran tensions could spell more trouble for Pakistan
According to the Guardian (June 29), Prince Turki al-Faisal, a former Saudi intelligence chief and ambassador to Washington, has raised the spectre of nuclear conflict in the Middle East if Irancomes close to developing a nuclear weapon. Read more »
Legendary American journalist Seymour Hersh gave a CIRS (Centre for International and Regional Studies) Distinguished Lecture titled “The Obama/Bush Foreign Policies: Why Can’t America Change?” before an audience of 800 members of the community in Doha at an event 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 »
“A glance at the map quickly explains why strategically located Balochistan and the five million Baloch tribesmen who live there could easily become the focal point of superpower conflict.”
Selig S. Harrison in “In Afghanistan’s Shadow”, published in 1981. Read more »
Dear Lt Gen. Shuja Pasha
We think it is now time to appeal to your sense of patriotism and respect for human values to urge you to inject some sense into the religious parties like the JUI, Jamaat-e-Islami, Sunni Tehreek, Jamaat-ud-Dawa over whom you have considerable influence. Read more »
This article from the Washington Post is worth a careful read for all who are in denial about CIA’s covert operations.
This Is Michael Vickers’s War
By Ann Scott Tyson, December 28, 2007 Read more »
Where are the political and media pundits who have prospered on the crumbs thrown at them by the establishment and its agencies? Why don’t we have a front page story from Ansar Abbasi that Nawaz Sharif is sabotaging the repeal of the 17th amendment? Why don’t the TV channels ask Nawaz Sharif why he is going back on the Charter of Democracy he signed with Benazir Bhutto? Where are the paid agents of the establishment like Dr Shahid Masood quiet on this? Why do the champions of the lawyers movement and the bar associations silent on what is literally an assault on the most serious and biggest attempt so far since 1977 to restore the constitution to its original shape? Read more »
