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Multiple Attacks Shake New Pakistan Government

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Salman Masood - Jun. 15 (News) - Militants set off two bombs in Quetta, the provincial capital, and destroyed a national monument associated with the country’s founder.

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Gunfire at Pakistan hospital treating bombing victims - CNN

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - Jun. 15 (News) - Gunfire at Pakistan hospital treating bombing victimsCNNIslamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Militants have entered a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, where casualties of an earlier bus bombing were taken for treatment, police said Saturday. Eight gunmen are exchanging fire with police at the Bolan medical complex, ...

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From Trafalgar to Taksim, the politics of the square puts the wind up power | Simon Jenkins

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Simon Jenkins - Jun. 12 (Comment) - Forget Field Marshal Twitter. What scares rulers like Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdoğan are the street's wild squadrons Why does power hate a city square? A square fields no army, commands no votes, has nowhere to go. It is just a space. Yet it is space that invites occupation, an occupation hostile to power. Hence Turkey's president felt obliged yesterday to "recapture" Taksim Square in Istanbul. It had become an alternative seat of legitimacy, a place of defiance, an ugly gesture at his majesty. It took tanks, guns, gas and bulldozers, but cleared it had to be. Squares are civic holy places. Their geometry echoes to the ghosts of past uprisings, and holds promise of more to come. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had only to gaze on the turmoil of Cairo's Tahrir and recall Beijing's Tiananmen , Tehran's Azadi , Kiev's Independence and Athens's Syntagma . The very names must have called chaos to the colours and struck fear in the heart of power. A square in a capital city is a congress of the wild, a ...

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Seven killed in suspected U.S. drone strike in Pakistan

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Tim Craig - Jun. 08 (Special Report) - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A suspected U.S. drone strike killed seven people Friday night in northwest Pakistan, two days after the country’s new prime minister vowed to stop such attacks.

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Can Pakistan Make Peace Next Door?

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Ahmed Rashid - Jun. 06 (Opinion) - Can the new prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, broker a peace deal next door?

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Sharif urges end to drone strikes

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jun. 05 (News) - Pakistan's new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif calls for an end to US drone strikes in his first address since being re-elected for a historic third term.

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India Ink: Why the Return of Kashmiri Pandits is Still A Distant Dream

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By RAHUL PANDITA - Jun. 03 (Opinion) - India Ink: Why the Return of Kashmiri Pandits is Still A Distant Dream

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Drone Strike Is Said to Kill a Top Pakistani Taliban Figure

Wed, 29 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Ismail Khan - May. 29 (News Report) - The attack came six days after President Obama put new restrictions on the use of U.S. drones, which have killed thousands in Pakistan.

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Senior Taliban militants killed by US drone strike in Pakistan

Wed, 29 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Jon Boone - May. 29 (News) - Pakistani officials report at least four people, including Taliban deputy Wali ur-Rehman, killed in North Waziristan region Senior Taliban militants, including the movement's second in command, have reportedly been killed by a US drone strike in Pakistan, the first since the country voted for a new government this month. Pakistani security officials said on Wednesday that at least four people, including the Taliban's deputy commander Wali ur-Rehman, had been killed in the attack in the North Waziristan region. The Pakistan Taliban have denied he is dead. The attack, which comes just days after Barack Obama announced tighter guidelines on use of the unmanned aircraft , could complicate the first days in power of Nawaz Sharif, who is due to be installed as prime minister next week after elections earlier this month. However, Obama made clear in his speech at the National Defense University on Thursday that in the "Afghan war theatre" drone strikes would have to continue in the runup to ...

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School Van Fire In Pakistan Kills 15 Children

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Salman Masood - May. 25 (News Report) - Pakistan Van Accident Kills 15 Children and Teacher

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2 arrested on flight after UK-bound Pakistan plane diverted

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - May. 25 (News Report) - A British security official said the situation involving the Pakistan International Airlines flight, which carried more than 300 people, did not appear to be terror-related, but that police were still investigating ...

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The real Obama scandal: fighting illegal wars in Libya and Pakistan

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Michael Cohen - May. 16 (Comment) - The AP, IRS and Benghazi controversies are political sideshows. Obama's use of illegal force abroad is true concern Washington DC appears to have reached peak hysteria this week. The confluence of not one, not two, but three potential scandals involving the White House has given practically every Beltway scribe a case of the vapors as they don their Woodward/Bernstein capes and doggedly uncover the truth behind the Obama Administration's lies. What's missing, however, is actual evidence of wrongdoing. The IRS scandal is certainly the most politically toxic, but it remains unclear that anyone from the Obama Administration knew what the IRS was doing or that the agency was even targeting conservative groups for partisan political reasons. The Department of Justice's subpoena of phone records from the Associated Press is far more troubling because it offers a glimpse into the prosecutorial zeal that has defined DoJ's investigation of leaks from within the Obama Administration. Finally, there ...

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Nawaz Sharif poised to return as Pakistan PM

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

aljazeera.com - May. 12 (Breaking News) - Nawaz Sharif, winner of the Pakistani elections, is holding talks to form a new government, with fixing the economy and tackling the armed insurgency likely to be his two biggest challenges. Partial, unofficial results from Saturday's elections represented a comeback for Sharif, 63, who was deposed as prime minister in a 1999 military coup and spent years in jail and exile.

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On Eve of Pivotal Election, Pakistan Orders Times Reporter to Leave

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Rick Gladstone - May. 11 (News Report) - The New York Times has protested an election-eve expulsion order for Declan Walsh, a veteran correspondent.

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Pakistan's Tyrannical Majority

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Manan Ahmed Asif - May. 11 (Opinion) - Op-Ed Contributor: Pakistan’s Tyrannical Majority

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Of elections and extremes: Pakistan's Pamela Anderson takes on a mullah

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - May. 11 (News Analysis) - The parliamentary race between pinup-film-star-turned-politician Musarrat Shaheen and a man described as a powerful, Taliban-tied cleric highlights the dual nature of Pakistan. ...

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Son of Former Pakistani Leader Is Abducted as Campaign Nears End

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Salman Masood - May. 09 (News Report) - Yousuf Raza Gilani’s Son Kidnapped in Pakistan

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Has Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif changed his stripes?

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Richard Leiby - May. 09 (Opinion) - What kind of prime minister was Nawaz Sharif, who twice held Pakistan’s premiership in the 1990s, defied Washington and tested a nuclear bomb, and is now touted as likely to win a third term in Saturday’s national ...

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Taliban Bomb Kills at Least 20 at a Pakistan Political Rally

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Declan Walsh, Ismail Khan - May. 07 (News Report) - Taliban Bomb Kills at Least 20 at a Pakistan Political Rally

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Pakistan's women face battle for the right to vote

Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Tracy McVeigh - May. 04 (News) - Female activists plan to deploy protection teams to polling stations in forthcoming elections Fears over the safety of women voting in next week's elections in Pakistan are rising after letters have been circulated in regions of the country warning men not to allow their wives, sisters and daughters out to the polling stations. In an increasingly fraught and violent runup to the 11 May vote, leaflets are appearing stating that it is "un-Islamic" for women to participate in democracy. Now a group of young female activists are planning to challenge what they call the government's inability to protect women's right to vote by organising their own protection teams at individual polling stations in tense and volatile Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, one of the four provinces of Pakistan, formerly known as the North West Frontier Province. In what is being called Pakistan's youth election – almost a third of the electorate is between 18 and 29 – a growing tide of young women are determined to overcome ...

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Are Indian-Pakistani relations in jeopardy after prisoner death?

Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - May. 04 (News Analysis) - A Pakistani prisoner in an Indian jail was attacked and seriously injured in a tit-for-tat assault one day after the death of an Indian man in a Pakistani prison. ...

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How the CIA's Bags of Cash Undermined the Afghanistan War

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Spencer Ackerman - Apr. 29 (Opinion) - It’s the most understandable, intuitive and tempting mistake in geopolitics: secretly pay a powerful foreigner to do what you want. The CIA, like many spy agencies, has done it throughout its history, and now we know it helped undermine the America’s longest war.

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The Blowback from Interventionism

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Melvin A. Goodman - Apr. 27 (News Analysis) - American foreign policy remains locked in a cycle of violence, with the Obama administration failing to escape the neocon insistence on a swaggering “tough-guy-ism” abroad. That reliance on military intervention also comes with the cost of “blowback,

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India Considers Banning Pornography as Reported Sexual Assault Rises

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Neha Thirani Bagri, Heather Timmons - Apr. 22 (Opinion) - India Ink: India Considers Banning Pornography as Reported Sexual Assault Rises

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Facing Arrest, Musharraf Flees Courtroom in Pakistan

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Declan Walsh - Apr. 18 (News Report) - Facing Arrest, Musharraf Flees Courtroom in Pakistan

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