22/12/07

Afghanistan condemns suicide attack in Pakistan mosque
Xinhua – China
“The Foreign Ministry of Afghanistan describes the terrorist attack as against Islamic norms and against humanity and condemns it,” said a statement issued …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/23/content_7296566.htm

Pakistan hunts clues in suicide bombing
AFP –
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) — Pakistan security agencies on Saturday were hunting for clues in the suicide bombing at a mosque that killed 54 people but missed …
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ghq2WDgHnmx9O-Ffytv75YafT2Qw

No curbs on F-16 sales to Pakistan: US
Hindustan Times – India
Two days after the US Congress slapped restrictions on military aid to Pakistan, a senior US official asserted the constraints would not affect the supply …
www.hindustantimes.com/redir.aspx?ID
=a1fdc1a2-ff7f-4202-8b1f-12347c0236c9

Weakening Pakistan
New York Times – United States
Pakistan’s president, Pervez Musharraf, insists his outrageous power grabs are aimed at stabilizing and protecting his country. …
www.nytimes.com/2007/12/22/opinion/22sat1.html?hp

Rice acknowledges Musharraf steps, free poll to help advance …
Associated Press of Pakistan – Pakistan
Pakistan, a key ally in the fight against terrorism, is scheduled to have a general election on January 8, 2008, which is being seen as vital in terms of …
www.app.com.pk/en/index.php?option=
com_content&task=view&id=24133&Itemid=2

Bomber Kills 48 in Mosque in Pakistan
New York Times – United States
Pakistani police inspected the site of a suicide bombing that killed at least 48 people at a mosque in northwestern Pakistan on Friday. …
www.nytimes.com/2007/12/22/world/asia/22pakistan.html?ref=asia

Pakistan lawyer vows fresh protests
Financial Times – London,England,UK
The move promises to open a new front against Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s president. Aitzaz Ahsan, president of the Supreme Court bar association and a …
www.ft.com/cms/s/41d5ac22-b031-11dc-b874-0000779fd2ac.html

The unimportance of Pakistan elections
GulfNews – Dubai,United Arab Emirates
By Kuldip Nayar, Special to Gulf News Political parties in Pakistan began with the demand for restoration of democracy but ended up by accepting elections …
www.gulfnews.com/opinion/columns/world/10176522.html

Pakistan hunts clues in suicide bombing
By AFP(AFP)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) – Pakistan security agencies on Saturday were hunting for clues in the suicide bombing at a mosque that killed 54 people but missed the target, a close ally of President Pervez Musharraf.
www.afp.com/english/news/stories/071222060926.wncngt86.html

Is bin Laden Responsible for the 9/11 attacks?
By admin
Pakistan was a high priority and urgent operation intended to stop the attack. Yet, American intelligence and law enforcement did not act with any urgency in the United States in terms of following up on leads by FBI agents and …
www.yousufnazar.com/?p=330

Pakistan’s secret war in Baluchistan
By Naxal Watch(Naxal Watch)
Pakistan launched a renewed military offensive against the people of Baluchistan on December 6, with the aim of crushing the nationalist movement and suppressing protests against Islamabad’s recent murder of the Baluch national leader, …
intellibriefs.blogspot.com/2007/12/pa
kistans-secret-war-in-baluchistan.html

Weakening Pakistan
Pakistan’s president, Pervez Musharraf, insists his outrageous power grabs are aimed at stabilizing and protecting his country. His authoritarian maneuvers only weaken the country’s already feeble political institutions and fuel more …
digg.com/political_opinion/Weakening_Pakistan

21/12/07

Dozens Killed, Hundreds Injured in Pakistan Bomb Attack 21 Dec 2007
At least 50 people were killed and more than 200 injured Friday when a suicide bomber attacked a mosque on the holy day of Eid al-Adha in a remote town in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier province. The attack was apparently aimed at former interior minister Aftab Khan Sherpao, some 40 miles from the provincial capital of Peshawar. Sherpao survived the attack, though one of his sons was injured.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content
/article/2007/12/21/AR2007122100390.html

Pakistan: 55 reported dead in mosque suicide bomb attack:
A suicide attacker detonated a bomb early today at a mosque outside the home of Pakistan’s former interior minister as he received visitors on an Islamic holiday, killing a reported 55 people and wounding dozens more, authorities said.
www.eecho.ie/news/story/?trs=mheykfeyojgb
 
Dozens die in suicide attack on ex-Pakistani minister :
The attack was apparently aimed at the country’s former Interior minister, Aftab Sherpao, a close ally of President Pervez Musharraf who took a hard line against Islamic militancy in in the north-west region’s volatile tribal areas and had also been targeted earlier this year while still in his post.
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Pakistan’s secret war in Baluchistan:
President Musharraf is resorting to mass arrests, torture and assassinations to crush the Baluch people
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Picture of secret jailing emerging in Pakistan:
Nearly 100 freed, told to keep quiet, but stories coming out
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Pakistani rights lawyer urges US to examine Musharraf’s role in fighting terrorism:
She said “the silver lining coming out of the crisis” is that a coalition of lawyers, journalists, teachers, doctors, students and trade union members are willing to fight for an independent judiciary and an independent media and to demand accountability.
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Gates: Qaeda has regrouped in Pakistan border area:
Al Qaeda has regrouped in Pakistan’s remote Afghan border area and begun to focus attacks on the Pakistani government and military, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday.
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Free And Fair Elections In Pakistan: A Dream Or A Reality?
By Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharjee
www.countercurrents.org/dhrub211207.htm
Those who were accepting the fact that Pakistan was going to experience a free and fair election, has woken up to the rude fact that in the forthcoming period too, Pakistan is going to witness one more tutored election fiasco. Though Musharraf has shed off his General’s uniform, but he still remains to be at the helm of affairs, more powerful than any of the two wings of democratic governance, the legislature as well as the judiciary, as he retains the power to maneuver elections according to his will, and has suppressed the judicial machinery to the maximum