7/1/08

Pakistan: Militants Kill 8 Tribal Elders
The Associated Press –
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Suspected Islamic militants fatally shot eight tribal leaders involved in efforts to broker a cease-fire between security forces …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gMLNI
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Soldier wounded in Pakistan suicide attack
AFP –
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) — A suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden car near a Pakistan army base in the troubled northwestern valley of Swat on Monday …
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jBI0573RfXvQ_-14hF-SJk1ylnFw

Bank Muscat in $200 mln deal to buy Pakistan bank
Guardian Unlimited – UK
T has agreed to buy 85 percent of Pakistan’s Saudi Pak Bank for about $200 million, a banker involved in the deal said on Monday. …
www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7203958

Pakistan says won’t let foreign troops on its soil
Reuters South Africa – Johannesburg,South Africa
By Zeeshan Haider ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan will not allow any country to conduct military operations on its territory, officials said on Monday,…
africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnISL67113.html

Militants kill eight tribal elders in northwestern Pakistan
The Canadian Press –
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Suspected Islamic militants fatally shot eight tribal leaders involved in efforts to broker a ceasefire between security forces and …
canadianpress.google.com/article/ALe
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In Musharraf’s Shadow, a New Hope for Pakistan Rises
New York Times – United States
By DAVID ROHDE and CARLOTTA GALL ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Over the last several months, a little-known, enigmatic Pakistani general has quietly raised hopes …
www.nytimes.com/2008/01/07/world/asia/07kayani.html

Ethnic tensions simmer in Pakistan after Bhutto killing
AFP –
but the country could add ethnic strife to its other woes if the people of Pakistan’s southern province heed their call. Sindh, the heartland of Bhutto’s …
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jUsaiwuCY_wnFZJeCkymIDiH2tQg

Pakistan ‘not particularly looking for’ bin Laden: Musharraf
AFP –
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Pakistan is not specifically looking for Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, as there is no proof he is in Pakistan, President Pervez …
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g-_b6qmdFQ8b98aE85Cwu97JnwDQ

Musharraf: Bhutto to blame for her assassination
CNN International – USA
Asked about the hunt for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, widely rumored to be in the remote border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan, Musharraf said, …
edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiap
cf/01/06/pakistan.bhutto.musharraf/

Strains Intensify in Pakistan’s Ethnic Patchwork
Washington Post – United States
By Griff Witte KARACHI, Pakistan — To Khaled Chema, 32, an unemployed resident of a sprawling slum in this mega-city by the sea, Benazir Bhutto wasn’t …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2008/01/06/AR2008010602336.html

Pakistan Will Deny US Operations to Hunt Al Qaeda on its Soil
Pakistan reiterated Sunday that it will not let American forces hunt Al Qaeda and Taliban militants on its soil, after a news report said Washington was considering expanding US military and intelligence operations into Pakistan’s …
www.mixx.com/stories/53791/pakistan-will-d
eny-u-s-operations-to-hunt-al-qaeda-on-its-soil

Report: Osama bin Laden’s security coordinator captured in Pakistan
By Bill Roggio
He was born in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, was educated as a doctor, and practiced medicine in Pakistan. “He was associated with Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan headed by late Maulvi Younas Khalis, which joined the Taliban Movement in …
www.longwarjournal.org/archives/20
08/01/report_osama_bin_lad.php

BHUTTO: Time & Economist Put Pakistan on their covers
By Anup Kaphle
Yet there they were, three days after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, their beloved wife and mother, proclaiming themselves inheritors of her political fief, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), and assuring Pakistan that they were …
www.sajaforum.org/2008/01/press-economist.html

More unsettling news from Pakistan
By Just A Grunt(JammieWearingFool)
Yesterday I posted about the governor of Pakistans’ northern region resigning and today there is more evidence of the situation getting worse. Hundreds of families, comprising some 6000 mainly women and children, have been crossing the …
jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2008/01/
more-unsettling-news-from-pakistan.html

Uh, Oh: US Commandos May Head to Pakistan
By Noah Shachtman
The US is considering sending special operations forces to the tribal areas in Pakistan, according to the New York Times. This has obviously been discussed before, but it’s thought that President Musharraf may be newly amenable to the …
feeds.wired.com/~r/WiredDangerRoom/~
3/212219573/uh-oh-us-comman.html

Hillary Clinton proposes joint oversight of Pakistan nukes
Manchester, New Hampshire (AFP) Jan 6, 2008 – US White House hopeful Hillary Clinton late Saturday said she would propose a joint US-British team to oversee the security of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal if she is elected president. “So far as we know right now, the nuclear technology is considered secure, but there isn’t any guarantee, especially given the political turmoil going on inside Pakistan,” Clinton said during a Democratic debate …
www.spacewar.com/reports/Hillary_Clinton_
proposes_joint_oversight_of_Pakistan_nukes_999.html

6/1/08

The Destiny Of Politics And Choices In Pakistan!
By Dr Salim Nazzal
www.countercurrents.org/nazzal060108.htm
The question “where the train of Pakistan is heading?” has for now remained unanswered. It is difficult question and cannot be answered simply to everyone’s satisfaction because of the weight of complexity that exists. However, it is almost certain that Pakistan may need a new social contract, which would lead the state towards new hope for peace and stability

US military not welcome in Pakistan: army, foreign ministry 06 Jan 2008
Pakistan reacted angrily Sunday to reports that US President [sic] George W. Bush is considering covert military operations in the country’s volatile tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. “It is not up to the US administration, it is Pakistan’s government who is responsible for this country,” chief military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad told AFP.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080106/pl
_afp/usattacksintelligencepakistan

US weighs CIA, military push in Pakistan 07 Jan 2008
President [sic] George Bush’s security advisers are debating whether to authorise the CIA and the military to conduct more aggressive covert operations in Pakistani tribal areas. The debate follows ‘intelligence reports’ that al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh] and the Taliban are intensifying efforts to destabilise the Pakistani Government, according to senior Administration officials. The Pakistani military reacted angrily to the reports.
www.theage.com.au/news/world/us-weighs-cia-
military-push-in-pakistan/2008/01/06/1199554485769.html

U.S. Considers New Covert Push Within Pakistan 06 Jan 2008
President [sic] Bush’s senior national security advisers are debating whether to expand the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency and the military to conduct far more aggressive covert operations in the tribal areas of Pakistan. Many of the specific options under discussion are unclear and highly classified. Officials said that the options would probably involve the C.I.A. working with the military’s Special Operations forces. At the White House and the Pentagon, officials see an opportunity in the changing power structure for the Americans to advocate for the expanded authority in Pakistan, a nuclear-armed country. [Hmm… Who benefits from the Bhutto assassination? Do we really need Scotland Yard to figure out who was behind it?]
www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/washington/06terror.html

Pakistan, Iran to finalise gas pipeline project by 25th —Iranian envoy says the two countries cementing economic ties 07 Jan 2008
Pakistan and Iran are set to finalise an agreement on a multi-billion gas pipeline project by January 25 this year, Iranian Ambassador to Pakistan Mashallah Shakeri said on Sunday. “The Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project is one of the most important economic projects in the region, which will bring extensive benefits for the three countries,” the envoy said in an interview. [This is the reason for Bush’s illegal covert military operations in Pakistan.]
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008
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For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets 06 Jan 2008
A whistleblower has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets. Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency’s Washington field office. She approached The Sunday Times last month after reading about an Al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh] terrorist who had revealed his role in training some of the 9/11 hijackers while he was in Turkey.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/
world/middle_east/article3137695.ece

U.S. Considers New Covert Push Within Pakistan
By Steven Lee Myers, David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt.
President Bush’s senior national security advisers are debating whether to expand the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency and the military to conduct far more aggressive covert operations in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19009.htm

For Sale: West’s Deadly Nuclear Secrets
The Sunday Times
A WHISTLEBLOWER has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets. Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency’s Washington field office.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19006.htm

US military ‘not welcome in Pakistan’:
PAKISTAN reacted angrily today to reports that US President George W Bush is considering covert military operations in the country’s volatile tribal areas bordering Afghanistan
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