Pakistan’s Plight
CBS News – New York,NY,USA
The instability in the border provinces is a direct result of the NATO occupation and war in Afghanistan, which has created a crisis of conscience inside …
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/
01/04/opinion/main3675577.shtml

CIA to get broad powers to act inside Pakistan: Report 6 Jan 2008
The administration of President [sic] George W Bush is considering granting the Pentagon and CIA new authority to conduct covert operations in the tribal areas of Pakistan, The New York Times reported on its website late Saturday. Citing unnamed senior administration officials, the newspaper said the plan calls for giving Central Intelligence Agency agents broader powers to strike selected targets inside the country, in some cases using intelligence provided by Pakistani sources.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/CIA_to_get_broad_powers
_to_act_inside_Pak_Report/articleshow/2678327.cms

U.S. Considers New Covert Push Within Pakistan 6 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 the assassination?]
www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/washington/06terror.html

After Bhutto, danger looms for crisis-hit Pakistan: analysts
AFP –
ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Rocked by political and street chaos since the slaying of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan faces further danger as it braces for …
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jmV2uaI5avlV6kZQegS5FMcTgNvw

PRO-CON: Bhutto’s death wasn’ta blow to democracy in Pakistan
Kansas City Star – MO,USA
The daughter of a prime minister, Bhutto took over the leadership of the Pakistan People’s Party from her mother, who herself inherited party leadership …
www.kansascity.com/273/story/432184.html

In defence of Pakistan’s underappreciated military dictator
Toronto Star – Ontario, Canada
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf gets a bad press; Benazir Bhutto a too kind one. Which of them is the real rogue? When Musharraf, as Pakistan’s top army …
www.thestar.com/comment/article/291151

Pakistan Won’t Allow US Military to Operate in Tribal Areas
Bloomberg – USA
6 (Bloomberg) — Pakistan won’t allow the US or any nation to conduct covert military operations in its tribal areas, a spokesman said in response to media …
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=
20601080&sid=ar4XE_oJ6ie0&refer=asia

Pakistan’s 10% solution
Edmonton Sun – Alberta, Canada
Pakistan’s now civilian dictator, President Pervez Musharraf, pleads innocent. But his henchmen ordered the crime scene hosed down, destroyed evidence, …
www.edmontonsun.com/Comment/2008/01/06/4755024-sun.html

Pakistan economy can still hit targets – fin min
Reuters India – Mumbai,India
KARACHI (Reuters) – Pakistan can still meet most of its economic targets, the finance minister said on Sunday, despite political crisis and a glum outlook …
in.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idINIndia-31267120080106

Hillary Clinton proposes joint oversight of Pakistan nukes
AFP –
If elected president, the US senator said, “I would try to get (Pakistan Preisdent Pervez) Musharraf to share the security responsibility of the nuclear …
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jw5nNmwNK4CWm3VJVRDfGsb3V-8w

Women leaders in a violent world
Jamaica Gleaner – Kingston,Jamaica
Benazir Bhutto was the daughter of former Pakistan Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was hanged by the military in 1979. Benazir was Prime Minister …
www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20080106/focus/focus4.html

All’s fair in politics and war
Ha’aretz – Tel Aviv,Israel
But in Pakistan they know that the administration will have no difficulty concealing what it does not want to reveal, even if an experienced team of British …
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/941835.html

US weighs new covert push in Pakistan – NY Times
Reuters – USA
NEW YORK, Jan 6 (Reuters) – Senior US officials, concerned over intelligence reports that al Qaeda and the Taliban are more intent on destabilizing Pakistan …
www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSB223644

Will Bush Administration’s ‘New’ Strategy In Pakistan Fail?
By Swaraaj Chauhan
Wright and Griff continue: “Asif Ali Zardari, who has assumed the regency of his wife’s Pakistan People’s Party, is nicknamed ‘Mr. 10 Percent’ for alleged corruption by profiting off government contracts when Bhutto was prime minister …
themoderatevoice.com/politics/foreign-policy/16894/
will-bush-administrations-new-strategy-in-pakistan-fail/

US Considers New Covert Push to Terrorize Pakistan
By digitalfever
President Bush’s senior national security advisers are debating whether to expand the authority of the CIA and the US military to conduct far more aggressive covert operations in the tribal areas of Pakistan. They might get freer rein …
news.propeller.com/story/2008/01/06/us-considers
-new-covert-push-to-terrorize-pakistan

Should Pakistan been created?
By Marshall Jevons(Marshall Jevons)
Still, the historic coincidence of all three leaders dying in Rawalpindi, in the same quarter of the city, has underscored how often violent death has rewritten the political map of Pakistan, and, too, how slender is the thread that …
bayesianheresy.blogspot.com/2008/01/
should-pakistan-been-created.html

F-16 Fighter Jets To Highly Unstable Nuclear Pakistan
This will make Pakistan stable. Uh, won’t it? From India Defence (thanks to Dav): Lockheed Martin Corp was awarded a $498.2 million contract to supply F-16 aircraft to Pakistan, the US Pentagon said on Monday, as Pakistani officials…
digg.com/world_news/F_16_Fighter_
Jets_To_Highly_Unstable_Nuclear_Pakistan

Musharraf Has Muzzled Legal Critics in Pakistan
www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010508G.shtml
According to Somini Sengupta of The New York Times, “Not so long ago, Muneer A. Malik was often photographed sitting on the roof of a Mitsubishi Pajero, fists raised, showered with rose petals and thronged by supporters as he accompanied the embattled Supreme Court chief justice on protest cavalcades that became the starkest symbol of opposition to President Pervez Musharraf’s rule.”