Pakistan: So What Happens Now?
By CarlGuastaferro
Carl Guastaferro Marist College In the recent weeks since the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, American foreign policy towards Pakistan has been going through some significant calls for change.
blog.rooseveltinstitution.org/2008/01/
13/pakistan-so-what-happens-now/

Musharraf: Stay Out of Pakistan
By Zap
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has made it clear that a US military mission to capture Osama bin Laden or other top al Qaeda leaders on Pakistani soil would be unwelcome and “against the sovereignty of Pakistan.”
feeds.drudge.com/~r/retort/~3/216
096357/musharraf-stay-out-pakistan

Arrested and sent into void in Pakistan
Toronto Star – Ontario, Canada
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan-Amina Masood Janjua keeps a picture of her husband in her purse, another on her cellphone and a third in her mind – the way he looked …
www.thestar.com/News/article/293714

Pak does not need help on N-weapons: Musharraf
Sify – Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
New York: Rejecting US Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton’s suggestion that the US and Britain help Pakistan secure its nuclear weapons, President Pervez …
sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14588725

Why Pakistan is exploding
Workers’ Liberty – London,UK
(George W Bush, 1999) On 27 December Benazir Bhutto, leader of the Pakistan People’s Party was assassinated, killed by a gunman who then blew himself and 21 …
www.workersliberty.org/story/2008/
01/13/why-pakistan-exploding

Give Peace a Chance through Health, Education and Entrepreneurship
By Atif Mumtaz(Atif Mumtaz)
The health, education and employment statistics of Pakistan in general and NWFP province in particular are nothing short of a disaster. These numbers are further worsened by the influx of millions of Afghan refugees who have made the …
blogs.tele-healthcare.org/2008/01/give
-peace-chance-through-health.html

Moin Akhtar on Politics in Pakistan
By Dr Farrukh Malik
I was watching ARY and happened to hear this beautiful and funny poem in voice of Moin Akhtar in the program named Loose Talk. I was very amused and recorded it with an idea to share it with my readers. I have transcribed the poem in …
drfarrukhhmalik.wordpress.com/2008/01/1
3/moin-akhtar-on-politics-in-pakistan/

Pakistan Poll Shows Suspicion of Leaders
ABC News – USA
12, 2008 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Islamic militants have been blamed for more than 50 suicide attacks in Pakistan last year, many targeting security forces. …
www.abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=4127265

Pakistan is poised on the edge of a precipice
By admin
THE assassination of Benazir Bhutto has again pushed Pakistan to a dangerous precipice. Chilling shadows of uncertainty seem to be devouring the flicker of democracy ignited by the return of “the daughter of a heartless history” after …
www.podpolitix.com/2008/01/13/pakistan
-is-poised-on-the-edge-of-a-precipice/

Voters list 2008 Pakistan published online
Islamabad: Election commission has published voters list 2008 on internet. The said list was challenged in Supreme Court for being excluding millions of valid voters in it. … qtsolDOTcom. qtsolDOTcom; added; | active 19 minutes ago …
current.com/items/88812091_voters
_list_2008_pakistan_published_online

Is Russia More of a Basket Case than Pakistan?
In an original and exclusive translation, the blog offers an article by a former Kremlin insider from the Russian press which compares the current political climate in Pakistan and Russia and finds Russia, at least in some respects, …
digg.com/political_opinion/Is_Russia_
More_of_a_Basket_Case_than_Pakistan

Two Uzbek militants killed in Pakistan tribal clash
AFP –
WANA, Pakistan (AFP) — Two Uzbek militants were killed when a group of them attacked the house of a pro-government tribal elder in Pakistan’s troubled …
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5idYfn
HYHWuobG4ULSRXks8TyPmPQ

ANALYSIS-Bomb casts al Qaeda shadow on heart of Pakistan
Reuters – USA
By Simon Cameron-Moore LAHORE, Pakistan, Jan 13 (Reuters) – A suicide bomb attack that killed 19 people in Lahore, which had been a haven from violence, …
www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSB410952

Militants Slain in Pakistan Battle
The Associated Press –
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Islamic militants attempted to attack a Pakistani military base close to the Afghan border, sparking fighting that killed between …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iOiNT_
O7MYpG6MzupugzRbGJsi-QD8U4QUF00

Musharraf rules out UN probe into Benazir murder
Pakistan Dawn – Karachi,Pakistan
Pakistan is not Lebanon,” Musharraf said in a transcript released by the government, referring to the implication of Syrian officials in the Hariri killing. …
www.dawn.com/2008/01/13/top3.htm

50 militants killed in Pakistan’s tribal area
Xinhua – China
13 (Xinhua) — An estimated 50 militants have been killed in northwestern Pakistan’s tribal area during the army action over the last two days, …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/13/content_7413912.htm

Sunday Times January 13, 2008 Angry Pakistanis turn against army …
By Hassan Abbas(Hassan Abbas)
IT IS the most expensive – and talked about – property development in Pakistan, but few can get near it. Hidden behind barbed wire, the new state-of-the-art army headquarter to replace a garrison in Rawalpindi is costing a reputed £1 …
watandost.blogspot.com/2008/01/sund
ay-times-january-13-2008-angry.html

‘Pakistan expels writer for NY Times Magazine’
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan expelled an American academic who wrote about the rise of pro-Taleban militants in this country in The New York Times Magazine, a media rights group said.
www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/
subcontinent/2008/January/subcontinent_January437.xml
&section=subcontinent

Musharraf to US: Stay Out Of Pakistan
By destogate
“Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has made it clear that a US military mission to capture Osama bin Laden or other top al Qaeda leaders on Pakistani soil would be unwelcome and “against the sovereignty of Pakistan.”” …
destogate.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/
musharraf-to-us-stay-out-of-pakistan/

Musharraf: Exhume Bhutto’s body
Aljazeera.net – Qatar
Pakistan’s president has called for the body of Benazir Bhutto to be exhumed to confirm exactly how she died. Pervez Musharraf’s comments come amid growing …
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8B59F63
0-9781-4F6B-A3C2-511827F0C2BC.htm

Musharraf tells US: Stay out of Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has made it clear that a US military mission to capture Osama bin Laden or other top al Qaeda leaders on Pakistani soil would be unwelcome and “against the sovereignty of …
www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10708

Half of Pakistanis believe Bhutto Killed by Government: Gallup …
By Barnett R. Rubin(Juan Cole)
On most points the conventional wisdom of educated, elite Pakistanis that form the backbone of the US foreign policy community’s interaction with Pakistanis appears to be quite different from widely held public perceptions in Pakistan …
icga.blogspot.com/2008/01/half-of-pakistanis-believe-bhutto.html

Pakistan President tells US. to stay out.
Musharraf warned in an interview published Friday that Pakistan would resist any unilateral military action by the United States against militants sheltering in its lawless, tribal regions close to the Afghan border. …
www.israelforum.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=13490

Angry Pakistanis turn against army
Times Online – UK
IT IS the most expensive – and talked about – property development in Pakistan, but few can get near it. Hidden behind barbed wire, the new state-of-the-art …
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3177700.ece

I have faith in Pakistani people’s resilience, says Mukherjee
Daily Times – Lahore,Pakistan
The bulk of the interview, however, revolved around the political situation in Pakistan. Daily Times reproduces relevant excerpts below. …
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=200
8%5C01%5C13%5Cstory_13-1-2008_pg7_11

US may stop sharing some intelligence with Pakistan
Daily Times – Lahore,Pakistan
By Iftikhar Gilani NEW DELHI: Reports in Delhi suggest that the US has
stopped sharing some intelligence with Pakistan. In an interview published
in the …
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=
2008%5C01%5C13%5Cstory_13-1-2008_pg7_48