21 March, 2009

Pakistan’s clear message to the West
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
By Mustafa Qadri Writing From Islamabad, Pakistan — Politics is never dull in Pakistan. This week, it was inspirational too. On Monday, I watched people …
www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/
la-oe-qadri21-2009mar21,0,1408574.story

Pakistan, India, Afghanistan fates linked: US senator
Daily Times – Lahore,Pakistan
WASHINGTON: The fates of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan are interlinked, Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the US Armed Service Committee said on Friday, …
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=20
09%5C03%5C21%5Cstory_21-3-2009_pg1_12

Pakistan’s chief justice retires
Houston Chronicle – United States
The government relented only after pressure from the United States and Britain, which worried that Pakistan would be unable to focus on combating Taliban …
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/6326573.html

New Zealander released from Pakistan detention and deported | NATIONAL
New Zealander Mark Taylor has been released from detention in Pakistan and deported, Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully said on Saturday.
tvnz.co.nz/national-news/kiwi-released-pakistan-detention-2574756

Pakistan resolution, Islam base of country: Ghani – GEO.tv
PESHAWAR: Governor NWFP Awais Ahmed Ghani has said on Friday two-nation theory and Islam founded the inception of Pakistan.Speaking at the gathering organized by Council of Pakistan Resolution.
www.geo.tv/3-21-2009/37845.htm

Bond Bolsters US Hopes in Pakistan
Wall Street Journal – USA
The Obama administration’s hopes of stabilizing Pakistan increasingly rest on the strong bond between military chiefs Adm. Mike Mullen and Gen. …
online.wsj.com/article/SB123759845485301419.html

US may boost development, military aid to Pakistan
Reuters – USA
By Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration may triple development aid to Pakistan while also boosting military assistance to secure …
www.reuters.com/article/joeBiden/idUSTRE52K02G20090321

Pakistan along the highway
Arab News – Jeddah,Saudi Arabia
THE day following the restoration of the Supreme Court judges in Pakistan, I was on a long taxi journey on the highway between Dubai and Abu Dhabi.…
www.arabnews.com/?page=7&section=
0&article=120559&d=21&m=3&y=2009

Rethink Afghanistan, “Pakistan: ‘The Most Dangerous Country …
By Alex Thurston
Rethinking Afghanistan · Poll: Only 1/3 of Americans favor more troops in Afghanistan · Afghanistan/Pakistan: Al Jazeera on the Taliban, US Death, India and Pakistan Peace (?) NEW COMMENTS. Paula Munoz Zepeda: True Jim Moss. …
www.theseminal.com/2009/03/20/rethink-afghanistan
-pakistan-the-most-dangerous-country-trailer/

Good ties with Pakistan vital to India’s security: experts
Daily Times – Lahore,Pakistan
By Iftikhar Gilani NEW DELHI: Indian military experts on Friday said the country’s security lay in friendly relations with Pakistan, asking the government …
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009
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20 March, 2009

Vancouver woman kidnapped in Pakistan pleads for life on video
A Canadian woman being held hostage in northern Pakistan says her captors are planning to behead her.
www.nationalpost.com/most-popular/story.html?id=1407308

Pakistan enjoy more support if play home series in England: Morgan …
SYDNEY: ICC president David Morgan said if Pakistan would play their “home” matches in England then they would also receive great support there.In an interview given to an Australian newspaper.
www.geo.tv/3-20-2009/37832.htm

Mumbai probe still on: Pakistan’s FIA | Sindh Today
By Sindh Today
Islamabad, March 20 (IANS) Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) said Friday its probe into the 26/11 Mumbai attacks was continuing and that it had found some more evidence on the carnage, Geo TV reported.
www.sindhtoday.net/south-asia/77221.htm

Political Turmoil in Pakistan Leads to Army Takeover Speculation
World Press Review – USA
On all sides, the assumption was that the Pakistan army had the capability to overpower the government at any time. During the crisis, discussions between …
www.worldpress.org/Asia/3321.cfm

Pakistan: US did deal with army to restore judges – Adnkronos Security
By webinfo@adnkronos.com
(AKI) – By Syed Saleem Shahzad – Under a deal brokered by the United States and the Pakistani army for the restoration of Pakistan’s judiciary, many cases related to forced disappearances…
www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3129608953

Pakistan “ Blog Archive “ More Drones for Pakistan?
By Bilal Qureshi
No one in Pakistan will support the reported plans in Washington to extend American drone attacks from the Tribal Areas to the already disturbed province of Balochistan. The Foreign Office in Islamabad has dismissed the news about the …
pakistan.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/
03/20/more-drones-for-pakistan/

MyDD :: Getting the US out of Pakistan’s internal politics
By southasiawatch
“Hussain Haqqani has said that US as an ally might have concerns over Pakistan’s emanating internal situation, but it has no role in the internal politics of Pakistan. In interview, he said that Pakistan’s internal politics were …
www.mydd.com/story/2009/3/20/81653/1635

Escalation in Pakistan? | Atlantic Council
By Bernard Finel
David Sanger and Eric Schmitt’s report in the New York Times that“President Obama and his national security advisers are considering expanding the American covert war in Pakistan far beyond the unruly tribal areas to strike at a …
www.acus.org/new_atlanticist/escalation-pakistan

Islam In Action: Swat Pakistan:Sharia in, Discrimination Starts
By Christopher Logan
Swat Pakistan:Sharia in, Discrimination Starts. Only yesterday it was announced that the Sharia Courts in Swat, Pakistan were open for business. Today the usual sharia discrimination against women and non-Muslims has already started. …
islaminaction08.blogspot.com/2009/03/
swat-pakistansharia-in-discrimination.html

Religion Clause: USCIRF Holds Hearing On Religious Extremism In …
By Howard Friedman
Last Tuesday, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom held a public hearaing on the threat that religious extremism in Pakistan poses to religious freedom and human rights. (Event Advisory.) A transcript of the event and …
religionclause.blogspot.com/2009/03/uscirf-holds-hearing-on-religious.html

Jailed Taliban militants freed in Pakistan
United Press International – USA
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, March 20 (UPI) — The release of 20 jailed Taliban militants was carried out to improve the ongoing peace process in Pakistan’s Swat …
www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/03/20/Jailed_Taliban_
militants_freed_in_Pakistan/UPI-12781237569042/

NewsDaily: Taliban chief Omar “not in Pakistan’s Baluchistan”
By Gul Yousafzai
Taliban leader Mullah Omar is not hiding in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province whose people will resist any US attempt to extend its war against militancy there, the province’s chief minister said on Friday.
www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52j2es-us-pakistan-usa/

Pakistan hopeful about American’s safe release
AFP
QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) — Pakistan expressed hope Friday that it will soon secure the safe release of an American UN official kidnapped in the city of Quetta …
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/
ALeqM5h7q0J3TXQVOZTkSzbhQvQ22RrNnQ

Taliban chief Omar “not in Pakistan’s Baluchistan”
Reuters – USA
By Gul Yousafzai QUETTA, Pakistan, March 20 (Reuters) – Taliban leader Mullah Omar is not hiding in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province whose people will resist …
www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSISL431839

CIA chief likely to visit Pakistan
Hindu – Chennai,India
Panetta will travel to Pakistan from India as part of the second phase of his tour to South Asia, IRNA reported. This was his first foreign visit after …
www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200903201531.htm

Pakistan: Islamist party rejects more US drone attacks – Adnkronos …
By webinfo@adnkronos.com
(AKI/DAWN) – Pakistan’s Islamist Jamaat-i-Islami party has expressed concern over reports that the United States is planning to increase the number of drone attacks in the country’s…
www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3127934375