8 April, 2009

Pakistan considers reopening case of late prime minister
Xinhua – China
ISLAMABAD, April 8 (Xinhua) — Pakistan is considering reopening the case of late Pakistani leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s hanging, local media reported on …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/08/content_11149463.htm

UN team in Pakistan to probe Bhutto assassination
Xinhua – China
ISLAMABAD, April 8 (Xinhua) — A United Nations (UN) investigative team has arrived in Islamabad to probe the assassination of former Pakistani prime…
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/08/content_11149210.htm

Khalil calls upon SLC to send national team to Pakistan
Ceylon Daily News – Ceylon,Sri Lanka
“Terrorism is not just confined to Pakistan,” Khalil who was feted at a luncheon organised by Aitken Spence Travels – the company looking after his entire …
www.dailynews.lk/2009/04/08/spo02.asp

Pakistan: Country ponders militancy and ‘war on terror …
By webinfo@adnkronos.com
(AKI) – By Syed Saleem Shahzad – Public antagonism in Pakistan towards the United States and neo-imperialism is skyrocketing. But events such as the apparent public flogging of a “wayward”…
www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3189950839

Pakistan “ Blog Archive “ ‘No’ to joint operation in tribal areas
By Bilal Qureshi
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan rejected on Tuesday a US proposal for joint operations in the tribal areas against terrorism and militancy, as differences of opinion between the two countries over various aspects of the war on terror came out into …
pakistan.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/04/08/%E2%80%
98no%E2%80%99-to-joint-operation-in-tribal-areas/

Scoop: Pakistan: State Authorities Support The Taliban
The Internet-broadcasted public flogging of a young girl by Taliban members in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) has enraged sections of Pakistan society, and given a taste of the newly-brokered brand of religious justice in Swat.
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0904/S00129.htm

U.S. officials meet resistance on visit to Pakistan | Worldfocus
By Worldfocus
Arif Rafiq of World Politics Review discusses US diplomat Richard Holbrooke’s trip to Pakistan and what role Pakistan can play in stabilizing Afghanistan as the country deals with its own security issues.
worldfocus.org/blog/2009/04/07/us-officials-
meet-resistance-on-visit-to-pakistan/4823/

Trust Is Issue, Pakistan Tells US
New York Times – United States
By JANE PERLEZ ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Two senior American officials came under withering public criticism from Pakistan on Tuesday, with the Pakistani …
www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/world/asia/08pstan.html?hp

Talking Peace in Prague, Dropping Bombs in Pakistan
By admin
The high-tech drone war the great hero of peace is waging inside the sovereign territory of America’s ally, Pakistan, is helping drive tens of thousands of people from their homes and killing civilians almost daily.
www.prisonplanet.com/talking-peace-in
-prague-dropping-bombs-in-pakistan.html

Jezebel – Geishas In Kyoto Sick Of Tourist Attention • Pakistan …
By Intern Katy
Kyoto’s Tourism Bureau has asked Western tourists to please stop harassing the geishas. In recent years, tourists have begun to hound the young women, sometimes pulling their hair or breaking into their gardens. •
jezebel.com/5202354/geishas-in-kyoto-sick-of-tourist-attention
—pakistan-launches-investigation-into-taliban-flogging-of-young-girl

U.S. drones: Killing Pakistan extremists or recruiting them …
WASHINGTON — Even as the Obama administration launches new drone attacks into Pakistan’s remote tribal areas, concerns are growing among US intelligence and military officials that the strikes are bolstering the Islamic insurgency by …
www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/65682.html

Afghanistan Conflict Monitor: US To Host Talks With Pakistan …
By Human Security Report Project
‘US To Host Talks With Pakistan, Afghanistan’, CNN International, 7 April 2009 EXCERPT: “Pakistan, the United States and Afghanistan will hold trilateral meetings in Washington next month. US special envoy to the region Richard …
www.afghanconflictmonitor.org/2009/04/us-t
o-host-talks-with-pakistan-afghanistan.html

UN’s Ban condemns flogging of girl in Pakistan
Reuters – USA
Footage emerged in Pakistan last week of a 17-year-old girl being beaten in the remote Swat valley, where the provincial government agreed in February to …
www.reuters.com/article/asiaCrisis/idUSN07492276

7 April, 2009

Associated Press Of Pakistan ( Pakistan’s Premier NEWS Agency )
Associated Press of Pakistan Corporation, Pakistan’s premier NEWS agency.
www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=
com_content&task=view&id=72974&Itemid=2

Pakistan, a problem without a solution? | Coffee House
The New York Times Magazine profile of Asif Ali Zardari, the president of Pakistan who is known by the nickname of Mr 10 percent, is a depressing reading. It leaves.
www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/3522246/
pakistan-a-problem-without-a-solution.thtml

Global Voices Online “ Pakistan: Chief Justice Criticizes The …
By Rezwan
Baithak reports that Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, the chief justice of Pakistan criticized the handling of the Taliban flogging case. According to the blogger, he has “assailed the officials for laziness and self-importance, …
globalvoicesonline.org/2009/04/07/pakistan-chief-
justice-criticizes-the-handling-of-the-taliban-flogging-case/

‘Pakistan to reopen Baghdad embassy’ | Sindh Today
By Sindh Today
Islamabad, April 7 (IANS) Pakistan will soon reopen its embassy in Baghdad, a media report Tuesday quoted Qays al-Yaqoubi, Iraq’s ambassador here, as saying. Speaking to Geo News, he said that Pakistan’s ambassador to Jordan had been …
www.sindhtoday.net/pakistan/84413.htm

Weasel Zippers: Pakistan: Rampaging Muslim Mob Attacks Church …
By ZIP
Fringe minority alert… WASHINGTON (AINA) — International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Noor Husain, the father of a Muslim woman who eloped with a Christian man, led a mob of his neighbors and friends in an attack on …
www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2009/04/pakistan-rampaging-
muslim-mob-attacks-church-drags-christian-women-out-of
-homes-and-parades-them-thr.html

Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community
By Booman Tribune
Yet for years our government under President Bush assured us that Pakistan was one of our strongest allies in the “War on Terror.” Well, now David Kilcullen, a former top counter-terrorism adviser to General Petraeus (Bush’s hand picked …
www.boomantribune.com/story/2009/4/7/93958/97219

The Raw Story | Drone attacks fuel extremism, Pakistan warns US
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Richard Holbrooke, envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, held two days of talks with Pakistani leaders on a new US strategy to defeat Al-Qaeda and its allies.…
rawstory.com/news/2008/Pakistan_warns
_US_drone_attacks_fuel_0407.html

PrairiePundit: More Hellfire for enemy in Pakistan
By Merv
On Sunday, a senior Taliban leader vowed to unleash two suicide attacks a week like one on Saturday in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, unless the Central Intelligence Agency stopped firing missiles at militants. …
prairiepundit.blogspot.com/2009/04/
more-hellfire-for-enemy-in-pakistan.html

The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room “ Levin unsure whether Pakistan is a …
By Michael O’Brien
“The border, particularly down in the south, between Pakistan and Afghanistan, is wide open now,” said Levin, one of the top foreign policy voices in the Senate. “Extremists are flowing across that border into Afghanistan; Pakistan has …
briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/04/07/levin
-unsure-whether-pakistan-is-a-reliable-ally/

Israel, India, and Pakistan: Engaging the Non-NPT States in the …
By Boulderdash
However, to achieve this goal the administration needs to pay more attention to the three de facto nuclear-weapon states that are outside the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT): Israel, India, and Pakistan. …
salonesoterica.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/israel-india-and-
pakistan-engaging-the-non-npt-states-in-the-nonproliferation-regime/

Pakistan could collapse within six months: US expert
By admin
Pakistan could collapse within six months in the face of the snowballing insurgency, a top expert on guerrilla warfare has said.
www.prisonplanet.com/pakistan-could
-collapse-within-six-months-us-expert.html

OneRiot.com – Pakistan Calls for Trust with US
Pakistan’s president Asif Zardari told US envoy Richard Holbrooke that there must be trust between there nations for their combined efforts to work in any capacity.
topics.oneriot.com/pakistan-calls-for-trust-with-us

Taliban blow up Pakistan music shop: police – Democratic Underground
Taliban blow up Pakistan music shop: police. … (AFP) — Suspected Taliban militants planted a remote-controlled bomb that blew up a music shop and neighbouring stalls in Pakistan’s northwest city of Peshawar, police said Tuesday. …
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/
duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3819686

Pakistan Urges ‘Unconditional’ Terror Aid – Politics News Story …
ISLAMABAD — Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari tells US envoys that his country needs “unconditional support” to fight terrorism. Tuesday, April 7, 2009.
www.kpho.com/politics/19113649/detail.html

The Pakistan Enigma “ Reading Room
By deepaktripathi
A continent away in Afghanistan, Pakistan and, in recent days, in Iraq, violence takes increasing numbers of lives every day. As Pakistan becomes the latest country to suffer a breakdown in order, new fears arise in the region and …
deepaktripathilibrary.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/the-pakistan-enigma/

Pakistan festival dancers banned
BBC News – UK
By Nisar Khokar Leaders of a religious group in the south of Pakistan have banned women dancers from a traditional spring festival, officials say. …
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7987383.stm

Iran’s parliament summons Pakistan ambassador over kidnapping issue
Xinhua – China
TEHRAN, April 7 (Xinhua) — Iran’s parliament (Majlis) summoned Pakistan’s ambassador to Tehran over a kidnap issue, the local Press TV website reported on …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/07/content_11145010.htm

Pakistan wants ‘unconditional’ aid to fight terror › Japan Today …
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari told two top US envoys that his country needs “unconditional support” in a range of…
www.japantoday.com/category/world/view/
pakistan-wants-unconditional-aid-to-fight-terror

The Online News Page “ Pakistan fighting militants for survival …
By Editor
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan is battling Islamist militants for its survival, President Asif Ali Zardari told a visiting U.S. envoy who urged Pakistan to eliminate militant enclaves on the Afghan border, a newspaper reported on …
www.rocketnews.com/2009/04/07/pakistan
-fighting-militants-for-survival-zardari/

Hang Pakistan Girl Floggers?
By Fred Stopsky
The outcry in Pakistan against the flogging of a seventeen year old girl by Taliban thugs continues to impact the nation. Supreme Court Justice Iftikhar.
theimpudentobserver.com/world-news/hang-pakistan-girl-floggers/

Admiral Mullen Visits Pakistan | News From Antiwar.com
By Jason Ditz
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen and special envoy Richard Holbrooke visited Pakistan today, meeting with top officials to discuss regional security strategies. Among the foci of the meeting was President Barack …
news.antiwar.com/2009/04/06/admiral-mullen-visits-pakistan/

A Simple Guide To Pakistan’s Enemies “ Pak Alert Press
By pakalert
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—To understand the current situation of PAKISTAN, LAHORE, MANAWAN attacks and all kind of instability in PAKISTAN, you must read this paragraph. By the end I am sure everyone will reach the conclusion as to who ‘ARE‘’ …
pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/a-simple
-guide-to-pakistan%E2%80%99s-enemies/

Pakistan, US stress trust, disagree on drones
Reuters – USA
By Augustine Anthony ISLAMABAD, April 7 (Reuters) – Pakistan and the United States must build trust as they confront Islamist militant violence, …
www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSISL480907

Pakistan’s monetary policy may ease -central bank
Forbes – NY,USA
KARACHI, April 7 (Reuters) – Pakistan’s monetary policy will aim to balance growth and inflation concerns, the country’s top economic adviser and the…
www.forbes.com/afxnewslimited/feeds
/afx/2009/04/07/afx6262555.html