13 April, 2009

Pakistan’s Sharif invited back to government
Reuters India – Mumbai,India
Political tension in nuclear-armed Pakistan has eased considerably since last month, when the government gave in to opposition demands to reinstate a …
in.reuters.com/article/southAsiaNews/idINIndia-39014920090413

Allvoices.com – Crisis in Pakistan
By allvoices / contributed news
Before the weekend had begun, schools and colleges in the capitol and other major cities across Pakistan received threats. The terrorist organisation involved threatened the lives of school chil…
www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2964389-crisis-in-pakistan

AsiaMedia :: PAKISTAN: Zardari’s grip on power uncertain
www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=106957

Islamization Watch: Pakistan Christian journalist told convert to …
By Cole
LAHORE, PAKISTAN (Worthy News)— A Christian journalist in Pakistan feared for his life Easter Sunday, April 12, after receiving threatening letters for publishing pro-democracy columns in a national daily and refusing to convert to …
islamizationwatch.blogspot.com/2009/04/
pakistan-christian-journalist-told.html

Warning that Pakistan is in danger of collapse within months …
Because if Pakistan, with all it weapons, most important nuclear weapon was to be in the hands of TALIBAN, you never know how would use it… If you thing a nuclear weapon is bad in the hands of Iran, who for all its fault still have a …
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/
duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3828326

Pakistan “ Blog Archive “ Foreign policy disputes with the US …
By Bilal Qureshi
ISLAMABAD: Differences over India’s enhanced role in Afghanistan led to the drift in strategic relations between Pakistan and the United States that caught public eye after prickly Foreign Minister Qureshi pointed towards a trust …
pakistan.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/04/12/
foreign-policy-disputes-with-the-us-intensify/

China Confidential: Terrorism Expert: Pakistan Could Collapse
By Confidential Reporter
An Australian counterinsurgency consultant to the White House tells the Sydney Morning Herald that Pakistan—a country with 100 nuclear weapons—could collapse within months. Click here for the terrifying interview. …
chinaconfidential.blogspot.com/2009/04/
terrorism-expert-pakistan-could.html

Underground musicians aim to change Pakistan’s image
CNN International – USA
It might have seemed like any other night of music one could see anywhere, but this heavy metal head-banging was happening in Pakistan. …
edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/04/12/pakistan.music/

Warning that Pakistan is in danger of collapse within months …
By Infidelesto
Can you imagine the tough and unpopular decisions Obama will have to make once Pakistan’s nukes have officially been taken control by Islamic Radicals such as the Taliban or Al Qaeda? Yea, I know, I know, just more fearmongering right? …
infidelsarecool.com/2009/04/12/warning-that-
pakistan-is-in-danger-of-collapse-within-months/

Accepting ’stringed’ US aid against Pakistan’s self respect: Gilani
By KiChU
Talking to media persons after a launching ceremony of the South Punjab Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SPWCCI) here, Gilani said the financial aid being offered to Pakistan by the United States was against the country’s …
yuvaz.com/blog/accepting-stringed-us-aid-
against-pakistans-self-respect-gilani/

Scot known as the ‘Tartan Taliban’ held in Pakistan
guardian.co.uk – UK
Dundee-born James McLintock, who goes by his Muslim name, Yakoob, in Pakistan, was picked up in Peshawar over the past month, several sources say. …
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/13/
pakistan-scotland-james-mclintock

Japanese envoy to call on president today
Daily Times – Lahore,Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Japan’s Special Representative for Assistance to Pakistan and Afghanistan Mtoside Yoshikwa arrived in Pakistan on Sunday to discuss the donors’ …
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2
009%5C04%5C13%5Cstory_13-4-2009_pg7_20

12 April, 2009

ReliefWeb “ Document “ Pakistan: Outsiders flee violence-stricken …
QUETTA, 12 April 2009 (IRIN) – Ongoing widespread violence in Balochistan Province, southwestern Pakistan, is severely disrupting daily life and forcing many non-Balochis to flee in fear of their lives, residents say.…
www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/RMOI-
7R2K6T?OpenDocument&RSS20&RSS20=FS

PoliGazette “ David Kilcullen: Pakistan is in danger of collapse …
By Michael van der Galien
“We have to face the fact that if Pakistan collapses it will dwarf
anything we have seen so far in whatever we’re calling the war on terror now,” said David Kilcullen, a former Australian Army officer who was a specialist adviser for …
www.poligazette.com/2009/04/12/david-kilcullen-
pakistan-is-in-danger-of-collapse-within-months/

Taliban Reign Of Terror Inside Pakistan “ Islamic Terrorism in India
By jagoindia
This entry was posted on April 12, 2009 at 11:31 am and is filed under Islam, Pakistan, Taliban, Terrorism, Women. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own …
islamicterrorism.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/
taliban-reign-of-terror-inside-pakistan/

Fewer Sikh pilgrims visiting Pakistan
Hindu – Chennai,India
Lahore: There has been a sharp fall in the number of Sikh pilgrims visiting Pakistan from India and other countries to observe Baisakhi festival in the wake …
www.hindu.com/2009/04/13/stories/2009041356981800.htm

Pakistan: ISI cleansed, restructuring on
Times of India – India
Coming as it does just a day after PM Manmohan Singh dismissed any such move till it was proved that Pakistan was serious about bringing 26/11 guilty to …
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Pakistan/Pakistan-ISI
-cleansed-restructuring-on/articleshow/4393318.cms

Pakistan demands proof of terror threat
Economic Times – Gurgaon,Haryana,India
NEW DELHI: Pakistan has protested against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s statement that there was a ‘serious threat’ of a terror attack from across the …
economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/
Pakistan-demands-proof-of-terror-threat/articleshow/4393256.cms

‘We are fully committed to fight terror …all stakeholders in …
Business Standard – Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Shah Mehmood Qureshi, foreign minister of Pakistan, spoke to Karan Thapar on the CNN-IBN programme, Devil’s Advocate, telecast on Sunday night and to be …
www.business-standard.com/india/news/%5Cwefully-committed
-to-fight-terror-all-stakeholders-in-pakistan-areboard%5C/354931/

Pakistan – Pakistan militants torch Afghan supplies (Reuters …
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Taliban militants set fire on Sunday to 10 container trucks carrying supplies to Western forces in Afghanistan in a pre-dawn attack near the Pakistani city of Peshawar , police said. …
globalnewsblog.com/blog/2009/04/12/pakistan-pakistan-
militants-torch-afghan-supplies-reuters-yahoo7-world-news/

Cut CIA’s Footprint In Pakistan “ Pak Alert Press
By pakalert
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan. The United States Central Intelligence Agency faces its toughest test yet to prove wrong the suspicions of many within the Pakistani strategic community that some of the terrorism exported from Afghan soil into …
pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/
cut-cia%E2%80%99s-footprint-in-pakistan/

India sceptical about sharing threat info with Pakistan | Sindh Today
By Sindh Today
New Delhi/Islamabad, April 12 (IANS) With Islamabad apparently not taking any action against the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks even after it was provided evidence, India is sceptical about sharing any information with Pakistan over …
www.sindhtoday.net/south-asia/86068.htm

Japan to give Pakistan $1 bln mark aid: Nikkei | Investing Blog
By detha
Author: detha | Categories: Bond | Posted: 12 April, 2009 | Tags: 1 Billion, Afghan Border, Al Qaeda, Assemblage, Bln, Breeding Grounds, Economic Meltdown, Extremists.
www.minuteofangle.us/japan-to-give-pakistan
-1-bln-mark-aid-nikkei-109.html

Walid discusses FBI – Muslim relations on Pakistan Radio “ Weblog …
By dawudwalid
Today’s discussion on Pakistan Radio, WPON 1460 AM in Walled Lake, Michigan, was about relations between in FBI and the Muslim community in light of new reports that the FBI has asked community leaders to spy on congregations and …
dawudwalid.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/walid-
discusses-fbi-muslim-relations-on-pakistan-radio/

NATO, US seek alternatives to Pakistan supply routes
Christian Science Monitor – Boston,MA,USA
By Anand Gopal | Correspondent 04.12.09 Kabul, Afghanistan – Militants attacked a supply depot Sunday in Pakistan that serves Western forces in Afghanistan, …
features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/04/12/
nato-us-seek-alternatives-to-pakistan-supply-routes/

Pakistan militants torch NATO supplies – Democratic Underground
This is while the bulk of supplies and equipment required by NATO and US-led forces battling Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan passes through conflict-plagued Khyber Agency in northwest Pakistan. Northwest Pakistan has degenerated into …
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/
duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3827682

Juhi Chawla’s uncle freed in Pakistan after six months | Sindh Today
By Sindh Today
Karachi, April 12 (IANS) Well-known Pakistani film producer and distributor Satish Anand, an uncle of Bollywood actress Juhi Chawla, was freed by his abductors after six months in captivity for a ransom of Rs.10.6 million, media reports …
www.sindhtoday.net/entertainment/86060.htm

Death By the Numbers: Pakistan Counts the Toll of the Bush-Obama …
By pakalert
Pakistan is the latest target of the Terror Warriors; the progressive, anti-war, last-best-hope-for-world-peace Barack Obama has made it his special project to lay some heavy hurt on the Pakistanis, escalating the drone bombing campaign …
pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/death-by-the-numbers
-pakistan-counts-the-toll-of-the-bush-obama-drone-war/

Pushing Kashmir on India-Pakistan agenda would be fruitless: US …
By Sindh Today
Washington, April 12 (IANS) As the United States seeks to involve India in a big way in fighting extremism in Afghanistan, US experts suggest that it would be fruitless to push the Kashmir issue on the India-Pakistan agenda.
www.sindhtoday.net/south-asia/85915.htm

Speciality Sites 24-7: Predators In Pakistan
By Domain Names 4 Sale 24-7
In a salient July 2007 editorial (”Send ‘Reapers’ To Pakistan”), we urged the White House to issue an executive order allowing the CIA and Air Force to launch Hellfire missile strikes from both Predator and new Reaper drones on al-Qaida …
specialitysites24-7.blogspot.com/2009/04/predators-in-pakistan.html

Troops patrol streets in southwest Pakistan
AFP
QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) — Paramilitary troops patrolled the streets Sunday to deter any violence as the Pakistani city of Quetta came to a standstill for a …
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeq
M5i_01USiok7XvXrKQVrHYF-6FnNjQ

Informed Comment: Pakistan: US Drones have killed 687 Innocents
By noreply@blogger.com (Juan Cole)
History, Foreign Policy, Middle East, South Asia, Religious Studies, War on Terror.
www.juancole.com/2009/04/pakistan-us-drones-have-killed-687.html

Baisakhi Festival (Mela) Celebrated at Panja Sahib in Hassan Abdal …
By Pro Pakistan
The three day Baisakhi Festival has begun in Gurdawara Panja Sahib in tehsil Hassan Abdal in Attock district of Pakistan. The Sikh yatris are arriving from all.
www.pro-pakistan.com/2009/04/12/baisakhi-festival
-mela-celebrated-at-panja-sahib-in-hassan-abdal/

Israpundit “ Blog Archive “ The stability of Pakistan hangs in the …
By Ted Belman
Pakistan is 173 million people, 100 nuclear weapons, an army bigger than the US Army, and al-Qaeda headquarters sitting right there in the two-thirds of the country that the government doesn’t control. The Pakistani military and police …
www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=12267

Indian premier warns nation of terror attack, Pakistan seeks proof …
By admin
WHAT? Yes, it’s strange but true. Recently, the Indian premier spoke to press, addressed about Taliban threat during the general elections. To this, the Pakistani leaders surprisingly took serious notice and asked back proof. But why?
www.prowlerhost.com/KaUsHiK/?p=51

Pakistan seeks details of terror threat to Indian elections …
By Sindh Today
Islamabad, April 11 (IANS) Pakistan said Saturday it had sought details from India on the perceived terrorist threat to its general elections. We have made a request to the Indian administration for intelligence sharing so that all …
www.sindhtoday.net/south-asia/85842.htm