18 April, 2009

More aid needed for struggling Pakistan: Holbrooke – GEO.tv
TOKYO: World donors must keep supporting Pakistan as it battles militants and tries to repairits economy, US special envoy Richard Holbrooke said on Saturday, one day after Islamabad secured more th.
www.geo.tv/4-18-2009/40099.htm

Pak Cleric Calls For Talibanizing Pakistan “ My Green Meadows
By madhavgopalkrish
Aziz and his brother and deputy, Abdul Rashid Ghazi, had also supported the Taliban’s rise to power in neighboring Afghanistan in the 1990s, according to Pakistani officials, and by 2007, they were committed to turning Pakistan into a …
madhavgopalkrish.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/
pak-cleric-calls-for-talibanizing-pakistan/

Pakistan key focus under EC’s new plan on terror and nuclear …
By Sindh Today
Lahore, Apr.18 (ANI): Concerned by the increasing extremist activists and their expanding writ in the area, the European Commission (EC) has adopted a new three-year programme to fight terrorism, trafficking and proliferation of weapons …
www.sindhtoday.net/pakistan/88115.htm

3quarksdaily
By Abbas Raza
A growing number of U.S. intelligence, defense and diplomatic officials have concluded that there’s little hope of preventing nuclear-armed Pakistan from disintegrating into fiefdoms controlled by Islamist warlords and terrorists, …
www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/04/us-experts
-pakistan-on-course-to-become-islamist-state.html

Pakistan Needs More Aid After $5 Billion Pledge, Holbrooke Says
Bloomberg – USA
By Stuart Biggs April 18 (Bloomberg) — Pakistan needs more aid to shore up its economy and combat Taliban and al-Qaeda militants along its border beyond a …
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601
091&sid=avFSqBaUr6Sw&refer=india

‘International community concerned about Nizam-e-Adl’
Daily Times – Lahore,Pakistan
By Amar Guriro KARACHI: Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations (UN) Hussain Haroon has said that the international community is…
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009
%5C04%5C18%5Cstory_18-4-2009_pg12_11

Pakistan lists 1400 terror dead
BBC News – UK
By Aijaz Maher Pakistan’s interior ministry has said that almost 1400 people have died in terrorist attacks in the country over the past year.…
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8004731.stm

More aid needed for struggling Pakistan -Holbrooke
Reuters – USA
TOKYO, April 18 (Reuters) – World donors must keep supporting Pakistan as it battles militants and tries to repair its economy, US special envoy Richard …
www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUST281726

Global Voices Online “ Pakistan: Talibans Violating Constitution
By Rezwan
Pakistan: Talibans Violating Constitution. Friday, April 17th, 2009
UTC. by Rezwan … Full Category List. English · Law · Pakistan· Religion · Roundups · South Asia. Excerpt. no excerpt. Post-Thumbnail. No Thumbnail …
globalvoicesonline.org/2009/04/17/
pakistan-talibans-violating-constitution/

Pakistan: ‘War on terror’ sparks stand-off with US – Adnkronos …
By webinfo@adnkronos.com
(AKI) – By Syed Saleem Shahzad – When Pakistan’s military chief Ashfaq Parvez Kiyani visited Washington this week, his relationship with United States Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman…
www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Politics/?id=3.0.3224877326

Pakistan’s double game
Boston Globe – United States
IT IS HARDLY a secret that Pakistan’s Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence has long maintained close ties with the Taliban and kindred armed …
www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials
/articles/2009/04/18/pakistans_double_game

World Briefing | Asia Pakistan: Donors Commit $5 Billion More in Aid
New York Times – United States
By REUTERS Pakistan secured more than $5 billion in new aid at a donors conference in Tokyo on Friday, part of an effort to stave off an economic meltdown …
www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/world/asia/18briefs-Bfpakistan.html

Wealthy nations move to shore up Pakistan | csmonitor.com
In Tokyo, nearly 30 countries pledged $5.28 billion to bolster its weak economy and government.
www.csmonitor.com/2009/0418/p06s01-wosc.html

Donors line up $5 billion for Pakistan | The Japan Times Online
About 50 nations and international groups pledged in Tokyo on Friday to give strife-torn Pakistan more than $5 billion in aid after President Asif Ali Zardari vowed to continue a war against extremists still raging eight years after the …
search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090418a1.html

Donors hoping to ensure $5 bil in aid for Pakistan will be spent …
While international donors including Japan and the United States pledged more than $5 billion in assistance to Pakistan on Friday,…
www.japantoday.com/category/politics/view/donors-hoping-
to-ensure-5-bil-in-aid-for-pakistan-will-be-spent-properly

China Matters: Pakistan Surrenders in Swat…
By China Hand
Clearly, the jubilation of Pakistan’s elite on the victory over the justly-despised Zardari on the issue of the independence of the judiciary and the restoration of the Supreme Court has been erased, almost immediately, by fear of the …
chinamatters.blogspot.com/2009/04/pakistan-surrenders-in-swat.html

17 April, 2009

The Mumbai attacks left more than 170 people dead
BBC News – UK
When we were in Sarai Alamgir [a town in Pakistan’s north Punjab province] at that time people from Jamaat ud Dawa used to conduct camps in different places …
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8004599.stm

Pakistan Taliban Exploit Class Rifts To Gain Power
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Pakistan Taliban Exploit Class Rifts To Gain Power – The Huffington Post.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/17/
pakistan-taliban-exploit_n_188311.html

RealClearPolitics – U.S. Should Help Pakistan’s Zardari Become a …
By Mort Kondracke
The most menacing late development in Pakistan was Zardari’s signing a parliamentary act – passed almost unanimously-ratifying a deal with Taliban leaders that placed the Swat region north of the nation’s capital, Islamabad, …
www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/17/us_should
_help_pakistans_zardari_become_a_maliki_96009.html

Wonk Room “ Pakistan’s Weak Institutions Struggle To Address …
By Guest
During the siege of the Red Mosque in July 2007, triggered by his supporters’ unchecked vigilantism in Pakistan’s capital finally provoked a reaction from Pakistani security forces, Aziz was arrested attempting to escape dressed as a …
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/04/17/pakistans
-weak-institutions-struggle-to-address-militant-threat/

The Jawa Report: Taliban Extorting Sikhs in Pakistan
By Rusty
April 17, 2009. Taliban Extorting Sikhs in Pakistan. The next time some Muslim tells you the jizya (tax on non-Muslims) is just a tax in lieu of zakat (obligatory charitable donations), please direct them to this: …
mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/197314.php

Zardari seeks aid in extremist fight
United Press International – USA
In Tokyo for a meeting of donors, Asif Ali Zardari said Pakistan is determined to fight militancy “to the end” and will not allow extremists to“dictate …
www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/04/17/Zardari-seeks
-aid-in-extremist-fight/UPI-84531239986047/

Cleric Who Led Militants in Pakistan Is Released
New York Times – United States
Emilio Morenatt/AP Maulana Abdul Aziz, chief cleric of the Red Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan, inside the mosque during Friday prayers. …
www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/world/asia/18pstan.html

Pakistan Soon To Be Islamist State: US Experts
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Pakistan Soon To Be Islamist State: US Experts – The Huffington Post.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/17/
pakistan-soon-to-be-islam_n_188182.html

PoliGazette “ Donors Pledge to Donate $5 Billion to Pakistan
By Michael van der Galien
International donors, led by the United States and Japan, pledged more than $5 billion Friday to stabilize Pakistan’s troubled economy and fight the spread of terrorism in the Islamic nation and neighboring Afghanistan. …
www.poligazette.com/2009/04/17/donors-
pledge-to-donate-5-billion-to-pakistan/

Weasel Zippers: Report: US Intelligence Fears Pakistan on Verge of …
By ZIP
Exactly what we’ve been saying all along… Washington, Apr.17: The Taliban’s expanding writ in Pakistan with every passing day may ultimately see the whole country falling into the hands of the insurgents, and being turned into a …
www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2009/04/report-us-intelligence-
fears-pakistan-on-verge-of-becoming-fiefdom-of-jihadi-warl
ords-its-a-disaster.html

The Jawa Report: Taliban Power Expanding in Pakistan
By Rusty
April 17, 2009. Taliban Power Expanding in Pakistan. Be afraid. Be very afraid: The takeover of Mardan would put the Taliban one step closer to completing an encirclement of Peshawar, the provincial capital of the Northwest Frontier …
mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/197313.php

Taliban want to take over Pakistan: Altaf – GEO.tv
LONDON: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain says that Taliban want to take over the entire country on the name of Islam.He said this while speaking to the head of Minhaj-ul-Qura.
www.geo.tv/4-17-2009/40068.htm

Global Guerrillas: JOURNAL: The Plausible Promise of Pakistan’s …
By John Robb
“This was a bloody revolution in Swat. I wouldn’t be surprised if it sweeps the established order of Pakistan.” Pakistani official who oversees Swat to the NYTimes. Open source insurgencies — an insurgency composed of many small groups …
globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/04/journal
-the-plausible-promise-of-pakistans-insurgency.html

Caroline Glick
Jerusalem Post – Israel
Unfortunately, due to the rapid demise of nuclear-armed Pakistan as a coherent political unit, this nightmare scenario is looking more possible than ever. …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=123971071150
5&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull