21 April, 2009

Record Gulf remittances bleak comfort for Pakistan
world Record Gulf remittances bleak comfort for Pakistan 07:16 KARACHI – Pakistani expatriate workers wired home a record 739.4 million dollars last month, but experts warn job losses from the global credit crunch could soon slash …
www.euronews24.org/world/record-gulf
-remittances-bleak-comfort-for-pakistan/

Pakistan: Now or Never? “ Blog Archive “ India launches Israeli …
By Sanjeev Miglani
Mostly because it has been happening with the ISI involvement, which the pakistan government is initself not in control of. Hence it is only apt for it to have eyes in the sky to watch out and take the situation under her control, …
blogs.reuters.com/pakistan/2009/04/20/india-launches
-israeli-made-satellite-for-eyes-in-the-sky/

Military aid to Pak has been used against India: PM
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today expressed unease about Pakistan’s deal with the Taliban and said India was not opposed to economic aid for Islamabad from the US but has reservations about military aid which had been used against New …
www.headlinesindia.com/burning-issues-news/terrorism/military
-aid-to-pakistan-has-been-used-against-india-pm-9334.html

Kashmir core issue in Indo-Pak relations: Gilani
Press Trust of India – New Delhi,India
Islamabad, Apr 20 (PTI) Contending that Kashmir is the “core issue” in relations between Pakistan and India, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani today said …
www.ptinews.com/pti%5Cptisite.nsf/0/5C3F7556
BAE308106525759E005E1430?OpenDocument

Jihad Watch: Taliban takes over ex-resort in Pakistan, issues …
By Robert
“Pakistan was trying to end bloodshed when it let the idyllic Swat Valley fall under Islamic law last week. Instead, it has emboldened the Taliban to extend a hand to militants, including Osama bin Laden.” Now there’s a lede paragraph …
www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025766.php

PIB Press Release
The Defence Minister Shri AK Antony has said the grim security scenario in Pakistan is not only a source of worry for the region but also for the international community. Addressing the top brass of the Indian Army at the Commanders’ …
pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=48537

Pakistan’s Sharif urges dialogue to quell insurgency
USA Today – USA
By Asif Hassan, AFP/Getty Images By Paul Wiseman and Zafar M. Sheikh, USA TODAY LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistan’s top opposition leader, former prime minister …
www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-04-20-sharif_N.htm

Israpundit “ Blog Archive “ To Understand Israel, Visit Pakistan
By Ted Belman
Now they are going to be battle-ready to struggle for the soul of Pakistan.” “The people were desperate for peace,” said Jafar Shah, a secular Pakistani legislator who introduced the sharia legislation for Swat. …
www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=12640

Pakistan Dismisses US Concern Over Sharia Accord With Taliban
Bloomberg – USA
Richard Holbrooke, the US special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, has said he is troubled by the accord in the Swat Valley, where militants have burned …
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20
601091&sid=aOf5oPDYmyyE&refer=india

MSU scholars to help reform Pakistan’s teacher-education system …
Latest official Michigan State University news and information.
news.msu.edu/story/6215/

PRI.ORG | Millions sick due to lack of clean water in Pakistan
Pakistan’s limited water supply is making many millions sick from water-borne diseases such as diarrhea, hepatitis and typhoid.
www.pri.org/health/Global-Health/polluted-water-pakistan.html

ReliefWeb “ Document “ Germany contributes towards international …
During today’s donor conference in Tokyo the international community pledged around $5.3 billion in financial aid for Pakistan, designed to augment the loans already granted by the IMF and to help Pakistan cope with the economic and …
www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/SODA-7
RAN34?OpenDocument&RSS20&RSS20=FS

20 April, 2009

Pakistan targets dangerous Taliban commander – The Long War Journal
Pakistan closed the Khyber Pass to NATO traffic six times since September 2008 because of the attacks. The raids on the supply columns moving through Khyber have forced NATO to search for alternative supply routes into Pakistan. …
www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/04/pakistan_targets_dan.php

JURIST – Hotline: Pakistan’s acceptance of Sharia law in Swat …
By Andrew Wood
Baseer Naveed [Senior researcher, Asian Human Rights Commission]: “The government of Pakistan has surrendered before the Islamic militants and the Taliban by entering into an unconstitutional agreement with the Islamic militants …
jurist.law.pitt.edu/hotline/2009/04/pakis
tans-acceptance-of-sharia-law-in.php

Pakistan: Four soldiers kidnapped in northwest – Adnkronos Security
By webinfo@adnkronos.com
(AKI) – Four Pakistani frontier guards were abducted on Friday in the troubled Swat valley in North West Frontier Province, Geo News reported, citing unnamed local sources. According…
www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3234420026

Pakistan lowers rate as economy improves: official
world Pakistan lowers rate as economy improves: official 04:26 KARACHI– Pakistan’s central bank Monday lowered the discount interest rate by one percentage point, acknowledging that the economy in the poverty-stricken, nuclear-armed …
www.euronews24.org/world/pakistan-lowers
-rate-as-economy-improves-official/

Taliban in Pakistani ex-resort: `Welcome, Osama!’
The Associated Press
MINGORA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan was trying to end bloodshed when it let the idyllic Swat Valley fall under Islamic law last week. …
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h
1uVRWGA7vOBwZNCdy_uF4QqiilgD97MD9IO1

After Iraq and Afghanistan, Is it Pakistan?
Ceylon Daily News – Ceylon,Sri Lanka
President Obama’s Afghan-Pakistan strategy to fight the so called war on terrorism that includes more troops, new legislation, improved troo training and …
www.dailynews.lk/2009/04/21/fea03.asp

Pakistan air raids kill 20 militants: military – Democratic …
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) — Pakistan helicopter gunships raided suspected militant hideouts near the Afghan border killing 20 insurgents and destroying their positions, a military official said Monday. …
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/
duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3839802

Jihad Watch: 63 detainees at Gitmo shifted to Pakistan
By Raymond
Pakistan, of course, being the ever duplicitous “friend-and-ally” of the West. Wonder how long before these prisoners “break out” of prison and return to the jihad? However, lest you think the U.S. is being too lenient or naive, …
www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025757.php

US blaming Pakistan to hide own failure in Afghanistan, says …
By Sindh Today
Islamabad, April 20 (IANS) The US is blaming Pakistan in order to hide the failure of its own anti-terror operations in Afghanistan, says Pakistan’s Federal Minister for States and Frontier Regions Najam-ud-Din Khan.
www.sindhtoday.net/pakistan/89089.htm

Nice Kaplan description of the other Pakistan (Thomas P.M. Barnett …
By Thomas PM Barnett
It’s another one of those thoughtful pieces that leads one to believe that Pakistan simply cannot survive in a globalized world. It is a fake state slated for conflict and then dismemberment and resurrection in some new, different form. …
thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2009/04/
nice_kaplan_description_of_the.html

Pakistan news of April 20, 2009 – U.S. wants Pakistan to do more …
Pakistan news of April 20, 2009 Pakistan must get in aggressive act to free the country from Taliban Sufi Mohammed says – Islam has no room for democracy Muslim clerics declare suicide bomb blasts un Islamic First wind powered …
www.caymanmama.com/2009/04/20/pakistan-
news-of-april-20-2009_200904204510.html

India : Pakistan continues policy of state-sponsored terror …
By Mc Parry
NEW DELHI, Apr 20, 2009 — India on Monday said Pakistan has not displayed sincerity and decisiveness in dealing with perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks.
www.armybase.us/2009/04/india-pakistan-
continues-policy-of-state-sponsored-terror/

Campaign For Liberty — Fears for Pakistan grow as Taliban make gains
“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” —Thomas Jefferson. Campaign for Liberty is a 501(c)4 lobbying organization which neither supports nor opposes …
www.campaignforliberty.com/wire.php?view=4282

Maternal Ties: Pakistan, Family and a Changing Society
Wall Street Journal – USA
The book is set in 1985 at a time when traditional social norms in Pakistan are breaking down. Bilqis Ara Begum is a widow apart — educated, determined and …
online.wsj.com/article/SB123999264442529741.html

Pakistan arrests sixth suspect in Mumbai attacks | The Money Times
By Salinder Kumar
At the same time, he said India had not provided all the details to the queries Pakistan had posed on the dossier New Delhi had provided pointing to the involvement of elements from this country in the Nov 26-29, 2008 Mumbai attacks …
www.themoneytimes.com/20090420/pakistan-arrests-
sixth-suspect-mumbai-attacks-id-1064511.html

Infidel Bloggers Alliance: Extremist tide rises in Pakistan
By midnight rider
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – A potentially troubling era dawned Sunday in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, where a top Islamist militant leader, emboldened by a peace agreement with the federal government, laid out an ambitious plan to bring a …
ibloga.blogspot.com/2009/04/extremist-tide-rises-in-pakistan.html

Pakistan’s Fatal Shore “ Pak Tea House
By yasserlatifhamdani
THE WORD PAKISTAN summons up the Indian subcontinent, but the subcontinent actually begins with the Hub River, a few miles west of Karachi, near the Indus River Delta. Thus, Pakistan’s 400-mile-long Makran coast, which runs from the …
pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/pakistans-fatal-shore/

US Official Confirms Pakistan Facing Serious Threat
American Chronicle – Beverly Hills,CA,USA
There will no denying the fact that Pakistan has been facing serious threats from terrorists as they have been making advancement towards Islamabad. …
www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/99209

Pakistan air raids kill 20 militants: military
AFP
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) — Pakistan helicopter gunships raided suspected militant hideouts near the Afghan border killing 20 insurgents and destroying their …
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/
ALeqM5iKEVyQrm54Hlx6yrj048ju67P31Q

Pakistan Cuts Key Interest Rate to Spur Growth
Wall Street Journal – USA
By HARIS ZAMIR and NEELABH CHATURVEDI KARACHI — Pakistan’s central bank Monday trimmed its key interest rate for the first time in more than six years to …
online.wsj.com/article/SB124022354939334521.html

Jets target Pakistani militants
BBC News – UK
By M Ilyas Khan Army jets and helicopters have launched air strikes on a number of militant sites in north-western Pakistan, officials say. …
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8007976.stm

Pakistan: Militants killed in Orakzai operation – Adnkronos Security
By webinfo@adnkronos.com
(AKI/DAWN) – Pakistani jets and helicopter gunships have killed at least 20 militants in an attack on a Taliban commander who claimed responsibility for a bombing last week. …
www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3232952951

Pakistan: Suspected US missiles kill three “ Rational Review
By Thomas L. Knapp
“Suspected U.S. missiles struck a Taliban compound in a northwestern Pakistan militant stronghold bordering Afghanistan on Sunday, killing three people, officials said. The attack came a day after a suicide car bomber killed 27 people …
www.rationalreview.com/content/62199

Pakistan: Clarifying misperception about Swat deal “ Pak Alert Press
By pakalert
A lot of uproar is going on in and outside Pakistan against the peace deal and promulgation of Nizam-e-Adal 2009 Regulations in Swat. Internationally, forces hostile to Pakistan are using this as surrender and back off by government …
pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/pakistan-
clarifying-misperception-about-swat-deal/

ReliefWeb “ Document “ Pakistan: U.S. pledge at the Tokyo Donors …
Washington, DC – U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard C. Holbrooke announced the United States’ intent to provide support to the Government of Pakistan totaling $1 billion over a two year period (2009-2010) …
www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/MUMA-
7RA8GF?OpenDocument&RSS20&RSS20=FS