24 April, 2009

Faced with mortal threat, Pakistan chooses denial
USA Today – USA
Nuclear-armed Pakistan is unraveling at a frightening pace. Equally alarming, Pakistan’s leaders appear far less concerned than their American counterparts. …
blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/04/faced-
with-mortal-threat-pakistan-chooses-denial.html

Jihad Watch: Pakistan troops rush to Taliban-infiltrated area: “If …
By Robert
Militants have made no secret of their desire to see Islamic law imposed across the country, and as they edge closer to Islamabad, unease about the peace deal is growing in Pakistan and in the West. The U.S. is especially concerned …
www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025807.php

Taliban Surge Pakistan : NO QUARTER
By John Batchelor
The spotty reports from Pakistan point to a surge of Taliban aggression ever since the failed state leadership at Islamabad ceded control of the Swat Valley to the jihadists. The surge is not headed to Kabul and the American legions but …
www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2009/04/23/taliban-surge-pakistan/

FT.com | Gideon Rachman’s Blog | Panicking about Pakistan
By Gideon Rachman
But her Congressional testimony on Pakistan yesterday sounded distinctly alarmed. Pakistan, she said, now faces an “existential threat” from Islamist militancy and the Pakistani government has “basically abdicated to the Taliban and the …
blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/04/panicking-about-pakistan/

Taliban don’t want Pakistan becoming a modern state: Holbrooke …
WASHINGTON: US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke has said that Taliban do not want Pakistan becoming a modern state, US was determined to help Pakistan in combating...
www.geo.tv/4-24-2009/40563.htm

Clinton warns of Pakistan nuke risk
Washington Times – Washington,DC,USA
By Nicholas Kralev (Contact) and Barbara Slavin | Friday, April 24, 2009 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned Thursday that Pakistan has…
washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/24/
clinton-warns-of-pakistan-nuke-risk/

SI Man Gets Prison Term for Aid to Hezbollah TV
New York Times – United States
Mr. Iqbal, who emigrated to the United States from Pakistan as a teenager, ran his business from a Brooklyn storefront and the garage of his home in…
www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/nyr
egion/24cable.html?ref=global-home

No one will be allowed to run parallel govt: Zardari
Daily Times – Lahore,Pakistan
Zardari and Holbrooke discussed the threat of increasing Taliban influence in Pakistan. Sources said the call was prompted by US fears that Pakistan was not …
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=
2009%5C04%5C24%5Cstory_24-4-2009_pg1_2

Democrats Have Qualms Over War in Afghanistan
New York Times – United States
She said any benchmarks would best be put on the use of military aid to Pakistan. Ms. Pelosi also said lawmakers wanted to make sure the Pakistan government …
www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/us/
politics/24spend.html?ref=global-home

Crocker: Afghan war success hinges on Pakistan – Army News, news …
Read late breaking, exclusive Army News from Iraq and Afghanistan. – Army Times.
www.armytimes.com/news/2009/04/ap_crocker_pakistan_042309/

Zaheer Abbas warns Pakistan against complacency
The News International – Karachi,Pakistan
By By our correspondent KARACHI: Former Pakistan captain Zaheer Abbas has said that the Greenshirts seem set for a one-day series win over Australia in UAE …
www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=174024

IMF further slashes Pakistan’s GDP growth forecast
Daily Times – Lahore,Pakistan
By Sajid Chaudhry ISLAMABAD: International Monetary Fund (IMF) has further slashed the GDP growth rate of Pakistan to 3.5 percent-which was 4 percent…
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=
2009%5C04%5C24%5Cstory_24-4-2009_pg5_1

23 April, 2009

Pakistan Nearing Collapse
By The Huffington Post News Editors
“The move by Taliban-backed militants into the Buna district of northwestern Pakistan, closer than ever to Pakistan’s capital of Islamabad, have prompted concerns both within the country and abroad that the nuclear-armed nation of 165 …
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/23/
pakistan-nearing-collapse_n_190717.html

Hot Air “ Blog Archive “ Time to start freaking out about Pakistan
By Allahpundit
Attock hosts two major nuclear facilities in Pakistan: the Wah Cantonment Ordnance Complex and the Kamra (Minhas) Airbase. The Wah Cantonment Ordnance Complex host three sites where nuclear weapons and components are stored and …
hotair.com/archives/2009/04/23/time-to-start-freaking-out-about-pakistan/

Clinton Backs Off Pakistan Criticism Before Anxious Lawmakers …
By Kate Barrett
Pakistan’s precarious position was the focus of a hearing today on Capitol
Hill, where Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was confronted by several
lawmakers who worried the Pakistani government is not willing to fight the
advancing …
blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/04/clinton-backs-o.html

PoliGazette “ Taliban Threaten Islamabad – Pakistan Nearing Collapse
By Michael van der Galien
As James Joyner opines for The New Atlaticist, Pakistan is on the verge of collapse. If the government in Islamabad falls – and we should all pray it does not – we can only hope that the Taliban and other extremists will not take over …
www.poligazette.com/2009/04/23/taliban-
threaten-islamabad-pakistan-nearing-collapse/

U.S. ‘extremely concerned’ about Pakistan
Pakistan sent troops to a district virtually taken over by the Taliban, a day after Washington said.
www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1525934

Obama Administration Fills Foreign Plate With Growing Threats in …
FOXNews – USA
Despite sounding the alarm about the growing insurgency threat in Pakistan, the Obama administration is still trying to deter Iran from its nuclear program. …
www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/23/obama-
administration-fills-plate-growing-threats-pakistan-iran/

Taliban militants edge closer to Pakistan capital
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
By Mark Magnier and Mubashir Zaidi Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan, and New Delhi — Emboldened militants made their presence felt closer to Islamabad …
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-
pakistan-fighting24-2009apr24,0,923343.story

Pakistan makes show of force against Taliban | csmonitor.com
The government deployed troops to militant-controlled Buner district Thursday amid growing foreign concern about Taliban encroachment.
www.csmonitor.com/2009/0423/p06s04-wosc.html

Pakistan Taliban extend activities
GlobalSecurity.org is the leading source for reliable WMD news and WMD information, directed by John Pike.
www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/
pakistan/2009/pakistan-090423-irna01.htm

Pakistan’s Media Critical In Fight Against Extremists
By The Huffington Post News Editors
By Madiha Sattar, HuffingtonPost Contributor “So, it’s not okay for women to be touched by male doctors but male executioners can hold hands and slap bottoms in front of milling crowds?” asked a Lahore-based lawyer in an April 6 op-ed …
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/23/
pakistans-media-critical_n_190178.html

Taliban softens on Sharia appeal courts as Pakistan, US toughen …
By Sindh Today
Islamabad/Washington, April 23 (IANS) The Taliban appeared to be backing down Thursday, saying it did not intend to create a state within a state following the imposition of Sharia laws in Pakistan’s northwest and also indefinitely …
www.sindhtoday.net/pakistan/90558.htm

Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive – ‘Spiraling chaos’ possible in …
By Eliza, AC360°
Taliban militants, who implemented Islamic law in Pakistan’s violence-plagued Swat Valley last week, have now taken control of a neighboring district 60 miles (less than 100 kilometers) from the capital, Islamabad. …
ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/23/
spiraling-chaos-possible-in-pakistan/

Taliban move to new Pakistan area ups peace doubts | Home Other …
ISLAMABAD (AP) – Gunmen attacked a Pakistani paramilitary force sent to a Taliban-infiltrated district just 60 miles from the capital yesterday, killing a police officer and feeding growing doubts about the government’s peace deal with …
www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=
460767&publicationSubCategoryId=200

Pakistan poses a mortal threat to world says Hillary Clinton | WORLD
Pakistan’s government has abdicated to the Taliban in agreeing to impose Islamic law in the Swat valley and the country now poses a mortal threat to the world, Hillary Clinton said.
tvnz.co.nz/world-news/clinton-says-
pakistan-in-mortal-danger-2671553

India and Pakistan: Tomato diplomacy
Christian Science Monitor – Boston,MA,USA
By Ben Arnoldy | Staff writer 04.23.09 NEW DELHI; and ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN
– It’s not all rotten tomatoes between India and Pakistan. …
features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009
/04/23/india-and-pakistan-tomato-diplomacy/

Militants burn NATO fuel tankers in Pakistan
The Associated Press
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Dozens of militants armed with guns and gasoline bombs attacked a truck terminal in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday and burned five …
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeq
M5hkiMxbHNH0BqgpWA2ZG6VD6wVTmAD97NV6AG0

The Roots of Pakistan’s Taliban Problem – The Lede Blog – NYTimes.com
By By Robert Mackey
As my colleagues Jane Perlez and Pir Zubair Shah report from Pakistan, authorities there are concerned about the fact that “a strategically important district only 70 miles from the capital, Islamabad,” has“come under the effective …
thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/
23/the-roots-of-pakistans-taliban-problem/

Jihad Watch: Hillary: Pakistan a “mortal threat” to the world
By Robert
Washington — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday said nuclear armed Pakistan, wherein Al Qaeda and the Taliban extremists are increasing their influence, poses a “mortal threat” to the world and asked the Pakistani …
www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025799.php

More worrying news from Pakistan | Coffee House
I know we are all still picking over the Budget, but this story from today’s New York Times strikes me as phenomenally important: “Pushing deeper into Pakistan, Taliban militants have established.
www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/3559786/
more-worrying-news-from-pakistan.thtml

Global Guerrillas: JOURNAL: An Open Source Counter-insurgency for …
By John Robb
Among those who are reported to have fled is Fateh Khan, a wealthy Buner businessman. Mr. Khan had been one of the main organizers and financiers of the private armies in Buner.NYTimes 23 April 2009. Pakistan is on its way,…
globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/04/journal
-an-open-source-counterinsurgency-for-pakistan-.html

Taliban appears to solidify grip in Pakistan – The CNN Wire – CNN …
By fkarimi
On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that Pakistan is in danger of falling into terrorist hands because of failed government policies, and called on Pakistani citizens and expatriates to voice more concern. …
cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/23
/taliban-appears-to-solidify-grip-in-pakistan/

Police: Gunmen kill officer in NW Pakistan – KTNV ABC,Channel 13 …
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) – Police say gunmen fired on a vehicle escorting paramilitary troops through a Pakistani district recently infiltrated by the Taliban. The troops were among those deployed Wednesday to protect government …
www.ktnv.com/global/story.asp?s=10234014

People of Pakistan’s Buner District at Mercy of Repressive Taliban …
Buner residents told Amnesty International researchers in Pakistan that 400 to 500 heavily-armed Taliban now roam freely throughout the district. For the past two days, the Taliban have established a checkpoint on the main road entering …
yubanet.com/world/People-of-Pakistan-s-Buner-District-at-Mercy
-of-Repressive-Taliban-Says-Amnesty-International.php

Clinton Raises Alarms About Spiraling Security in Pakistan
FOXNews – USA
“(The administration is) deeply concerned by the increasing insurgency that is destabilizing Pakistan.” Clinton had harsh words Wednesday for the country …
www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/04/23/
clinton-raises-alarms-spiraling-security-pakistan/

Kerry panel listens to Iraq, Afghanistan vets
Boston Globe – United States
The extremists we are fighting today in Afghanistan and across the border in Pakistan do represent a direct threat to the security of the United States. …
www.boston.com/news/politics/political
intelligence/2009/04/kerry_panel_lis.html

Pakistan Military Says Troops Kill 11 Militants In Tribal Area
Wall Street Journal – USA
ISLAMABAD (AFP)—Pakistani troops killed 11 Taliban militants in a northwestern Pakistan tribal area Thursday and destroyed nearly a dozen of their hideouts …
online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090423-714757.html

Pakistan Sends Special Police to Taliban-Held Area
New York Times – United States
On Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she was concerned that Pakistan’s government was making too many concessions to the Taliban, …
www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/world/asia/24pstan.html?ref=world

Pilot Slowdown Costing Pakistan’s PIA ‘Millions’ – Official
Wall Street Journal – USA
KARACHI (AFP)—A go-slow by disgruntled pilots has forced flag-carrier Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to cancel dozens of flights at a cost of …
online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090423-712292.html

Pakistan deploys troops in Taliban-held district
Reuters – USA
By Zeeshan Haider ISLAMABAD, April 23 (Reuters) – Pakistan on Thursday sent paramilitary troops to a district virtually taken over by the Taliban, …
www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed1/idUSSP164600

Pakistan Prez, PM refuse to meet UK special envoy
IBNLive.com – New Delhi,India
New Delhi: Pakistan and United Kingdom now find themselves in a deadlock over an issue of diplomacy. Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister …
ibnlive.in.com/news/pakistan-prez-pm-
refuse-to-meet-uk-special-envoy/90945-2.html

Pakistan’s Pro-Taliban Group Extends Islamic Judges Deadline
Bloomberg – USA
By Khalid Qayum April 23 (Bloomberg) — A pro-Taliban group in Pakistan’s northwest province extended a deadline for the government to Islamic judges in …
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=2060
1091&sid=ajFMvs0BA.94&refer=india

Pakistan deploys troops in Taliban-held district
Reuters – USA
By Junaid Khan MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistan on Thursday sent paramilitary troops to a district virtually taken over by the Taliban, …
uk.reuters.com/article/usTopNews/idUKTRE53M25820090423

Clinton Rallies Attention to Growing Extremist Threats in Pakistan
Global Security Newswire – Washington,DC,USA
WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today voiced alarm about a rising extremist presence inside Pakistan, which she said “poses a mortal …
www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20090422_1960.php

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistan disorder ‘global threat’
Apr 23, 2009 … US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the situation in Pakistan poses a “ mortal threat” to the security of the world.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8013677.stm

UK warned against deporting Pakistanis
PRESS TV – Tehran,Iran
The envoy is currently visiting Pakistan. Interior Ministry Chief Rehman Malik had earlier said that Pakistan wanted the ‘full credentials of those who have …
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92289&sectionid=351020401

Miandad blames conspiracy for Pakistan isolation
AFP
DUBAI (AFP) — Pakistan legend Javed Miandad said Thursday a “conspiracy” seeking to undermine his country was behind its increasing isolation in world …
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/
ALeqM5h18DlDbiHyD1YgvpLrvGL3Ib32Ww

Militants Burn NATO Fuel Tankers In Pakistan
By The Huffington Post News Editors
ISLAMABAD — Dozens of militants armed with guns and gasoline bombs attacked a truck terminal in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday and burned five tanker trucks carrying fuel to NATO troops in Afghanistan, police said.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/23/
militants-burn-nato-fuel-_n_190372.html

Tensions Rise Between United States, Pakistan : Homeland Security News
By national
A lot of bad blood currently exists between Washington and Islamabad, according to US and Pakistani officials. President Obama has made it clear that success for US efforts to stabilize Afghanistan depends in large part on what happens …
www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2009/04/22/
tensions-rise-between-united-states-pakistan/

Kerry: Obama Pakistan Plan ‘Not A Real Strategy’
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Just back from a visit to Pakistan, Sen. John Kerry says the Obama administration’s plan for that volatile country, rolled out last month with great fanfare, “is not a real strategy.”
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/22/kerry
-obama-pakistan-plan_n_190241.html

Taliban’s grip in Pakistan growing
Pakistan’s government has abdicated to the Taliban in agreeing to impose Islamic law in the Swat valley.
www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1523817

US-POLITICS Summary
Washington Post – United States
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Pakistan’s government has abdicated to the Taliban in agreeing to impose Islamic law in the Swat valley and the country now poses a …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2009/04/23/AR2009042300399.html

Pakistan: India supporting Baloch rebels
PRESS TV – Tehran,Iran
“The BLA was raised and funded by Russia during Soviet-Afghan war when Pakistan was supporting Afghanis and now India is backing its activities,” local …
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92299&sectionid=351020401

China, Pakistan laud parliamentary ties, agree to boost co-op
Xinhua – China
BEIJING, April 22 (Xinhua) — China and Pakistan Wednesday praised the ties between their parliaments and both agreed to raise inter-parliamentary …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/22/content_11233570.htm

Obama Afghan Plan May Founder as Local Clashes Weaken Strategy
Bloomberg – USA
By Viola Gienger April 23 (Bloomberg) — Afghanistan and Pakistan are casting doubt on President Barack Obama’s plan to quell insurgents and stabilize their …
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=2060
1087&sid=a7ijhMKDCeNo&refer=home

Pakistan Not ‘as Bleak’ as ING, Erste Hold Bonds
Bloomberg – USA
By Shanthy Nambiar and Lilian Karunungan April 23 (Bloomberg) — Some of the world’s biggest bond investors are sticking with Pakistan even as the…
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20
601091&sid=a9DvTwDatJU8&refer=india

US concerned over Taliban expansion, says State Dept
Daily Times – Lahore,Pakistan
WASHINGTON: The United States is concerned by the expansion of the Taliban in Pakistan, a senior State Department official told AFP on Wednesday. …
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009
%5C04%5C23%5Cstory_23-4-2009_pg1_2

Pakistan slides closer to hell – Capital Read Inkless Wells …
By Paul Wells
Canada’s only national weekly current affairs magazine.
www2.macleans.ca/2009/04/22/pakistan-slides-closer-to-hell/

Clinton says Pakistan turmoil is ‘mortal threat’ to the world …
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Wednesday called the advance of Islamic militants an “existential threat” to Pakistan and a “mortal threat” to the world and called on Pakistanis to resist their government’s policy of ceding t… …
www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/66725.html

PrairiePundit: Does Pakistan have a strategy for dealing with Taliban?
By Merv
Taliban militants have established control of a strategically important area only 70 miles from the capital, law enforcement officials said Wednesday. The move is part of an unrelenting push by the Taliban toward the heart of Pakistan. …
prairiepundit.blogspot.com/2009/04/does
-pakistan-have-strategy-for-dealing.html

Sen. Kerry Slams White House Pakistan Strategy — News from …
By Jason Ditz
Having just wrapped up his high-profile visit to Pakistan, Senator John Kerry (D – MA) pointed to growing turmoil in the South Asian nation, and slammed the Obama Administration for not having “an adequate policy or plan to deal with it …
news.antiwar.com/2009/04/22/sen-kerry-
slams-white-house-pakistan-strategy/

“Blowback” Echos in Pakistan | Conservative Heritage Times
By Stonewall
After watching recent news reports, it seems that Taliban forces are a mere sixty miles away from the Pakistani capital, capturing large areas of territory.
conservativetimes.org/?p=3167

India News Digest: Pakistan a Mortal Threat to the World: Hillary
Wall Street Journal – USA
A stunned Obama administration said on Wednesday that Pakistan posed a“mortal threat” to the United States and world after a rampant Taliban moved to …
online.wsj.com/article/SB12404551660
6646601.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Taliban Seize Vital Pakistan Area Closer to the Capital
New York Times – United States
By JANE PERLEZ ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pushing deeper into Pakistan, Taliban militants have established effective control of a strategically important …
www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/world/asia/23buner.html?hp

Clinton Attacks Pakistan For Bending To Taliban
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sharply rebuked the government of Pakistan on Wednesday, accusing the country’s leaders of surrendering large tracts of territory to the Taliban and saying that the country’s instability is a …
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/22/
clinton-attacks-pakistan_n_190298.html

Pakistan’s policy on extremists poses serious threat: Clinton …
By Sindh Today
Washington, April 22 (DPA) US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that Pakistan’s policy of ceding territory to Islamic extremists poses a serious threat that cannot be overlooked. During testimony before the …
www.sindhtoday.net/pakistan/90059.htm

Taliban closing in on Pakistan nuke arsenal – Crunchy Con
By Rod Dreher
Sec. of State Clinton said today that Pakistan faces “an existential threat.” She’s not talking about hordes of black turtlenecked Frenchmen armed with Gauloises, either. Gerald Posner comments: The… By Rod Dreher@ April 22, …
blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2009/04/
taliban-closing-in-on-pakistan.html

Campaign For Liberty — Clinton: Pakistan ‘mortal threat’ to world
… them are so quick to jump into more war because they are drinking the obama kool-aid. These are the same people who actively protested the Iraq war during Bush but now are super psyched about invading Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. …
www.campaignforliberty.com/wire.php?view=4374

Women’s Rights in Afghanistan and Pakistan
New York Times – United States
“Women, Extremism and Two Key States” (editorial, April 15) justly condemns the utter disregard for women’s rights shown by Afghanistan and Pakistan. …
www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/opinion/lweb23women.html