AfPak: Mutiny on the Bounty By Eric Walberg – CairoKabul was cast into chaos Sunday as the Taliban began their spring offensive with attacks on US, British, German and Russian embassies, NATO headquarters, Camp Eggers, a hotel, President Karzai’s palace compound and parliament. “These are coordinated attacks that went just [...]
. Stop Obama’s Drone War in Pakistan by Matthew Rothschild The Pakistani government and its opposition parties have just come together in a rare show of unity to demand that the United States cease all drone attacks inside their country.As well they should The United States hasn’t declared war on Pakistan. The U.S. has no [...]
Obama Told Pakistan: US ‘Not Ready’ to Stop Drone Strikes ‘No Flexibility’ In Talks by Jason Ditz, March 29, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The highly anticipated meeting between President Obama and Pakistani Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani, potentially the last one before Gilani is [...]
An investgation last year found that both Pakistan and the US bore responsibility for the incident [GALLO/GETTY] The US military does not intend to charge or discipline its officers who were involved in a deadly NATO airstrike on a Pakistani border post last November, a newspaper report from the US suggests. The New York Times reported on Sunday [...]
The Pakistani parliament house in Islamabad. Photograph: Anjum Naveed/AP Pakistani MPs say US drone strikes must end before relations improve Parliamentary committee draws up tough recommendations as basis of new partnership with US after months of tension Jon Boone in Islamabad guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 20 March 2012 11.25 GMT Article history Missile attacks by unmanned US aircraft on [...]
Washington’s dirty little secret is out! The Kandahar Massacre By M A Niazi March 18, 2012 “The Nation” - Pakistanis were not very surprised when an American soldier ran amuck in Kandahar and shot up 16 Afghan civilians, which came hot on the heels of another incident of American callousness [...]
The latest poll shows 61 per cent of Palestinians favouring non-violent resistance as an alternative to stalled negotiations [EPA] Washington, DC - Khader Adnan spent 66 days on hunger strike, a symbolic, self-denying act of non-violent resistance to Israel‘s practice of “administrative detention” or imprisonment without charge. His story quickly became well known and began to [...]
In the wake of the cross-border strike, Pakistan shut down a US air base in Balochistan and halted NATO supplies [AFP] Pakistan’s army has rejected a US military report that claimed that NATO cross-border air strikes that killed 24 Pakistani troops in November were regrettable but justified. In a detailed report released on Monday, Pakistan’s [...]
The former Pakistani ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani. Photograph: Anjum Naveed/AP The US businessman at the heart of Pakistan‘s “memogate” political scandal will not come to the country to testify, blaming concerns for his own safety, according to his lawyer. After proclaiming he was prepared to give evidence even at the risk of his own life, [...]
Pakistan Secretly Helping US Drone Campaign Officials Say Recent Strikes ‘Joint Operations’ by Jason Ditz, January 22, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A new report from Reuters cites unnamed security officials who confirm that the Pakistani intelligence community is, despite government protestations to the contrary, [...]
Analysts: US , Pakistan collaborating again on drone strikes BY TOM HUSSAIN MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS ISLAMABAD – Two apparent U.S. drone attacks last week on militant targets in Pakistani tribal areas bordering Afghanistan very likely signal the resumption of joint counterintelligence operations by the CIA and Pakistan’s military spy agency, security analysts here [...]
Pakistan‘s prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, has been issued a contempt notice by the country’s supreme court. Photograph: Mian Khursheed/Reuters Pakistan‘s prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, has been threatened with jail for contempt of court and ordered to appear before the supreme court in person, raising the possibility that he could be disqualified from office. [...]
US Drone Strike Kills Six in Pakistan Missiles Target Two Cars in North Waziristan by Jason Ditz, January 12, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The US drone war appears to be back in full force today, with its second drone strike in the [...]
New US Strategy in Asia is Just Old US Hegemony by John Glaser, January 12, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Obama administration has announced a new defense strategy for the country based on slightly slimmer armed forces, more drones and special ops, and a renewed focus on Asia-Pacific due to China’s supposed military build-up. [...]
The army has objected to allegations made by the prime minister against the army and intelligence chiefs [EPA] Pakistan’s prime minister has dismissed the country’s defence secretary in a move likely to escalate tensions between his civilian government and the country’s powerful military. Yousuf Raza Gilani‘s decision comes against the backdrop of a scandal involving an unsigned memo that apparently [...]
Pakistan‘s Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani talks to China’s Premier Wen Jiabao during a singing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 18, 2011. (Jason Lee/AFP/Getty Images) China is planning a military base in Pakistan,India Today reported, citing “a secret report prepared by the [...]
A Pakistani Spring? Imran Khan‘s ‘Tsunami’ Brings Hope ‘Peace in Karachi, a stable and progressive Pakistan’ Nuclear-armed Pakistan has been through turmoil for many years with military coups, rampant corruption and US drone attacks. Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, the leader of Pakistan’s Movement for Justice party, is emerging as a leading contender to lead Pakistan into [...]
Pakistani journalists say they face threats from both state and non-state actors, and lack any protection [EPA] In 2011, Pakistan was, for the second year running, the most dangerous place in the world to be a journalist. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), seven journalists were killed in the country as [...]
Prosecutors allege Musharraf was part of a conspiracy to kill Bhutto, but Musharraf has denied the charge [EPA] Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will be arrested in connection with the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto if he returns to the country, a government prosecutor has said. There is no need for any “fresh [...]
World public opinion of the US military and its operations has soured after 9/11 [GALLO/GETTY] New York, NY - Portents of declining US and Western prestige marked the closing months of 2011. There is of course the ongoing economic crisis, and the inability to respond to it effectively. But another sign was the rapidity with [...]
Pakistani Militants Announce Truce With Pakistan, Will Focus on Fighting NATO Groups Said to Pledge Aid to Mullah Omar by Jason Ditz, January 02, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Four of the top militant factions inside Pakistan have released a statement saying [...]
Imran Khan, former cricketer, philanthropist and party leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. Photograph: David Levene The crowd gathered fast and within an hour, the dust of the sports ground below the old city walls of Lahore was obscured by a mass of shouting, grinning, pushing men. Above them, behind a makeshift stage, hung two giant portraits: [...]
Pakistan‘s president, Asif Ali Zardari, faces questions over links the the ‘memogate’ scandal, which is being investigated by the supreme court Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images Pakistan‘s supreme court is to investigate the scandal surrounding an unsigned memo – reportedly sent by a close ally of the president, Asif Ali Zardari, to the US after Osama [...]
US Report on Pakistan Attack Blames NATO for Failures Pakistan Formally Rejects US Report on Killings by Jason Ditz, December 26, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Less than a week after insisting that the attack on a Pakistani military base was “appropriate” [...]
Former cricket star-turned politician Imran Khan has brought out crowds in unprecedented numbers, but he’s often criticised for being hyped up beyond his actual political impact [EPA] “I now present you the man who will save Pakistan.” That’s how cricket star-turned politician Imran Khan was introduced to a crowd of more than 100,000 of his [...]
Imran Khan with supporters at the rally in Karachi. Photograph: Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images More than 100,000 people have rallied in support of the Pakistani cricket legend and opposition politician Imran Khan in the country’s biggest city, Karachi, further cementing his status as a rising force in politics. His message of cracking down on corruption and [...]
REUTERS For the second year in a row, Reporters Without Borders has named Pakistan the most deadly country in the world for journalists. The biggest threat is not terrorists, but the intelligence service, a prominent talk show moderator alleges. The same man just received an ominous warning via text message. Hamid Mir leans back in his [...]
Pakistani women protest in Karachi against the Nato attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last month. Photograph: Corbis Pakistan army rejects US findings on border attack American investigation concludes mistakes on both sides led to US air strikes killing 24 Pakistani soldiers reddit this Associated Press guardian.co.uk, Friday 23 December 2011 07.55 GMT Article history The [...]
General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani pledged to ‘defend the sovereignty of the country at all costs’ following the attack. Photograph: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty AUS military investigation into the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers in repeated air strikes by American warplanes on two border outposts last month has found that both sides were to blame after a chain [...]
Gilani criticised the security forces’ inability to detect Osama bin Laden‘s presence on Pakistani soil [EPA] Link to Al Jazeera article http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2011/12/2011122215143225409.html Yousuf Raza Gilani, Pakistan‘s embattled prime minister, has said conspirators were plotting to bring down his government, delivering an unprecedented tirade against the country’s powerful military. Without directly naming the military, Gilani said on Thursday [...]
Following the deadly strike on Pakistani soldiers, the US was forced to vacate Shamsi air base in Balochistan [EPA] The US military has said that “mistakes and misunderstandings” resulted in the NATO strike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last month, AFP news agency reported. A US military statement on Thursday said its probe into the incident revealed [...]
Smoldering ruin of a border outpost inside Pakistan attacked by US helicopters. 24 Pakistani soldiers died here and at a second mountaintop outpost in an unprovoked US massacre Shaukat Qadir This past June I posted an article by Anatol Lieven on Facebook. For those who are not familiar with his name, [...]
Drones, which frequently kill civilians in Pakistan, are operated remotely by the US military and CIA [GALLO/GETTY] “You cannot call me lucky,” said Sadaullah Wazir as he recounted the events of a drone strike two years ago on his home in North Waziristan. The strike killed his two young cousins and an elderly wheelchair-bound uncle. It [...]
US Freezes $700 Million in Pakistan Aid Demands Pakistan Strictly Regulate Fertilizer by Jason Ditz, December 13, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In a move that reflect the further deterioration of relations between the two nations, the US today announced that [...]
Pakistan: Raiding US Drones to Be Shot Down Is Obama’s Air War Against Pakistan Tribals Over? by Jason Ditz, December 11, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Though it hasn’t been officially confirmed yet, reports coming out of NBC News suggest the Obama Administration’s [...]
Khan leads a rally to condemn US drone attacks targeting suspected Taliban and al-Qaeda operatives in Pakistan [EPA] Imran Khan, Pakistan’s cricket-great-turned-politician and the chairman of the Tehreek-e-Insaf party (Movement for Justice), has led around 6,000 protesters in Karachi demanding an end to US drone strikes on Pakistani soil. Thousands of anti-US protesters had [...]
Imran Khan: Pakistan‘s next leader? The cricketer-turned-politician discusses the fight against corruption and violence in Pakistan. video interview at http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/frostovertheworld/2011/12/20111210942346106.html For years his political ambitions have been overshadowed by his cricket career. Now, his popularity as a politician has suddenly increased massively and his message to get rid of corruption and to [...]
The Taliban has been battling the Pakistani army in the country’s northwest for the last four years [EPA] A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban has denied earlier claims that the group was in talks with the government in Islamabad. Sunday’s announcement by Ehsanullah Ehsan, spokesman for the Pakistani wing of the group, comes a day [...]
The Pakistani Taliban, shown here patrolling the Orakzai tribal agency in November 2008, have announced they are in peace talks with the Pakistani government. Photograph: Tariq Mahmood/AFP/Getty Reuters guardian.co.uk, Saturday 10 December 2011 09.26 GMT Article history The Pakistani Taliban have announced they are in peace talks with the country’s government – news that holds out the prospect [...]
Stranded Pakistani Truckers Back NATO Supply Blockade Companies Keep Truckers With Their Vehicles by Jason Ditz, December 09, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Reports out of one of the many terminals filled with NATO supply trucks stuck in Pakistan since the government [...]
Pakistani Commission to Probe CIA Presence in Country ‘Abbottabad Commission’ Vows to Release Results to Public by Jason Ditz, December 08, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Speaking today at a press conference, Pakistani Justice Javed Iqbal, the head of the “Abbottabad Commission,” [...]
CIA, NATO Lied to Press About Lost Drone Move Couched as ‘Head Fake’ to Trick Iran by Jason Ditz, December 06, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum This weekend’s story of Iran shooting down a drone came with [...]
US Begins Pullout From Pakistan’s Shamsi Airbase Planes Arrive at Secretive Drone Base to Pack Up After Eviction by Jason Ditz, December 04, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The secretive Shamsi Airbase in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province saw some [...]
Deadly Attack on Pakistani Base Due to U.S. “Errors” A Pakistani official has claimed that U.S. officers gave the wrong coordinates when seeking permission to engage by John Glaser, December 03, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The unprovoked U.S. attack on a Pakistani military border post last week occurred due to “errors” by U.S. [...]
Pakistanis burn an effigy of Barack Obama in Lahore: resentment of Nato after the death of 24 soldiers last week has plunged co-operation between the allies into doubt. Photograph: Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images Nato plans push in eastern Afghanistan to quell Pakistan-based insurgents Exclusive: Isaf aims to reduce threat to Kabul by insurgent groups and has [...]
Lawyers’ harangues against US over strike Our Staff Reporter | Metropolitan > Lahore | Yesterday LAHORE, Dec 1: Legal fraternity on Thursday staged a rally against unprovoked air strikes by North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) targeting Pakistan army posts in Mohmand Agency and demanded the army should avenge the killing of 24 troops during the [...]
US/Pakistan‘s Toxic Alliance By Stephen Lendman - Posted on 02 December 2011 US/Pakistan’s Toxic Alliance – by Stephen Lendman Partnering with America has a price. Pakistan’s paid dearly. Post-9/11, it’s been harmed economically, politically, and strategically. Has its military now had enough and want out? More on that below. At issue is the latest November 26 incident involving [...]
Death on the Durand Line PAUL PILLAR |More Paul R. Pillar | November 27, 2011 The incident on Saturday in which NATO airstrikes killed two dozen Pakistani soldiers at border outposts was an accident waiting to happen. In fact, similar accidents had already happened along the Afghan-Pakistani border, although with smaller death tolls. This most [...]
Image via Wikipedia Pakistan: US Attack on Base Lasted ‘Almost Two Hours’ as Calls to Stop Were Ignored Pakistani Military Spokesman Angrily Rejects Claim They Started It by Jason Ditz, November 28, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Questions continue to grow over the Friday night US attack on a Pakistani military base today, [...]
Protesters in Karachi burn an effigy representing America. Photograph: Rehan Khan/EPA Pakistan has had enough The assumption that it has no choice but to obey America may turn out to be a dire strategic error reddit this Comments (372) Simon Tisdall guardian.co.uk, Sunday 27 November 2011 20.35 GMT Article history Readers of Dawn newspaper, commenting online, were [...]
