Pakistan News

 • Drones and security

 The US military is building drones of all shapes. It has been using them in Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan and is expanding their use to Yemen, Somalia and beyond.The twenty-first century needs leaders who reject war with space age technology and embrace the human capacity for compassion.

 • America’s Great Divide Between Rich and Poor

 In the world’s richest ever country, poverty is highest among industrialized nations. Homelessness and hunger levels are unprecedented. Over 20% of US families haven’t enough money to buy food and need help.Over half of US children need food stamps to eat. Tens of millions have no health insurance. Over four million Americans say they’ve been out of work over a year, the largest number since data collection began in 1948. From 2006 – 2010, impoverished households increased 27% and keep rising.

 • 2011 in pakistan

 • Endangered partnership

 Three episodes occurring in 2011 have transformed the long-standing Pak-US alliance into an acrimonious partnership. The common denominator between the shooting by Raymond Davis, the airborne raid targeting Osama bin Laden and the killing of 24 army personnel in Mohmand agency, is the use of force by Americans on Pakistan’s soil.

 • Guantanamo 10 years on

 TEN years ago on this day, Guantanamo, the US military`s dreaded detention camp for suspected militants on the eastern tip of Cuba, received its first detainees. In the decade since the prison has been in operation, it has become a symbol for all that is murky and morally questionable about the `war on terror`.The UN has criticised the prison.Guantanamo and similar facilities have instead stoked the fires of radicalism and increased anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world. The US should close down Guantanamo, a move ordered by President Obama three years ago which failed to materialise

 • Musharraf and Israel

 General Musharraf should worry less about Israel, and more about himself. He has announced his return to Pakistan, though he has remained abroad because he fears that he will be arrested in Pakistan, where he is wanted in cases which include the murder of Ms Benazir Bhutto.

 • Isolating Pakistan from Afghanistan

 Most certainly, bringing the Indians to Afghanistan is part of the Indo –US strategic partnership that also includes transfer of US nuclear and missile technology to India.Most probably, the American administration has grossly miscalculated by ignoring the impact of such strategy on the national security of Pakistan and its reaction

 • Hina Khar arrives in Kabul

 Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar will meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai during her one-day visit to Kabul which is aimed at warming frosty ties between the two neighbours.

 • Pakistan says leaked Nato report not worth commenting on

 Pakistan on Wednesday hit out angrily at a leaked Nato report accusing its security services of secretly aiding the Afghan Taliban, calling it “frivolous” and “not worth commenting on”.

 • Pakistan helping Taliban: secret NATO report

 The Pakistani security services are secretly helping Afghanistan`s Taliban, who assume their victory is inevitable once Western troops leave, a secret NATO document says, according to reports Wednesday.

 • Amnesty seeks legal basis of US drone strikes in Pakistan

 After the US president’s candid confirmation, the Amnesty International on Tuesday asked the United States to disclose details of the legal and factual basis for use of drones in Pakistan.

 • SC resumes contempt hearing against PM

 A seven-judge bench of the Supreme Court resumed the hearing of the contempt of court case against Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday.

 • Peace in Afghanistan critical for peace in Pakistan: Gilani

 A delegation of Afghan Senators led by Mr. Fazal-e-Hadi Muslimyar called on Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani at the Prime Minister’s House here on Tuesday and emphasized the need of exchange of parliamentary delegations to further strengthen the brotherly relations between the people of the two countries.

 • Afghanistan to press Pakistan for access to Taliban

 Afghanistan will press Pakistan for access to Taliban leaders during a one-day visit to Kabul by Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, with Afghan officials hoping to ease cross-border strains and lay the ground for peace negotiations with the insurgents.

 • `Pakistani` UK Muslim pilot fired over fears `he might copy 9/11 attacks`

 A Muslim airline pilot in Britain, who has claimed to have lost his job because of his religion, has said his bosses feared he might replicate the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.

 • 10 soldiers, 25 militants killed in Kurram Agency clash

 Dozens of heavily armed Taliban militants attacked a Pakistani military post on Tuesday, sparking clashes that killed ten soldiers and wounded 32, the military said.

 • ‘Tactical advantages’ to US drone strikes: Pakistan

 Pakistan on Tuesday acknowledged “tactical advantages” to US drone strikes on the Taliban and al Qaeda, but appeared to shrug off the unexpected confirmation by Washington of attacks on its soil.

 • Dutch government approves burqa ban

 The Dutch government Friday approved a ban on face-covering clothing, such as a burqa, a niqab, a forage cap, or a full face helmet,

 • Obama confirms US drone strikes in Pakistan

 President Barack Obama confirmed that US drone aircraft have struck Taliban and Al-Qaeda targets within Pakistan -- operations that until now had not been officially acknowledged.

•  Memo Scandal: Don’t shoot the messenger

 Mr. Mansoor Ijaz is a US citizen and quite rightly loyal to his country and close friend of Israel. One must be wondering who Mansoor Ijaz is and why is he so important that Pakistani ambassador to USA, Hussain Haqqani chatting, texting, emailing, phoning and meeting with him for years? Now Mr Haqqani is hiding in the President House and Prime Minister House of Pakistan for security reasons? Some people say, ‘he is manning the post with unlimited powers and budget in President House which his wife Farah Isphani MNA was doing for years’.

•  New provinces

 Recently, the debate over the creation of new provinces has steamed up. Various political parties have supported the idea of new provinces and the MQM has even tabled a resolution in the parliament for the creation of the Hazara and Seraiki provinces. But before we jump into political point scoring on the issue, we need to understand a few things.

•  Kayani’s Landmark Visit to China

 In his meeting with Pakistani Army Chief, General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, during his six-day visit, Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao reiterated Chinese dedicated and guaranteed support to Pakistan. Premier Wen said during his meeting with General Kayani that, “China will always stand by Pakistan in difficult times.

•  Pak-US: Knock for a Loop

 The Coalition forces enter the exit stage in Afghanistan and the route leading to political solutions thought to be possible through mutual efforts of collation partners and Afghans have once again come under tremendous pressure. The conflicting US policies by Pentagon, CIA, and White House have failed to come up with any solution for the ongoing war in Afghanistan for decade.

•  The World Left After 2011

 The revolt was against the excessive polarization of wealth, the corrupt governments, and the essentially undemocratic nature of these governments whether or not they had multiparty systems,

•  566 coalition troops die in Afghan war in 2011

 Foreign troops fighting in Afghanistan continue to pay a high toll, with more than 560 killed in 2011, the second highest number in the 10-year war against the Taliban-led insurgency.

•  US police fatalities up 13 percent in 2011 to 173

 The number of fatalities from departments across the country caused by firearms made 2011 one of the deadliest years in recent history for U.S. law enforcement.Across the nation, 173 officers died in the line of duty, up 13 percent from 153 the year before,

•  Resetting Pak-US ties

 Getting the Americans to vacate Shamsi was the easy part. There are two reasons why Washington complied, more or less quietly, with the Pakistani demand to return the base. First, it is not the only location that the US has been using for its drone strikes against targets in Pakistan. These strikes can continue from bases in Afghanistan. Second, by handing it over within the specified time, Washington made a conciliatory gesture to Pakistan and gave the government a “victory” with which to pacify public opinion.

•  Nato attacks

 It seems that the Pakistan government has been pushed by the attack by Nato helicopters on a checkpost in Mohmand Agency on Saturday into the review of Pakistan-US ties that had already been mandated by parliamentary resolution in the joint session of 14 May, with the Defence Committee of the Cabinet deciding this Saturday night within hours of the attack.

•  Strange advice

 The US Ambassador Cameron Munter has suggested that Pakistan should prefer TAPI pipeline over the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline. And although he admitted that the IP pipeline would benefit us in the short term, he followed it up by saying that the project was not in our interest, as Iran was an unreliable partner.We should not ruin our relation with a brotherly Muslim country just because the US has differences with it.

The US has been militarily defeated in Afghanistan and is left with no choice but to leave

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