Pakistan News

 • Helen Thomas was Wrong, but Who`s Right?

 After video hit YouTube of eighty-nine year old reporter, Helen Thomas, telling an interviewer that Israelis should “get out of Palestine” and go back to Poland and Germany and other places, the white House issued an immediate condemnation

 • Declaration of the Third Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in

 Having met in Istanbul, Republic of Turkey, for the Third CICA Summit on 8 June 2010 to strengthen joint efforts towards addressing common challenges, as appropriate, through elaborating effective responses and initiatives thereof

 • Pentagon rushes to block release of classified files on Wikileaks

 Manning, 22, an intelligence analyst from Potomac, Maryland, who had been serving in Iraq, was revealed earlier this week as the source behind a highly damning leak earlier in the year that showed harrowing cockpit footage of an American Apache helicopter gunning down unarmed civilians in Baghdad three years ago

 • Gulf Oil Spill ‘Could Go Years’ If Not Dealt With

 The Obama Administration and senior BP officials are frantically working not to stop the world’s worst oil disaster, but to hide the true extent of the actual ecological catastrophe. Senior researchers tell us that the BP drilling hit one of the oil migration channels and that the leakage could continue for years unless decisive steps are undertaken, something that seems far from the present strategy

 • Free Gaza

 The Israeli commando raid on what has become known as the Freedom Flotilla is shocking on a number of levels. What could have driven Israel to order its navy to attack, in international waters, a flotilla of ships full of human rights activists, MPs from governments around the world, a Nobel Prize winner and two former US diplomats

 • Budget to make life harder for people

 GST raised by one pc; excise duty on gas doubled; electricity to cost more; subsidies on Atta, pulses, rice etc withdrawn; air conditioners, freezers, air travel costlier; cigarette dearer by Re1 each; 300,000 new income tax exemption limit; Rs5 bn for unskilled youth

 • Pakistanis suffered most displacement in 2009: report

 The number of internally displaced people worldwide reached 27.1 million individuals in 2009, the highest number since records began in the mid 1990s, said the report. Out of a total population of 170 million, over 3 million Pakistanis were newly displaced in 2009, the most in the world and three times more than second-placed Democratic Republic of Congo

 • 152 killed in Islamabad plane crash

 Airblue Flight ED-202 crashes into Margalla Hills, trying to land in bad weather

 • Black box found, cause of crash to be investigated: Kaira

 Kaira Wednesday said the black box (Flight Data Recorder) of the crashed plane has been found

 • National mourning today

 The Federal Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, on Wednesday declared one-day national mourning today over the tragic aircrash

 • President for greater interfaith understanding

 Zardari has said that need for inter faith understanding and dialogue has never been as great as is today to counter those who were predicting clash of civilizations

 • WikiLeaks: We don`t know source of leaked data

 WikiLeaks: We don`t know who gave us thousands of pages of classified US Afghan intelligence

 • Cameron warns Pakistan over insurgent funding

 Cameron said Wednesday that Pakistan must not “look two ways” in Afghanistan by publicly working to stabilise the country while secretly funding insurgents

 • Pak-China relations reach new height: Chinese Ambassador

 Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan, Liu Jian said on Tuesday that Pakistan-China strategic partnership has reached a new height in recent years, and the two countries are coming closer to each other in all fields of common interest

 • Nato says cannot verify Afghan civilian deaths

 Nato said Tuesday its investigation into a rocket strike that the Afghan president says killed 52 civilians found no evidence that its forces were involved

 • WikiLeaks Iraq Cache More Than Three Times As Big

 The cache of classified U.S. military reports on the Iraq War as yet unreleased by WikiLeaks may be more than three times as large as the set of roughly 76,000

 • Pentagon Can’t Account for $8.7 Billion in Iraqi Reconstruction Funds

 Inspector Determines Most Money Gone Without Documentation

 • Plane carrying 152 crashes in Pakistan

 A passenger plane crashed in the Margalla Hills in Islamabad on Wednesday

 • ISI denounces US intelligence reports

 Pakistan`s most powerful spy agency on Monday lashed out against a trove of leaked US intelligence reports

•  Govt wants justice from judiciary: PM

  Gilani has said that the responsibility of the national institutions have increased after the passage of the 18th Constitutional Amendment. He added that instead of personalities, the national institutions should be strengthened

•  In boost for Hamas, top Arab diplomat visits Gaza

 The Arab world’s top diplomat declared support Sunday for the people of blockaded Gaza in his first visit to the Palestinian territory since Hamas violently seized control of it three years ago

•  The economy and militancy

 The inability of the Pakistani state to assume the key role in helping the poor cope with socio-economic pressures weakens their trust in the state and partly explains the growing tendency towards religious extremism and militancy

•  NGOs: the West’s soft instrument for hegemonic policies

 Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become an important political tool in the hands of the West. Like the word “aid”, the NGOs (they also use the alias non-profit organizations) are used to penetrate and undermine other societies, especially in the Muslim world

•  US strategy: next step?

 Recently, US President Barack Obama unveiled a new National Security Strategy. The document was hailed by many as a definitive — and welcome — departure from his predecessor’s approach towards security and foreign policy, and then promptly pushed out of the headlines

•  The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and International Law by Lawyers for Palestinian Human Right

•  Fatima traces back to tell the Bhuttos’ tale

 Her striking looks recall her famous aunt, slain Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto, but Fatima Bhutto, who has penned a memoir of her family`s blood-soaked history, says the resemblance ends there

•  An alarming scenario

 THE Obama Administration’s idea to debate the expansion of its secret mission that reportedly has over 200 American troops in Pakistan is a dangerous, knee-jerk reaction to the failed bombing attempt at Times Square, New York

•  Pressured from All Sides in Pakistan’s Swat Valley

 In May of 2009, under tremendous pressure from the United States, the Pakistani military began a large-scale military operation in the Swat District of Pakistan to confront militants in the region

•  Obama on Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan: "I Am Accountable"

 During his White House press conference Wednesday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, President Obama addressed the issue of civilian deaths caused by US operations in Afghanistan. "I take no pleasure in hearing a report that a civilian has been killed," said Obama. "That`s not why I ran for president, that`s not why I`m Commander in Chief.

The US and Nato should withdraw all troops from Afghanistan immediately, not send more

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