Activists of Pakistan Mslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) burn an effigy of the US President Barack Obama during a protest in Karachi on November 27, 2011, against a NATO strike on Pakistan troops. NATO expressed regret over air strikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers as the United States sought to repair relations with Islamabad that plunged into [...]
(Reuters) – Fury spread in Pakistan Sunday over a NATO cross-border air attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and could undermine the U.S. effort to wind up the war in Afghanistan. Sunday night in Pakistan, more than 40 hours after the incident, many questions remained. NATO described the killings as a “tragic unintended incident” and [...]
The Guardian: An attack by Nato aircraft on Pakistani troops that allegedly killed as many as 28 soldiers and looks set to further poison relations between the US and Pakistan was an act of self-defence, a senior western official has claimed. According to the Kabul-based official, a joint US-Afghan force operating in the mountainous Afghan [...]
Fox News: Pakistan’s government has ordered the U.S. to “vacate” an air base used for suspected drone attacks, in retaliation for a NATO strike that allegedly killed two-dozen Pakistani soldiers, Fox News has confirmed. The demand was the latest in a string of harsh statements out of Pakistan, as the U.S. and NATO allies scramble [...]
(Reuters) – NATO helicopters and fighter jets attacked two military outposts in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing as many as 28 troops and plunging U.S.-Pakistan relations deeper into crisis. Pakistan retaliated by shutting down NATO supply routes into Afghanistan, used for sending in nearly half of the alliance’s land shipments. It also said it would [...]
DailyMailUK: The father of a woman gunned down with her Scottish businessman husband was last night named as the chief suspect in what is thought to have been an ‘honour killing’. Glasgow-based Saif Rehman, 31, and Uzma Naurin, 30, from New York, were shot dead on a trip to Pakistan, when their car was ambushed [...]
Washington Post: Authorities removed protesters Saturday evening from an abandoned school in downtown Washington that had been entered by members or sympathizers of the Occupy D.C. movement. By 7:15 p.m. 11 people had been brought out of the city-owned Franklin School and placed in a police van as protesters pounded on the vehicle from both [...]
Chicago Sun-Times: The Cain Encounter … They hugged each other backstage in a full embrace like old friends. She grabbed his arm and whispered in his left ear. She kept talking as he bent to listen, and he kept saying “Uh, huh. Uh, huh.” Huh? “I don’t know if what she was giving him was [...]
(Telegraph) — Washington is ready to negotiate with Taliban leader Mullah Omar and now regards his involvement as crucial to the prospects for peace in Afghanistan, Hillary Clinton has said. Her comments been taken as a significant shift in American policy from moves to divide the Taliban-led insurgency and isolate Mullah Omar, the man who [...]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Despite some tough talk, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s recent visit to Pakistan seemed to subtly soften Washington’s stand on a key point of contention between the two countries: whether Islamabad should take military action against Pakistan-based insurgents fighting American troops in Afghanistan, or try to engage them in peace talks. [...]
Telegraph UK: US forces are massing on the Pakistan border in eastern Afghanistan amid reports of an imminent drone missile offensive against fighters from the feared Haqqani Network, a Taliban faction which operates from safe havens in Pakistan’s North Waziristan Agency, Pakistan Army sources have confirmed. The scale of the American build-up, including helicopter gunships, [...]
The Guardian: Pakistani militants are exploiting a security vacuum left by the departure of US troops from a swath of eastern Afghanistan to mount attacks inside Pakistan, triggering cross-border violence that has claimed dozens of lives and inflamed already tense relations between Islamabad and Kabul. The Pakistani military on Monday called on the government of [...]
NewsMax: The Iranian plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s ambassador and blow up the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington is a clear act of war says former Rep. Pete Hoekstra and Newsmax chief Washington correspondent Ronald Kessler — with Kessler adding the plot should be answered with a U.S attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The [...]
Voice Of America: A Pakistani doctor who allegedly helped the United States in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden is being accused of treason. A Pakistani commission said Thursday that the government should file conspiracy and high treason charges against Shakeel Afridi. Afridi is accused of running a fake vaccination campaign to help U.S. [...]
EuroNews: NATO-led forces fighting in Afghanistan said on Wednesday that an airstrike had killed a senior commander of the Taliban-linked Haqqani network and two of his associates in eastern Khost province, near the Pakistan border. Dilawar, who was only known by one name, was a “principal subordinate” to Haji Mali Khan, who NATO captured last [...]
The Telegraph: Pakistan has freed a senior al-Qaeda commander, who served as a bodyguard to Osama bin Laden, according to a senior security source, raising fresh questions about the country’s commitment to tackling terrorism. Amin al-Haq, who escaped from Afghanistan with the al-Qaeda leader in 2001 and went on to become a key financial aide, [...]
NYTimes: The Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing on Monday that targeted a senior police investigator in the southern port city of Karachi. At least eight people were killed in the attack, officials said. The attack targeted Chaudhry Aslam, a senior police superintendent in Karachi. Mr. Aslam and his family were not injured [...]
Stripes.com: America won’t shy away from using military force if necessary against terrorist groups such as al-Qaida, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday. But the U.S. will also respect the rule of law, she said, including principles guiding the use of force in self-defense, respect for the sovereignty of other states, and the [...]
