Pakistan
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Osama bin Laden’s Second Death By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
If today were April 1 and not May 2, we could dismiss as an April fool’s joke this morning’s headline that Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight in Pakistan and quickly buried at sea. As it is, we must take it as more evidence that the US government has unlimited belief in the… Continue reading
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M.K. Bhadrakumar (India) – The intriguing death of Osama bin Laden
Think of the irony of it. Osama bin Laden was finally tracked down not in the lawless wilds of Afghanistan but in the teeming Pakistani city of Abbottabad, which is hardly 50 kilometers away as the crow flies from the headquarters of the military establishment in Rawalpindi. Continue reading
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The killing of Osama bin Laden By Patrick Martin and Alex Lantier
Obama’s speech and the press commentary was clearly an attempt to rally public support for wars that have become deeply unpopular. Obama asked Americans to ‘think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11. I know that it has, at times, frayed.’ Media commentators repeatedly expressed the hope that the killing of bin… Continue reading
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Let’s talk with women from Gaza, Pakistan, Egypt & Iraq!
Code Pink invites you to discover for yourself what is unfolding in the Middle East in a special Global Room for Women teleconference series that will touch you deeply and give you courage, insight and resolve to live your own dignity. Sign-up for our Series of 9 interactive calls with four engaging women building peace… Continue reading
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Laal, “My Heart, My Fellow Traveler”
Laal presents ‘Meray Dil, Meray Musafir’ dedicated to the centenary of the birth of Faiz Ahmed Faiz. The music video is a new interpretation of Faiz’s iconic poem ‘Dil e Man, Musafir e Man’ (My Heart, My Fellow Traveler). While Faiz wrote this poem about exile, this video explores Marx’s concept of alienation within the… Continue reading
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NATO denies plans to run special-ops in Pakistan — RT
The US-led coalition in Afghanistan has denied reports that it is pushing to extend its special operations into neighboring Pakistan. Continue reading
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Obama/Donilon: Staring down the generals By Eric Walberg
In the past 10 days, 150 NATO-bound oil tankers were torched in Pakistan, mostly by Taliban but some apparently by their own drivers, who siphoned and sold the fuel and then destroyed the evidence of their theft. Win-win for locals, none of whom are naive enough to believe killing more of their brothers is a… Continue reading
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Pakistan and Afghanistan Has Become One War
6 October, 2010 — The Real News Network Muhammad Junaid: U.S. is replicating the final days of Russian occupation, making a deal looking more likely Bio Muhammad Junaid is a researcher and lecturer at the Institute on Management Studies, University of Peshawar in Pakistan. He holds a Masters degree in Business and IT and contributes Continue reading
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Pakistan Blocks off Key NATO Supply Line
Newsy: Pakistan has closed off a key supply route for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan. This after Pakistani officials reported a coalition helicopter crossed its border and killed three Pakistani border. Continue reading
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WHY ISN’T THE WORLD RUSHING TO RESCUE PAKISTAN?
Snehal Shingavi: US has blamed Pakistan for failed policies in region Continue reading
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FLOOD WILL AFFECT AFPAK WAR
Muhammad Junaid: Floods in Pakistan will devastate food supply in Pakistan and Afghanistan Continue reading
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WHY IS THE US IN AFGHANISTAN – RUSSIA AND CHINA? Wikileaks: The Pakistan connection Pt.3
So now we’re going to catch up sort of into the current period. What is what we are now calling Taliban? ‘Cause as you said in the last episode, you can’t you know, it’s an easy phrase to throw around, but it’s like saying “the Americans”. I mean, “the Taliban” mean many different things, doesn’t… Continue reading
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CIA AND ISI NURTURED MUJAHIDEEN AND TALIBAN: Wikileaks: The Pakistan connection Pt.2
I think you really have to go back to the early 1970s, when Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who we already mentioned, has been an active Afghan fighter, who really started, in the early ’70s, separating from Afghanistan. He ended up in trouble, ended up killing another Afghan over political issues at Kabul University, ended up in jail,… Continue reading
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WIKILEAKS: THE PAKISTAN CONNECTION Part 1: CIA AND ISI NURTURED MUJAHIDEEN AND TALIBAN
Gould, Fitzgerald, authors of “Afghanistan’s Untold Story” discuss WikiLeaks Pakistan Taliban connection Continue reading
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America’s Undeclared War on Pakistan By James Gundun
It was a relatively flawless performance. With Washington stuck in its Afghan review and Pakistan’s cities under bombardment, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton touched down in a hostile Pakistan in October 2009 on a self-proclaimed propaganda mission. Greeted with bombs from Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and treated with hard questions on the freshly signed Kerry-Lugar bill,… Continue reading
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Russia, NATO and Afghanistan: High stakes Great Game By Eric Walberg
Explaining the willingness of Euro leaders to ignore their constituents, former US ambassador to NATO and RAND adviser Robert Hunter told the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR): “In terms of motivation, very few European countries believe that winning in Afghanistan — that is, dismantling, defeating, and destroying Al-Qaeda and Taliban — is necessary for their… Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 76 Yeswecanistan
We should never forget that Iraqi society has been destroyed. The people of that unhappy land have lost everything — their homes, their schools, their neighborhoods, their mosques, their jobs, their careers, their professionals, their health care, their legal system, their women’s rights, their religious tolerance, their security, their friends, their families, their past, their… Continue reading
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Ashley Smith, “A War of Terror in Pakistan: Interview with Saadia Toor”
The Pakistani Intelligence, with the full knowledge of the U.S., helped create and sustain the Taliban for years. Only after al-Qaeda’s attack on September 11 did the U.S. begin to oppose the Taliban, and once it did, this upset the longstanding relationship between the Pakistani state and the Taliban. Continue reading
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US drone strikes may break international law: UN official
US drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan could be breaking international laws against summary executions, the UN’s top investigator of such crimes said Tuesday. Continue reading
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MERIP: PAKISTAN UNDER PRESSURE
To outside observers, Pakistan has been “a problem” since its inception in 1947 — because its generals are enemies of Western-friendly India, because its frontiers are uncontrolled by the capital, because its nuclear arsenal is controlled by a coup-prone state. The summer 2009 issue of Middle East Report, “Pakistan Under Pressure,” peels back the clichés… Continue reading
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