Pakistan
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M. Junaid Levesque-Alam, “Pakistan at the Precipice”
After some searching, I realized that Pakistan’s existential crisis should not be seen as a shock but rather as an expected disappointment. The train of the Pakistani state did not jump the tracks; it merely arrived at the destination announced long ago by a series of indifferent conductors. Continue reading
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Video: Osama bin Laden was US operator: President Asif Ali Zardari
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has alleged that elusive Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was a US operator who had tried to destabilise his late wife Benazir Bhutto’s government back in 1989. Continue reading
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Thoughts On The War Between The USA And Pakistan By Winter Patriot
This, ultimately, is what makes a major escalation of the war between the US and Pakistan inevitable. The Obama administration embodies none of the change we were hoping for. We are still governed by Bush/Clinton retreads, neo-con chicken hawks, friends and agents of Israel, and Wall Street bankers. None of these people see anything wrong… Continue reading
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Frédéric Bobin, “Antonio Giustozzi, Researcher, London School of Economics and Political Science: ‘The New Afghan Taliban Are Waging a Real Guerrilla War’”
these ‘Neo-Taliban’ are waging a real guerrilla war. This was not the case with their elders. Before conquering Kabul in the autumn of 1996, the first generation was a simple, ill-organized militia. Then, after taking power, it attempted to build an army. There never was a real guerrilla experience in that period. The situation changed… Continue reading
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Jamal Dajani, “Pakistan: Who’s to Blame?”
Pakistan is on a precipice. The Swat Valley, once called the Switzerland of Pakistan for its great natural beauty, is now the Taliban’s battle ground for Islamic fundamentalism where harsh Islamic (shari’a) law is imposed on the population and fully sanctioned by the Pakistani government. Continue reading
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Pakistan’s Troubled “Paradise on Earth” by Kamran Asdar Ali
The challenges faced by Pakistan’s democratic and civilian groups are now manifold. As the 2008 election results show, when given a chance, the Pakistani people may choose to vote against both the Islamist groups and the party of the generals. Yet, in Pakistan, the mere restoration of democratic forms of governance is not enough. The… Continue reading
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US-NATO Military Agenda: Part One – The Destabilization of Pakistan By Michel Chossudovsky
Recent developments (including the aerial bombardments of Pakistani villages under the auspices of the “war on terrorism”) indelibly point to a broadening of the Afghan war theater, which now encompasses parts of Pakistan. The underlying tendency is towards an Afghan-Pakistani war. Continue reading
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Military Escalation and Obama’s “War on Terrorism”: US Officials “Rediscover” ISI-Taliban Nexus By Tom Burghardt
While an open secret in Washington, Obama’s new product roll-out in the form of an ill-conceived plan to “disrupt, dismantle and defeat” al-Qaeda and the Taliban has everything to do with the construction of the $7.6 billion dollar “Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline Continue reading
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Pakistan’s Democracy Movement Flexes its Muscles By Tom Burghardt
It is no secret that the United States, first under Bush, and now under Obama, view Pakistan as the ‘central front’ in imperialism’s oxymoronic ‘war on terror.’ For decades, the U.S. has viewed Pakistan as little more than a ‘strategic asset’ to advance America’s geopolitical goals in Central- and South Asia. Continue reading
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US attack inside Pakistan threatens dangerous new war By Peter Symonds
Global Research, September 5, 2008 Source: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10084 A ground assault by US Special Forces troops on a Pakistani village on Wednesday threatens to expand the escalating Afghanistan war into its neighbour. Pakistan is already confronting a virtual civil war in its tribal border regions as the country’s military, under pressure from Washington, seeks to crush Continue reading
The New Dark Age 