Siddiqui's Lawyers Implicate ISI; Supporters Suggest Her Exchange for Davis
14 February 2011
EXCERPT: "Lawyers for Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman jailed for 86 years by a US court last year, have released an audiotape that purports to explain her mystery disappearance almost eight years ago. On the tape a man identified as Imran Shaukat, a senior Pakistani counter-terrorism official, says that Siddiqui was picked up by Pakistan's police in March 2003 and handed to the county's intelligence service, ISI. 'I caught her,' he says. The Pakistani...
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Humanitarian Action in Pakistan 2005-2010: Report
14 February 2011
EXCERPT: "Over the past five years, Pakistan has witnessed three major crises affecting up to 18 million people. The nature and scale of these crises were different. Two were disasters caused by natural hazards: the '2005 earthquake' affected 3.5 million people and the '2010 floods' have affected more than 20 million people. The 2008-2010 'Internally Displaced People (IDP) crisis' was triggered by an internal conflict and displaced 4.2 million people...
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Legality of Targeted Killings by Drone Attacks in Pakistan
14 February 2011
EXCERPT: "War on terror has called into question many legal paradigms of public international law. To probe into any other aspect of the US policy of target killings by drone attacks in Pakistan, exploring the legal basis of this logic is very critical. In following section I will discuss the position taken by U.S. and counter arguments to that position in the light of ILOAC, domestic U.S. law and public international law. Lawyers have often struggled...
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Pakistani Anti-Terrorism Court Issues Arrest Warrant for Musharraf
14 February 2011
EXCERPT: "A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has issued an arrest warrant for former military ruler Pervez Musharraf over the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto in 2007. Prosecutors say he was aware of Taliban plans to target her but did not act to prevent her murder in Rawalpindi. They accuse him of failing to provide adequate security for the former PM. Mr Musharraf - who lives in self-imposed exile in London - denies the allegations....
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