Balochistan Government Orders Inquiry into Controversial Killing of Five Chechens
19 May 2011
A Pakistan provincial government on Thursday ordered an inquiry into the killing by security forces of five Chechens, including three women, after media said they had been unarmed. The group was killed this week, with authorities saying they were al-Qaeda-linked suicide bombers. CCPO Quetta claimed on Thursday that the Chechens died due to an explosion and not by gunfire, DawnNews reported. Militants have stepped up attacks in Pakistan after the...
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No Evidence that Pakistan Leadership Knew of Bin Laden's Hideout: US Defense Secretary
19 May 2011
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Wednesday that he surmised that “somebody” in Pakistan had been aware that Osama bin Laden was hiding in a compound in the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad, but that there was no evidence so far that anyone in the country’s senior leadership had known. “My supposition is, somebody knew,” Mr. Gates said at a Pentagon news conference with Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the...
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India-Pakistan - A Rivalry that Threatens the World: The Economist
19 May 2011
Many Pakistanis cannot see things as Americans do. On Abbottabad, for example, they care little that bin Laden was there, and much more about the ease with which American forces swooped in. A poll a week after the raid of 2,500 people found that only 26% believed bin Laden had been killed. Around half, 49%, reckoned the event had been faked, and nearly as many thought bin Laden, if dead, was anyway a martyr. Around 68% were most bothered that an...
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