Summary of Recent Security Incidents
10 June 2011
The ongoing target killing and violence gripped the city, claiming 11 lives of people, including son of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leader Zaibun Nissa, one activist and one sympathiser of Awami National Party (ANP) and one Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) activist, in different parts of the metropolis on Thursday.
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Military Lashes Out against Critics, Sets Limits on Intelligence Sharing with US
10 June 2011
On the surface of it the 139th Corps Commanders Conference appeared to be different from its predecessors in that it provided the military’s viewpoint on a number of recent controversies. A lengthy press release issued by the ISPR went so far as to provide a rare insight into the broad contours of ‘renegotiated terms of engagement’ with the Americans. “The participants noted with regret that despite briefing the joint session...
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Karzai Visits Islamabad for Talks on Taliban
10 June 2011
Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrived in Islamabad on Friday seeking Pakistan’s help to end a 10-year Taliban insurgency, as their mutual ally the United States tries to build on battlefield gains to force a political settlement. Pakistan is seen as a critical regional player with the clout to help all parties in the conflict reach a settlement. Karzai will meet President Asif Ali Zardari and other Pakistani leaders, although no breakthroughs...
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PM Gilani to "Personally Supervise Inquiry" into Rangers' Extrajudicial Killing
10 June 2011
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday said he would personally supervise the inquiry into the killing of a young student by Rangers’ personnel, but advised some overwhelmed opposition lawmakers not to blame ‘state institutions’ for the actions of ‘some individuals’. Speaking on the floor of the National Assembly, he said that the entire nation was ‘shocked and horrified’ by the gruesome incident and...
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US Convicts Rana in Danish Newspaper Plot, Clears Him on Mumbai Attack Charges
10 June 2011
A US federal jury has convicted a Chicago businessman of helping plot an attack against a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. But the jury in the US state of Illinois cleared Tahawwur Rana of the most serious terrorism charge of co-operating in the deadly 2008 rampage in the Indian city of Mumbai. At the centre of the trial was testimony by the government's star witness, David Coleman Headley, a longtime friend of Rana...
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