China and Pakistan "to Deepen Strategic Cooperation"
30 November 2010
[blog], Foreign Policy // The AfPAk Channel, 30 November 2010
EXCERPT: "Next month, China's Premier Wen Jiabao will reportedly visit Pakistan to 'deepen strategic cooperation' between the two so-called 'all-weather friends.' His visit comes on the heels of Pakistani President Asif Zardari's sixth visit to China in two years earlier this month. In light of...
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Al-Qaeda Member Claims Britain's Complicity in Torture
30 November 2010
UK "Complicit in al-Qaeda Man's Torture", BBC News, 30 November 2010
EXCERPT: "A man convicted of serious terrorism offences in the UK has launched an appeal, telling judges the UK was complicit in his torture abroad. Rangzieb Ahmed, 34, from Greater Manchester, says he was unlawfully held in Pakistan, beaten and had fingernails removed, the Court of Appeal heard. Ahmed was convicted of membership of al-Qaeda and directing...
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US, Russia Concerned about Pakistan's Nuclear Security: Wikileaks
30 November 2010
Cables Reveal Doubts about Pakistani Nuclear Security, Los Angeles Times, 29 November 2010
EXCERPT: "The papers leaked by WikiLeaks reveal U.S. concerns about Pakistan's nuclear program, and its attempt to get Islamabad to give it its enriched uranium for safekeeping. Leaked classified U.S. diplomatic documents reveal strong doubts that Pakistan can keep nuclear fuel and expertise out of the hands of terrorists, alarmingly illustrated...
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Transparency International Claims Harassment by Govt Officials
30 November 2010
, The New York Times, 29 November 2010
EXCERPT: "The head of the Pakistani branch of Transparency International, the global advocacy group that monitors corruption, has alleged intimidation and harassment by government officials for its monitoring of American aid in Pakistan.'Recent statements by officials of the Pakistani government amount to harassment,' Syed Adil Gilani, chairman...
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Pakistan Offers $120,000 Reward for Information on Taliban Militants
29 November 2010
Pakistan Offers Big Reward for Taliban Informers, Reuters, 27 November 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistan on Saturday offered a reward for information about Taliban militants involved in planning or carrying out attacks, and promised to resettle informers in Pakistan or abroad. Authorities said on Friday they had thwarted a plot to attack parliament and a mosque in Islamabad and arrested two would-be suicide bombers. 'We will give 10 million...
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US Mounted Secret Effort to Remove Pakistan's Enriched Uranium: WikiLeaks
29 November 2010
Wikileaks Report Stokes Anti-US Hardliners in Pakistan, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 November 2010
EXCERPT: "Long derided in liberal Pakistani circles as a fanciful conspiracy theory, the notion that the US has designs on Pakistan's nuclear arsenal will likely gain traction here following a report that the US has mounted a secret effort to remove highly enriched uranium from a Pakistani reactor since 2007. The report, based on...
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N. Waziristan Tribesman Seeks Compensation from CIA over Drone Deaths
29 November 2010
, AFP, 29 November 2010
EXCERPT: "A Pakistani tribesman is seeking 500 million dollars in compensation from the CIA after his son and brother were killed in America's covert drone war against Al-Qaeda, his lawyer said Monday. Kareem Khan from North Waziristan, the district on the Afghan border where the US campaign has stepped up in recent months, said his house was hit by...
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Diplaced Pakistanis Worry about Planned Return to South Waziristan
29 November 2010
Displaced Pakistanis Prepare for Risky Return to South Waziristan, Los Angeles Times, 28 November 2010
EXCERPT: "Officials say the military has secured the area after an offensive against the Pakistani Taliban. But recent attacks heighten concerns and underscore the fact that the militants were dispersed, not wiped out. After a year spent without work and queuing for handouts, families who sought refuge here from an offensive against...
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Threats of Anarchy over Blasphemy Case
26 November 2010
, AFP, 26 November 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistani Muslims threatened protests and anarchy if the government pardons a Christian mother sentenced to death for blasphemy, calling hundreds of demonstrators onto the streets on Friday. Demonstrators marched in the eastern city of Lahore after the most influential Sunni Muslim alliance in Pakistan urged the government not to grant mother-of-five Aasia...
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India's Need for Strategic Response to Insurgency and Terrorism: Brief
26 November 2010
The Need for a Strategic Response to Insurgency and Terrorism, Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses, 26 November 2010
EXCERPT: "In the case of Jammu & Kashmir, the insurgency arose as a result of the complex interplay of several factors. Most prominent was the Centre's constant intervention in state politics to ensure that the demand for 'independence' is not raised and its viewing of any opposition as anti-national....
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