Suicide Car Bomb, Ambush Kill 15 in Hangu
03 March 2011
"A suicide car bombing and an ambush by militants targeting police in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday killed 15 people including nine officers said police officials. The suicide car bombing hit a densely populated area of Hangu, which lies some 150 kilometers south of Peshawar and borders the troubled tribal belt along the Afghan border. Police said the bomber killed at least nine people and wounded 31 others when he detonated his vehicle near...
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Right-Wing Parties, Religious Groups Condemn Murder of Minorities Minister
03 March 2011
"Officials from Muslim political parties and religious groups in Pakistan are reacting more negatively to yesterday’s assassination of Christian cabinet minister Shahbaz Bhatti than to the killing two months earlier of Gov. Salman Taseer. The change highlights the specific combination of religious offense and political expediency that drove many to condone Governor Taseer's killing. Both men were killed after calling for changes to the country’s...
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Most US Aid to Pakistan Still Not Disbursed
03 March 2011
"U.S. economic aid to Pakistan, which totals more than $1.5 billion a year, is a key part of the Obama administration's strategy to strengthen the U.S.-Pakistan strategic partnership. But most of the aid that was allocated for last year is still in U.S. government coffers. Only $179.5 million out of $1.51 billion in U.S. civilian aid to Pakistan was actually disbursed in fiscal 2010, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released...
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Mutual Distrust and Suspicion between Pakistani Intelligence and CIA: Analysis
03 March 2011
"This increased human intelligence-gathering effort inside Pakistan has created friction between the CIA and the ISI. [...] The ISI’s fostering of surrogate militants to serve its strategic interests in Kashmir and Afghanistan played a critical role in the rise of transnational jihadism (and this was even aided with U.S. funding in some cases). Indeed, as we’ve previously discussed, the ISI would like to retain control of its militant...
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