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The US considers Pakistan based terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), held responsible for 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, as a formidable terrorist threat to Indian, US and other Western interests in South Asia and potentially elsewhere. In Afghanistan, the US military and Nato are committed to preventing Al-Qaeda's return and disrupting any [...]

HRCP launched the report titled ‘Balochistan; Blinkered Slide into Chaos’ in a press conference held at a local hotel in Islamabad. The Commission’s Chairperson Zohra Yusuf, its Secretary General I A Rehman, former chairperson Asma Jehangir, Council member Hina Jilani were present on the occasion. The mission observed that there were [...]

The Pakistani Army and it's leadership is facing worst sort of credibility crises and increasing criticism of poor administrative and defense practices, and right now practically it finds itself in the midst of a inferno, particularly after Osama Bin Ladan debacle, Saleem Shahzad's murder and 16 hours siege of the Naval Air Base PNS Mehran in [...]

پاکستانی ریاست بہت سے اندرونی و بیرونی خطرات میں گھری ہوئی ہے۔ لیکن افسوس کہ ان خطرات کے مقابلے کیلئے قوم متحد نہیں ہے اور نہ ہی قوم کو متحد کرنے کے لئے ریاست کے پاس کوئی حکمت عملی ہے۔ آئین [...]

Here is a copy of an FIR (First Investigation Report) which has been provided to LUBP through a reliable source. Our source claims that the report is 100% authentic. Overall, the FIR highlights the moral and ethical bankruptcy of Pakistani media and its owners and managers. The petitioner appears to have some genuine grievances against Mr. [...]

President Obama’s Afghan withdrawal plans include working with Pakistan to “root out the cancer of violent extremism.” Bruce Riedel’s three key steps to do it right. By Bruce Riedel On Wednesday evening, President Obama rightly said we “need to work with the Pakistani government to root out the cancer of violent extremism, and we [...]

The Pakistan army has extended an investigation into officers with links to the Hizb-ul-Tahrir, a spokesman said on Wednesday, in what analysts said was a long overdue move to root out sympathizers of the banned Islamist group. The military, which said on Tuesday it had detained a brigadier -- the highest-ranking serving officer arrested in a [...]

By NICK SCHIFRIN A 17-year-old died this week in Afghanistan, hanging from the end of a rope. A prison official fastened it around the boy's neck in Kabul's largest jail, tightened the knot, and then, in front of a crowd, removed the platform that held up the boy's feet. He was hanged by the Afghan government because he was a killer. In [...]

The courts should remain defenders of fundamental rights and personal liberties. When the Facebook ban was issued, the court appeared to be playing to the gallery of populist radicals A long time ago, when I was a college student in the jihadi era of Ziaul Haq, I had a sitting with late Dr Eqbal Ahmad along with a few friends. We asked a very [...]

A group of powerful journalists known for their criticism on President Zardari used to meet him in President House and give him their “useful” advices, a journalist revealed it while quoting senior journalist Rauf Kalasra. The regular visitors, in one of the meeting, got things of their control when President Zardari advised them to refrain [...]

In a much hyped Pakistan Social Media Summit, it was noted that "Pakistan has over 3 million social journalists and the number is increasing with the passage of every day with 6.2 million users on microblogging site Twitter and over 4 million social network Facebook users already. This was observed by top bloggers, twitteraties, netizens [...]

پاکستان: اک نمبری ملک ڈاکٹر منظور اعجاز June 18th, 2011 آئی ایس آئی دے اک گذریل پردھان نے کہیا ہے جو ہُن ساڈے تے امریکہ دے رستے وکھ وکھ نیں، ساڈے ٹچے تے اوہناں نوں پورا کرن دے وسیلے وکھ وکھ نیں ، [...]

Syed Mushahid Hussain, Nasim Zehra, Ejaz Haider, Mosharraf Zaidi, Syed Talat Hussain, Shireen Mazari, Meher Bokhari and Abbas brothers: Take a bow in front of your Yazid Masters! While the massacre of Shias in Pakistan continues unabated, these establishment apologists continue to serve their real masters. In the last few decades, they have [...]

QUETTA, June 16: Olympian boxer Syed Abrar Hussain was gunned down by unknown men near the Ayub Stadium here on Thursday. The banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi has claimed responsibility for killing the 50-year-old boxer, who was deputy director of the Pakistan Sports Board in Balochistan. According to police, Hussain was going home from his office [...]

By Hamza Usman Locally published for the first time, courtesy an MoU between Julian Assange and the Dawn Media Group, the WikiLeaks documents reveal classified details about Pakistan and its relations with the United States. This new front in the war for common sense and sensibility is still in its incipient stages, but the potential to awaken [...]

The Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) has arrested five CIA informants in Pakistan, including a Pakistan Army major, suspected of feeding information on Osama bin Laden to the CIA, said a report in the New York Times. American officials told the New York Times that the arrests by Pakistan's top military spy agency included a Pakistani [...]

Pakistan's military removed the chief of the paramilitary Rangers on Tuesday over the filmed killing of an unarmed man in a public park that shocked the nation. Security forces shot dead Sarfaraz Shah, 22, in a Karachi park on Wednesday last week over the robbery accusations. His family has demanded justice, insisting he was an innocent [...]

Related posts: How to identify liberal proxies of GHQ in Pakistani media and blogs Fake Civil Society (FCS) – by Shahid Khan At Pakistan's first sever Social Media Summit (aka PKSMS) in Karachi, the following resolutions were passed: At #pksms Pak bloggers rejected the allegation that MOST of them are urban-centric, ignore Blaoch [...]

How many countries function without a Foreign Minister at a time of diplomatic turbulence, when relations with its main ally, United States, stoop to a new low? Well, Pakistan does. In all the drama that has followed Osama’s execution, it has gone virtually unnoticed that Pakistan has no Foreign Minister. Yes, let me say it again; Pakistan [...]

Originally published in the 'Daily AajKal'.

Dear General Pasha, I write this letter to you in the wake of the gruesome and gratuitous murder of Syed Saleem Shahzad, friend to many, including myself. The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Directorate, the agency you head, is being accused of Saleem’s murder. You must also know that the ISI is widely reviled and dreaded at home. For [...]

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Yesterday’s article of Mr. Asif Ezdi a retired foreign office bureaucrat in The News is a classic example of the retired bureaucrats and military officers pandering their assets as analysts. It seems that most of them write to present themselves as for employment in a new dream government please read “technocrats” while presenting [...]

The killing of Syed Saleem Shahzad is brutal confirmation that Pakistan is the world's most hazardous place for journalists, whistle blowers and Independent thinkers. Saleem Shahzad's kidnapping a week ago and his later brutal murder sparked off speculation that he was killed by the ISI, which was apparently unhappy with some of his writings [...]

Originally published in the 'Daily AajKal'.

ہدایت نامہ برائے صحافی برادری محمد حنیف بی بی سی اردو ڈاٹ کام، کراچی 1: ۔قلم اٹھانے سے پہلے بلند آواز میں کہیں کہ ملک اس وقت نازک حالات سے گزر رہا ہے۔ اگر ملک کا خیال نہیں ہے تو لکھنے سے پہلے [...]

Inter Services Intelligence suspected of involvement has long been above the law. All aspects of this crime, including the possibility of links to the ISI, need to be independently investigated and prosecuted. The ISI and other military and intelligence-related agencies have long been beyond the reach of the regular criminal justice system. To [...]

Originally published in 'Daily Aajkal'.

’کیا تم ساز کو توڑ کر سُر کو مٹا سکو گے‘ ریاض سہیل بی بی سی اردو ڈاٹ کام، کراچی ’قلم تلوار سے زیادہ طاقتور ہے‘ بلوچستان یونیورسٹی کے استاد اور بلوچ دانشور صبا دشتیاری اسی فکر کے پیروکار [...]

Source: Jang

A leading newspaper publisher in Pakistan and the president of the nationwide newspapers body has reacted sharply to charges by the Inter Services`Intelligence Agency (ISI) that allegations by Human Rights Watch of the intelligence agency’s involvement in the abduction and murder of Pakistani journalist Salim Shahzad were “baseless”. [...]

US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton,condemned the kidnapping and killing of Pakistani journalist. Syed Saleem Shahzad, who worked for Adn Kronos International and La Stampa writing articles and books on the collusion between al Qaeda and Pakistani security and intelligence establishment. "His enquiries on terrorism and intelligence had surfaced [...]

“We don’t know if the ISI killed him,” Dayan says, “but the manner of his killing is consistent with the other murders where there has been credible evidence of ISI involvement.” by Ron Moreau Courageous Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad, who had scored major scoops on al Qaeda and the Taliban, was abducted and brutally [...]

Asia Times Pakistan Bureau Chief and TRNN contributor Syed Saleem Shahzad was found murdered in Islamabad on Tuesday. In a recent report for Asia Times and a TRNN interview, Shahzad reported on splits in the Pakistan military over support for al Qaeda. Collected here are his interviews for TRNN. Pakistan Post Bin Laden Saleem Shahzad: [...]

Pakistan will launch a military offensive in North Waziristan, a newspaper reported on Monday, days after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reiterated a US demand to tackle sanctuaries for al Qaeda and the Taliban on the Afghan border. An understanding for an offensive in North Waziristan, the main sanctuary in Pakistan for militants fighting [...]

Hafiz Saeed, who is suspected to have masterminded the 2008 Mumbai attack, tops the list of India’s most-wanted men. In his testimony in a Chicago court, David Coleman Headley, a co-conspirator in the case, had said he was “motivated” by Saeed to carry out a jihad. The JuD chief and the Lashkar-e-Taiba co-founder had told him that the [...]

The government of Punjab, which had recently secured front page coverage by its proclamation about shunning all funding by foreign donors, demanded from Islamabad to increase its borrowing limits and ensure release of development funds to avoid delays in the execution of projects in the next budget, it is learnt. Contrary to its public position [...]

The intelligence organisations in general, and the ISI in particular is not doing it's job rightly and due to the high level of negligence and security lapses, we have been witnessing incidents like Osama debacle and PNS Mehran. The ISI's job is to safe guard the state from any danger to its 'national security' from outside. so it's not it's job [...]

NEW DELHI: Pakistan's former foreign secretary Shaharyar Khan has acknowledged that ISI might have been involved in the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai — in the first-ever confession of its kind by a member of Pakistani establishment. In an interview to an Indian TV channel on Saturday, Khan said that "low-level" ISI personnel may have been involved [...]

Originally published in the 'Daily AajKal'.