Dorf on Law (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Bob Hockett This past Tuesday's off-year election results, followed by Wednesday's RNC decision no longer to endorse primary candidates, followed in turn by Thursday's and Friday’s bemusing, astroturfed "tea party" assaults on the US Capitol, call to mind a disturbing, if less amusing, precedent. It is often observed that the seeds of the trouble with theocratic insurgents now faced...
baithak (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The MF Husain controversy: Identity, intent and the rise of militant fascism Jamiat upholds fatwa against Vande Mataram The Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind on Tuesday endorsed a fatwa issued by the influential Darul Uloom seminary at Deoband that calls on Muslims not to sing Vande Mataram as doing so was violative of Islam's faith in monotheism. Readers will recall my repeated warnings that a man with Zardari’s...
Sify (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The chief of the UN commission probing former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination case, Heraldo Munoz, has said that while there has been substantial progress in the
baithak (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
What has already happened is known but what is likely to come is more important. All stakeholders agree, and this I can claim after meeting almost all of them in the last few days in Islamabad and Lahore, that President Asif Ali Zardari will have to either step down with dignity, hand over his presidential powers to the PM through a fast-track constitutional amendments process, or become a figure head...
Understanding Each Other, Diversity and Dissent (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
202 Blackwater personnel arrive By: Nisar Mehdi The Nation Nov 4, 2009 KARACHI – The foreigners affiliated with the notorious private military contractor Blackwater, whose security company Blackwater was later renamed as Xe Services LLC, arrived in Islamabad on Tuesday through a PIA flight, sources told TheNation. "Of the 274 passengers, who boarded Pakistan's national flag carrier-PIA,...
Times of India (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Former president Pervez Musharraf had introduced the amnesty — the National Reconciliation Order (NRO) — in 2007 to strike a power-sharing deal with former PM Benazir Bhutto.
Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
In this first of a series of briefs that will follow Pakistan’s military campaign to oust the Taliban from the South Waziristan tribal agency – one of the seven that constitute Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas – I will provide some details about the background of the ongoing conflict between the Pakistani state and the stateless Islamic insurgents. The army’s...
Letters in Bottles (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Reading Russ Feingold , I'm reminded of Robert Kaplan : In the 1990s, successive democratic Pakistani governments struggled to cope with intensifying social and economic turmoil. Violence was endemic to Karachi and other cities. But even as the Pakistani political elite turned inward, it remained obsessed with the related problems of Afghanistan and energy routes. Anarchy in the wake of the Soviet...
Indus Asia Online Journal (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
From: Ahmed Makhdoom To: sindhtoday-network@yahoogroups.com; sindhiana@yahoogroups.com; Sindhiat Sindhiat ; worldsindhinet ; WSC-network ; sindhorg Cc: Gul Agha ; Abdul Rashid Abro ; Ameeruddin Abro ; Dr Aftab Kazi ; Dr. Ahsan Memon ; Altaf 'Manu' Shaikh ; altaf shaikh ; Altaf Shaikh ; Dr. Haleem Bhatti ; Muhammad Umar Chand ; Dr. Hidayatullah Bhutto ; Ebrahim Shah ; Ghulam Nabi Morai ; Ghulam Sarwar...
Sify (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
The United Nations commission, which is probing former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto' s assassination case, is finding it difficult to quiz former President General Pervez Musharraf.
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pledged U.S. support for Islamabad's campaign against Islamic militants, after a car bomb struck a busy market in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing 100 people, most of whom were women and children. "I strongly condemn the cowardly attack today in Afghanistan," Clinton said. "My thoughts and prayers are with all those who were injured...
Famous Actresses (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Bilawal Son of Benazir Bhutto Sex Scandal The antics of Bilawal Butto at Oxford University would shock people in Pakistan awaiting Bilawal Bhutto Zardari's return to take over the political dream shaped by his murdered mother Benazir. The 19-year-old's preparation for his role in one of the world's Muslim states has certainly been unconventional. Orthodox Muslims will be surprised to see the new leader...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
"The most recent research demonstrates that Pakistanis are overwhelmingly against religious extremism, the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and all related manifestations of violent expressions of political Islam." Every school, college and university in Pakistan is closed. The seemingly most impenetrable building in Pakistan, the General Headquarters (GHQ) of the Pakistan Army has been breached, and...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
One needs to note the dates first. A Pakistani national, Sharifuddin Pirzada, held the post of secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Conference from January 1, 1985 to December 31, 1988. Pirzada finished his tenure during the period Benazir Bhutto assumed power, when the Soviets were in the throes of a humiliating defeat in Afghanistan, the two-pronged, Pak-engineered 'proxy-war' was at...
Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Walid Phares at Human Events Taliban's War on Pakistan by Walid Phares Posted 10/21/2009 ET The war between the Taliban and Pakistan continues to accelerate. Just last weekend, Pakistan’s army responded to a long string of Taliban attacks by launching a massive ground operation in Waziristan. But through this already-long fight, the press and other observers have only focused on the continuing...
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