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Islamabad bomber shot dead

The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago

Islamabad, Nov. 8 (PTI): Police tonight shot dead a suspected suicide bomber when he tried to attack a security checkpost in Islamabad.

Aisha Malik From Islamabad

Lollywood Celebrity (Free subscription) | yesterday

Girls Picture going to post some pictures of our cute and beautiful reader Aisha Malik belongs to Islamabad. Aisha has sent these photos to us through our contact form. Aisha tells that she was recently came back from France after completing her studies and all these pictures were taken during her stay in France. But now in Pakistan she is feels so lonely because she haven’t any friend in Pakistan...

More pics from Islamabad, Pakistan

Gretawire (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

I am going through my laptop and have more pics to post from our trip to Pakistan.

Insecurity Confronts Balochistan Journalists

IntelliBriefs (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

PFUJ Secretariat Media Release ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: A fact-finding report, jointly compiled by the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists and the International Federation of Journalists about Balochistan, reveals that journalists and media workers in Pakistan’s largest province work in an extremely difficult and tense environment. “A persistent long–running separatist movement in the...

Suspected suicide bomber killed in Pakistan's capital

People Daily (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

Pakistan police foiled a terrorist attempt by shooting dead a would-be suicide bomber on Sunday night at a barrier in the country's capital city of Islamabad, according to local TV channel reports Monday. Police sources said that policemen at a checkpoint, located between sectors F-11 and E-11 of Islamabad, shot dead the suicide bomber as he rushed to attack the cops after getting off a double-cabin...

Urban siege in south Asia,

Open Democracy (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

Pakistan’s terrorist and insurgent guerillas are taking their fight to Pakistan’s cities. Islamabad, Lahore, Rawalpindi, and Peshawar now join remote mountain outposts as venues for battles furthering Taliban and al-Qaeda guerilla strategy. The recent spate of bombings and paramilitary assaults in Pakistani cities continues a widespread trend of urban siege in south Asia. Terrorism and...

PPP busy with strategy to counter Pak SC move to revive cases under NRO

Timpu (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

Islamabad, Nov 9 (ANI): Legal experts of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party are busy working out a pre-emptive strategy to counter a Supreme Court move to revive cases withdrawn under the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO). The same could be brought under the purview of the proposed National Accountability Commission (NAC) to declare them politically motivated. [...]

Pressure's on Pakistan

Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - As Pakistan's army plows ahead with its offensive in South Waziristan, success is at risk because the government has yet to come up with a plan to run and rebuild the lawless territory so that the Taliban and al-Qaeda do not reemerge.

• Pakistani gov't pressured on post-offensive plan - Seattle Times
• Pakistani gov't pressured on post-offensive plan - Miami Herald
• See the 5 articles on the same subject

Six security personnel among 17 killed in Pakistan violence - Summary

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

Islamabad - Seventeen people, including five soldiers and a policeman, were killed Monday when Taliban militants targeted security personnel with a suicide bombing, rocket attack and a roadside blast in the restive north-western region, officials sai...

Diwali in Khairpur, It is simple my dear Watson, Aakar Patel

baithak (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

Friend Aakar Patel writes: What a real hero should look like? Somebody should show him a picture of Abdul Sattar Edhi. "Are you somewhere in Pakistan?" This was the ready response to a text message sent from, yes, somewhere in Pakistan. And where and what it was about? Well, we were sitting in a Diwali function in Khairpur, in front of a restored historical edifice now named Khazana and the...

Suicide bomber kills three in north-west Pakistan

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago

Islamabad - A suicide bomber blew himself up Monday at a police post in Pakistan's north-western city of Peshawar, killing at least three people, officials said. A policeman, who had stopped a motorized rickshaw in which the attacker was travelling, ...

Defending the Arsenal by Seymour M. Hersh [The New Yorker]

Understanding Each Other, Diversity and Dissent (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago

> ----------- The New Yorker November 16, 2009 Annals of National Security Defending the Arsenal In an unstable Pakistan, can nuclear warheads be kept safe? by Seymour M. Hersh "America's dealings with Pakistan may be increasing the risk of radicalization." In the tumultuous days leading up to the Pakistan Army's ground offensive in the tribal area of South Waziristan, which began on...

• Defending the Arsenal - Vox Verax
• Are nuclear weapons safe in Pakistan? - Ensaios Imperfeitos

From Pakistan to Paris, by VW Beetle

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago

A French doctor is embarking on the 6,000-mile trip to promote a better image of Pakistan. 'It's not all about terrorism,' he says. Low-key is good in Islamabad these days, where the threat of Taliban suicide bombings has filled Pakistan's capital with checkposts, blast walls and a queasy air of anxiety. But one proudly conspicuous car rolled through the streets last week – a 25-year-old Volkswagen...

Pakistan Double Dealing

The Whig (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago

BBC: Pakistan's Taliban dilemma Despite being relatively few in number, the Afghan Taliban are thriving in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as they take advantage of Islamabad's apparent ambivalence towards them, the BBC's Hugh Sykes reports from Kabul. The Afghan Taliban leadership and sources of supply are not even in Afghanistan, they are in Pakistan - in Quetta, a city just across the mountains from Kandahar...

Nightmare by digby If you need to...

Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago

Nightmare by digby If you need to get a good night's sleep tonight, don't read Seymour Hersh's latest because it will give you nightmares. Pakistan has been a nuclear power for two decades, and has an estimated eighty to a hundred warheads, scattered in facilities around the country. The success of the latest attacks raised an obvious question: Are the bombs safe? Asked this question the day after...

• Are nuclear weapons safe in Pakistan? - Ensaios Imperfeitos
• Defending the Arsenal - Vox Verax

Whither Pakistan ?- By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

abdulruff | 03/07/2009

Whither Pakistan ? (Anti-Islamic Strategic Coalition in Pakistan ) - By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal *** Today one really does not know what exactly has been going on in Jinnah’s Pakistan and one has to just believe how the global media narrate the stories to suit their goals in pursuing the interests of their hawkish masters. Perhaps Jinnah had not chosen the right people then for the new Islamic nation...

Whither Pakistan ? - By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

abdulruff | 03/07/2009

July 03, 2009 Dear Editor: Indian yahoo is cutting my articles to size. So, Terror India has lost to a simple Muslim at last. 786* I dedicate all my journalistic, research writings to the memory of my grandmother Mohammad Meera Umma, who taught me alphabets and numerical first and primarily responsible for my school and college studies. ------------------ (Anti-Islamic Strategic Coalition in Pakistan...

Anti-Islamic Strategic Coalition in Pakistan - By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

abdulruff | 02/07/2009

?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Anti-Islamic Strategic Coalition in Pakistan - By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal *** One really does not know what exactly has been going on in Jinnah’s Pakistan and one has to just believe how the global media narrate the stories to suit their goals...