Karachi

SNGPL slip up, draws help Karachi Blues

Cricinfo (Free subscription) | yesterday

A round-up of the fourth day's action of the eighth round of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy 2009-10

Rasool Bux Palejo in Long March at Karachi, Sindh

Indus Asia Online Journal (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

Courtesy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkW5k-j_0To

Videos and article about presence of Blackwater in Pakistan

Understanding Each Other, Diversity and Dissent (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan By Jeremy Scahill , November 23, 2009 At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, "snatch and grabs"...

• Sources: Blackwater's Running A Secret War in Pakistan - So Classified, Even Administration Doesn't Know - Crooks and Liars
• Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan - 3quarksdaily
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Damning human rights report reveals evidence of UK complicity in torture

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

'The British know well we do not garland or honour terror suspects', says Pakistan intelligence officer The latest evidence that British government officials have been complicit in the torture of British citizens during the so-called "war on terror" has come from the most compelling of sources: the torturers themselves. For more than a year, researchers from Human Rights Watch have been...

Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan

Truth Out (Free subscription) | yesterday

At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, "snatch and grabs" of high-value targets and other sensitive action inside and outside Pakistan,...

Obama Watch

Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | yesterday

"At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, "snatch and grabs" of high-value targets and other sensitive action inside and outside...

Tawaf e Kaaba Explained by Dr. Jamal Badawi

Pakistan Travel Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

1.Circumambulation of the Ka’aba( Tawaf): Tawaf is one of the Islamic rituals of pilgrimage. During the Hajj and Umrah, muslims are to circumambulate the Ka’bah (the holiest building in Mecca) seven times, in an anti-clockwise direction. The circling is believed to demonstrate the unity of the believers in the worship of the One God, as they [...] Related posts: Urs Of Abdullah Shah Ghazi...

So which is it?

Brilliant at Breakfast (Free subscription) | yesterday

Is the Obama Administration continuing some of the worst aspects of George W. Bush's war against the Muslim world, or is there a paramilitary force operating independently about which the Administration knows nothing and does not control? Which of those options is more horrifying? And does it matter, when it's true, and when the paramilitary force is Blackwater/Xe, the company run by one of the worst...

Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan

ShoutWire.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

Inside sources reveal that the firm works with the US military in Karachi to plan targeted assassinations and drone bombings, among other sensitive counterterrorism operations. Bigger than most expected, exactly what many expected.

Historical Sindh Long March of 1000 kilometers

Indus Asia Online Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday

By: Raja Jee On 22nd November, Quomi Awami Long March led by Rasool Bux Palijo has reached Karachi, and thousands of Man, women and children marched from Mazar-e-Quid to Imprest Market, the historical place from where Sindh played his role in 1857 war against British. Main leadership of Muslim League (N), Jamait-e-Islami, Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party, [...]

Request to honorable court of Pakistan by Chairman Sindh Development Foundation

Indus Asia Online Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday

From: Ali Akbar To: fiaz soomro ali ; fiaz soomro ; momin bullo1 ; asfaque memon ; y memon ; smshah@alum.mit.edu; soomro.shamsuddin@hotmail.com; Nawab Saeed ; nawab saeed ; NAWAB SAEED ; observer@pakobserver.net Sent: Tue, November 24, 2009 1:37:02 PM Subject: WHERE IS CHIEF JUSTICE WHERE IS CHIEF JUSTICE Very serious legal matters are being discussed in different TV channels of Pakistan calling retired...

More time for Pak players

The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Karachi: The Indian Premier League (IPL) has allowed an extension to Pakistani players to submit their NOCs for the lucrative league, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt said Tuesday.

• NOC deadline for Pak players extended - Hindu

ICL owes Sami

Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday

Karachi: Paceman Mohammad Sami says he is keen to play for Pakistan again but he would not approach the Cricket Board unless he gets his dues cleared by the unofficial Indian Cricket League. Sami, who has been in good form for the ...

Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan

CommonDreams.org Headlines (Free subscription) | yesterday

by Jeremy Scahill At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, "snatch and grabs" of high-value targets and other sensitive action inside...

Filing A Gap in Pakistan’s School System

The Islamic Workplace (Free subscription) | yesterday

Amna Nawaz, NBC News KARACHI, Pakistan – No one is exactly sure how old Taimur Muslim is. A soft-spoken, lanky lad with a chipped front tooth and eyes undecided between green and gray, Taimur told me that school is his favorite part of the day, that he hates having to watch over his younger siblings at home, [...]