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FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Syed Saleem Shahzad July 23, 2008 Courtesy Of Asia Times Online KARACHI - Along with the Taliban's ongoing progress in Afghanistan, al-Qaeda has strengthened its position in Pakistan's tribal areas, reinforced by a steady stream of new recruits from other countries and an expansion of its networks among local tribes. The situation reached a point where the Pakistani security agencies,...
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BrothersJudd Blog (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Plot to divide the Taliban foiled (Syed Saleem Shahzad, 7/22/08, Asia Times) The story of the current infighting in the Taliban starts in the labyrinth of the regional war theater with the emergence of one Aminullah Peshawari, a well-respected Salafi academic whose influence spread from the Pakistani city of Peshawar in North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), the tribal areas of Mohmand...
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baithak (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Saleem Shahzad whom you can read at Asia Times usually contributes well researched articles with facts cross checked. He also tries to be non-partison. Here are some sobering thoughts on the lawyer's march and the taliban waitng in the wings to unleash their agenda: KARACHI - Pakistan is engulfed in its own version of the Long March, and just as that pivotal event changed the face of...
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西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Syed Saleem Shahzad reports that "the war in Afghanistan will soon spill over into Pakistani territory" — Militants ready for a war without borders . Subscribe in a reader
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Asia Times (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
Coalition forces expect it. Al-Qaeda and the Pakistan Taliban expect it: the war in Afghanistan will soon spill over into Pakistani territory. Washington is banking on Islamabad helping out from its side, but the militants have other ideas. - Syed Saleem Shahzad (Jul 16, '08)
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baithak (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
I have been linking here in depth investigative reports by Syed Saleem Shahzad, Asia Times Online's Pakistan Bureau Chief. The Daily News Editorial Page Editor Omar Qureishi, writing under his by line in the News on Sunday, [ A suicide bombing and Haji Namdar] quotes from this generic link for The Long War Journal . In a professional journalistic sense, saying " Just read on the Long...
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World Affairs Board (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Quote: Taliban bitten by a snake in the grass By Syed Saleem Shahzad KARACHI - The Taliban and their al-Qaeda associates, in what they considered a master stroke, this year started to target the Western alliance's supply lines that run through Pakistan into Afghanistan. Their focal point was Khyber Agency, in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas, a key transit point for as much...
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Islamization Watch (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
What we are fighting for!! What a load of #$%&!! Does this sound like an ally? Karachi, 23 June (AKI) - (by Syed Saleem Shahzad) - An Afghan journalist accused of distributing an unacceptable translation of the Koran should be put to death, says former Prime Minister Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai. Former journalist Ghows Zalmay, who was also the spokesman for Afghanistan's Attorney-General, was...
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Asia Times (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization's response to the consolidation of the Taliban in Kandahar and Khost provinces in Afghanistan is to squeeze the supply lines of the militants across the border in Pakistan. Islamabad, in the face of a startling show of strength by the Taliban this week, is reluctant to play along. - Syed Saleem Shahzad (Jun 27, '08)
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Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
Pakistan calls the shots Washington's grand plan for a compliant Pakistani government and military is in tatters, and its carrot of economic aid may no longer be enough to secure Islamabad's cooperation in the "war on terror" against the Taliban, with dire consequences. - Syed Saleem Shahzad (Jun 24, '08) http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JF25Df01.html
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Dhimmi Watch (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
Sharia Alert: Afghanistan: Death penalty call for man who spread Koran translation, by Syed Saleem Shahzad in AKI, June 23: Islam of course carries the death penalty for any number of transgressions, but one wonders if Muslims ever ask themselves...
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Infidels Are Cool (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Apparently diverting from the literal translation of the quran is forbidden. Unless you are practicing al-takkeya and trying to confuse and lull infidels into a sense of “understanding” islam as bring peaceful… Afghanistan: Death penalty call for man who spread Koran translation Karachi, 23 June (AKI) - (by Syed Saleem Shahzad) - An Afghan journalist accused [...]
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Asia Times (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
Washington's grand plan for a compliant Pakistani government and military is in tatters, and its carrot of economic aid may no longer be enough to secure Islamabad's cooperation in the "war on terror" against the Taliban, with dire consequences. - Syed Saleem Shahzad (Jun 24, '08)
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Afghanistan National Alliance (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
24.06.08 - Jun 25, 2008 By Syed Saleem Shahzad KARACHI - Since signing on for the "war on terror" in 2001, Pakistan has... 13.06.08 - Washington Post:By Al Kamen, Friday, June 13, 2008; A21 Everyone who's anyone is gathering in Paris these days for the... 13.06.08 - The Times Richard Beeston, Foreign EditorJune 11, 2008 Hamid Karzai will have to mobilise all his considerable charms...
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Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
*Jun 20, 2008 * By Syed Saleem Shahzad KARACHI - The battle for Kandahar, the city in the southern province of the same name where the Taliban rose to power in the 1990s before taking control of ...
