Article Archive for September 2010
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Pakistan has blocked NATO supply trucks passing through its territory after atleast 3 Pakistani soldiers were killed when a NATO Helicopter targeted a security chekpost in Kurram Agency, near the Pak-Afghan border.
Pakistani government officials said …
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Editor’s note: Time and again, the western media keeps dragging Pakistan into matters that are speculative and most probably hoaxes. News of terrorism/plots of terrorism always tend to make headlines in any country. By …
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Editor’s note: In the recent past, the US and NATO coalition forces have been experiencing a surge in attacks over their bases and camps in different provinces of Afghanistan. Over 9 years have passed, yet the …
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“In the absence of immediate corrective measures, Pakistan will be constrained to consider response options. These incidents are a clear violation” and breach of the UN mandate under with Isaf operates.” said the Foreign Office …
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New Delhi wants to use the meeting to demoralize Kashmiris. A desperate India is cooking up a ruse, again.
By AHMED QURAISHI
Sunday, 26 September 2010.
WWW.PAKNATIONALISTS.COM
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—A joint photograph of Pakistan’s foreign minister with his …
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(Reuters) – Two NATO helicopters killed 30 insurgents on Pakistani soil after a rare manned pursuit across the border from Afghanistan, NATO forces said Sunday.
The two Apache attack helicopters from the NATO-led International Security Assistance …
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—British investigative journalist Yvonne Ridley, who first broke the story on Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s detention by US military in Afghanistan, has uncovered another scandal in her case. This time it’s the role of Pakistan’s …
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By Ahmed Quraishi
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Pakistan lost a friendly Afghanistan after 2001. Now it looks set to lose Kashmir eight years later.
You’d think the latest uprising in Kashmir against Indian occupation is …
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Petra Bartosiewicz, Harper’s Magazine
When I first read the U.S. government’s complaint against Aafia Siddiqui, who is awaiting trial in a Brooklyn detention center on charges of attempting to murder a group of U.S. Army officers …
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PKKH EXCLUSIVE
Naxalite separatist militants will be targetting foreign nationals and athletes in next week’s Commonwealth Games in New Delhi – according to TOP SECRET documents leaked to PKKH from New Delhi’s Central Bureau of Investigation, …
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NEW DELHI: India’s missile programme took a slight hit on Friday when the test-firing of the nuclear-capable Prithvi-II ballistic missile flopped at the integrated test range at Chandipur off the Orissa coast.
The missile, which has …
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On September 23 in federal court, US District Court Judge Richard Berman sentenced political prisoner Aafia Siddiqui to 86 years in prison. Outrage most accurately expresses this gross miscarriage of justice, compounding what she’s already …
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(Colonel Eugene Khrushchev’s last post in Afghanistan was in 2006 as First Secretary of the Russian Embassy in Kabul. Khrushchev serves today as Editor of Veterans Today and Military Affairs Correspondent of Russia Today)
(Question) In …
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—That realpolitik dominates global politics today, as has always been the case, has never been in doubt despite US propaganda post-bipolarity to the contrary. However, for international agencies to use the …
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Editor’s note: The expression “in deep shit” is usually used in slang english to describe the condition of being in deep trouble. In India however, the expression has found its literal meanings; read article below:
Andrew Buncombe | The …
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WASHINGTON: The Central Intelligence Agency runs an Afghan paramilitary force that hunts down Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants in covert operations in Pakistan, a US official said Wednesday.
Confirming an account in a new book by famed …
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Deepti Lamba
A couple of days ago a friend of mine spoke about finding human excrement all over her new two crore penthouse in an upcoming apartment complex. Her bathroom had been freely used as well. …
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AHMED QURAISHI
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Pakistan lost a friendly Afghanistan after 2001. Now it looks set to lose Kashmir eight years later.
You’d think the latest uprising in Kashmir against Indian occupation is a godsend for Pakistan, which has …
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Joe O’Connor
National Post
Monsoon rains, a dengue fever epidemic, car bombs, a collapsing pedestrian bridge, corrupt construction rackets, traffic Armageddon, indifferent politicians and a filthy athletes’ village that does not even have proper plumbing yet. Or …
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India is prepared to “discuss all outstanding issues” with Pakistan, including the issue of Jammu and Kashmir, to ensure stability in the South Asian region, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said in Boston.
“The issue of Jammu …
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By Mark Mardell
BBC News, Washington
President Barack Obama’s special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan believes the current strategy cannot work, according to a new book.
The claim, published in the New York Times, is from a book …
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NEW YORK: Pakistan on Tuesday urged the United States to pressure India over Kashmir, saying recent unrest showed that New Delhi and not Islamabad was to blame for trouble in the Himalayan territory.
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DATELINE SRINAGAR BY ARJIMAND HUSSAIN TALIB
“The Little” Brown Book of Anecdotes, edited by Clifton Fadiman (1985), has an interesting story about Basmarck – a former German Chancellor and a German liberal politician. It is said …
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Gilles Dorronsoro
The final brigades of the troop surge in Afghanistan arrived this month, signaling the height of American involvement in the country. Nearly half of the US troops in the country are deployed to Helmand …
