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Fear and shame of Gojra

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Times (Pakistan) - Aug. 03 (Editorial) - As usual a “banned organisation” — Federal Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti says it was Sipah Sahaba — came in from outside the town and took over and used acid and petrol bombs to destroy property and kill Christian women and children, while the local government and police simply did nothing. The federal government has taken serious note by sending in the Rangers and the Punjab government has ordered an inquiry into what really transpired. Compensation for the destroyed property has already been announced.

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‘No quick fixes’ to Pak-Afghan problems: Ghani

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Times (Pakistan) - Jul. 29 (News Report) - Pakistan has achieved significant success in the Tribal Areas, but there are “no quick fixes” to the Pak-Afghan problems that had developed over 30 years, NWFP Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani said on Tuesday.

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Pak journalist in US jail on terrorism charges

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Times (Pakistan) - By Khalid Hasan - Jul. 28 (News Report) - Nayyar Zaidi, the well-known US-based Pakistani-American journalist, who has been a citizen of the United States for more than 30 years has been in US custody for the last four months on what are said to be terrorism-related charges.

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America's failed foreign policy

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:00:36 -0800

Daily Times (Pakistan) - By Jeffrey Sachs - Nov. 26 (Opinion) - US foreign policy is so ineffective because it has been taken over by the military. Even postwar reconstruction in Iraq under the US-led occupation was run by the Pentagon rather than by civilian agencies. The US military budget dominates everything about foreign policy. Adding up the budgets of the Pentagon, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the Department of Homeland Security, nuclear weapons programs, and the State Department's military assistance operations, the US will spend around $800 billion this year on security, compared with less than $20 billion for economic development.

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Pakistan: Martial law not acceptable: US

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:14:45 -0700

Daily Times (Pakistan) - By Khalid Hasan - Nov. 03 (News Report) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday that the United States opposed any move by President General Pervez Musharraf to impose martial law and Pakistan must proceed with elections next year. Rice has urged Gen Musharraf to go ahead with the elections planned for January. "I am not going to get into the details of our conversations but I think it would be quite obvious that the US would not be supportive of extra-constitutional means," she said on a trip to Turkey. "Pakistan needs to prepare for and hold free and fair elections," she said, adding that she had not spoken to General Musharraf recently.

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Hamas: weapon of those without hope

Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:18:57 -0700

Daily Times (Pakistan) - By Khaled Ahmed - Aug. 12 (Review) - In 2006, after Hamas had won the elections in Palestine, the US cut off its diplomatic relations with the newly formed government and Israel declared war on it, kidnapping its ministers although seven out of the cabinet of 24 were PhDs from the US. In the days that followed the Palestinians were engulfed by an internecine conflict in which PLO President Mahmoud Abbas's men fought street battles with the Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh's men, thus giving reprieve to Israel for the umpteenth time in its war with the Arabs.

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US Congress Jolts Musharraf

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:57:46 -0700

Daily Times (Pakistan) - Jul. 30 (Editorial) - There is much disturbance in the dovecotes of Islamabad after the announcement that the White House has agreed to sign into law a counter-terrorism bill passed by the US Congress that also proposes new conditionalities on US assistance to Pakistan. Already, some retired Pakistani diplomats have appeared on TV channels to advise the government to "break off" with the United States and go its own way, which means listening to the "voice of the people" condemning the US as a "crusader against Islam". The parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee, too, has welcomed a similar briefing from an ex-foreign secretary.

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Bush okayed 'soft revolution' in Iran

Sun, 27 May 2007 09:11:03 -0700

Daily Times (Pakistan) - May. 27 (Special Report) - The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) received American presidential approval for a covert operation in Iran aimed at destabilizing the Islamic Republic by "non-lethal" means, The Jerusalem Post quoted a report by ABC news on Saturday. According to the report, the plan includes several non-military measures by which the US could deeply harm the Iranian economy through global measures while simultaneously undermining the regime on a local political level by distributing propaganda and building on an already existing lack of support for the regime among Iranians. Global economic measures would include manipulating currencies and making large-scale monetary transactions which would damage Iranian companies. A commentator pointed "ferment among the students and the intellectuals" of Iran as fertile ground from which propaganda and encouragement towards the local population to overthrow the government could bear fruit.

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US needs to change on Iraq for talks to bear fruit: Iran

Sun, 27 May 2007 20:56:11 -0700

Daily Times (Pakistan) - May. 27 (News Report) - Iran said on Saturday that upcoming talks with the United States on Iraq could bear fruit if Washington changes its "wrong" policies in Iraq. "If the United States acknowledges its past wrong policies in Iraq and decides to change those policies ... one could be optimistic about these talks and their future," Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told reporters. "The Islamic republic is interested in successful dialogue to help the Iraqi people and government within this framework," he said. Iran's envoy in Baghdad, Hassan Kazemi, will meet US Ambassador Ryan Crocker on Monday in the highest-level official bilateral talks between the two sides since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

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Countrywide protests for CJP

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:46:30 -0700

Daily Times (Pakistan) - Apr. 14 (News Report) - There was a significant increase in the number of people protesting against the suspension of Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry here on Friday as several small parties joined the protest campaign of lawyers and opposition parties in front of the Supreme Court. Lawyers and opposition parties also held protests and demonstrations across the country as the CJP attended the fourth hearing of a presidential reference against him before the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC).

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VIEW: Militant Islam and writ of State-- Farhat Taj

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:11:35 -0800

Daily Times (Pakistan) - By Farhat Taj - Feb. 24 (Opinion) - f the state cannot enforce its writ in Islamabad, forget about FATA. The people of FATA are resisting the Islamists in whatever way possible. For example, some brave people of Bajaur agency are defying their 'ban' on shaving men's beards, according to a report in this newspaper. Seemingly, the Islamists in Tank (a settled district) are threatening the local businessmen to stop the sale and purchase of women's clothes. The business is still going on despite the state's inability to extend any protection to the buyers and sellers of women's clothes in the area. In Dara Adam Khel, girl-schools have been attacked. Many brave parents of the area continue to send their daughters to schools. It is utterly shameful that instead of providing security to girls' schools in Dara Adam Khel, the state of Pakistan's appointed administrator for the area, the political agent, has reportedly asked the principals to make all girls wear a tent-like all-encompassing burqa. This is what the militants in the area had demanded. One can point out hundreds of small yet important examples of how people have been resisting the Islamic militants among them in the face of state's failure to protect them. There are also hundreds of examples to show that the writ of the state has perished in the face of demands by armed Islamists. After all, why is the state is not dealing with them according to the law of the land? Cynics in Pakistan have a point when they refer to some kind of mullah-military alliance at the state level in Pakistan.

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