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The real Obama scandal: fighting illegal wars in Libya and Pakistan

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Michael Cohen - May. 16 (Comment) - The AP, IRS and Benghazi controversies are political sideshows. Obama's use of illegal force abroad is true concern Washington DC appears to have reached peak hysteria this week. The confluence of not one, not two, but three potential scandals involving the White House has given practically every Beltway scribe a case of the vapors as they don their Woodward/Bernstein capes and doggedly uncover the truth behind the Obama Administration's lies. What's missing, however, is actual evidence of wrongdoing. The IRS scandal is certainly the most politically toxic, but it remains unclear that anyone from the Obama Administration knew what the IRS was doing or that the agency was even targeting conservative groups for partisan political reasons. The Department of Justice's subpoena of phone records from the Associated Press is far more troubling because it offers a glimpse into the prosecutorial zeal that has defined DoJ's investigation of leaks from within the Obama Administration. Finally, there ...

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Nawaz Sharif poised to return as Pakistan PM

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

aljazeera.com - May. 12 (Breaking News) - Nawaz Sharif, winner of the Pakistani elections, is holding talks to form a new government, with fixing the economy and tackling the armed insurgency likely to be his two biggest challenges. Partial, unofficial results from Saturday's elections represented a comeback for Sharif, 63, who was deposed as prime minister in a 1999 military coup and spent years in jail and exile.

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On Eve of Pivotal Election, Pakistan Orders Times Reporter to Leave

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Rick Gladstone - May. 11 (News Report) - The New York Times has protested an election-eve expulsion order for Declan Walsh, a veteran correspondent.

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Pakistan's Tyrannical Majority

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Manan Ahmed Asif - May. 11 (Opinion) - Op-Ed Contributor: Pakistan’s Tyrannical Majority

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Of elections and extremes: Pakistan's Pamela Anderson takes on a mullah

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - May. 11 (News Analysis) - The parliamentary race between pinup-film-star-turned-politician Musarrat Shaheen and a man described as a powerful, Taliban-tied cleric highlights the dual nature of Pakistan. ...

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Son of Former Pakistani Leader Is Abducted as Campaign Nears End

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Salman Masood - May. 09 (News Report) - Yousuf Raza Gilani’s Son Kidnapped in Pakistan

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Has Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif changed his stripes?

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Richard Leiby - May. 09 (Opinion) - What kind of prime minister was Nawaz Sharif, who twice held Pakistan’s premiership in the 1990s, defied Washington and tested a nuclear bomb, and is now touted as likely to win a third term in Saturday’s national ...

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Taliban Bomb Kills at Least 20 at a Pakistan Political Rally

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Declan Walsh, Ismail Khan - May. 07 (News Report) - Taliban Bomb Kills at Least 20 at a Pakistan Political Rally

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Pakistan's women face battle for the right to vote

Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Tracy McVeigh - May. 04 (News) - Female activists plan to deploy protection teams to polling stations in forthcoming elections Fears over the safety of women voting in next week's elections in Pakistan are rising after letters have been circulated in regions of the country warning men not to allow their wives, sisters and daughters out to the polling stations. In an increasingly fraught and violent runup to the 11 May vote, leaflets are appearing stating that it is "un-Islamic" for women to participate in democracy. Now a group of young female activists are planning to challenge what they call the government's inability to protect women's right to vote by organising their own protection teams at individual polling stations in tense and volatile Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, one of the four provinces of Pakistan, formerly known as the North West Frontier Province. In what is being called Pakistan's youth election – almost a third of the electorate is between 18 and 29 – a growing tide of young women are determined to overcome ...

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Are Indian-Pakistani relations in jeopardy after prisoner death?

Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - May. 04 (News Analysis) - A Pakistani prisoner in an Indian jail was attacked and seriously injured in a tit-for-tat assault one day after the death of an Indian man in a Pakistani prison. ...

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How the CIA's Bags of Cash Undermined the Afghanistan War

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Spencer Ackerman - Apr. 29 (Opinion) - It’s the most understandable, intuitive and tempting mistake in geopolitics: secretly pay a powerful foreigner to do what you want. The CIA, like many spy agencies, has done it throughout its history, and now we know it helped undermine the America’s longest war.

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The Blowback from Interventionism

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Melvin A. Goodman - Apr. 27 (News Analysis) - American foreign policy remains locked in a cycle of violence, with the Obama administration failing to escape the neocon insistence on a swaggering “tough-guy-ism” abroad. That reliance on military intervention also comes with the cost of “blowback,

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India Considers Banning Pornography as Reported Sexual Assault Rises

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Neha Thirani Bagri, Heather Timmons - Apr. 22 (Opinion) - India Ink: India Considers Banning Pornography as Reported Sexual Assault Rises

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Facing Arrest, Musharraf Flees Courtroom in Pakistan

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Declan Walsh - Apr. 18 (News Report) - Facing Arrest, Musharraf Flees Courtroom in Pakistan

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Court orders Musharraf's arrest

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Apr. 18 (News Report) - A Pakistani court orders the arrest of ex-military ruler Pervez Musharraf over moves to place judges under house arrest in March 2007.

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Massive quake in Iran kills dozens; ‘complicated emergency situation’ faces aid groups

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Toronto Star - Apr. 16 (News Report) - TEHRAN, IRAN—A major earthquake described as the strongest to hit Iran in more than half a century flattened homes and offices Tuesday on both sides of the Iran-Pakistan border, killing at least 46 people in the sparsely populated region and swaying skyscrapers and buildings as far away as New Delhi. Iran’s Red Crescent said it was facing a “complicated emergency situation” in the area with villages scattered over desolate hills and valleys. Iran’s semiofficial ISNA news agency and others described the quake, measured at least magnitude 7.7, as the strongest quake in more than 50 years. State-run Press TV called it a “massive quake.” It also was the second deadly quake to hit Iran in less than a week after a magnitude 6.1 temblor struck near Bushehr, on Iran’s Persian Gulf coast, killing at least 37 people and raising calls for greater international safety inspectors at Iran’s lone nuclear reactor nearby. Press TV said the ...

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Huge 7.8-magnitude earthquake hits near Iran-Pakistan border

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Jason Burke, Saeed Kamali Dehghan - Apr. 16 (News Report) - Tremors were felt across the Gulf region, across Pakistan and well into north-west India on Tuesday, when the quake struck at 10.44am GMT. The US Geological Survey said it had measured the earthquake at magnitude 7.8 and gave its location at 50 miles east-south-east of the town of Khash, in Iran. It is the biggest earthquake to strike Iran for 40 years. Though the area is largely desert and mountains, there are several major cities, including Zahedan, only 125 miles away, which has more than half a million inhabitants. One Iranian told The Guardian that the small town of Hiduj, which had a population of around 1,000 according ...

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Iran struck by magnitude 7.8 quake

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Apr. 16 (News Report) - An earthquake of magnitude 7.8 has struck south-east Iran, near the Pakistani border, with tremors felt across the region.

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Intelligence Documents Suggest Obama Administration Lied About Who Drones Kill

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Steven Hseih - Apr. 10 (News Report) - The documents also provide a glimpse into the Obama administration’s seemingly thin rationale for executing some attacks. Contrary to claims of the CIA program’s precision and “ exceedingly rare” civilian casualties, the intelligence reports proves that “drone operators weren’t always certain who they were killing.” McClatchy’s report notes that several drone victims “died in what appeared to be signature strikes,” or attacks carried out based on a “signature” pattern of behavior, rather than a known identity.

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Rise of the Predators: Origins of C.I.A.’s Not-So-Secret Drone War in Pakistan

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By MARK MAZZETTI - Apr. 06 (Comment) - Kamran Wazir/Reuters Nek Muhammad, center, was a Pashtun militant who was killed in 2004, in the first C.I.A. drone strike in Pakistan. Nek Muhammad knew he was being followed. On a hot day in June 2004, the Pashtun tribesman was lounging inside a mud co

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Nuclear Race on the Subcontinent

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By MICHAEL KREPON - Apr. 04 (Opinion) - India and Pakistan can defuse their nuclear competition by improving relations and accelerating trade.

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Pakistan’s Precipitous Decline

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By WILLIAM MILAM - Apr. 04 (Opinion) - Nuclear arms, sectarian violence, a too-powerful military and dysfunctional institutions make for a dangerous mix.

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How Will India Pay for the Perks in the New Budget?

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Akanksha Awal - Mar. 01 (Opinion) - Additional spending adds up to $42 billion.

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The Truthers of Pakistan

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Huma Yusuf - Mar. 01 (Opinion) - Conspiracy theories persist in Pakistan because they often turn out to be true, author argues.

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Pakistan's rulers under fire after Quetta bombing

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - Feb. 17 (News Report) - Attack on market by Sunni extremists deepens Shia suspicions that intelligence forces are turning a blind eye to bloodshed Pakistan's government, which is gearing up for elections expected within months, faced growing anger on Sunday for failing to deliver stability after a sectarian bombing in the city of Quetta killed 81 people. Leaders have done little to contain hardline Sunni Muslim groups, which have stepped up their campaign of bombings and assassinations of minority Shias. On Saturday, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), regarded as the most ruthless Sunni sectarian group, claimed responsibility for the attack in Quetta, which deepened suspicions among Shias that Pakistan's intelligence agencies were turning a blind eye to the bloodshed or even supporting extremists. "The terrorist attack on the Hazara [an ethnic minority almost entirely belonging to the Shia sect of Islam] community in Quetta is a failure of the intelligence and security forces," Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi, governor ...

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