Feb
06

Pakistan – School bombing exposes Obama s secret war inside Pakistan (Times Online)

School bombing exposes Obama s secret war inside Pakistan (Times Online)
THE discovery of three American soldiers among the dead in a suicide bombing at the opening of a girls school in the northwestern Pakistan town of Dir last week reignited the fears of many Pakistanis that Washington was set on invading their country.

11 killed in blast in Pakistan’s Karachi (People’s Daily)
At least 11 people were killed and dozens of others were injured when a powerful explosion hit a mini bus in south Pakistan’s Karachi city Friday, local TV channel reported. &$ &$Pakistani volunteers search a damaged bus after a bomb attack in Karachi on February 5. A motorcycle rigged with explosives rammed into a bus carrying Shiites in Karachi Friday, killing 11 people and wounding 40 in the …

Thousand attend funeral of bomb victims in Pakistan (EARTHtimes.org)
Islamabad (dap) – Thousands of people on Saturday attended the funeral of the victims killed in two bombings a day ago in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi. The death toll from the attacks has now risen to 33. …

Pakistan Parliament under terror alert (Press TV)
Pakistan’s intelligence agencies have reasons to believe that terrorists are planning to carry out a massive attack on the country’s Parliament House in Islamabad.

Taliban blow up girls’ school in NW Pakistan (AFP via Yahoo! Canada News)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) – Taliban militants blew up a girls’ school on Saturday in northwest Pakistan, the latest in a wave of attacks by Islamist extremists targeting educational institutions, a minister said.

Pakistan says improving ties with India can positively affect Afghanistan (People’s Daily)
Revival of talks and solution of Kashmir issue, water dispute and others between India and Pakistan would contribute to the situation in Afghanistan and war against terrorism, Pakistani Foreign Office’s spokesman Abdul Basit said Friday. Basit told Xinhua that “Normalcy in Pak-India relations would affect the whole region.” However, he said, contents of talks between India and Pakistan are not …

NUML incident In Pakistan, the followed curriculum with its jingoistic ideology, leaves little room for the concept of … (Dawn)
PESHAWAR: NWFP Senior Minister Bashir Bilour admitted on Saturday that the US private security company Blackwater is present in Pakistan and is operating in the NWFP as well as other areas.

India offer of talks aims to break deadlock over ties with Pakistan (People’s Daily)
One day after India proposed to Pakistan for the resumption of talks suspended after Mumbai attacks, words were doing the rounds Friday here in media and among political experts that the move aims to break the deadlock over ties with Pakistan. Indian media reported Thursday, quoting official sources, that New Delhi proposed foreign secretary-level talks to Islamabad on all outstanding issues …

With Taliban Leader Reported Dead, New Pakistani Figure Emerges (New York Times)
News that the leader of the Pakistani Taliban was most likely killed by an American drone strike, while not yet confirmed, may already be setting off jockeying among his potential successors.

Thousands attend funeral of bomb victims in Pakistan (New Kerala)
Islamabad, Feb 6 : Thousands of people Saturday attended the funeral of the victims killed in two bombings in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi.