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  • REPRESSION IN KASHMIR OCCUPIED
    2 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Yasin booked under PSA, shifted to Jammu jail
    Protests against Malik, Sumji’s detention
    By Amin Masoodi
    Source : "Kashmir Times"
    SRINAGAR, Nov 1:
    Continuing its crackdown against the separatist leaders, authorities today slapped Public Safety Act (PSA) on chairman JKLF, Mohammad Yasin Malik and care taker chairman, Hurriyat Conference (G), Ghulam Nabi Sumji and sent them to Amphala jail in Jammu.
    Following the booking of Malik and Sumji under PSA, hundreds of people in Maisuma (…)

  • Pakistan : World sees US raids as disastrous
    2 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Source : "The Dawn"
    By Ahmed Hassan
    ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: The winner of the US presidential election would be “under compulsion” to maintain good relations with Pakistan, the prime minister said on Saturday, in an attempt to ease apprehensions amidst a torrent of acerbic remarks made during the campaign.
    Addressing a news conference at the Prime Minister’s House upon return from Turkey, Mr Gilani said that the whole world was sympathetic to Pakistan for its being a victim of terrorism, and (…)

  • Bangladesh denies involvement in Assam blasts
    2 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dhaka (Press Trust of India): Dismissing as "baseless" reports about suspected involvement of the Bangladesh-based outlawed HuJI militant group in the deadly Assam blasts, the government here has said it would never allow this country’s territory to be used to aid attacks on other nations.
    "The allegations are totally baseless and, as in the past, ... (there is) no evidence to back them up," the Bangladesh Foreign Office said in a statement issued on Saturday night.
    It said Bangladesh (…)

  • UK commander in Afghanistan resigns
    2 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Source : "Pakistan Observer"
    London—The commander of British special forces in Afghanistan, who has in the past expressed concerns about military equipment failures, has resigned, the Ministry of Defense said Saturday.
    A ministry spokesman said Major Sebastian Morley, head of the Britain’s SAS forces in Afghanistan, cited only personal reasons when he resigned Friday.
    The British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, however, reported Saturday that Morley “resigned in disgust” because (…)

  • Now Bush raids Pakistan; What’s else ?
    30 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Afghan war is 7 years old...
    A WALL Commentary
    The Pentagon calls it “Operation Enduring Freedom”: It is the undeclared war on the people of Afghanistan that Bush Junior started on October 7, 2001. It could well be called “Operation Enduring War.”
    AFGHANISTAN — The Russians could not conquer it. Do we really expect to do so?
    Both major presidential candidates support it, advocate intensifying it, and vow to achieve “victory,” whatever that is. And notwithstanding widespread (…)

  • US drone in Pakistan : And yet again !
    30 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Anwar Jalal from Pakistan
    Source : "Pakistan Observer"
    Peshawar :
    Once again US drone targeted a village of Waziristan killing about 20 people. Once again its official would claim that those killed were all terrorists. In case the killed ones are innocent children and women and portraying them as terrorists would seem to be too ridiculous then US official would once again just uttered the single and simple word “Sorry.
    While Pakistani Government high ups, on their part would once (…)

  • India : Israeli Army Chief’s secret Kashmir Yatra
    30 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Sultan M Hali
    Source: "Pakistan Observer"
    Israel’s Army chief, Major General Avi Mizrahi secretly visited Kashmir last week (September 2008).
    Indian authorities remained tight-lipped about the visit, neither confirming nor denying, however, the lid was blown by Iranian News Agency, IRNA.
    Earlier, Major General Avi Mizrahi, had arrived in New Delhi on September 9, on a three-day visit, where he met his counterpart Indian Army chief General Deepak Kapoor and also minister of state (…)

  • Kashmir Azad Zindabad : Anniversary of Hope
    28 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    61st Year of occupation of a sovereign nation of Jammu and Kashmir
    Source : Kashmir Watch, October 27
    By Mushtaq A. Jeelani
    Today, Kashmiri-Canadians from coast-to-coast and Kashmiris all across the world are observing 61st anniversary of Indian invasion of Kashmir as a “Black-Day.”
    It was exactly 61 years ago, on October 27th, 1947, when the Indian troops invaded and occupied a sovereign nation of Jammu and Kashmir by deception and fraud.
    The government of India proclaimed that (…)

  • US missile strike targets village in Pakistan
    27 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Peter Walker and agencies
    Source : The Guardian Monday October 27 2008
    A missile believed to have been fired from a US drone aircraft has killed up to 20 people in Pakistan’s South Waziristan border region, Pakistani officials said today.
    The strike targeted a house belonging to an aide to a local Taliban leader in what is thought to be a stronghold of Taliban and al-Qaida forces.
    Up to 20 bodies were found at the scene, intelligence officials, quoting local sources, said. (…)

  • Bush’s Legacy: War & the Fall of America
    26 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush’s Legacy: War & the Fall of America
    © BY ERIC WALBERG
    As the White House lame duck’s reign drags on, and political wars on the home front gather steam, it is pertinent we assess the legacy US President George W. Bush leaves us.
    Part 1 – Inferno
    Where to begin? The hell of Iraq and Afghanistan put everything else in the shadows. Those monstrous crimes will dominate the world’s agenda for decades to come. I have chosen here to deal with only a few major elements of the Bush (…)