Pakistan
Pakistanis challenge Clinton over drone attacks, US bullying
By Keith Jones, November 2, 2009
During a visit to Pakistan last week, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton encountered widespread popular anger over the US’s treatment of Pakistan—its support for a succession of military dictat...
Pakistani army offensive devastates tribal communities
By James Cogan, October 28, 2009
The military offensive into South Waziristan is having a devastating impact on the entire civilian population. Villages and towns are literally being bombed into rubble and tens of thousands of people...
Washington pushes Pakistan to the brink
By Keith Jones, October 23, 2009
Under heavy pressure from the Obama administration, Pakistan is now waging all-out war in South Waziristan.
Reports of indiscriminate bombing in South Waziristan
By James Cogan, October 21, 2009
Civilians seeking to escape are being forced to walk out of the war zone under constant threat of attack.
Pakistani military launches offensive into South Waziristan
By James Cogan, October 19, 2009
The Waziristan offensive under pressure from Washington is the latest chapter in the history of mercenary relations between the US and Pakistani governments.
Pakistan descends deeper into civil war
By Peter Symonds, October 16, 2009
As the Pakistani military is poised to launch a major offensive into the tribal agency of South Waziristan, Islamist militants carried out coordinated, high-profile attacks yesterday on police facilit...
Following attack on army headquarters
Pakistan vows to mount new military offensive
By Keith Jones, October 12, 2009
Pakistan’s army was forced to storm a section of its own national headquarters complex to put an end to a day-long assault and hostage-taking by unidentified anti-government insurgents.
UN agency bombed in Pakistan
By James Cogan, October 9, 2009
A Pakistani Taliban militant carried out a suicide bombing against the UN World Food Program headquarters in Islamabad on Monday, killing five UN workers.
US faces worsening military situation in Afghanistan
By James Cogan, October 3, 2009
The anti-occupation insurgency has spread from the southern provinces that border Pakistan to the capital Kabul and northern provinces.
Protests mount against Pakistan’s blasphemy laws
By Ali Ismail, October 1, 2009
Pakistan’s draconian “blasphemy” laws have come under renewed criticism since several Christians were killed this summer by a mob of Muslim fundamentalists in a pogrom-style attack.
Washington’s “good war”
Death squads, disappearances and torture in Pakistan
By Bill Van Auken, September 16, 2009
Reports from Pakistan’s Swat valley of the disappearance, torture and execution of civilians at the hands of the military death squads expose the reality of the so-called “good war” prosecuted b...
Obama’s AfPak war intensifies on both sides of border
By James Cogan, August 29, 2009
The number of US and NATO occupation troops killed in Afghanistan during 2009 reached 301 yesterday—already the highest annual toll of the eight-year war.
