Pakistan
CIA drones target rescue workers, mourners
By Patrick Martin, February 7, 2012
An investigation by British and Pakistani journalists found that the CIA followed up drone missile strikes with further attacks that targeted rescue workers and funerals.
Obama publicly embraces drone killings
By Bill Van Auken, February 2, 2012
President Obama is deliberately embracing and thereby seeking to justify and normalize the criminal actions of the US military-intelligence apparatus.
Pakistan’s prime minister kowtows to military in bid to end political crisis
By Keith Jones, February 1, 2012
Pakistan’s prime minister made a humiliating climb down last week, retracting, after weeks of refusing to do so, his accusation that the Army chief and the head of Pakistan’s principal intelligence agency had acted illegally and unconstitutionally.
Pakistani elite preparing to restore full cooperation with US in Afghan War
By Ali Ismail, January 27, 2012
Despite the tough-sounding rhetoric from Islamabad and Rawalpindi over the NATO air strikes that killed two dozen Pakistani soldiers, Pakistan’s civilian and military elite is moving to restore full and open cooperation with Washington.
Pakistan faces creeping military coup
By Ali Ismail and Keith Jones, January 13, 2012
Relations between Pakistan’s civilian government and its military establishment have deteriorated sharply, leading to press speculation that the military is preparing to oust President Zardari and the PPP-led government.
US resumes drone missile attacks in Pakistan
By Keith Jones, January 12, 2012
The US carried out a drone missile strike in Pakistan Tuesday, killing four people. It was the first drone attack since US forces killed 26 Pakistani soldiers in late November.
Mass opposition rally heightens political crisis in Pakistan
By Peter Symonds, December 28, 2011
Backed by sections of the ruling elite, Imran Khan is functioning as a useful safety valve to defuse mounting popular anger over the US-led Afpak war.
US admits partial blame in deaths of Pakistani soldiers, but defends airstrikes
By Keith Jones, December 24, 2011
The US military has grudgingly conceded its mistakes played a role in the November 25-26 NATO attack that killed 26 Pakistani soldiers. But the US continues to defend both the violation of Pakistani sovereignty and the deadly airstrikes themselves.
Pakistan continues to halt the supply of US forces occupying Afghanistan
By Sampath Perera, December 21, 2011
Pakistan is continuing to blockade shipments of fuel, food and other supplies to the US-NATO forces occupying Afghanistan in protest of a Nov. 26 US attack that killed more than two dozen Pakistani troops.
Pakistani elite plunged into crisis over reputed secret offer to US
By Ali Ismail, December 3, 2011
Pakistan’s government has been shaken by allegations that its former ambassador to the US composed a memo pledging compliance with Washington’s demands, in return for help preventing a military coup.
Pakistan protests mount as Obama rejects apology for US strike
By Bill Van Auken, December 2, 2011
Thousands of students in Lahore and other cities staged protests as it was reported that President Obama has rejected a proposal that he issue a formal apology for the US raid that killed two dozen Pakistani soldiers.
Cricketer Imran Khan’s party: A dead end for opposition to US war in Pakistan
By Sampath Perera, December 1, 2011
The major Pakistani parties’ record of subservience to the US “war on terror” has left Imran Khan’s conservative-nationalist PTI party able to posture as the only representative of opposition to the war.
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