Pakistan
US steps up plans for military intervention in Pakistan
By Bill Van Auken, November 20, 2007
In the midst of public statements of support for “democracy” in Pakistan and the recent visit to Islamabad by the American envoy John Negroponte, Washington is quietly preparing for a step...
US envoy lauds Pakistani dictator’s “democratic vision”
By Keith Jones, November 19, 2007
US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte ended a three-day visit to Pakistan, which has been under de facto martial law for the past two weeks, with a press conference Sunday at which he reiterate...
Pakistani regime continues crackdown on opponents
By Peter Symonds, November 15, 2007
Arrests in Pakistan continued yesterday with the detention of opposition leader Imran Khan in the eastern city of Lahore while attending a student protest. Khan, who had been in hiding since military ...
More in regret than anger
Bhutto calls for Pakistan’s US-backed military strongman to resign
By Keith Jones, November 14, 2007
Pakistan People’s Party life chairperson Benazir Bhutto has been compelled to ratchet up her condemnations of Pakistan’s US-supported military strongman, General Pervez Musharraf, and his ...
Bush reaffirms support for Musharraf as Pakistani dictator intensifies military repression
By Joe Kay, November 12, 2007
President George Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reaffirmed US support for Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf over the weekend, even as the general stepped up the mass repression h...
With tacit US support, Pakistan’s military regime intensifies repression
By Keith Jones, November 10, 2007
Pakistan’s US-backed military regime mounted a massive police operation Friday to stamp out a Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) rally called to protest the imposition of martial law.
Deepening political crisis in Pakistan
By Peter Symonds, November 9, 2007
The political crisis in Pakistan continues to mount as supporters of Benazir Bhutto’s Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) prepare to hold a rally today in the garrison town of Rawalpindi to challenge t...
As Pakistanis risk life and limb to oppose Musharraf, US elite rallies round military regime
By Keith Jones, November 7, 2007
Tens of thousands of Pakistanis have taken to the streets over the past two days—risking arrest, assault and even shooting at the hands of the country’s security forces—in opposition...
As Pakistanis battle martial law, US vows continued aid to Musharraf
By Bill Van Auken, November 6, 2007
Protesting lawyers, students and other civilians staged pitched battles with riot police in cities across Pakistan Monday, the third day of the martial law regime imposed by the country’s milita...
With Washington’s complicity, Musharraf imposes martial law in Pakistan
By Vilani Peiris and Keith Jones, November 5, 2007
Pakistani military strongman General Pervez Musharraf, a key ally of the Bush administration in its purported “war on terror,” has again bared his fangs. On Saturday evening—as secur...
Pakistan: Musharraf regime reiterates martial law threat
US-sponsored deal with Bhutto begins to unravel
By Vilani Peiris and Keith Jones, October 25, 2007
Pakistan’s US-backed military regime has reiterated its threat to impose martial law should the country’s highest court not give its blessing to General Pervez Musharraf remaining presiden...
Bhutto implicates Pakistan’s military-security establishment in assassination attempt
By Keith Jones, October 20, 2007
Some 24 hours after a grenade and a powerful bomb tore through two-time Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s cavalcade through the streets of Karachi, no group has claimed responsibility fo...
