Pakistan
Pakistan: Textile workers’ protests convulse Multan
By Keith Jones, April 19, 2008
The industrial city of Multan, Pakistan’s sixth largest, was convulsed by protests of textile workers, Monday and Tuesday, angered by repeated power outages that have resulted in pay and job cut...
US-Pakistan ties fray, as Washington seeks to bully new government
By Keith Jones, March 27, 2008
US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte and Richard Boucher, the Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, arrived in Islamabad early Tuesday, with almost no advanced warning to th...
Another US strike inside Pakistan’s border region
By Peter Symonds, March 19, 2008
An air strike on Sunday on a compound in the Pakistani tribal area of South Waziristan that borders Afghanistan has left up to 20 people dead. While Washington has not acknowledged responsibility, the...
Instability continues in Pakistan following formation of coalition government
By Keith Jones, March 12, 2008
After weeks of factional maneuvering, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) announced Sunday an agreement to form a national coalition government.
Pakistani regime ban of YouTube highlights threat to free Internet
By John Grais, March 5, 2008
On February 22, the Pakistani Telecommunications Authority (PTA) ordered the country’s Internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to YouTube, the world’s most popular video web site. Access...
Pakistan’s leading opposition parties to form national coalition government
By K. Ratnayake and Keith Jones, February 23, 2008
In opposition to the wishes of the Bush administration, Pakistan’s two principal parties, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), agreed Thursday to...
Pakistanis overwhelmingly reject US-backed strongman Musharraf
By K. Ratnayake and Keith Jones, February 20, 2008
The Pakistani people overwhelmingly repudiated the US-backed, military-controlled regime of Pervez Musharraf in national and provincial elections held Monday.
Pakistan’s military regime stages sham election
By Keith Jones, February 18, 2008
The elections for Pakistan’s national and provincial assemblies that are to be held today make a mockery of the most elementary democratic principles. They have been organized by the military-co...
Scotland Yard’s report on Bhutto assassination
Britain again comes to Musharraf’s aid
By K. Ratnayake and Keith Jones, February 16, 2008
A Scotland Yard investigation team has issued a report on the assassination of two-time Pakistani Prime Minister, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader, and PPP prime ministerial candidate Benazir Bhutt...
Mounting calls from Pakistan’s military and judicial establishments for Musharraf to quit
By K. Ratnayake and Keith Jones, February 2, 2008
More than two hundred retired high-ranking Pakistani military officers have unanimously demanded that the country’s president, Pervez Musharraf, resign and hand over his powers to deposed Suprem...
Beleaguered Pakistani President visits Europe to shore up support for military regime
By K. Ratnayake, January 28, 2008
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has been in Europe since January 21, on an eight-day trip aimed at ensuring continued Western support for his discredited and popularly-reviled military regime.
Pentagon chief says US ready to deploy combat troops in Pakistan
By Bill Van Auken, January 26, 2008
The United States is “ready, willing and able” to deploy American combat troops in Pakistan for joint military operations in the country’s troubled border region, US Defense Secretar...
