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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Iranian warships enter Suez Canal after 3 decades
By SALAH NASRAWI
The Associated PressTuesday, February 22, 2011; 2:55 AM
CAIRO -- Suez Canal officials say two Iranian naval vessels have entered the strategic waterway en route for the Mediterranean Sea.
Canal officials say the ships - a frigate and a supply vessel - entered the canal early Tuesday morning and are expected to reach the Mediterranean later in the day. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they aren't authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
This marks the first time in three decades that Iranian military...
US officials admit Remond ties with CIA
The American who fatally shot two men in Pakistan last month and who has been described publicly as a diplomat is a security contractor for the CIA who was part of a secret agency team operating out of a safe house in Lahore, U.S. officials said. The contractor, Raymond A. Davis, 36, has been detained in a Pakistani jail since his arrest. He has said that he opened fire on two Pakistani men after they tried to rob him at a traffic signal in Lahore.
The disclosure compounds an already combustible standoff between the United...
CIA agent Davis had ties with local militants
ISLAMABAD: As American newspapers lifted a self-imposed gag on the CIA links of Raymond Davis, in place on the request of the US administration, The Express Tribune has now learnt that the alleged killer of two Pakistanis had close links with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
The New York Times reported on Monday that Davis “was part of a covert, CIA-led team of operatives conducting surveillance on militant groups deep inside the country, according to American government officials.”
This contradicts the US claim...
Monday, February 21, 2011
American who killed two in Pakistan was CIA spy
In Karachi, scores of demonstrators call for the execution of Raymond Davis, the US consulate employee who has been jailed in Lahore for killing two Pakistanis Link to this video
The American who shot dead two men in Lahore, triggering a diplomatic crisis between Pakistan and the US, is a CIA agent who was on assignment at the time.
Raymond Davis has been the subject of widespread speculation since he opened fire with a semi-automatic Glock pistol on the two men who had pulled up in front of his car at a red light on...
Cultural plunder
By Peter Thonemann
ARE you keen to help finance the activities of warlords and insurgents across Afghanistan?
As I write, eBay is inviting bids on no fewer than 128 ancient Bactrian and Indo-Greek silver and bronze coins, from sellers in Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand and the United States.
Probably every one of them is the product of looting over the past 20 years. With luck, you might even pick up one of the tens of thousands of items plundered from the collections of the old National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul between 1992 and 2001.
For...
The speech he needs to make-Pakistan
Mr Qureshi has not spoken about the alternative to dependence on the US.
By Syed Talat Hussain
LAST week, former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi displayed a fine response to the call of his conscience. Speaking one’s mind is a rarity in a system that thrives on secrecy and subservience.Since then Mr Qureshi has reaped a rich harvest of public praise of the sort he was denied when he was in charge of the country’s foreign affairs. Then, despite having a massive PR machinery at his disposal and the ability to command the...
Anti-Americanism-Pakistan
“SHOCKING, unjustified anti-Americanism will not resolve [Pakistan’s] prob- lems,” said US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in New York on Friday. The fact is, however, that antiAmericanism in Pakistan is not at all shocking, and much of it is not unjustified. Ms Clinton’s remarks came as two Pakistanis were gunned down in broad daylight in Lahore traffic by an American whose work here remains a mystery. A third man was run over in the ensuing chaos when he was caught in the path of a speeding American consulate vehicle. That driver has disappeared,...
For greater transparency-Pakistan
In the old days, one could have expected a quiet behind-the-scenes deal between Islamabad and Washington to secure Davis’s release. Today, the context is altogether different.
By Moeed Yusuf-Dawn News
IN previous columns on Pakistan-US relations, I have often stressed the need for greater transparency in the partnership. Since 9/11, ties have been characterised by an active government-to-government relationship; very little of what happens behind closed doors is willingly brought out in the public domain.
The Raymond Davis episode...
Obama Administration Supports Israeli Crimes in Occupied Territories
Obama’s First UN Veto: US to Stop Security Council Calling Israeli Settlements ‘Illegal’Jason Ditz,February 16, 2011Antiwar Forum The Obama Administration is threatening to use its first ever UN Security Council veto this week when the Palestinian Authority moves forward with a non-binding resolution referring to the settlement construction in the Occupied Territories as “illegal.” The case for the illegality of conquering territory, depopulating it, and building government subsidized, religiously exclusive cities over the ruins does...
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Petition seeks ISI probe against Davis-Pakistan
An application filed in a Pakistani court has sought a probe by the Inter-Services Intelligence agency against US official Raymond Davis, arrested last month for shooting and killing two men. The application filed in the Lahore High Court on Saturday by lawyer Rana Ilamuddin Ghazi was clubbed with a petition asking the court to direct authorities to submit all records related to Davis.
Ghazi also claimed that Davis was spending his days in detention as a "guest" because two barracks equipped with special facilities had been set aside for him...
`Complicated` ties-Pakistan
THE testimony of two American security chiefs before a Senate committee epitomises the `complicated relationship` that characterises Islamabad`s ties with Washington. While they admitted that, thanks to Pakistan, Al Qaeda was at its weakest since 9/11, both CIA chief Leon Panetta and counter-terrorism chairman Michael Leiter orchestrated the decade-old `do more` mantra but admitted that Pakistan had its way of looking at things. Said Mr Panetta: “They look at issues related to their national interest and take steps that complicate the relationship.”...
Political `patch-up`-Pakistan
IN the hurly-burly of Pakistani politics, anything is possible. Perhaps that is why the smiles, rousing slogans and pledges of cooperation witnessed at the MQM`s headquarters on Friday to mark the visit of a high-powered PPP delegation did not surprise many. It was as though the acrimoniousness that has marked relations between the two parties over the past few months — which at times translated into street violence — was merely a misunderstanding. The Sindh chief minister, accompanied by the federal interior minister, led the PPP side in the...
Obama’s FY 2012 Budget Is A Tool Of Class War-World
By: Paul Craig RobertsFebruary 18, 2011 "Information Clearing House" ---- Obama’s new budget is a continuation of Wall Street’s class war against the poor and middle class. Wall Street wasn’t through with us when the banksters sold their fraudulent derivatives into our pension funds, wrecked Americans’ job prospects and retirement plans, secured a $700 billion bailout at taxpayers’ expense while foreclosing on the homes of millions of Americans, and loaded up the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet with several trillion dollars of junk financial...
