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China warns US against war with Pakistan
Jiang Yu
China has officially put the United States on notice that Washington’s planned attack on Pakistan will be interpreted as an act of aggression against Beijing. This blunt warning represents the first known strategic ultimatum received by the United States in half a century, going back to Soviet warnings during the Berlin crisis of 1958-1961, and indicates the grave danger of general war growing...
US Ready To Swap Occupation of Afghanistan For War On Pakistan?
With the Obama administration fast approaching a July deadline that mandates troops be withdrawn from Afghanistan, Pakistan is moving into the cross hairs as the next targeted conquest of the “war on terror,” with NATO helicopters launching an attack on a Pakistani military outpost today, triggering a firefight that injured two soldiers, as Pakistan moves closer to China in an effort to avoid...
US Drone Strike Kills 15 Militants, Says Pakistan
Pakistani intelligence officials say a U.S. missile attack close to the Afghan border has killed at least 15 people.
Friday’s drone attack was the first reported strike since Monday’s pre-dawn U.S. commando raid that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
Authorities say the attack targeted a compound in North Waziristan, a stronghold of Taliban and al-Qaida militants on the border with...
US under pressure to release photos of Bin Laden's body
Despite the compound where Osama bin Laden died suddenly becoming a place for the curious, the US is under pressure to release photographs to prove the al Qaeda leader is dead.
With many Muslims questioning American assertions over the raid Washington has been forced onto the back foot and is having to clarify more of the details of the operation.
In particular the White House has changed its initial...
Inside Sources: Bin Laden’s Corpse Has Been On Ice For Nearly a Decade
Ex-ISI Chief Hamid Gul: CIA “Choreographing” Osama Assassination Hoax
Gul is a retired Pakistani Army three star general known for heading the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the premier Pakistani intelligence agency, after the Soviet-Afghan War.
The timing was incredible! By mid May 2011, the US Army was set to be thrown out of Pakistan by the Pakistani government and just weeks before that,...
Osama Bin Laden finally Killed by US forces in Pakistan?
This is a photo of Osama Bin Laden dead. However there is a very large group of people which claims that the image is Photoshopped (fake).
CNN and the corporate media report this evening that purported CIA asset Osama bin Laden has been killed by the U.S. military in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital of Islamabad along with other family members. In 2009, Veterans Today published a story revealing...
New Yorkers protest US policies
Protesters gather at a large anti-war rally in Union Square on April 9, 2011 in New York City.
Thousands of Americans have staged a protest rally in New York City to voice concerns over US war and foreign policies as well as the economy and the persisting reduction of social programs.
Scores of peace, labor and community activists took to the streets of the major commercial city on Saturday to call...
Hesperia Teen May Have Run Away to Avoid Arranged Marriage in Pakistan
Police raided the Benders’ home Tuesday night.
Jessie Bender flyers were still displayed in Hesperia Wednesday night, hours after San Bernardino County Sheriff’s confirmed they found the 13-year-old girl safe in an Apple Valley hotel, missing for eight days.
Authorities believe she was trying to dodge an arranged marriage in her stepfather’s homeland of Pakistan, contrary to her...
American who sparked diplomatic crisis over Lahore shooting was CIA spy
Pakistani authorities charged Raymond Davis with murder, but the Obama administration has insisted he is an 'administrative and technical official' attached to the US consulate in Lahore and is entitled to diplomatic immunity.
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. A number of...
North Carolina man admits plotting terror attacks
Daniel Patrick Boyd, admitted raising money to carry out attacks abroad.
A devout Muslim, whose arrest on terrorism-related charges stunned his neighbours in rural North Carolina, faces the prospect of a life sentence after pleading guilty to conspiring to assist violent jihadists and to participate in attacks in foreign countries.
Daniel Patrick Boyd, 40, and six other men, including two of his sons,...
Governor of Pakistan's Punjab province assassinated
The governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province was assassinated by his own security guard Tuesday, according to Interior Minister Rehman Malik, apparently because he spoke out against the country’s controversial blasphemy law.
The security guard was arrested, Malik said. The shooting occurred at Islamabad’s Kohsar Market, which is frequented by foreigners.
The guard, Malik Mumtaz Hussain...
US pays Pakistan more than $600m in aid
Washington transferred more than 600 million dollars to the Pakistani government this week to pay for its efforts in the fight against violent extremists, the US embassy in Islamabad said Thursday.
The 633 million dollar payment under the Coalition Support Fund (CSF) programme came on Wednesday, amid reports that top US military commanders in Afghanistan were pushing to expand special forces ground...
Pakistan becomes chair of IAEA board
Pakistan’s chairman of IAEA, Ansar Parvez (right)
Pakistan became the new chair of the UN nuclear watchdog’s governing body on Monday, despite being outside a global anti-nuclear arms pact.
Western diplomats have suggested they do not see the choice as ideal because like India, North Korea and Israel, Pakistan has shunned the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) that is at the heart of the International...
Clinton Unveils $500 Million in Aid Projects for Pakistan
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday unveiled $500 million worth of civilian aid projects for key ally Pakistan, in an attempt to counter rampant anti-Americanism in the country by reaching out to the population with tangible help.
The aim of the projects was to show that the U.S. relationship “goes far beyond security,” and they ranged from restoring a historical fort to boosting...
Taliban targets descendants of Alexander the Great
Children of the Kalash tribe in Northern Pakistan
For centuries, the blond-haired, blue-eyed people of the Kalash tribes of North West Pakistan have lived a libertine lifestyle.
The group, believed to be descendants of Alexander the Great’s invading army, were shielded from conservative Islam by the steep slopes of their remote valleys.
While Sikhs, Hindus, and Christians were slowly driven out...