Last Batch of Kidnapped Cadets Rescued

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani officials say that the last batch of students and staff kidnapped in the northwest after leaving their school this week have been rescued.

Deputy Interior Minister Tasnim Qureshi told state-run Pakistan Television Thursday that 46 students and two teachers had been recovered from their militant abductors. The army said the rescued students were being taken to the Bannu district.

The students were abducted earlier this week from the North Waziristan tribal region and were believed to have been held there or in nearby South Waziristan.

 

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Pakistan Should Exploit American Desperation

This is the time for Islamabad to exploit Washington’s desperation. Secretary Defence Robert Gates is pleading Asia to support America’s failed Afghan project, while his colleague the U.S. Treasury Secretary is begging China to continue financing the U.S. government. The Americans are behind a Sunni militant group fighting for secession in Iran’s Balochistan and another ethnic militia in Pakistan’s Balochistan. The U.S. media leak on American weapons going to Afghan militants is a cover-up meant to hide what the Pakistani Army has discovered in Swat, that terrorists are using sophisticated American [and Indian] weapons to kill Pakistanis. Islamabad needs to end the American highhandedness, beginning with limiting CIA outposts in Pakistan.

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Kashmir still on fire

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SRINAGAR: At least 80 people were injured after police and demonstrators clashed in occupied Kashmir on Wednesday in protests over the rape and murder of two Muslim women, hospital officials and witnesses said.

Police fired tear gas shells and used batons to disperse angry residents who burnt the effigy of the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah. Protesters also burnt tyres and threw stones at police.

Pakistan: Perceptions vs. Reality

PAKALERT | Political Reasons, Issues and Vested Interests Preventing The Pakistani Media To Do Justice to the True Image of Pakistan.  Pakistan isn’t Marketed Properly.

Nosheen Abbas realises that Pakistan’s image has little to do with real experience.

American dream of insurgency

This report, first published in August 2008, is reproduced here to provide context to the determined Pakistani military operation against terrorists coming from Afghanistan. Pakistan’s largest English-language daily, The News, ran this on its front page, written by Kamran Khan, an investigative reporter who has worked for The Washington Post.

Two senior U.S. military officials who secretly visited Pakistan in July 2008 faced tense moments when former President Musharraf, Army Chief Gen. Kayani and the ISI chief at the time confronted them with evidence that portrayed a pattern of American support for separatist, sectarian and religious terrorism inside Pakistan with help from Indian intelligence operatives based in major Afghan cities.

The two embarrassed Americans, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen and CIA Deputy Director Stephen R. Kappes, came to lecture Pakistanis on what role ISI should play but ended up receiving an earful. It is a rare inside story of how Islamabad confronted Washington about what appears to be a clear case of betrayal, where Washington conspired with Karzai and the Indians against its own staunch ally.

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“Mind your own business”, Pakistan repeats to India

Pakistan on Tuesday told India to refrain from commenting on court decisions and questioning its sincerity about action against terrorist outfits.

‘Polemics and unfounded insinuations cannot advance the cause of justice in civilized societies. Legal processes cannot and must not be interfered with,’ said Foreign Office Spokesman Abdul Basit while commenting on Indian External Affairs Ministry’s criticism of Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed’s release.

Basit dismissed Indian concerns as ‘misplaced.’

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US Embassy Is Helping Recruit Pakistan Government Spies

Senior U.S. diplomats have recently arranged a limited reception in Islamabad where senior civil servants were invited to meet an Indian diplomat suspected of being an intelligence officer. Is this the new mission of the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad?

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—While Pakistan is busy in battling a foreign-funded local proxy Taliban in Swat, Malakand and other areas, the Americans and the Indians are exploiting a distracted Pakistani state to recruit influential Pakistanis as spies.

The American embassy in Islamabad is acting as facilitator in hiring influential Pakistani government officials. U.S. diplomats in Islamabad are facilitating meetings between Pakistani officials and Indian intelligence officials representing RAW.

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Concern over officials’ unauthorised contacts

DAWN Report: The government has taken notice of officials attending functions hosted by foreign missions and diplomats in the federal capital without approval from their departments.

One such function held at the residence of a western diplomat was attended by CDA chairman Tariq Mahmood, PM secretariat’s joint secretary Amna Imran, police officer Mir Waiz Niaz, Prof Amar Bhatti of Quaid-i-Azam University, Lok Virsa director Khalid Javed and Pakistan National Council of Arts director-general Naeem Tahir. Indian diplomat Rajinder Kumar Sharma also attended the function..

Saving Agent Mehsud

PakistanKaKhudaHafiz Exclusive Report

The Americans do not want Pakistanis to capture Baitullah Mehsud alive, and attempting to eliminate him using air-strikes will not be easy since Pakistan Army is advancing towards him already. They will either take him out before he is captured, or he will mysteriously disappear only to re-emerge later at a different location. The U.S. military has moved troops near Mehsud’s area under the pretext of finding Osama or Mullah Omar. This is a deception. They have been saying Osama is in Pakistan for years. Why haven’t they acted earlier? This American move has something to do with Pakistani military’s march to destroy Mehsud and his proxy militia. We already know that terrorists are using American weapons to kill us while pretending to be Taliban. The Pakistani military better watch out what our ally is up to this time.

Hafiz Saeed Released – Now Lift JuD Ban

Dan Qayyum | PakistanKaKhudaHafiz.com

Lahore High Court has earlier today ordered the release of the leader of Jama’at-ud-Dawa – accused by India over last year’s Mumbai attacks.

A lawyer for Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, who is the head of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, said on Monday that the Lahore High Court had ruled there was no reason to hold his client and that no evidence has been found linking JuD to any terrorist acts or organisations.

“The court has ordered that the detention of Hafiz Saeed was a violation of the constitution and the law of this country,” AK Dogar, the lawyer, said.

“Today’s verdict shows that sovereignty lies in Almighty Allah,” he told supporters waiting outside the court.

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Terrorists Killing Pakistanis With Indian / American Weapons

Dan Qayyum, PakistanKaKhudaHafiz.com

Finally, the military admits what Pakistan’s pro-U.S. government has been hiding for months. The weapons that the terrorists – the fake Pakistani Taliban – are using to kill Pakistanis are coming from U.S. and India. Some members of the Karzai puppet regime have privately confirmed to Pakistani officials that they are incapable of stopping Indian terrorist activities on Afghan soil. To avoid embarrassment, Washington quickly ‘leaked’ a story that U.S. weapons given to Afghan security forces have reached insurgents. The timing of the leak conveniently coincided with the Pakistani army discovering the American double game. The Americans have been taking Pakistan for a ride for seven years.