Pak Alert Press:
In a surprising move, the Pakistani Taliban has denied responsibility for the recent attacks in Pakistan. Instead, they blame Xe Services as well as the country’s own security forces. Author and investigative journalist Webster Tarpley gives his take on the situation.Also See:U.S. Shifted Pakistan Terror Leaders To Afghanis (Read More)
Pak Alert Press:
Despite Surge in U.S. Deployments, More Civilians Are Posted in War Zoneby August Cole | Wall Street JournalEven as U.S. troops surge to new highs in Afghanistan they are outnumbered by military contractors working alongside them, according to a Defense Department census due to be distributed to Congress — illustrating ho (Read More)
Pak Alert Press:
LAHORE: General (retd) Mirza Aslam Beg has alleged that the US has shifted Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Hakimullah Mehsud and the other Taliban leadership to Afghanistan.In an interview, Aslam Beg said when the Pakistan Army started the operation in South Waziristan, a helicopter flew from the Bagram Airbase in Afg (Read More)
www.neweurasia.net - Blogging Central Asia:
Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2009 (CPI) again and again showed us that two out of five countries of our region are in the list of 10 most corrupt countries in the world. To say that I’m not surprised is to say nothing. Uzbekistan lost 8 positions and placed 174th (166th last year). Turkmenistan (Read More)
Submitted by Ahmed Quraishi
from YouTube:
http://www.roulettehacker.com Grab some cash now!THE MUMBAI TERROR ATTACKSMumbai ( Bombay ) Mumbai (Marathi: ?????, Mumbai, IPA:['mumb?i] (help·info)), formerly Bombay, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the financial capital of India. With an estimated population of thirteen million, it is one of the mos (Read More)
Registan.net:
Is Central Asia post-colonial or not?Can post-colonial theory be applied to post-Soviet region?Laura Adams raises this question and generally comes up with a positive answer here (PDF pp 2-7).The current CESS President Edward Lazzerini responds with an interesting approach. I learned from his response was that the Sankt Pet (Read More)
Pak Alert Press:
Greetings,We are in the red zone right now for another potential 9/11 style false-flag event. Here’s why.Israel and its allegedly American cheerleaders are desperate to attack Iran ASAP, while Pentagon hawks are yearning to escalate the war in Afghanistan. In other words, the folks who brought us 9/11 and the 9/11 wars want (Read More)
Safe Democracy Foundation:
Friends of both countries are hesitant to point out these failures for reasons best understood by them alone. Corruption exists in large parts of the world and its existence in Pakistan and Afghanistan is not a unique phenomenon. It is only that the Global War on Terror has produced increasing complexity and urgency in the (Read More)
Pak Alert Press:
LAHORE – Explosive material used in the deadly bomb blast which took place at Khyber Bazaar Peshawar last month, was identical to what had been used in exploding Samjhota Express in India, sources confined to The Nation Monday.The explosive material – Vehicle Born Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) – was used in Khyber Baz (Read More)
Pak Alert Press:
by Moin Ansari | Rupee NewsIn Mingora, the city of 250,000 people that was until recently the headquarters of Pakistan’s Swat valley Taliban, the shopping centre is heaving.‘Bloody Chowk’, the crossroads where the militants used to leave the butchered bodies of their victims every night, is once again merely a mini-roundabo (Read More)
Pak Alert Press:
New pics from Operation Rah-e-Nijat, the pic of Fazal ur Rehman is from before the operation meeting pro TTP people. No wonder he is against the operation now.
More updates:
Waziristan Operation (Rah-e-Nijat): Pictures and Video updates
Kayani to US: Stop Indian Meddling in Afghanistan and Pakistan
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www.neweurasia.net - Blogging Central Asia:
From Flickr's Creative Commons [http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevenbaker/101745856/Let’s agree that Central Asia is sometimes behind the rest of the world. This is not due to decline or inability, but distance and difficulties in translation. For example, when the Internet was first speeding up and going broadband, no one (Read More)
Submitted by Ahmed Quraishi
from YouTube:
The true and real way the states of Afghanistan and Pakistan should be! Afghanistan and Pakistan should unite in their entirety as a united nation, with democratic ideals, only then will there be peace, prosperity in these two countries and the region around it. Afghans and Pakistani's wake up, and realize that this is ou (Read More)
Pak Alert Press:
The US National Security Adviser James Jones has been told that Pakistan was severely against a sudden withdrawal of allied troops from Afghanistan.-Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff tells visiting US advisor on National Security that Washington should put an end to drone attacks in his country.During a meeting on Friday with (Read More)
www.neweurasia.net - Blogging Central Asia:
An Arab district in Brussels. Photograph by Flickr user Aldask (CC-usage).It comes up in conversation all the time with colleagues at neweurasia: what do I think about the situation of Islam in the West? I think Central Asians are really curious to know about it because they’re probably looking for insight not only into th (Read More)