Tag: US
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STRATFOR: Army ‘Not Supporting’ Musharraf
Strategic Forecasting, Inc. shares an article on Pakistan as well as a short podcast on the same subject Stratfor Podcast on Pakistan 7th August 2008 – [audio:Stratfor_Podcast.mp3] PAKISTAN: MUSHARRAF, IMPEACHMENT AND ISLAMABAD’S TRAJECTORY After some four months of disagreements over the fate of President Pervez Musharraf, the two main partners in Pakistan’s coalition government —…
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NY: Afia Siddiqui court hearing, Monday 11th Aug @ 2:30 pm
We are being informed that the first court hearing of Dr. Afia Siddiqui where she is being tried on charges of assaulting an officer is scheduled for Monday 11th August at the Magistrate Court in Downtown Manhattan Dr. Afia’s Hearing in New York Location: Magistrate Court, Downtown Manhattan, 500 Pearl St. 5th Floor (MAP) Date:…
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KARACHI: Protest to Free Afia – Karachi Press Club – Saturday @ 6:00pm
The Peoples Resistance and numerous concerned members of the Civil Society in Karachi would like to invite YOU, the people of Pakistan to join them in a peaceful protest to appeal for the release Dr. Afia Siddiqui, who was kidnapped from Karachi in 2003 and has since been detained without charge in a US Military…
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Actual sworn charges filed by FBI against Dr. Afia Siddiqui
The text of the actual sworn charges filed in the Southern District of New York by Mehtab Syed, Special Agent for FBI. Where she alleges that Afia Siddiqui was arrested in Afghanistan on July 27th and then had a tussle with the interrogating officers where she got shot in the torso read the entire charge…
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ISLAMABAD: Protest against abduction of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui (Thursday @ 5:30pm)
Peaceful Protest against abduction of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui by Pakistani Agencies in shameful manner and her selling to USA with her three children Thursday, 07 August 2008, 5:30 p.m. (sharp) Parade Ground, Opp. Parliament Building, Islamabad This is a wakeup call for Ibn-e-Qasims as Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, Prisoner # 650 calls you for help from…
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Afia – held in Bagram for years, 12-yr son also detained
Cageprisoners has received new information that Aafia Siddiqui was held for years in Bagram Airbase. According to her lawyer, Elaine Whitfield Sharp, “We do know she was at Bagram for a long time. It was a long time. According to my client she was there for years and she was held in American custody; her…
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A business proposal for Pervaiz Musharraf
Guest Post by Rana Raheel Babar Mr. Pervaiz Musharraf The President of Islamic Republic of Pakistan Pakistan Re: A Business Proposal Dear Mr. Pervaiz Musharraf, It is such an undesirable pleasure to have you (General Purvez s/o Busharraf) as our forced president. Mr. President, I truly consider it as an outcome of your sincere and…
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Dr. Afia – Tortured & Terrorised for five years, but on trial for Assaulting an Officer
If you were for a moment, believe in all the BS that comes out of America then this must be probably yet another sparkling attempt to fool the world for the umpteenth time. The new ‘story’ behind Dr. Afia’s sudden sudden disappearance may have something to do with the accidental FBI revelation previously on Thursday…
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FBI admits to kidnapping Dr. Afia Siddiqui, to Afghanistan
According to the BBC Urdu, the FBI has conceded that Dr. Afia Siddiqi who had vanished from Karachi over five years ago in March 2003 along with her children is in the custody of American forces in Afghanistan but sadly in a horrid medical condition The information comes from BBC, when it received an email…
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Missing Pakistani – Dr. Afia Siddiqui – Prisoner 650
A few days back the Asian Human Rights Commission issued an urgent press release about a Pakistani, Dr. Afia Siddiqui, who has been missing from Pakistan for over four years, since 2003. Her kidnapping has since then been denied by both American and Pakistani governments but actually she has been suspected of being an operative…
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Just to win peace for myself, my wife and my children
The borders of Pakistan remain under constant pressure from the offensive generated by the American War on Terror, it is this plague amongst other problems that continue to weaken Pakistan on a daily basis. Its ironic that the war is thousands of miles away from the coast of America yet they assume the offensive to…
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The curse of the Neo-Colonized
Guest Post by Areej M “In the modern planetary situation, Eastern and Western ‘cultures’ can no longer meet one another as equal partners. They meet in a westernized world, under conditions shaped by western ways of thinking.” — W. Halbfass I have no words to convey my utter disgust at the hypocrisy of the United…
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Dilemma faced by Pakistani Government
By Abdul Azeem This post is a reaction to the article “Pakistan: Negligent on Terror?”, published in TIME on 30th June. TIME: It’s almost like a bad joke. A bus driver, a ski lift operator and a gym rat have turned the Islamic world’s only nuclear-armed nation upside down. On Saturday Pakistani forces chased militants…
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The ‘American’ Empire Strikes Back
Since the fateful day in New York on September 11th 2001 the world did change for many, as since the last seven years it seems the United States has obtained an unrestricted license to invade and conquer any sovereign nation of the world, no questions asked and no one to stop them. It started from…
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STORY OF A SOLDIER: Samad Khurram!
Guest Post by Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi Reference is the news item, published in the daily news, titled “Pak student refuses to receive award from US envoy“, dated 19th June, 2008 – The News In this world of hypocrisy, it takes guts to stand up for your beliefs. No one has the courage to challenge…