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    Official Document - Ten Years Since 9/11: Our Collective Experience

    The paper has been published for the public by the noted Steve Coll. He has a small article to go alongwith it. The document can be found here Ten Years Since 9/11: Our Collective Experience (Pakistan's Experience) What Does Pakistan Want? Posted by Steve Coll “I think it’s...
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    Pakistani U.N. peacekeepers sentenced in Haiti rape case

    Pakistani U.N. peacekeepers sentenced in Haiti rape case Joseph Guyler Delva Reuters 10:38 p.m. CDT, March 12, 2012 PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Two U.N. peacekeepers from Pakistan have been sentenced to a year in prison for raping a 14-year-old Haitian boy after being convicted in a Pakistani...
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    Part of Quaid-i-Azam House wall demolished in phases

    Part of Quaid-i-Azam House wall demolished in phases Bhagwandas | Metropolitan > Karachi | From the Newspaper (8 hours ago) Today KARACHI, Feb 3: The army has demolished the boundary wall of the Quaid-i-Azam House Museum — a national monument which is protected under the heritage...
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    Soldier stops a bomb attack, kids kidnapped, one butchered

    Waiting to receive pieces of daughter’s dead body Shakeel Anjum Tuesday, January 10, 2012 She was bitterly crying on phone begging for her life in the captivity, as she had seen her 16-year-old brother on a CD being slaughtered by kidnappers and pieces of his dead body were sent to her...
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    Police plots for the deserving generals

    The "transferred", [forcibly] "acquired" and eminent domain land acquired not being enough in the various "schemes", by the grace of the Almighty, plots have been given to the deserving, i.e Generals, Lt Gens, Maj Gens, Brigs, Cols, Wives/Sons/Daughter of Generals. The all mighty IGs, AIGs and...
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    Cop worked undercover as Talib, killed by TTP

    There already is a thread on yesterday's suicide bombing in Risalpur. Much respected Inspector Ajmeer Shah was the target. He did not survive, neither did Safwat when he was attacked. May they Rest in Peace. What is important is this:- A daring cop who infiltrated militants ---------- Post...
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    Saudi makes Abaya compulsory for women on Hajj

    Congratulations. Let's bend over backwards more to the dictatorship of Saudi Arabia. Next they will say that women need to cover their face on Hajj too, since that's what their Wahabi scholars think is right. Followed by prohibiting women from Hajj maybe. Maybe ban existence of women altogether...
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    Pakistan’s first female three-star general likely in Oct

    I believed she had been superseded, but this is what The News/Jang are reporting. Is she going to become the Surgeon General, since that's the only 3 star post from the AMC? ********************************************************************* Pakistan’s first female three-star general...
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    Shahzadi Gulfam - International Female Police Peacekeeper Award

    International Female Police Peacekeeper Award for UN Police Missions 2011 Award Recipient Deputy Superintendent Shahzadi Gulfam (Pakistan) serving in the United Nations Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT). Deputy Superintendent Shahzadi Gulfam. Assisting the Vulnerable The United Nations Police...
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    Reorientation And Restructuring of Pakistan Army

    A case for Total Reorientation And Restructuring of the Pakistan*Army By:*Yasub Ali Dogar Brigadier(Rtd.) I was born on 8th*Dec 1946. My father Maj (Late) Mahbub Ali was then a Capt of 6/12 FFR seconded to the Indian Army Education Corps. Thus you can say that I was born in the Army, grew...
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    Social Protection and Poverty Support

    Why you might ask will the running parties be re-elected and your Imran Khan orgasms will be useless? From "Social Protection in Pakistan: In the Midst of a Paradigm Shift?" (Haris Gazdar - EPW) Read the entire paper. If you're reading this, you're definitely not a recipient of BISP or any...
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    FBI arrests two for being allegedly on ISI payroll

    Paraphrasing and adding to initial report from AP - FBI has arrested Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, Executive Director of Kashmiri American Council for being an unregistered foreign agent and working for the ISI. Tit for tat complete. Update FBI arrests man, said on Pakistani spy payroll By MATT APUZZO...
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    AQ Khan: North Korea paid bribes to Generals for nuclear know-how

    Pakistan’s nuclear-bomb maker says North Korea paid bribes for know-how By R. Jeffrey Smith, Wednesday, July 6, 6:58 PM The founder of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb program asserts that the government of North Korea bribed top military officials in Islamabad to obtain access to sensitive...
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    "The sham operation in Kurram"

    COMMENT: The sham operation in Kurram —Dr Mohammad Taqi A side benefit of the chaos created in the Kurram Agency is that it would be a lot easier to hide the jihadists in the midst of the internally displaced people, making the thugs a difficult target for precision drone attacks On July...
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    LulzSec hacking into Pak Defence sites?

    From the A-Team hacker group dump on recently defunct "hacktivist" LulzSec file User : Eekdakat Were they into some PAF or PA website or server? MD5 of "aag pa 2" decrypted turns out to be maria91. Who is using such simple passwords, especially 445566? WTF level of cyber security is this...
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    Professor Saba Dashtiyari Assassinated

    Just another day in Balochistan. Media blackout continues. Baloch scholar shot dead in Quetta Suhail Yusuf QUETTA: Renowned Baloch scholar, writer and poet, Professor Saba Dashtyari was shot dead at Sariab Road on Wednesday evening. Professor Dashtyari was badly wounded when unidentified...
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    75,000 hectares redistributed to tenants in rural Sindh, Mostly women

    We have to rely on foreign media to report even the best of news. Our media is fixated on the rants of the middle class. Bravo, democracy in action, shall I say? Tenant farmers become unlikely land owners in Pakistan Published On Fri Apr 29 2011 By Rick Westhead South Asia Bureau Zuhra, 50...

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