Pakistan 9 most famous issues

shannon-meehan Shannon Meehan wrote a book entitled Beyond destination: Life On The Front Line, co-author Roger Thompson. Shannon Meehan is the veterans of the Iraq war suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) of decision for service in Iraq, which took the lives of innocent Iraqi civilians. While admitting that it is not easy to forget and that made him feel very guilty, but for him to not take wrong decisions and guide their lives to creativity When he and his men tried to evacuate the area endangered the life of house to house, using a microphone and the Arabic translator to tell someone in the house for a bomb attack outside air... read more >>

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani Taliban on Sunday denied fresh rumours that their chief Hakeemullah Mehsud is dead, while the army said it was investigating as reports re-emerged that he was killed by US drone missiles. Speculation about the warlord’s death first surfaced after a January 14 bombing by unmanned US spy planes in Taliban stronghold North Waziristan, but within days Mehsud released two audio statements denying his demise. Security sources said at the time that he may have been wounded, and on Sunday local television stations carried a report that he had been buried. “I don’t have the confirmation, my sources have not confirmed... read more >>

protest again drones According to newspaper reports, nearly 19 drone attacks have taken place in Pakistani territory in the first month of 2010. The number swells to nearly 60 if the total attacks in 2009 are added to the figure. In recent months, international and local attention has begun to focus on the legality of these attacks and the international instruments that control incursions by one government organisation into the territory of another. In the United States, some of these questions have begun to arise as commentators begin to evaluate President Obama’s first year in office in relation to the promises of his campaign. In Pakistan,... read more >>

what is talban want Often, I am asked by readers or friends abroad what the Taliban want. Why, they ask, are they slaughtering hundreds of innocent people wherever they can? What is their purpose? What is their agenda? The short answer is power. Other excuses for their murderous excesses are a fig-leaf: demands for the Sharia and the expulsion of foreign forces from the region are no more than window-dressing. These terrorists realise that they cannot achieve power through peaceful, democratic means as they have no support. Even relatively moderate Islamic parties have been repeatedly trounced at the polls in Pakistan. So extremists reject democracy... read more >>

Sirajuddin Haqqani Al Jazeera has obtained an exclusive interview with Sirajuddin Haqqani, a Taliban commander fighting US and Nato forces in Afghanistan. US commanders have identified the Pakistan-based Haqqani network – which allegedly has ties with Pakistan’s ISI – as one of the biggest threats to US forces in Afghanistan. The network carries out attacks on foreign forces across the majority of eastern Afghanistan. The US has put a $5 million bounty on Sirajuddin Haqqani’s head. David Chater has the latest from Kabul. The Aj Jazeera guy rightly points out the fact that the whole Haqqani network is CIA trained. So the mess is created... read more >>

At least four people were killed and several injured Saturday when a blast rocked an office building and a neighbouring restaurant at University Road area Peshawar The blast hit the United Plaza that houses the offices of lawyers and other professionals while Afghan refugees also reside in building’s residential block. Eyewitnesses say it was a car bomb blast as a suspected vehicle was parked outside the building. Many tenants stuck in the building as it caught fire after the blast and later were evacuated by the local people and rescuers arrived at the scene soon after the incident. Police have also cordoned off the area while the fire fighters... read more >>

Washington Crashing a state dinner at the White House apparently takes a security breakdown as well as some kind of nerve. The Secret Service is looking into its own security procedures after determining that a Virginia couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, managed to slip into Tuesday night’s state dinner at the White House even though they were not on the guest list, agency spokesman Ed Donovan said. President Barack Obama was never in any danger because the party crashers went through the same security screening for weapons as the 300-plus people actually invited to the dinner honoring Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Donovan said. Donovan... read more >>