US missiles kill 22 people in Pakistan tribal area

U.S. drones fired five missiles at a house in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border on Friday, killing at least 22 people, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The strike came a day after Pakistan's army chief denounced such attacks, and could further sour already deteriorating relations between Washington and Islamabad.

CIA agent Raymond Davis (accused for murders in Pakistan) linked to Taliban'

'CIA agent Davis linked to Taliban'

Documents show Raymond Davis, an American who killed two Pakistanis in Lahore in January, had links with CIA's espionage and sabotage plans in the Asian country.

“The documents, photographs and the evidence that has come out from Davis' sofa almost confirms his links with Taliban terrorism…the attacks on ISI and the security establishment as well as the drone attacks,” Pakistani defense analyst and security consultant Zaid Hamid said in an interview with Press TV's US Desk on Saturday. 

Hamid added that there is evidence confirming Davis has been a US undercover operative in Pakistan. 

“With this kind of evidence the issue is not just the assassination of those two boys on the streets of Lahore but it is an indication of a much larger network of CIA espionage and sabotage inside Pakistan,” he said. 

Earlier, US President Barack Obama urged Pakistan to free the US official saying he enjoys diplomatic immunity under the Vienna Convention. However, under public pressure, Lahore High Court adjourned a decision on whether Davis had diplomatic immunity. 

CIA, Mossad and Soros behind Wikileaks... ?

http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/
Wayne Madsen :
CIA, Mossad and Soros behind Wikileaks  ?
(also read here ..>>  Julian Assange in the Honey Trap.. )
from:  "Pakistan daily"

[..From Iceland, Soros will be well-positioned to gain control over the massive mineral resources under the melting ice sheet of Greenland. Under the ice are the only major rare-earth deposits   outside of China and with such minerals at his disposal, Soros can control the world’s electronics industries. ..]

WMR has learned from Asian intelligence sources that there is a strong belief in some Asian countries, particularly China and Thailand, that the website Wikileaks, which purports to publish classified and sensitive documents while guaranteeing anonymity to the providers, is linked to U.S. cyber-warfare and computer espionage operations, as well as to Mossad’s own cyber-warfare activities.  Wikileaks claims to have decrypted video footage of a U.S. Predator air strike on civilians in Afghanistan and that covert U.S. State Department agents followed Wikileaks’s editor from Iceland to Norway in a surveillance operation conducted jointly by the United States and Iceland. Iceland’s financially-strapped government recently announced a policy of becoming a haven for websites that fear political oppression and censorship in their home countries. However, in the case of Wikileaks, countries like China and Thailand are suspicious of the websites’ actual “ownership.”Wikileaks says it intends to show its video at an April 5 press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC but that its presenters may be detained or arrested before that time. WMR’s sources believe the Wikileaks “militancy” in the face of supposed surveillance appears fake. Our Asian intelligence sources report the following: “Wikileaks is running a disinformation campaign, crying persecution by U.S. intelligence- when it is U.S. intelligence itself. Its [Wikileaks'] activities in Iceland are totally suspect.” Wikileaks claims it is the victim of a new COINTELPRO [Counter Intelligence Program] operation directed by the Pentagon and various U.S. intelligence agencies. WMR’s sources believe that it is Wikileaks that is part and parcel of a cyber-COINTELPRO campaign, such as that proposed by President Obama’s “information czar,” Dr. Cass Sunstein.

More Nato trucks burnt in Pakistan

More Nato trucks burnt in Pakistan

At least eight trucks are set on fire and one driver killed in the Pakistani city of Quetta, police officials say.   Last Modified: 06 Oct 2010 03:40 GMT

Armed men in Pakistan have burned up to eight tankers carrying fuel for Nato forces in Afghanistan, killing a lorry driver, according to Pakistani police.Shah Nawaz Khan, a police official, said on Wednesday that the attack, the latest on supply convoys since Pakistan closed a key border crossing to Nato forces last week, occurred in the parking lot of a roadside hotel on the outskirts of the southwest city of Quetta.The attacks have raised tensions already elevated by Pakistan's decision to close the Torkham crossing in an apparent protest against alleged Nato helicopter strikes on its territory. One of those strikes killed three Pakistani soldiers.The torched tankers are believed to have been on their way for a smaller border crossing that remains open.

A suspected U.S. drone strike killed eight of German nationality in northwest Pakistan on Monday

(Reuters) - A suspected U.S. drone strike killed eight  of German nationality in northwest Pakistan on Monday, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

They died when two missiles from a suspected CIA pilotless aircraft struck a mosque in Mirali in North Waziristan, the officials added. The attack came a day after the United States and Britain warned of an increased risk of terrorist attacks in Europe. Western security officials said last week they believed a group in northern Pakistan were connected to a plot to stage attacks. The militants were members of a group called Jihad Islami, the Pakistani intelligence officials said without elaborating. There was no independent verification and militants often dismiss official reports of successful operations against them. "People were gathering at the mosque for prayers when a missile hit the building," Mohammad Alam, a resident of Mirali, told Reuters by telephone, describing Monday's drone strike. "The area has been cordoned off by militants and they are not allowing anyone there." The State Department warned American citizens to exercise caution if traveling in Europe. Britain raised the threat level to "high" from "general" for its citizens traveling to Germany and France.

NATO fuel tankers torched in Pakistan

NATO fuel tankers torched in Pakistan.

Lahore bombing death toll rises to 40

Lahore bombing death toll rises to 40
The death toll from a bomb attack targeting the police offices in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore rises to 40 as rescue teams find more bodies under the rubble. Earlier media reports said twenty-three people were killed in the bombing that destroyed a police building and damaged nearby offices of the Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in the country's second-largest city. Later, city's top civil administrator, Sajjad Bhutta, said that 12 police officers were among the 40 bodies retrieved. The death toll may rise further as some of the 250 injured are said to be in a critical condition. Gunshots were heard immediately after the blast but it was not clear who was firing, a witness said. A big cloud of white smoke rose after the blast. Interior Ministry Chief Rehman Malik said that the bombing was the work of 'anti-state elements who wanted to destabilize the country.' The blast shocked the already insurgency-hit country and was strongly condemned by President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. Lahore has seen several bomb attacks over the past couple of years, but its citizens felt much safer than those residing in other parts of the country until March, when militants launched two brazen assaults. The latest development comes while the army battles militants in the volatile Swat Valley in the northwest of the country as part of efforts to push back a growing insurgency.

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Lahore - Pakistan's cultural capital - has faced its share of militant attacks, but it has not had to put up with the kind of sustained campaign it now appears to be facing.
Wednesday's suicide bombing of the police emergency response headquarters on a heavily guarded section of Lahore's Mall road underlines the fact that the cultural heart of Pakistan is a city under siege. It is a clear statement from the militants seen to be under siege in Swat and elsewhere - they are alive and can strike back. Whoever wants to destabilise the country or the government, would go after Lahore . A raid on the police training centre near the city in March - along with an attack on the Sri Lanka cricket team in the same month - brought home the fact that the city is now in the frontline of Pakistan's struggle against militancy. According to security officials, part of the reason Lahore is now under threat may be because it has previously been seen as stable. "Lahore is the only city in Pakistan which has remained relatively peaceful since the 9/11 attacks," says a security official. "It has been Pakistan's saving grace, and whoever wants to destabilise the country or the government, would go after Lahore," the official says. Suspects There are a number of reasons why Lahore could be the centre of such attacks. Many people suspect Taliban militants in Pakistan's north-west. Almost all major attacks inside Pakistan in recent years have been traced back to the tribal areas near the Afghan border.
The siege of the police academy lasted eight hours
Taliban militants fighting the Pakistani army have openly admitted planning and carrying out many of the attacks. They recently issued a propaganda video which took responsibility for carrying out a number of suicide bombings on security forces over the last two years. At least two of them were carried out in Lahore. Fingers have also been pointed at the Lashkar-e-Taiba, as they were after the attack on the Sri Lanka team. Some experts say the attacks could be retaliation by elements within the group for the crackdown on it following the attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) last November. Others, like Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik, accuse another militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, which the US believes has close ties with al-Qaeda. "Almost all the recent major terror attacks have either been claimed or traced back to the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi," he told reporters in Lahore in March. India, too, is blamed by many Pakistani government and security officials, who suspect retaliation for the Mumbai attacks. This was also a view voiced after the attack on Sri Lanka's cricketers. Many analysts are quick to point out the change in tactics, and believe that the attacks are the handiwork of a new militant group.
'Assault tactics'
But what many seem to have forgotten is how it all began. Pakistani militants only started using suicide attacks in a co-ordinated manner in 2004. The first target was Karachi, where a series of bomb attack in May of that year left more than 100 people dead. We will eventually start using assault tactics again, when we have regained our strength in men

What is the Unites States preparing in Pakistan?

What is the Unites States preparing in Pakistan?

5 May 2009Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will undoubtedly come under renewed pressure to allow US military forces to wage war within Pakistan when he visits Washington this week for a trilateral summit meeting with President Obama and Afghanistan?s Hamid Karzai.For weeks, the US political and military establishment and the American media have been mounting an increasingly shrill campaign to bully Islamabad into fully complying with US diktats in what Washington has redefined as the AfPak (Afghanistan-Pakistan) war theater.At the US?s behest, the Pakistani military has for the past 10 days been mounting a bloody offensive?including strafing by warplanes and heavy artillery?against Pakistani Taliban militia in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP). The offensive has caused large numbers of civilian casualties and forced tens of thousands of poor villagers to flee.Between 600,000 and a million Pakistanis have been turned into refugees by the Pakistani state?s drive to pacify the NWFP and the country?s traditionally autonomous Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), so as to bolster the US occupation of Afghanistan.The US ruling elite has welcomed the latest round of bloodletting, but it is far from satisfied. The flurry of threats, implicit and explicit, against Pakistan, its people and government has continued unabated in the run-up to Zardari?s Washington visit.At an April 29th press conference, Obama described Pakistan?s civilian government as "very fragile" and not having "the capacity to deliver basic services" to its people, or to gain their "support and loyalty." But he praised the Pakistani military and the "strong" US-Pakistani "military consultation and cooperation."Given Washington?s pivotal role in sustaining a succession of military dictatorships in Islamabad, Obama?s statement was widely interpreted both in Pakistan and within the US political establishment as signaling that Washington is considering sponsoring a military coup.This was underscored by reports citing the chief of the US Central Command, General David Petraeus, as saying that if the Zardari government did not demonstrate over the next two weeks that it can crush the Taliban insurgency in the country?s northwest, the US will have to determine its "next course of action." Petraeus went on to declare Pakistan?s military "superior" to the country?s civilian government.Such was the outcry in Pakistan that State Department spokesman Robert Wood was forced to deny Friday that Islamabad faces a two-week "time frame." Nonetheless, he bluntly asserted that Washington expects Pakistan to make a "110 percent effort" in the fight against the Taliban, and not for "two days, two weeks, two months," but for the foreseeable future.Obama?s special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, denounced the apprehensions voiced in the Pakistani press that less than nine months after the last US-backed dictator, General Pervez Musharraf, was forced to relinquish the Pakistani presidency, Washington is considering supporting a military-led government. "This is journalistic garbage ... journalistic gobbledygook," declared Holbrooke.The evidence that the Obama administration is preparing some new crime in Pakistan so as to ratchet up its war in Central Asia is overwhelming.With the transparent aim of intensifying the pressure on Zardari, the Obama administration, according to high-level administration officials cited last week in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, is now courting his arch-rival, former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League (N) leader Nawaz Sharif.Obama, at his press conference last week, claimed that the US wants to respect Pakistani sovereignty. "But," he added, "we also recognize that we have huge strategic interests, huge national security interests in making sure Pakistan is stable."In other words, the US will violate Pakistan?s sovereignty at will. Since last August, the US has mounted dozens of missile strikes within Pakistan and one Special Forces ground attack.Last week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced that the Obama administration is asking the US Congress to give the Pentagon the same powers in relation to military aid to Pakistan that it has in respect to military assistance to the puppet governments in Iraq and Afghanistan. Under this "unique" arrangement, military aid to Pakistan would no longer flow through the State Department or be subject to Foreign Assistance Act restrictions, but rather be entirely controlled by the Pentagon.Then there is the extraordinary lead article in yesterday?s New York Times, headlined "Pakistan Strife Raises US Doubts on Nuclear Arms." Written by the newspaper?s White House correspondent, David Sanger, the article has all the markings of a CIA or Pentagon put-up job, concocted with the aim of manipulating public opinion and justifying a major escalation of the US political and military intervention in Pakistan.The article is based entirely on the statements of unnamed "senior American officials." It claims, notwithstanding Obama?s statement of last week affirming confidence in the Pakistani military?s control of the country?s nuclear arsenal, that there is a real and growing threat that Taliban or Al Qaeda operatives could snatch a Pakistani nuclear weapon or infiltrate its nuclear facilities.To explain how the Islamicists could circumvent the elaborate controls the Pakistani military, with US assistance, has placed over its nuclear arsenal, the article advances a thriller-type scenario. Islamicists would first trigger a confrontation between India and Pakistan, then seize a weapon when Pakistan seeks to move it closer to the border with its eastern neighbor.The Times, it should be recalled, played a major role in seeking to mobilize US public opinion behind the invasion of Iraq. Front and center in this campaign was the lie that the Iraqi government was in league with Al Qaeda and might give them access to nuclear weapons Saddam Hussein was supposedly developing.That the Times?s article was part of a coordinated campaign was underscored by an interview given to the BBC by Obama?s national security adviser, Gen. James Jones, on Monday, the same day that the Times article appeared.Jones singled out as the top US concern the safety of Pakistan?s nuclear arsenal, and made a thinly veiled threat against the Pakistani government, saying, "If Pakistan doesn?t continue in the direction that it presently is, and we?re not successful there, then, obviously, the nuclear question comes into view."He went on to say that Pakistan?s nuclear weapons falling into the hands of the Taliban would be "the very, very worst case scenario" and added, choosing his words carefully but pointedly, "We?re going to do anything we can within the construct of our bilateral relations and multilateral relations to make sure that doesn?t happen."The Obama administration and the Pentagon are clearly weighing their options in respect to Pakistan and its role in the US thrust for geo-political advantage in oil-rich Central Asia. One thing is certain: What they are preparing will lead to greater violence and suffering for the people of the region and will further subvert the democratic will and aspirations of the Pakistani people.

Pakistan Taliban in Buner pull out ..Pakistan Taliban 're-enters' Buner

cleric leader Maulana Fazlullah
"dont Shave" .. Taliban order on the barber's window

Pakistan Taliban 're-enters' Buner Saturday, April 25, 2009 02:56 Mecca time, 23:56 GMT

Pakistani Taliban fighters are reportedly re-entering Buner, hours after they pulled back from the district just 100km away from the capital Islamabad. Hoda Abdel Hamid, Al Jazeera's correspondent reporting from Pakistan, said there were reports of about 100 Taliban fighters heading back to Buner from the neighbouring Swat valley on Friday evening.

Taliban withdraws from Pakistani region

Taliban in Pakistan says the group has ordered its members to evacuate a region near Islamabad that was recently captured by the insurgents. Taliban chief in northwestern Swat valley, Mullah Fazlullah, on Friday ordered his fighters to withdraw from Buner district. "Our leader has ordered that Taliban should immediately be called back from Buner," Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan said. However, the insurgents armed with advanced weapons were reported to be patrolling streets in Buner on Friday morning. Last week, Taliban militants armed with heavy weapons reportedly took control of the district near the capital of the nuclear-armed country. The militants also entered the Shangla District on Thursday. Shangla was the third district after Swat and Buner to fall into the Taliban hands without any resistance from the government forces. The captured districts are located almost 100 km (60 miles) away from Islamabad. The withdrawal will bring a temporary relief to the government, which had put Islamabad on high alert following the Taliban's recent advances. entagon Chief Robert Gates has warned the Pakistani government that the US will severe its relations with Pakistan unless Islamabad crushes the Taliban-led insurgency.