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Durrani's Firing Reveals How Pakistan Is Penetrated At The Top M. A. Durrani was busy leaking information to embarrass Pakistan internationally. He was part of an influential group in Islamabad that worked overtime to ensure Pakistan accepted blame for Mumbai and initiated action against the military and ISI without verifying the so-called evidence. Mr. Durrani says his leaks had the blessings of President Zardari. Who are they working for? Alarmingly, Pakistan's security stands breached at the highest levels in the capital, where shady individuals are working for foreign interests with impunity. It is time for a major purge to cleanse Pakistani government and politics of foreign assets. Mr. Durrani should be debriefed as to whose interests he was serving in his sensitive position. By AHMED QURAISHI Thursday, 8 January 2008. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—A secretive powerful group in the top corridors of the Pakistani government has been working overtime for the pa...

The pair of shoes which was thrown at Mr. Bush in Iraq has links to Pakistan, said a statement from the Pentagon. They have the following proof: i) The journalist had visited Pakistan earlier this year. There he was inspired by the shoe throwing at former CM Arbab Ghulam Rahim and Sher Afghan Niazi. ii) He received his shoe throwing training at a camp of a Pakistan based Jihadi organization. iii) The DNA sample of leather has revealed that the animal whose skin was used for manufacturing the shoe had traces of grass which is grown in North of Pakistan and this skin was collected by a Jihadi organization on Eid-ul-Adha this month. Hearing this, President and Prime Minister have decided to ban the Jihadi organization and have launched a country wide crackdown against all cobblers in Pakistan. The SHOE MISSILE attack on the US President in Baghdad has raised serious concerns. The fact that this technology was available to an Iraqi journalist has heightened these concerns. A major in...

KARACHI, Dec 11: The targeting of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamaatud Dawa and the rounding up of the activists belonging to the two jihadi organisations appear to have been triggered by information originating in India following the capture of one of the 10 men who attacked several targets in Mumbai towards the end of last month. During the course of Dawn's own investigations last week our reporters were able to locate a family who claimed to be the kin of the arrested young man in Mumbai. The sole survivor among the 10 attackers was named as Ajmal Kasab and was supposed to belong to the village Faridkot in the Punjab. Media organisations such as the BBC and now the British newspaper Observer have done reports trying to ascertain the veracity of claims appearing in the media that the young man had a home there. On Friday last, the BBC reported unusual activity in Faridkot near Deepalpur . A BBC correspondent located a house in the village, the then inhabitants of which carried the surn...

The British are believed to be looking for an "acceptable dictator" in Afghanistan since the Taliban insurgency is only growing. They are believed to be privy to a set of "reconciliation" talks with the Taliban in Saudi Arabia, fuelling speculation that UK and other European countries are looking for a way out of Afghanistan, as it sinks into a security more. In the eye of the storm, the British ambassador to Afghanistan , Sherard Cowper-Coles tells Indrani Bagchi in an exclusive interview that there is no "non-military option" in Afghanistan. Are you looking for a "dictator" in Afghanistan? We are not looking for a dictator in Afghanistan. What is of concern among our ministers in London and here, is the political and security situation. Some of the talk is, in our view excessively gloomy. This is winnable; we have a strategy for success, a long term strategy for success. I said when I arrived there 18 months ago that this was a marathon, not a...

Barack Obama is warned to beware of a 'huge threat' from al-Qaeda Security officials fear a 'spectacular' during the transition period The Times, November 15, 2008 Barack Obama is being given ominous advice from leaders on both sides of the Atlantic to brace himself for an early assault from terrorists. General Michael Hayden, director of the CIA, this week acknowledged that there were dangers during a presidential transition when new officials were coming in and getting accustomed to the challenges. But he added that no "real or artificial spike" in intercepted transmissions from terror suspects had been detected. President Bush has repeatedly described the acute vulnerability of the US during a transition. The Bush Administration has been defined largely by the 9/11 attacks, which came within a year of his taking office. His aides have pointed to al-Qaeda's first assault on the World Trade Centre, which occurred little more than a month after Bill Clinto...