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Pakistan: Cut Off All India Links Pending Lahore Investigations

The Pakistani intelligence report released by The News confirms two things: It is time for Pakistan to take punitive measures against India and stop allowing India the use of Pakistani transit and air routes pending the Lahore probe and, two, that the U.S.-installed government in Islamabad facilitated the attack on the Sri Lankan team first by ignoring the intelligence warnings and then by trying to protect India after the attack. Considering that Pakistan is supporting Sri Lanka against the Indian-sponsored insurgency in that country, the actions by the PPP government raise disturbing questions . By AHMED QURAISHI Thursday, 5 March 2009. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—The intelligence report released by The News raises some disturbing questions about the role of Pakistan's pro-U.S. government in letting the Indian attack on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore happen despite the advance warning by Pakistani intelligence officials. Despite knowing that RAW, India's spy outfit, has ...

'I felt a bullet fizz past my ear'

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Shootout in Lahore When you have been through what we have experienced, when you have been targeted by terrorists yourself and been so fortunate to escape, it changes your thinking As I dictate this article we are preparing to fly home. It's been a long day and we can't wait to return home to our families. We were shaken badly, obviously. Pakistan has a reputation for being unstable in the recent past, but we never expected to be caught up in something like this. I am still shocked that a sports team could be targeted in this manner. We had always felt pretty safe in Pakistan, to be honest. It shows how naïve we were. We realise now that sports people and cricketers are not above being attacked. All the talk that "no one would target cricketers" seems so hollow now. Far from being untouchable, we are now prize targets for extremists. That's an uncomfortable reality we have to come to terms with. Tuesday started as just another day in Lahore: a morning repo...

Unconventional Weapons against The People of Gaza

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Interview of Dr. Mads Gilbert This report confirms that these attacks are quite deliberately directed against civilians, using new unconventional weapons. This is a carefully planned humanitarian catastrophe. How can anybody in their right mind support the actions of the Israeli government. Read this interview with a distinguished and courageous Norwegian doctor. Dr. Mads Gilbert Here are some of the highlights. "The Israelis are using a new type of very high explosive weapons which are called Dense Inert Metal Explosive (DIME) and are made out of a tungsten alloy. These weapons have an enormous power to explode." "these weapons will have a cancer effect on those who survive. They will develop cancer we suspect." "All that is happening in Gaza here now is against international law, it is against humanity" "Almost all of the patients we have received have these sever amputations. They seem to have been affected by this kind of weapon. Of course, we ha...