U.S. Should Intervene if Extremists Seize Pakistani Nuclear Weapons, Key Lawmaker Says
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 24. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
Elaine M. Grossman
Global Security Newswire
June 24, 2009
A powerful Capitol Hill lawmaker this morning called for a U.S. armed intervention in Pakistan in the event that the Taliban or other violent extremists gain control over that nation’s nuclear weapons.
Representative John Murtha (D-Pa.), who chairs the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, voiced serious concern about recent instability in [...]
Suspected U.S. Strike Kills at Least 60 in Pakistan
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 23. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
PIR ZUBAIR SHAH and SALMAN MASOOD
New York Times
June 23, 2009
An airstrike believed to have been carried out by a United States drone killed at least 60 people at a funeral in South Waziristan on Tuesday, residents of the area and local news reports said.
Details of the attack, which occurred in Makeen, remained unclear, but the [...]
Al Qaeda says would use Pakistani nuclear weapons
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 22. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
Inal Ersan
Reuters
June 22, 2009
If it were in a position to do so, Al Qaeda would use Pakistan’s nuclear weapons in its fight against the United States, a top leader of the group said in remarks aired Sunday.
Pakistan has been battling al Qaeda’s Taliban allies in the Swat Valley since April after their thrust into a [...]
Taliban recruits teenage suicide bombers for revenge attacks
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 30. May, 2009 | No Comments
Nick Meo
Telegraph.co.uk
May 30, 2009
After the army began an operation to clear Taliban from the valley in May, fighters went from house to house demanding a boy or young man from each family, with recruits encouraged to volunteer for martyrdom missions.
Last week 24 people died and more than 300 were [...]
Pakistani militants in bomb attack on offices of police chief and spy agency
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 27. May, 2009 | No Comments
Declan Walsh
guardian.co.uk
May 27, 2009
Gun-toting suicide attackers exploded a giant bomb in the centre of Lahore today, killing at least 24 people and wounding around 300 in a spectacular assault aimed at the offices of the police chief and Pakistan’s main spy agency.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack, the third in Lahore in as many [...]
Pakistan Is Rapidly Adding Nuclear Arms, U.S. Says
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 17. May, 2009 | No Comments
THOM SHANKER and DAVID E. SANGER
May 17, 2009
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress have been told in confidential briefings that Pakistan is rapidly adding to its nuclear arsenal even while racked by insurgency, raising questions on Capitol Hill about whether billions of dollars in proposed military aid might be diverted to Pakistan’s nuclear program.
Adm. Mike Mullen, [...]