‘From Client-States’ Archives
Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood Criticises Government for Being on the Wrong Side in Iraq and Now Afghanistan
BBC Monitoring (via COMTEX) | 6 January 2010 Jordan Muslim Brotherhood figure asks government to clarify role in Afghanistan Zaki Bani-Irshayd, Muslim Brotherhood Shura Council member and former secretary general of the Islamic Action Front Party has expressed surprise at the presence of Jordanian forces in Afghanistan. In a statement [...]
Interview with British Baloch Leader, Mehran Baloch
The News on Sunday (TNS) | By Murtaza Ali Shah | 27 December 2009 Interview with Mehran Baloch "Baloch sardars are stooges of establishment" “I am a British national and have never held a Pakistani passport. I was not even born in Pakistan.” — Mehran Baloch Mehran Baloch is the youngest of six sons of veteran Balochistan nationalist [...]
44 U.S. drone hits in Pakistan killed 700 civilians in 2009
The Peninsula | 2 January 2009 PESHAWAR: Of the 44 Predator strikes carried out by the American drones in the tribal areas of Pakistan in 12 months of 2009, only five were able to hit their actual targets, killing five key Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders, but at the cost of around 700 innocent civilian lives. According to the figures [...]
InfoWar: Pakistan-Taleban claim sending reinforcements to Afghanistan
AP News | By Ishtiaq Mahsud | 23 December 2009 Pakistan Taliban say fighters going to Afghanistan AP Interview: Pakistan Taliban leader claims fighters sent to Afghanistan to fight US surge A top Pakistani Taliban commander says he sent thousands of fighters to neighboring Afghanistan to rebuff incoming U.S. troops, a claim that comes as a [...]
Blackwater/Xe and the Balkanization of Pakistan
The National | By Shaukat Qadir | 22 December 2009 Welcome to Pashtunistan: the aim of America’s secret war? Few people by now can be unaware of Blackwater, later known as Blackwater Worldwide and now as Xe. The private security agency formed in 1997 and based in North Carolina is owned by Erik Prince, a former member of the US Navy Seal [...]
Afghan-Taleban claim control of over 80pc of Afghanistan
PakTribune | 22 December 2009 PESHAWAR: Rejecting as baseless the US allegations about the presence of Afghan Taliban in the tribal areas, a militant commander said they did not need to flee to the neighbouring country when the Taliban controlled major parts of Afghanistan. Mulla Sangeen, a key commander of the Afghan Taliban, claimed there [...]
