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Imran Khan’s Worker Arrested for Taking Bribe from Blackwater

By Gul Raiz • Jan 9th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Inter Risk, the US security company which was banned in Pakistan, paid millions in bribes to Pakistani officials — and one staffer close to a minister has confessed that he received these bribes to issue 138 prohibited bore weapon licences.
The PS of the state minister for interior has already landed in jail for allegedly receiving [...]



CIA’s Blackwater Ties Run Deep

By Sher Ali • Jan 5th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Private security guards working for Blackwater USA participated in clandestine CIA raids against suspected insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan, The New York Times reported Thursday.
Blackwater’s role points to a much deeper connection between the company and the spy agency than has been previously disclosed and raises concerns over the legalities of involving contractors in the [...]



2 out of 7 killed in Afghanistan bombing were Blackwater Contractors

By Haris Hashmi • Jan 2nd, 2010 • Category: Politics

Two of the seven CIA officers killed Wednesday in a suspected terrorist attack on a U.S. base in Afghanistan were contractors for Xe, a private security firm formerly known as Blackwater, a former intelligence official said Thursday.
A current intelligence official confirmed to CNN that the casualties included a mix of people — CIA staff and [...]



Iblees Ka Sajda

By Kaptain Mirza • Dec 28th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The awaited NRO is defeated and buried but unearthed the same old faces who would want to come back for a kill yet sometime again, if we falter. We have been for the last 62 years. The glimmer of hope that each one of us awaited finally came. Reaching there seemed easy but for how [...]



How Many Americans Are There in Islamabad?

By Salman Mugsi • Dec 23rd, 2009 • Category: Politics

The renowned columnist of Express, Javed Chaudhry has claimed that America was ready to storm and occupy the Pakistan’s nuclear assets on the night between 15th and 16th March, 2009. It was the night, when the whole nation was wide awake, because the long march for the restoration of chief justice Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry [...]



Mercenaries and Assassins: The Real Face of Obama’s “Good War”

By Isha Khan • Dec 21st, 2009 • Category: Politics

Reports that mercenaries employed by the notorious Blackwater-Xe military contracting firm participated in CIA assassinations in Iraq and Afghanistan have further exposed the real character of so-called “good war” that is being escalated by the Obama administration.
Citing former employees of the firm and US intelligence agents, the New York Times reported Friday that Blackwater gunmen, [...]



Amen Kay Percharak

By M Mirza • Dec 16th, 2009 • Category: Features


Kya Ub Bhi

By M Mirza • Dec 12th, 2009 • Category: Features


Blackwater and Our Government

By Haris Hashmi • Nov 24th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Interior Minister Rehman Malik, strongly defying reports of being operational in Pakistan, the Blackwater, an alleged US underworld terrorist organistation, has said he was ready to step down from office if Blackwater existed anywhere in Pakistan or there are evidences of its engagements in Pakistan.
It means that Rehman Malik will never resign because:
Blackwater is no [...]



Pakistan Nuclear Assets Are Safe, Take Care of Your’s

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Nov 9th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

People like Seymour M. Herch waste no moment to ridicule the efforts and sacrifice of Pakistan military and Pakistani people in the war against terror, which was started by the Americans, and the primary reason why this war is still going on is that the Americans are failing in Afghanistan and their presence in [...]