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Posts Tagged ‘Xe Services’

South Park ; Blackwater Gets New Name in Afghanistan

By Guest Blogger • Feb 24th, 2010 • Category: Misc

A Senate investigation accuses the Army of turning a blind eye when a Blackwater subsidiary hired violent drug users to help train the Afghan army and declared “sidearms for everyone” even though employees weren’t authorized to carry weapons.
The inquiry by the Senate Armed Services Committee found that contractors for Paravant, the Blackwater subsidiary under investigation, [...]



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 [...]



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 [...]



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 [...]



Kerry-Lugar and Blackwater: by ‘Reluctant Anti-Americanist’

By Dil Nawaz • Oct 8th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Certain brands define the love-hate relationship that Pakistan has had with the United States of America over the past 60 years. America has been the biggest and most advanced ‘Superpower’ of the world. American technology, capital markets and economy is the biggest in the world. Pakistan as a third world country needs investment and technology [...]



And Then They Came For Me

By A Khokar • Oct 3rd, 2009 • Category: Features

So; here we are; our brethren from and across the Khyber -Hindukush ranges are again gathering momentum by joining hands with enemies of Pakistan by carrying out their subversive activities to destabilize us and are all out to eventually take over this land of our dreams by deceit and their chicanery. The intensive bomb blast [...]



Blackwater Training Afghan Army

By Shayan Khan • Oct 1st, 2009 • Category: Features

Building up Afghanistan’s army, which has become a top priority in the Obama administration’s strategy, will not be simple, no matter how many more U.S. troops are going to be provided Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal.
Army building, like nation building, is a challenge in a country in which corruption is rife and illiteracy is high. Nine [...]



From Free Mason to Blackwater to Xe Services

By Guest Blogger • Sep 30th, 2009 • Category: Politics (Urdu)

Courtesy: Jang



Proofs of Blackwater’s (Xe Services) Presence in Karachi

By Guest Blogger • Sep 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics

A report published in Urdu daily, Jasarat has claimed country’s intelligence agencies have submitted their report regarding Xe (Blackwater) to the federal interior ministry. The report includes proofs of XE Services (also Blackwater) presence in Karachi besides shocking story of their nexus with the political party dominating the city. The report also contains details of [...]



Profile of Inter-Risk

By Sher Ali • Sep 20th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Date of Formation
Inter-Risk was formed and registered with Registrar of Firms, Islamabad 0n 01 September, 1988.
Date of Incorporation
Inter-Risk became a Private Limited Company incorporated with Corporate Law Authority on 12 February, 1991.
The resources of the State are neither ample nor flexible enough to contain the threats to national security. This is especially so, if measures [...]