What is common between the following apparently unrelated events?

• Raymond Davis
• Terrorist Attacks in Pakistan
• Operations in South and North Waziristan
• Drone Attacks

First identify the main players-the CIA, the ISI, the FBI, the Pakistan Army, US/NATO forces, Afghan Intelligence and government and the Government of Pakistan. Opposing these main players ( Read more... )

The Express Tribune

LAHORE: Jamatud Dawa ameer Hafiz Saeed has moved a writ petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC) seeking a direction to the federal government to defend him in an American court which has issued him a summons. The suit has been filed by the relatives of an American citizen who was killed in the Mumbai attacks.

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By: Zia Khan

Pakistan on Thursday rejected as absurd attempts to "drag" its top spy agency, the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), through investigations into the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
"Pakistan is committed to bringing the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks to justice and the trial of the seven accused in this connection is under way. Dragging the ( Read more... )

The News International

The mood in India after the Mumbai attacks was ugly. All India had to offer was revenge. One recalls being confused that official India, not the Indian herd, was acting in the manner that it was. Its stance was so naïve, so self-defeating, so Americanesque that one actually began to fret, much as one does here at the ( Read more... )

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By Shah Waseem

"Ajmal Kasab gets what he gave: Death" reads the headline of one of the India's leading daily. The lone "assailant" of Mumbai attacks was handed out death sentence on four counts and life term on five counts by Special Court judge M.L Tahiliyani, who said "Death penalty must be imposed there is no other option". Mumbai attacks were ( Read more... )

by Phil Hazlewood

MUMBAI (AFP) - The Indian lawyer who prosecuted the sole surviving gunman of the 2008 Mumbai attacks has been criticised for going "overboard" in his submissions to court on the eve of the trial's climax.


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Thackeray issued a call to form Hindu suicide squads, "to take the Muslims head on". Labeling them as "trouble makers", Balaji called for them to be wiped out from the country to make India secure. Urging Hindus to start referring to India Hindu rashtra" (Hindu nation), the Shiv Sena militant leader maintains that only "our religion [Hinduism] is ( Read more... )

People on both sides must take charge of peace-making.

Nirupama Subramanian

"There is a Pakistani in every Indian; and an Indian in every Pakistani," President Asif Ali Zardari famously said two years ago. Those words rang in my head with new resonance as I packed my bags and left Pakistan recently after a nearly four-year-long assignment as this ( Read more... )